© Susan Point
On view
Native North American Art
Halibut,
2007
Susan Point, Musqueam, born 1952, Alert Bay, Canada
Printed by Eric Bourquin at Seacoast Screen Printing
Printed by Eric Bourquin at Seacoast Screen Printing
2019-153
Point’s screenprint evokes the adornment of spindle whorls—carved discs that stabilize spindles while spinning wool—by the Musqueam people, Indigenous residents of British Columbia. Whorls are carved in the formline style characteristic of Indigenous Northwest Coast art, in which fluid lines in ovoids, U-shapes, and S-forms both delineate figures and create abstract compositions. On the whorl, the designs blur when the spindle is in motion. In Halibut, the undulating lines that surround the interconnected bodies of the four fish recall the movement of water and elicit a sense of rotation, linking the graphic nature of modern screenprinting to Musqueam traditions of ornamentation.
Information
Title
Halibut
Dates
2007
Maker
Medium
Screenprint
Dimensions
image: 58.2 cm (22 15/16 in.)
sheet: 76 × 76 cm (29 15/16 × 29 15/16 in.)
mat: 101 × 101 cm (39 3/4 × 39 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Salish Weave Collection of George and Christiane Smyth
Object Number
2019-153
Place Made
North America, Canada, British Columbia, Victoria
Signatures
Signed, dated, editioned and titled in graphite: Susan A. Point '07 6/100 State I of III
Culture
Type
Techniques
Subject
[The Salish Weave Collection (George and Christiane Smyth)]; gifted to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2019.
