Barry Ace
Barry Ace, a band member of M’Chigeeng First Nation, Odawa Mnis (Manitoulin Island, ON), is a practicing visual artist whose mixed media paintings and assemblage textile works explore various aspects of cultural continuity and the confluence of the historical and contemporary.
With inspiration from historical Anishinaabeg arts of the Great Lakes that incorporate floral and geometric beadwork motifs, Ace up-cycles reclaimed and salvaged electronic components and circuitry (capacitors and resistors) transforming the refuse of the technological age into complex floral motifs. His contemporary practice intentionally, yet respectfully, transcends and moves forward conventional Anishinaabeg cultural boundaries as a confluence between the historical and contemporary.
