Maslak McLeodMaslak McLeod Gallery - Floyd Kuptana


 		'To depict the change from physical to the spiritual is a difficult undertaking for any artist. Yet the inner life force that moves us beyond the coporeal is the subject matter of much of Floyd Kuptana's work.'

Born in Cape Perry in 1964, Floyd Kuptana and his family eventually moved to Palatuk. His father, Philip, and mother, Elizabeth, were the center of a tightly knit family group that included uncles, aunts and many cousins. Kuptana studied the work of Francis Ruben and Abraham Anghik Ruben. Later, he did the rough stone work for another cousin David Ruben Piqtoukun, before branching out in 1992 to work for himself and develop a highly personal style.

The community of Paulatuk is starting to establish its own regional style, through the work of Kuptana and a handful of other young carvers. The use of diverse materials, the insetting of bone and steel, the fine detailed finish and sometimes a comic imagination lurking below the surface is what sets this style apart from all others.

Joseph McLeod
Published in The Inuit Art Quarterly, Spring 2002
Monumental Sedna
17"/33"
Steatite



Floyd Kuptana
Floating
17.5"/ 11"/ 09"
Steatite with base
Comic shaman bear
backstroking lazily through the water.
Faces
15"/11"/08"
Steatite 		Floyd Kuptana

Floyd Kuptana
Young Bear's Visage
Spirit Drummer

4"/16"/12"
Watcher
09"/10"/04"
Steatite 		Floyd Kuptana
Sedna Returning from the Moon
7"/5"
Bear With Spirit
09"/10"/04"
Steatite 		Bear With Spirit
Transformation Beluga
26"/6"
Steatite 		Transformation Beluga
Sedna Lamenting the Loss of Polar Ice

33"/13"
Great Spirit
09"/10"/04"
Steatite 		Great Spirit
Howling Wolf
3"/1"
Steatite 		Howling Wolf
Little Sedna
8"/2"
Steatite 		Little Sedna
Young Bear
15"/5"
Steatite 		Young Bear
My Uncle Returning from the Moon
09"/10"/04"
Steatite 		My Uncle Returning from the Moon
Consider This
13"/16"/06"
Steatite 		Floyd Kuptana

Floyd Kuptana

Floyd Kuptana
Spirit Drum Dancer
15"/9.5"/7.5"
Steatite 		Floyd Kuptana

Floyd Kuptana

Floyd Kuptana
Whale Shaman
20"/10"/06"
Steatite 		Floyd Kuptana

Floyd Kuptana

Floyd Kuptana

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