About the Artist: Staci Poirier
Born in 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Staci Poirier has always had a predilection for abstract art and expressionist art forms. She has spent time living and working in London (U.K.), Montreal, and the Northwest Territories. Her father was born in Selkirk, Manitoba and her family line stretches back to the Red River, and long before the confederation of Canada. Staci is extremely proud of her rich, Métis heritage, which includes French, Cree, Scottish, English, and Irish heritages. She has focused on acrylic painting and has been working with mixed media since 2002. In June 2012, she convocated from the University of Alberta, with Distinction, majoring in History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture.
The diverse communities she has lived and worked in, inspires her work, and encompasses a broad range of modern style and traditional and historical references. She incorporates found or discarded objects in her work, and participates in shedding light on Aboriginal social justice themes and issues that have been overlooked, glossed over, or untaught in school curricula. Some of her influences and inspirational figures include Vincent Van Gogh, Joan Miro, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Egon Schiele, Paul Klee, Edvard Munch, Robert Rauschenberg, Jane Ash Poitras, Claude Tousignant, and Jim Logan.
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