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.

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Nest (2018). Mixed medium sculpture of vitrified clay, slip paint, bronze screen, copper, metal and resistors.

Barry Ace

$2,500.00
Nest (2018). Mixed medium sculpture of vitrified clay, slip paint, bronze screen, copper, metal and resistors. 17 (l) x 9 (h) x 21 (d) cm Ace mentored with master Anishinaabe potter David...
Thunderbird in the Digital Age - Two Concepts of Power (2022)Thunderbird in the Digital Age - Two Concepts of Power (2022), mixed media neckpiece.

Barry Ace

$1,500.00
Thunderbird in the Digital Age - Two Concepts of Power (2022), mixed media neckpiece. Velvet, glass beads, metal, capacitors, resistors, light-emitting diode, circuit board, horse hair, synthetic hair, paper, porcupine quill,...
Migration Scroll, 2018 based on the Anishinaabe birch bark scrolls, but upcycled to a digital technological tableaux.  Mixed media, 8 × 20 × 5 in

Barry Ace

$2,500.00
Migration Scroll, 2018 based on the Anishinaabe birch bark scrolls, but upcycled to a digital technological tableaux.  Mixed media, 8 × 20 × 5 in Migration Scroll is a work that is a...
Thunderbird Medicine Bling (2023)

Barry Ace

$1,500.00
Thunderbird Medicine Bling (2023), mixed media. With a tie at the back, the length of this neckpiece is adjustable. Glass beads, rope, porcupine quills, resistors, light emitting diodes, velvet, plastic, rhinestones, horse...
Barry Ace

Barry Ace

$2,000.00$2,400.00
Kitchi Zibi Omàmìwininì Anishinàbe Digital print on rag paper This photograph was taken by Ace in 2013 of the controversial Hamilton MacCarthy sculpture of the Indigenous scout that was relocated...
Spirit Berry Bling (2022), mixed media. With a tie at the back, the length of this neckpiece is adjustable.

Barry Ace

$1,500.00
Spirit Berry Bling (2022), mixed media. With a tie at the back, the length of this neckpiece is adjustable. Glass beads, rope, thread, capacitors, resistors, diodes, light emitting diodes, horse hair,...
Francis Densmore and Maheengun (Little Wolf) (2020) mixed media on paper 23 x 9.5 cm, unframed.

Barry Ace

$450.00
Francis Densmore and Maheengun (Little Wolf) (2020) mixed media on paper 23 x 9.5 cm, unframed. Frances Theresa Densmore (1867 – 1957) was an American anthropologist and ethnographer who was known for...
Thunderbird artwork by Barry Ace

Barry Ace

$1,200.00$2,200.00
    The work is printed on archival Epson Canvas with a simulated birch bark background digitally added from a birchbark scan. The work references Anishinaabe birchbark scrolls that are etched...
Tekahionwake (Pauline E. Johnson) x 3 Views (2020) mixed media on paper 18 x 13 cm.

Barry Ace

$450.00
Tekahionwake (Pauline E. Johnson) 3 Views (2020) mixed media on paper 18 x 13 cm, unframed. Emily Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake ("Double-Life") was popular in the late...
Nahgunegahbow (Standing Forward) (2020) mixed media on paper 23 x 9.5 cm, unframed.

Barry Ace

$450.00
Nahgunegahbow (Standing Forward) (2020) mixed media on paper, 23 x 9.5 cm, unframed. The Hudson’s Bay trade blankets carry with them a long narrative of colonization and trade history with the...