Beam, Anong Migwans (2009) - New World [Oil and phototransfer on paper] ©Government of Ontario Art Collection, Archives of Ontario
New World (2010) was created by Anong Migwans Beam. It was produced using oil and photo transfer on canvas as a way for Anong to express herself as an independent artist for the first time. She quoted her father’s use of the phrase, “New World” in her own way, and thus created a new world of painting for herself while expressing appreciation for all that she had learned from her father.
Next to New World hangs a piece called Reconstruction Work by Carl Beam, Anong's father.
Artist’s statement:
"I had previously employed an approach more consistent with my father’s work. In April 2010 I was expecting my second son, and felt a new feeling about painting, it’s hard to explain but it was as if a window had opened and I could see something within myself. This first painting was done as an homage to my father with some signature images of his, (the joker card) and the landscape of the painting built out of portraits he had taken of me at Whitefish Lake, and in fields by our family home in M’Chigeeng First Nation. It was painted in the feeling of appreciation for all that I learned from my father in painting and also quoting his use of the phrase “New World” in my own way, a new world of painting for myself. Since that moment I have continued in my own style that I believe he would have loved the freedom of scale, proportion and subject."