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LIZ MAGOR PORTFOLIO: AN ONLINE SUPPLEMENT TO THE SUMMER 2009 PRINT EDITION OF CANADIAN ART
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Liz Magor Stack (Racoon) 2009 Detail Courtesy Susan Hobbs Gallery / photo Toni Hafkenscheid |
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Clad in a leather jacket and motorcycle boots, Liz Magor reclines on a rustic sofa in one corner of her East Vancouver studio. It could be the view through the window of one of her backwoods-cabin installations—the sort of mise en scène for which she is known.
Stalactites assembled from thousands of layers of paper, tiny mushroom dioramas cut from postage stamps and a shape-shifting cigarette carton are just a few of the intriguing projects on transformation in a new group exhibition at Toronto’s Red Bull 381 Projects.
Over a long, successful career Liz Magor has explicated the uneasy truce between fact and representation. Her new show, a collaboration between Burnaby’s Simon Fraser University Gallery and Seattle’s Henry Art Gallery, alludes to the melding of memory and consumption.
The winner will be published in our magazine and receive a $3,000 award
Toronto's most anticipated art party is slated for Thursday, September 20
Timothy Taylor's feature on Zacharias Kunuk and Douglas Weber's portfolio on Kunuk's hometown recognized
Full talks and tours schedule, Douglas Coupland conversation info, and magazine launch details posted for free day of activities
Applications due May 9 for $55,000 in prizes
Free art tours for high-school students to take place in April and May
New writers on contemporary art encouraged to apply by June 1
Dates already set for next year’s Toronto festival
Applications for this $7,000 student award are due April 6
Event to feature a conversation with Douglas Coupland, gallery tours, a magazine launch and more
Jon Rafman’s work enjoys a deservedly high profile at this year’s Contact Festival. As Saelan Twerdy observes in this review, Rafman’s stunning, and often funny, Google Street View scenes demonstrate how the Internet is making everything public, from information to intimacy.
The auction record for contemporary Canadian art was broken earlier this month in New York with Christie’s $3.6 million sale of a Jeff Wall photograph. This week, Canada’s top houses head into their spring sales hoping to break more records.
“Based on a True Story” in Oakville boasts the largest North American survey to date of Keren Cytter, the Tel Aviv–born artist known as one of today’s most intriguing video practitioners. Mariam Nader reviews, finding greatest hits and unexpected delights.
The history of indigenous people performing for colonial audiences inspires "Sovereign Acts,” a current Toronto group show. As Max Mosher writes, the show—featuring Lori Blondeau, Adrian Stimson and others—is both campy and contemplative.
Dil Hildebrand is one brave painter. In his new show “Back to the Drawing Board (Reprise),” he stares down the old adage that no one wants to look at a green painting, let alone buy one. There's not just one green painting here—there's a room of them.
