Liz Magor: Susan Hobbs
by E.C. Woodley
Art in America, October 2011
Images of sleep and its material articles (such as beds, sheets and sleeping bags) densely populate Liz Magor’s oeuvre. Over the past 40 years, she has explored her subject extensively through photography, installation and sculpture that involves rubber or polymer gypsum casting processes. Her most recent production employs old blankets found at thrift stores and asks of this “raw material” a minimum of transmutation.
Althea Thauberger
The Grange Prize 2011, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
30 August to 27 November 2011
Althea Thauberger has been shortlisted for the The Grange Prize 2011. The exhibition displays a selection of works by all four shortlisted artists, giving the public a chance to view the works up close and cast votes for their favourite in person. While all four artists possess a unique approach to photography, the exhibition will explore how each of them brings insight to the intersection of the documentary and performative aspects of the medium. The Grange Prize Exhibition 2011 is curated for the AGO by Michelle Jacques, who also functioned as a member of The Grange Prize’s 2011 Nominating Jury.
Scott Lyall
Artist’s on Ab Ex
Artforum, Summer 2011
In Artforum’s special issue that ‘considers both the historical nuances and the contemporary persistence of Ab Ex — the ways in which artists are engaging its expanded noticed of affect and experience, but to vastly different ends’, Scott Lyall writes about his recent Early Video works.
Scott Lyall
Biennale de Montréal 2011, Montréal
1 to 31 May 2011
Scott Lyall’s work is included in La Tentation du hasard/Elements of Chance, curated by David Liss and Claude Gosselin, opening May 1. The theme of the 7th biennale, is chance, a notion that molds our lives, our imagination and influences our understanding of the world around us.
Papier 11
Foire d’art contemporain d’œuvres sur papier, Montréal
14 to 17 April 2011
The gallery is pleased to announce that we will be participating in the upcoming Papier 11 fair organized by AGAC. We plan on exhibiting works by Krista Buecking, Ian Carr-Harris, Patrick Howlett, Oliver Husain (pictured), Scott Lyall, Arnaud Maggs, Sandra Meigs, and Shirley Wiitasalo, among others, in our booth.
Shirley Wiitasalo
recipient
2011 Govenor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts
We are delighted to announce that Shirley Wiitasalo is one of the eight recipients of the 2011 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. The winners, who come from across Canada, were announced on February 22nd at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. The awards ceremony will take place at Rideau Hall on March 23rd. The National Gallery of Canada exhibition held in conjunction with these awards will run from March 25 to June 19.
Liz Magor, Sandra Meigs &
Kevin Yates: It Is What It Is
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
5 November 2010 to 10 April 2011
It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art showcases a selection of the gallery’s most recent acquisitions and reveals the unique ways contemporary Canadian artists are tackling the larger social and political state of the world through their art and how they choose interdisciplinary modes of self-expression that transcend and explode traditional categories, materials and genres. The goal is to seek out the best and most innovative works being made today by engaging with the diverse practices of living artists working from coast to coast.
Krista Buecking: The Weight of the Ocean
Mercer Union, Toronto
29 October to 4 December 2010
Starting from an interest in history as a site of continuous formation, erosion and fossilization, Buecking’s work often explores the physical and metaphorical iterations of geology and the effects of time. For this exhibition she presents a series of drawings that trace a specific understanding the artist has of the phrase ‘all that is solid melts into air,’ specifically linking the material and existential implications of the phrase.
Marburg! The Early Bird!
Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
composed by Ydessa Hendeles
22 October to 9 December 2010
Ian Carr-Harris, Liz Magor, and Colette Whiten (pictured: Possessed 2009) are included in this exhibition. Works from Hendeles' collection of contemporary art, photography and antiques form Marburg! The Early Bird!, a complex personal exploration of her past curatorial projects mediated by the artist/curator of the cultural history of the city.
Abracadabra
Arnaud Maggs makes portrait magic
by Michael Mitchell
Canadian Art, Fall 2010
Island D, Georgian Bay—Arnaud Maggs sits at the end of a long oak table, carefully lettering with a Sharpie. He signs and dates the bright sheet of notepaper before sending it down the table. “I COULDN’T CARE LESS IF I NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPH. A.M. 09/'09.” One month later we are together again on another island-this one in the Ottawa River. He letters by lamplight. “I COULDN’T CARE LESS IF I NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPH. A.M. 10/'09.” Nearly a year has passed. He has kept his word.