Liz Magor
- Publisher
- Contemporary Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of York University
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2012
- Category
- Contemporary (1945-), Canadian, Monographs
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Unknown
- ISBN
- 9780920751770
- Publish Date
- Aug 2012
- List Price
- $12
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This catalogue documents Canadian artist Liz Magor's exhibitions Deep Woods at the Art Gallery of York University and Stores at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Essays by Nancy Tousley, Lucy Hogg, and Reid Shier. Designed by Timmings and Debay. Co-published with the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)
About the authors
Liz Magor is a Canadian visual artist and educator. Her work is often sculptural, involving ordinary or familiar objects refashioned and presented in an altered context. She has studied at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1966-1968); the Parsons School of Design, New York (1968-1970), and the Vancouver School of Art (1970-1971). Magor has exhibited at Documenta 8 (1987), Kassel; the Sydney Biennale (1982); the Venice Biennale (1984). She has had solo exhibitions across Canada, including a 2001 survey of her work co-curated by the Vancouver Art Gallery and The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto.
Nancy Tousley is a Calgary-based independent art critic, journalist, and curator. She is the author of numerous books, including A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug. She received the Governor General’s Award in Media and the Visual Arts in 2011 for her distinguished contribution to art in Canada.
Basée à Calgary, Nancy Tousley est critique d’art, journaliste et commissaire d’exposition. Elle est l’autrice de nombreux ouvrages, notamment A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug. En 2011, elle a eu l’honneur de recevoir le Prix pour contribution exceptionnelle aux arts visuels ou médiatiques du Gouverneur général du Canada.
Reid Shier is currently Director of the Polygon Gallery (formerly Presentation House Gallery) in North Vancouver; he is the former Curator of the Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, the Power Plant in Toronto, and Vancouver's Or Gallery. He was editor of Boo Magazine and his essays have been published in Art Text, Canadian Art, Fuse, Flash Art, and Poliester magazines, as well as in the Arsenal Pulp Press/Artspeak anthology Vancouver Art & Economies.
