Liz Magor Wins 50K Gershon Iskowitz Prize Canadian Art


Artist Liz Magor MONTECRISTO

2017. Liz Magor (*1948) is one of the most important Canadian artists of her generation, and certainly its most influential sculptor of the past 30 years. This publication delivers an in-depth exploration of Liz Magor's sculpture and installations produced over the course of 40 years. It emphasizes the thematic and emotional range of Magor.


LIZ MAGOR Artists Andrew Kreps

Vancouver Catriona Jeffries Liz Magor's dramatic installations encapsulate the chaos of our times, piecing together puzzles in which everyday objects enact confounding and disturbing narratives. Born in Winnipeg, Magor has resided in Vancouver most of her life.


Liz Magor BLOWOUT Exhibitions The Renaissance Society

Biography Liz Magor 's work finds its center in the peripheral, often replicating the overlooked trappings of daily life and re-presenting them in new contexts. Activated by an interest in the covert, these constructions blur the lines between reality, imagination, and simulation.


'Everyone Should Have a Studio' Artist Liz Magor on the Sanctuary

Liz Magor, Alberta/Quebec (2013), wool, fabric, thread, dye, plastic, metal and wood, 133.5 x 54 x 8 cm. Courtesy Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver Canadian artist Liz Magor says her sculptures are conceptualized, created and polished by contradictions. What observers may see as a meandering, "aimless" path to develop a sculpture is, in fact, a very deliberate commitment to respecting its.


LIZ MAGOR Artists Andrew Kreps

LIZ MAGOR I Have Wasted My Life 22 Cortlandt Alley May 21 - July 2, 2021. Kassel, 1987, and the 41st Venice Biennale, Venice, 1984. In 2017, Magor was an artist-in-residence at the Berlin Artists-in-Residence programme, DAAD, Berlin, and in 2014, was awarded the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Gershon Iskowitz Foundation and Art Gallery of Ontario.


LIZ MAGOR Artists Andrew Kreps

by Alison Hugill // May 12, 2023 This article is part of our feature topic Aging. At the beginning of this year, Canadian artist Liz Magor published her latest book 'Subject to Change,' in which she shares some of her own writings about her work.


LIZ MAGOR Artists Andrew Kreps

People 'It's a Place for Physical Philosophy': Watch Artist Liz Magor Explore the Role Her Studio Plays in Her Sculptural Practice As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words. Caroline Goldstein, August 15, 2023


LIZ MAGOR Artists Andrew Kreps

Liz Magor was born in 1948 in Winnipeg, Canada, and studied at the Vancouver School of Art and at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Throughout her career Magor has also taught, both at the Ontario College of Art and Design and at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, contributing to her significant influence on younger generations of students and artists.


Liz Magor Wins 50K Gershon Iskowitz Prize Canadian Art

Liz Magor, artist (born 11 April 1948 in Winnipeg, MB ). Since the 1970s, Liz Magor's sculptures, installations and photography have established her as one of Canada's leading contemporary artists.


Liz Magor’s Accumulations Canadian Art

Artists Vancouver sculptor Liz Magor replicates familiar every-day objects to reflect, with wry humour, on their meaning in a new context and in different realities. The National Gallery of Canada is home to one of the finest collections of Indigenous and Canadian art in the world, and is dedicated to amplifying voices through art.


Liz Magor’s Accumulations Canadian Art

Liz Magor Cherie Juliette, 2014 Susan Hobbs Gallery Liz Magor Being This (expressly for), 2012/2022 Catriona Jeffries Liz Magor Good Shepherd, 2016 Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Permanent collection Liz Magor Superior Quality, 2016 Andrew Kreps


Liz Magor BLOWOUT, APRIL 27JUNE 23, 2019 Catriona Jeffries

Liz Magor, The Rules, 2012. Driftwood, and paint, 185.5 x 457 x 74 cm installed National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. © Liz Magor Photo: NGC Some might expect Magor, now 70 and the winner of almost every major prize Canada has to offer, to be looking more back than forward.


Liz Magor Canadian Art

Liz Magor. Liz Magor (b. 1948, Winnipeg; lives/works: Vancouver) is an artist whose practice has centred primarily on sculpture for over four decades. Using traditional mould-making techniques, Magor replicates everyday objects either as discrete, uncanny forms, or spliced together with an unrelated quotidian object of her environment.


LIZ MAGOR Artists Andrew Kreps Gallery

Liz Magor, Being This, 2012/2022, paper, textiles, found materials, 96 x 432 x 22 in. (244 x 1097 x 56 cm) Liz Magor, Shaved , 2020, painted plywood, fabric skirting, silicone rubber, faux fur, toy tail, packaging materials, 23 x 120 x 109 in. (58 x 305 x 277 cm)


Liz Magor at Catriona Jeffries (Contemporary Art Daily)

5:15 PM RSS Print Expand Liz Magor, "Float," 2021, mixed media (courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York) Liz Magor's exhibition The Separation features recent and new work from the Winnipeg-born, Vancouver-based artist whose sculptures have been influenced by studies of dead animals, death, and the artistic process.


Liz Magor’s Accumulations Canadian Art

Liz Magor in "Vancouver". Art in the Twenty-First Century. Season 8. September 23, 2016. Liz Magor makes uncannily realistic casts of humble objects—gloves, cardboard boxes, cigarettes—that speak to mortality and local histories. More information and credits. Narratives. Liz Magor makes uncannily realistic casts of humble objects—garments.