Landon Mackenzie
Crossing Over, Why Cloud the Whites

September 10 – October 30, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday September 15, 7–9 pm
Pre-Opening Artist Tour for Members: Thursday September 15, 6:30pm

The exhibition brings together several large format canvases by Landon Mackenzie from two recent series called Neurocity and The Structures. Mackenzie’s paintings over the past decade involve her interests in the intersecting territories of cities, maps, waterways and dark space as nervous systems and the ongoing possibilities of using conventions of both landscape and abstraction to achieve her goals. Large and complex pieces, they are charged for effectiveness as optical and corporal experiences. Signals and wiring, neurons, cells, balloons, circles and squares, electric tower scaffolding, lily pads, ladders, railway tracking and filmstrips are recognizable but all disconnected from regular function.


ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Landon Mackenzie has been a practicing artist for thirty years. Starting as a student at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1972, Mackenzie has built an impressive body of work and is probably best known for her new image work called The Lost River Series in 1981–82 when she won the Quebec Biennale of painting and her large-format mapping and abstract paintings from the mid ‘90s to current. Her work has been collected by the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musee d ’art Contemporain de Montreal among many others. Mackenzie received her Masters of Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal where she also began her teaching career. She has received numerous awards and grants and is an active painter and educator within the Canadian art community. Mackenzie is a Professor at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver.
www.landonmackenzie.com


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RELATED PROGRAMMING

Painting a Critical Conversation
Thursday October 20, 7–9pm

Landon Mackenzie & Dr. Glen Lowry
Crossing Over: Painting a Critical Conversation
7–8pm

Dennis Burke
Soundscapes to Paintings
8–9pm

Symposium at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Friday October 21, 4–10pm
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Open Forum in the Gallery – Painting: Then and Now
Canadian Painting History, Saturday September 10, 2–3pm
Landon Mackenzie on Paint, Saturday September 17, 2–3pm
Contemporary Painting Practices, Saturday September 24, 2–3pm
Free Admission. Everyone welcome.
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INTERVIEWS & PODCASTS

RAG Youth Podcast - Episode 3
Crossing Over, Why Cloud the Whites
Landon Mackenzie
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Left: Landon Mackenzie, Neurocity (Aqua Blue) , 7’2” x 10’10”
Synthetic polymer on linen, 2008-09