Liz Magor

Liz Magor

BornNationalityBased In
1948CanadianVancouver
Biography

“I started making things as a child simply as a way to make up for the deficiency of what was offered. I found most things around me to be practical, unbeautiful and meaningless. I needed things to be emotionally charged and personal, almost equivalent to me in terms of subjectivity (...) From one point of view, making art is a way of testing the positions one might take relative to the world, and the people and things found in the world. The materials, the images, the operations, the forms of address, they all come from an inventory of possibilities and I’m conscious of my choices. By now I have an enhanced ability to make things, but a diminished need for those things to speak symbolically or profoundly. Now I’m spending hours making the things I used to find unbeautiful and meaningless–a pile of towels, a stack of trays, a discarded jacket, a cardboard box–and setting them up in relationship to found things. My interest is how the studio part affects the found part. Through some mysterious operation the found things become really alive when set against the sculptural representation of something ordinary.” “A conversation with Liz Magor”, Liz Magor, ed. MAC Montréal, Migros Museum & Kunstverein im Hamburg, 2016 ...

Selected Artworks
Bag, Box and Stickers
Liz Magor
Bag, Box and Stickers, 2018
30 x 37 x 7cm
Being This (Edward Chapman)
Liz Magor
Being This (Edward Chapman), 2012
62.2 x 24.8 x 43.8cm
Being This (Pink Shoes)
Liz Magor
Being This (Pink Shoes), 2012
39.5 x 24 x 54cm
Bitumen (French Militia)
Liz Magor
Bitumen (French Militia), 1993
Evening
Liz Magor
Evening, 2022
36 x 38 x 38cm
Gold
Liz Magor
Gold, 2019
51 x 51 x 42cm
Karl's Castle (2)
Liz Magor
Karl's Castle (2), 2003
51 x 40.5cm
Karl's Castle (4)
Liz Magor
Karl's Castle (4), 2003
51 x 40.5cm
Karl's Castle (8)
Liz Magor
Karl's Castle (8), 2003
51 x 40.5cm
May/June
Liz Magor
May/June, 2022
218 x 24 x 24cm
Morning
Liz Magor
Morning, 2022
114 x 107 x 74cm
Open
Liz Magor
Open, 2018
56 x 146 x 20cm
Paradise Bird
Liz Magor
Paradise Bird, 2019
50 x 70 x 15cm
W
Liz Magor
W, 2019
52 x 52 x 13cm
Xhilaration
Liz Magor
Xhilaration, 2019
638 x 102 x 56cm
Gallery Representation
Awards
Audain Prize For The Visual Arts1968
Audain Prize For The Visual Arts1968
Biennals
The Biennale of Sydney1982 - Sydney
The Biennale of Sydney1982 - Sydney
Venice Biennial1977 - Venice
Documenta1977 - Kassel
Venice Biennial1977 - Venice
Documenta1977 - Kassel
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