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 MagorBag, Box and Stickers, 201830 x 37 x 7cmPrice on Request
Being This (Edward Chapman)
Liz MagorBeing This (Edward Chapman), 201262.2 x 24.8 x 43.8cmPrice on Request
Being This (Pink Shoes)
Liz MagorBeing This (Pink Shoes), 201239.5 x 24 x 54cmPrice on Request
Bitumen (French Militia)
Liz MagorBitumen (French Militia), 1993Price on Request
Evening
Liz MagorEvening, 202236 x 38 x 38cmPrice on Request
Gold
Liz MagorGold, 201951 x 51 x 42cmPrice on Request
Karl's Castle (2)
Liz MagorKarl's Castle (2), 200351 x 40.5cm5200 EUR
Karl's Castle (4)
Liz MagorKarl's Castle (4), 200351 x 40.5cm5200 EUR
Karl's Castle (8)
Liz MagorKarl's Castle (8), 200351 x 40.5cm5200 EUR
May/June
Liz MagorMay/June, 2022218 x 24 x 24cmPrice on Request
Morning
Liz MagorMorning, 2022114 x 107 x 74cmPrice on Request
Open
Liz MagorOpen, 201856 x 146 x 20cmPrice on Request
Paradise Bird
Liz MagorParadise Bird, 201950 x 70 x 15cmPrice on Request
W
Liz MagorW, 201952 x 52 x 13cmPrice on Request
Xhilaration
Liz MagorXhilaration, 2019638 x 102 x 56cmPrice on Request
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
Documenta1977 - Kassel
Venice Biennial1977 - Venice