Visiting Artist Liz Magor will present the lecture "BLOWOUT"
Wednesday, April 24, 4:00 p.m.
280 S Columbus Dr Room 127
Liz Magor is a Vancouver-based artist who studied at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Parsons School of Design, New York; and the Vancouver School of Art. Since the early 1970s, Magor has produced sculptural and photographic works concerned with the latent, affective range of familiar materials, images and objects. Her work has been exhibited in major international exhibitions such as Documenta VIII , Kassel; the 41st Venice Biennale, and the 4th Biennale of Sydney. In 2016 the Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal mounted a 40 year retrospective which travelled through 2017. In 2019 Magor presented an exhibition titled BLOWOUT at Carpenter Center for Visual Art, Cambridge, Mass. The exhibition will travel to the Renaissance Society in Chicago in April, 2019. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication.
With Graduate presentations by Siyu Zhu and Zambrano
Siyu Zhu will explore the friction that happens when the inner side reaches the outer world.
Jacobo Zambrano will share some footage and thoughts related to why the exotic is never at home.
