Landon Mackenzie. Pink Dot, 2012 © Scott Massey
LANDON MACKENZIE: NERVOUS CENTRE SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 - JANUARY 5, 2013
Esker Foundation’s first solo exhibition, Landon Mackenzie: Nervous Centre presents a compelling survey of Landon Mackenzie’s work from 1993 to 2012. It highlights her abstracted study of cartography to map out human systems of movement, thought and convergence. The exhibition presents rarely seen drawings, a selection of her ‘suitcase paintings’, and several of her better-known, large-scale cinematic canvases. Mackenzie has spent a lifetime looking at land, how it is shaped, how we shape it, how we remember it, and how we tell its stories. Her research has taken her to remote locations such as the Cumberland Delta, as well as map rooms and archives including the Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge, UK. Like an esker formation, Mackenzie’s stories can be narrow and sinuous or broad and flat-topped; they can have multiple crests or can be segmented like a string of beads. Her recurrent use of bridges, nets, ladders, balloons, filters, neural pathways, branches, leaves and subway maps, and her exemplary use of color, scale and sound, encourages viewers to make the leap to other places and times. Landon Mackenzie has received numerous awards and is an influential artist and educator. Her work has been exhibited in over ninety exhibitions across Canada and internationally, and is collected by many museums including the National Gallery of Canada and the Vancouver Art Gallery. She began her education at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax (1972-1975), and received her MFA at Concordia University (1976-1979). Based in Vancouver, she is a Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
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