Reclamation Artist
Jayce Salloum's archival art gives voice to the lost and forgotten.
War Artist
For students bounding up the stairwell of the University of British Columbia’s humanities library, laden with textbooks and life plans, the massive photograph of eight Canadian soldiers re-enacting a military exercise in a fake Afghan village must have felt like an ambush.
The Outlaw
Clad in a leather jacket and motorcycle boots, Liz Magor reclines on a rustic sofa in one corner of her East Vancouver studio. It could be the view through the window of one of her backwoods-cabin installations—the sort of mise en scène for which she is known.
The Death and Life of Painting
Notes from the photoconceptual backlash
Alpha Girl: Angela Grossmann’s Portrait Toughs
A trio of adolescent girls in short shorts and sneakers huddle over one of their peers, who is looking up at them with an indiscernible expression: fear, perhaps, and the unquenchable desire for acceptance.
Steven Shearer: Bastard Offspring of the Photoconceptualists
In this feature from our Fall 2005 issue, journalist Deborah Campbell examines the work of Steven Shearer.
Greetings from Myfanwy MacLeod
A look inside the goofy-smart fairy-tale world of the iconoclastic Vancouver artist Myfanwy MacLeod