Magenta Magazine: A Journal of International Art
Volume 3, Number 1 — Winter 2012 (click for full table of contents)
Susy Oliveira
Toronto-based Susy Oliveira creates images through a process of re-photographing constructions of both her own images and found material. The constructions are physically manipulated in an attempt to blur photographic notions of the digital by way of mimicking digital effects...
Penelope Umbrico
Penelope Umbrico’s Broken Sets (eBay) are cropped from images of broken LCD TV screens Umbrico found on eBay, where they are sold for parts...
Sarah Crowner
Painter Sarah Crowner finds inspiration in the world of dance — specifically in the person of modern dancer and choreographer Erick Hawkins, who rose to fame in Martha Graham’s legendary troupe in the 1940s...
Kim Dorland
Walking into Kim Dorland’s Enter, Light at the Division space, and smelling the thick, pungent, heady and altogether sensuous materiality of the paintings there, reminded me of a sublime cinematic moment: “Of each thing, ask: what is it, in and of itself. What is its nature?"
Subjective Screens: Zeesy Powers’ reality TV asks viewers to feel for others
With her reality television project Subjects, Toronto-based artist Zeesy Powers draws a line of flight from Freud to the present day by employing the talking cure and working through as vehicles of investigation into the human condition: “See yourself through someone else's eyes..."
Beautiful Ballads: Jeanie Riddle creates fertile tensions on canvas
The palette and form/mass situations of Montreal-based Jeanie Riddle’s paintings possess what I call an iconic ‘deep sound’. Her work reminds one of sax master John Coltrane’s signature thick-textured long notes in the middle register with their alluring minimal vibrato....
Island Residents: Silke Otto-Knapp's atmospheric new paintings
Off the northeast coast of Canada lies a cluster of small islands that once attracted Europeans to the New World year after year. The waters of Newfoundland were teeming with cod, making the cold rough rocks of Fogo Island legendary in the Old World....
