1:1 Artists Select: Liz Magor | Eric Cameron

The impulse to make connections between objects is a nearly universal experience. Artists are always in dialogue with their predecessors and peers, and they often make astute curators.

1:1 Artists Select is a new initiative that invites artists to select a work from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s extensive collection to be displayed in dialogue with their own work in the Forecourt.

The fifth to participate is Vancouver–based artist Liz Magor. She has selected a work from the collection by Eric Cameron.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Liz Magor was born in 1948 in Winnipeg, MB, and studied at the Parsons School of Design, New York, and the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art + Design). She is known internationally for her sculptures of common objects that blur the lines between reality, imagination and simulation. Her works resituate everyday items in new contexts and urge viewers to look deeply. Magor’s work often contends with notions of time and history; shelter and refuge; and commercial consumption. The Vancouver Art Gallery organized solo exhibitions of her art in 1980 and 2002, and her work first entered the Gallery’s collection in 1986.

Eric Cameron was born in 1935 in Leicester, UK, and studied at King’s College, Durham University, Newcastle and the Courtauld Institute at the University of London. Cameron initiated his process paintings at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the mid 1960s. He is well known for his conceptual and process-based series Process Paintings—which feature several layers of masking tape to create grids—and Thick Paintings—in which he conceals everyday objects with layers of gesso. Cameron has also written critical essays that have been widely published in British, American and Canadian art publications. His work first entered the Gallery’s collection in 1992.