Liz Magor Essay

One of the most prominent contemporary sculptors, Liz Magor was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba of 1948. Pursuing her Art education at the University of British Columbia, Parsons School of Design and the Vancouver School of Art, she is leading figure in the Canadian Visual Arts’ scene.

Magor's internationally exhibited and produced work are sculptures that investigates the ontology of ordinary familiar objects, which she remakes and presents in new contexts, of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality-sculpture at the threshold of the real. Magor uses found materials and objects from the local sphere, as a catalyst for investigating the social, emotional, and personification in the life of objects. In mining their historical context, usage and relationship to the body, she then replicates them and alter them by moulding-making and casting them to

Such as the poignant desire to battle with the consequences of encroaching agriculture, industrialisation, urban development, and modern technology that shaped the loss of distinction between the natural and the artificial. It's an aspect of life that is noted many times. Magor's art refutes such consolidation: irresolution prevails and closure eludes us. Commissioned by the Art Gallery for the courtyard of York University’s Central Square on 23rd May, 2000, Magor also produced with a collective collaboration of York’s L.L Odette Centre for Sculpture students and technicians, a bronze sculpture formed into a hollow of a tree trunk, sealed by the ends of both sides with a sleeping bag made from sustainable cast rubber moulded to withstand climate and temperature. The subject, human shelter and refuge in nature is depicted to raise conflicting debate revolving human security and shelter.