"Liz Magor : New Works"
2009-05-07 until 2009-06-20
Susan Hobbs Gallery
Toronto, ON, CA Canada

Opening on Thursday, May 7 from 7 - 9 p.m., and continuing through June 20, 2009, the Susan Hobbs Gallery is pleased to present new work by Liz Magor. Three new works take the form of service objects—ashtrays, dishes and coffee tables—presenting themselves as a class of domestic servant. The operation of deceptive appearance is exploited in these sculptures as the casting method used to produce them results in highly realistic images assembled in unlikely arrangements. Ashtrays provide the model for these works; as dishes of high utility they are often tricked out as decorative objects to disguise their extreme role as receptacles of harsh material.  As sculptures they have given up their position as the “top” object in the room, assuming instead an attitude of patient waiting.

Liz Magor was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1948. She has shown extensively in Canada, and internationally, including such exhibitions as the 4th Biennale of Sydney, Documenta 8, and the XLI Biennale di Venezia. She has had solo exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), The Power Plant (Toronto), Art Gallery of York University (Toronto), and the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver). Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Haunch of Venison (New York), The National Gallery of Canada, MuHKA (Antwerp, Belgium) and the Wattis Institute (San Francisco). In 2001, she received a Governor General's Visual and Media Arts award. She is also the recipient of this year’s Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts.

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