Landon Mackenzie - Houbart's Hope

Submitted by Dina Verchomin on Thu, 2008-01-17 13:23
Posted: Thu, 2008-01-17 13:23

Landon Mackenzie, Associate Professor, is exhibiting her first show in Montreal since 2000 at Concordia University's Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery (FOFA Gallery).

In Houbart's Hope Mackenzie combines her interests in landscape, cartography and neuroscience. Although abstract in appearance, vestiges of historical maps and the process of cartography remain. Using unusual methods, she plays with the immense canvases (7'6" x 10'3") as a platform for her intuition and her ideas, deliberately constructing parallels of exploration. She considers both her archival research and her picture-making as a treasure hunt, a fairy tale and a way of synthesizing her rich intellectual and intuitive traits.

The exhibition will be on view at the FOFA Gallery from January 10 to February 9, 2008.