Elizabeth MacKenzie

Bio

work

  • 2012

    The Gaze of History exhibition presented a series of prints and drawings from the Burnaby Art Gallery's collection that considered the gaze and directed looking. The powdered graphite faces I drew directly on the walls of the gallery interacted and responded to these framed works and represented the real and imagined former residents of this building.

    “Fairacres,” as it was first known, was built as a retirement estate by Vancouver realtor Henry Ceperley and his wife...

  • 2009

    The 680 drawings that make up the Family (Yoon) project are based on photos of thirty-four individuals, representing three generations of a large, diasporic family. Each face has been drawn multiple times, with brush and ink on rice paper.

    Dimensions variable, heads range from approx. 20 X 13 cm to 25 x 20 cm

  • 2009

    A ongoing series of drawings.

    Dimensions variable, heads range from approx. 20 X 13 cm to 24 x 18 cm