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Issue 6 — Fall 2011 McGill Art + Design
Folio Staff Paula Alaszkiewicz Michæl Beauvais Claire Bourgeois Erin Carrieres Jordan Deutsch Gabriela Gilmour Bianca Giulione Jürg Haller Maya Inglis Joanna Lai John Levesque Milena Lorsignol Milena Paprok Alexa Roach Pooja Sen Erin Spangler Contact foliomag@gmail.com foliomagazine.ca
About Folio is a student-run visual art and design magazine that acts as an ongoing archive of McGill’s artistic community by providing a venue for student artists to showcase their work. It is published biannually. Cover: Matthieu Santerre Facing page: Amy Goh All contents © the respective artists. Opinions expressed in Folio are not necessarily those of McGill University.
folio magazine : Issue 6 — Fall 2011 Contents Untitled Anna Foran in that vapour Kerry Maguire Non-Edit Chana Houzi In Conversation With [Ming Lin / Jennifer Chan Amy Gogh / Myra Truong] Joanna Lai
Untitled Untitled Desk [Thanks for Nothing, Jerk World] Galen Macdonald Sonya Mandus ruins of ródos and Untitled Rudy Ian Murphy Taylore-Anne Scarabelli Untitled Louis Soulard
ANNA FORAN Untitled
KERRY MAGUIRE in that vapour
CHANA HAOUZI Non-Edit
JOANNA LAI In Conversation With [Ming Lin / Jennifer Chan Amy Goh / Myra Truong]
SONYA MANDUS Untitled [Thanks for Nothing, Jerk World]
IAN MURPHY Untitled
LOUIS SOULARD Untitled
GALEN MACDONALD Untitled Desk
TAYLORE-ANNE SCARABELLI ruins of r贸dos
Rudy
folio contributors MATTHIEU SANTERRE is a political science student and keen observer who finds inspiration in buildings and monuments to create architectural drawings out of impromptu moments of artistic impulse. His featured cover, Canadian Winter, comes to life on plain white paper with a black pen thanks to his focus on structure and detail.
SONYA MANDUS is an art history student working with oil paint on transparent paper to create minimal yet striking scenes where she often depicts Barb, a fictional middle-aged woman dear to her heart. Her work process reflects upon an intuitive aesthetic level, but lately the Banach Tarski paradox has penetrated into her cranium.
AMY GOH procrastinates by making ink-on-paper drawings. She delves into sunken cities of reverie to create visual collages from scraps of just-about-everything, assembling together fragments of her dreams, literature, and music. For Issue Six, she was inspired to create a spirit portrait of a thousand year-old mummy. More of her work can be found at www.atlantisdreaming.org.
IAN MURPHY is a student of electrical engineering, who tries to connect the seemingly disparate fields of engineering and art. He, however, does not see such a diametric opposition. Drawing inspiration from archi- tecture, typography and street art, Ian emerges with his currently untitled portrait series, using pen and ink, along with a catalyst of music, to channel his creativity.
ANNA FORAN’s collage-photomontage practice of clipping, placing and displacing is greatly influenced by a dichotomy between the old and new, images and words and the manual and digital. She turns to old family magazines, antique stores, newspaper, paint, tape and text to combine disparate elements into a unified whole.
LOUIS SOULARD is an art history student who uses photography and art-making as a means of therapy. His photograph is an excerpt from a larger series that documents residential ruins in Shanghai, China. Serving as a commentary on the destruction of existing residential neighbourhoods to accommodate newer urban real estate, Louis uses his images to denounce passive Chinese authorities and question the ethics of a new world superpower.
KERRY MAGUIRE studies biology and philosophy; for her, academic work and art are two parts of a bigger picture that she has not managed to uncover yet. Her black and white film photos document experience and thought. Lately, she has been inspired by patterns and repetitions: colourful textiles, daily routines, metamorphic rocks. CHANA HAOUZI is currently completing her M.Arch at McGill. Non-Edit is a testament to her love for the speed, timing, and accidental nature of watercolours. She loves to observe the unedited, mundane patterns that constitute the personality of a location. JOANNA LAI is a student of East Asian studies who illustrates and narrate user-interface experiences through the incorporation of accessible electronic commodities as a part of the medium. In Conversation With are video stills from an installation project that features moving portraits of ten emergent creatives. The work attempts to draw attention to the problematic fetishization of Asian-Canadian and American women, using the contrivity of the subjects’ reciprocating gazes as a mimetic gesture towards an equally nebulous social dynamic IRL. More info: joanna-lai.com
GALEN MACDONALD sees a very strong two-way relationship between art and insomnia. He is inspired by living in the city, riding bicycles and macaroni and cheese. His work, Untitled Desk, made of red oak and poplar is a structural and aesthetic exploration of containment and release. TAYLOR-ANNE SCARABELLI recently took a year’s leave from McGill and is awaiting a “big evil negative force” against her art practice that educational institutions are supposed to bring. It hasn’t arrived quite yet. In the meantime, she has created Rudy, a series of 35mm photographs taking inspiration from her own constructed dreamland. People, the weather and nasty cities are equally intriguing, so long as they are unfamiliar.
Thanks to the AUS Fine Arts Council, the Students’ Society of McGill University, and the Dean of Arts Development Fund for their generous support.