Exhibition Tours – Landon Mackenzie: Weather Patterns
Friday, September 25 at 1 PM Free. Drop-in
Join gallery staff for a free, drop-in tour of Landon Mackenzie: Weather Patterns.
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Landon Mackenzie: Weather Patterns
Starting in the shallow tidewaters of Cardigan Bay, Prince Edward Island, Landon Mackenzie’s Weather Pattern series (2021–) balances chance and control to envelop the viewer in the artist’s painted worlds. Looking at the dotted sandstone-inspired canvases, you might see a charged nervous system, a celestial body or the microcosm of a riverbed’s speckled surface. The depth of each painting reveals the linen canvas as a site-responsive material that soaks up its environment: saltwater, sunshine, wind, rain, dew and starry nights—all become foundational materials in Mackenzie’s works. Merging paint and weather, the canvases evoke the intimate connection between internal and external landscapes. To begin this bi-coastal project, Mackenzie first stapled the river-soaked linen to a wooden porch on Prince Edward Island, where she applied a multitude of colours. The artist next rolled and shipped the work like a tapestry to her Vancouver studio, where she responded to the transformed surface. Each of these large paintings was enlivened from its interaction with East Coast summer tides before coalescing in the artist’s West Coast studio.
Supported by the Audain Foundation.
