Seen at the National Gallery of Canada, this layered painting by Landon MacKenzie.
Tracking Athabasca : Macke it to Thy Other Side (Land of Little Sticks) 1999
acrylic on linen, approximately 7 feet wide
Historical information from an early Hudson bay Company map is combined with colonial government records, doilies and drawings.
Also included are stories as told by the artist's friend, Doris Whitehead, a woman of Cree, Chipewa and Scottish heritage. The label on the wall says "Whitehead recounted her stories to the artist while indicating territorial lines in marker on MacKenzie's painting."
Then near by, there were these two small hardcover open notebooks, framed under glass. The National Gallery explains that notebooks are often exhibited with this artist's paintings of Saskatchewan.
Framing notebooks under glass.
Layering doilies onto paintings.
Allowing another woman to mark up your painting.
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how female
how wonderful
Landon MacKenzie teaches painting at Emily Carr University in Vancouver. She won the Govenor General Award in 2017 for fine art.
Video of the artist here.
Wow the video is an eye opener to the scale of this work, love how she works inside the landscape!
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