folioIssue 6 — Fall 2011McGill Art + Design

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Folio Staff

Paula AlaszkiewiczMichæl BeauvaisClaire BourgeoisErin CarrieresJordan DeutschGabriela GilmourBianca GiulioneJürg HallerMaya InglisJoanna LaiJohn LevesqueMilena LorsignolMilena PaprokAlexa RoachPooja SenErin Spangler

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AboutFolio 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 SanterreFacing 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 [Thanks for Nothing, Jerk World]Sonya Mandus

UntitledIan Murphy

UntitledLouis Soulard

Untitled DeskGalen Macdonald

ruins of ródos andRudyTaylore-Anne Scarabelli

UntitledAnna Foran

in that vapourKerry Maguire

Non-EditChana Houzi

In Conversation With[Ming Lin / Jennifer Chan Amy Gogh / Myra Truong]Joanna Lai

ANNA FORANUntitled

KERRY MAGUIRE in that vapour

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JOANNA LAIIn 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 MACDONALDUntitled Desk

TAYLORE-ANNE SCARABELLIruins of ródos

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 fea-tured cover, Canadian Winter, comes to life on plain white paper with a black pen thanks to his focus on structure and detail.

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-every-thing, 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.

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.

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, metamor-phic 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 il-lustrates 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 con-trivity of the subjects’ reciprocating gazes as a mimetic gesture towards an equally nebulous social dynamic IRL. More info: joanna-lai.com

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 fic-tional 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.

IAN MURPHY is a student of electrical engineer-ing, 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.

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. Serv-ing as a commentary on the destruction of existing resi-dential 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.

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 con-tainment 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 insti-tutions 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 unfa-miliar.

Thanks to the AUS Fine Arts Council, the Students’ Society of McGill University, and the Dean of Arts Development Fund for their generous support.