ARTIST TALK
Les Ramsay in Conversation with Landon Mackenzie
Saturday, November 14 | 2:00 PM
2423 Granville Street
Join us in the gallery for an artist talk with Les Ramsay and Landon Mackenzie. Presented in conjunction with Hardly Anywhere, Ramsay’s current exhibition at MSG, the two Vancouver-based painters will consider the conceptual underpinnings of Ramsay’s diverse practice, giving special attention to his recent residency in Annandale, PEI, where Mackenzie also has a summer studio.
Refreshments and light snacks will be served. RSVPs are appreciated.
RSVP@marionscottgallery.com
Les Ramsay was born in Vancouver and studied fine arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Universitat de Politecnica in Valencia (Spain) and completed his MFA at Concordia University in 2015. He has taken part in group and solo shows such as A motion for a notion commotion, presented at Chernoff Fine Art in Vancouver (2018); Li Salay, at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton (2018); MICRO-WAVE, at Mr. Lee’s Shed in Vancouver (2018); Border X, at Winnipeg Art Gallery (2016); Retreat of the Horstman, at the Field Contemporary in Vancouver (2016); Ignition 10 at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery Montréal (2014); and Keep the Glove at Sunset Terrace in Vancouver (2014). His works can be found in many private and corporate collections such as The Claridge Collection, Medcan, the TD Bank and RBC collection. He has exhibited in Canada, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, as well as in the US.
Raised in Toronto, Landon Mackenzie (b. 1954) earned a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and an MFA from Montreal’s Concordia University. Mackenzie is known for complex, large-scale immersive paintings and compelling works on paper. Numerous awards include the prestigious Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2017). Her paintings are in several Canadian museums and regularly hang in permanent collection exhibitions including at the National Gallery of Canada, The AGO, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Vancouver Art Gallery, McMichael Canadian Art Collection and Audain Art Museum to name a few.Survey exhibitions of her art include Landon Mackenzie: Nervous Centre at The Esker Foundation, Calgary (2012-13); Emily Carr and Landon Mackenzie: Wood Chopper and the Monkey at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2014-2015); and Landon Mackenzie: Parallel Journey: 40 Years of Work on Paper (1975-2015) organized and toured by the Kelowna Art Gallery (2016-2018).
