275:, Robin Laurence writes, "Art, Liz Magor says, is the place where our perceptions are opened and examined for prolonged periods of time. Much longer, she suggests, than in our day-to-day encounters with the visual world, where we tend to interpret given signs in fixed ways, and where our first impressions are usually consolidated by our second . Magor's art refutes such consolidation: irresolution prevails and closure eludes us. Her sculptures consistently play reality against unreality, meaning against alternative meaning, initial appearance against later revelation."
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Rosenfield. "The Potency of Ordinary Objects: A Conversation with Liz Magor". Sculpture Magazine, November 2012, 36-41
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Adler, Dan; Johnstone, Lesley; Magor, Liz; Munder, Heike; SteinbrĂŒgge, Bettina (2016).
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Magor, Liz; Kopp, CĂ©line; Robertson, Lisa; Verwoert, Jan (2015).
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Hogg, Lucy; Magor, Liz; Tousley, Nancy; Shier, Reid (2000).
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Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts
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220:with a solo exhibition. In 2019, she was named
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437:. Toronto: Art Gallery of York University.
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1207:"Liz Magor, Ladies Jacket Smoking, 2015"
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255:. Her sculptural work investigates the
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128:Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century
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147:Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
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971:Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
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315:Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
319:The University of British Columbia
301:'s The Ydessa Gallery in Toronto.
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104:Ontario College of Art and Design
1159:"Liz Magor, Karl's Kastle, 2003"
1111:"Liz Magor, White Wonders, 2002"
476:"Liz Magor, Susan Hobbs Gallery"
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523:Turner, Michael (2016-04-01).
92:University of British Columbia
90:in 1948. Magor studied at the
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754:Edmonson, Tess (2020-11-24).
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1063:"Liz Magor, Carton II, 2006"
802:Magorâs Timeless Transitions
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1039:"Liz Magor, Violator, 2015"
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153:; Kunstverein in Hamburg;
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1231:"Liz Magor, Buckle, 2016"
1211:Les collections des Fracs
583:Bradley, Jessica (1984).
1135:"Liz Magor, Prone, 2015"
938:"75 Years of Collecting"
909:"75 Years of Collecting"
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684:"Liz Magor: Surrender"
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323:Winnipeg Art Gallery
291:Andrew Kreps Gallery
201:in Kassel, in 1987.
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94:from 1966-1968, and
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