LANDON MACKENZIE ECHO
Saturday, May 2nd - Saturday, May 30th
In Mackenzie’s new exhibition, Echo, the title resonates both literally and conceptually. Cerulean Echo is a large, immersive canvas at the centre of the show that was made over a year, in her characteristic process of gradually responding to each previous layer. Situated in the middle of a pale yellow background is a swirling vortex created with deep blue-black, cerulean blue, and green dots that seemingly embody an echo in real time. At the earliest stages Mackenzie gave each small dark circle a shadow, as if an echo of itself.
Surrounding this work in the exhibition are works on paper, an important part of her practice for over five decades and the subject of a travelling survey museum exhibition, Parallel Journey (2015-2017). Using ink, gesso, watercolour and gouache, these more intimate works are also layered and explore similar themes to the large canvases yet, they are never created as studies. Instead, they expand upon her ongoing dialogue and the two practices bounce off of one another, echoing their counterpart.
In two of the works on paper, an ‘orb’ floats in the middle of the image, flanked by strands of luminous colour that resemble a landscape or seascape. It might be the moon dipping into the river or the sun seen through a pathway of clouds. As always, Mackenzie follows a myriad of threads and lines of logic, all of which coexist within the final work.
gesso,
20 1/2 x 28 in.
