Artist

MacKenzie, Elizabeth

Title

Study for The Gaze of History 39

Date

2012

Dimensions

30.5cm height x 22.8cm width

Type

drawing

Accession Number

2012.26.9

Owner

City of Burnaby

Collection

Permanent Collection

Gift of Bruce Grenville

Elizabeth MacKenzie studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and in 1993, she received an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan. Her drawings, installations, and video works have been shown in exhibitions, festivals, and screenings across Canada, the United States, and Europe. In 2012, MacKenzie completed a site specific installation of wall drawings for The Gaze of History at the Burnaby Art Gallery. For this project, MacKenzie drew from archival photographs and imagined historical figures from the Ceperley Mansions' past. Their portraits were then put up on walls throughout the house, some of which can still be seen today. MacKenzie is a sessional instructor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and continues to live and work in Vancouver.