Issue 6

folio
Issue 6 — Fall 2011
McGill Art + Design

Folio Staff
Paula Alaszkiewicz
Michæl Beauvais
Claire Bourgeois
Erin Carrieres
Jordan Deutsch
Gabriela Gilmour
Bianca Giulione
Jürg Haller
Maya Inglis
Joanna Lai
John Levesque
Milena Lorsignol
Milena Paprok
Alexa Roach
Pooja Sen
Erin Spangler
Contact
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foliomagazine.ca
About
Folio 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 Santerre
Facing 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
Anna Foran
in that vapour
Kerry Maguire
Non-Edit
Chana Houzi
In Conversation With
[Ming Lin / Jennifer Chan
Amy Gogh / Myra Truong]
Joanna Lai
Untitled
[Thanks for Nothing, Jerk World]
Sonya Mandus
Untitled
Ian Murphy
Untitled
Louis Soulard
Untitled Desk
Galen Macdonald
ruins of ródos and
Rudy
Taylore-Anne Scarabelli

ANNA FORAN
Untitled

KERRY MAGUIRE
in that vapour

CHANA HAOUZI Non-Edit

JOANNA LAI
In 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 MACDONALD
Untitled Desk

TAYLORE-ANNE SCARABELLI
ruins 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 featured
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-everything,
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, metamorphic
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 illustrates
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 contrivity
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 fictional
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 engineering,
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. Serving
as a commentary on the destruction of existing residential
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 containment
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 institutions
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 unfamiliar.

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