issue 16

folio

Issue 16 - Fall 2016 McGill Art + Design

folio magazine issue 16 - fall 2016

folio staff

Marguerite Amsellem Olivia del Giorgio Megan Jezewski Anton Motivans Nora Mulvey Camille Preel-Dumas Liv Silva Justine Tupe Caroline Zhang

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: Lukas Thienhaus Fake Chinese Facing Page: Fiona Glen 180seconds All contents Š the respective artists.

content

Katherine Morelli Painless Untitled Listening in Suspense

Fiona Glen

red raw chopped

Emily Kyte untitled

Nikhil Tangirala barren

Jules Tomi Fiona Glen

nerfwork without heat mamma’lign

Megan Jezewski Urd Seemike

Katherine Morelli Painless Untitled Listening in Suspense

Fiona Glen red raw chopped

Emily Kyte untitled

Nikhil Tangirala barren

Jules Tomi

Fiona Glen nerfwork without heat mamma’lign

Megan Jezewski Urd Seemike

folio contributors

Lukas Thienhaus This is one of a series of paintings on top of ads I’ve made every once in a while over the past few years. I like drawing these spaced out cartoon dudes as standalone little doodles without any particular scene or backdrop, so sliding them into a magazine ad is a fun way to translate those guys into a more complete piece. Also some stuff about fantasy, desire, aspirational images, brand integration, but it’s not really meant to be political. I think KAWS did that better in the 90s.

Fiona Glen My artwork is often concerned with dissolution, membranes and metamorphic forms portrayed through stylised line and watercolour. Simultaneously dissolving and regenerating, my drawings are full of movement which is agitated yet fluid, reflecting the inevitable shifting of an organic subject. I believe that drawing is an act of conjuring, playing and challenging – not simply a medium for sketching out other projects.

For me, drawing in this experimental manner can be a process of creation, pulling something from nothing into life. I find significance in the accidental and spontaneous, with the linear and aqueous natures of my materials forming an integral part of the surfaces they compose, which become free-flowing and alive.

Katherine Morelli I like to explore abstraction with watercolor, using the contours of the human body as a starting point. I prefer watercolor because its transparency lends both transience and permanence to each action. I like to play with the effects of watercolor through the application, which can be very precise or spontaneous- letting the paint wander naturally across the paper.

Emily Kyte My work focuses on how people and places are able to blend together through intense lighting and colour. I try to bring together seemingly unrelated things and turn them into something new. Through collage, I am able to revive the past and rework it into the present. Through photography, I am able to freeze the present into the future. Thus, my work is also about time and how easily it can be manipulated. Colour is an important aspect of my artwork as well and is what allows me to find satisfaction in my own work. It is through colour that I am able to truly express my creativity.

Nikhil Tangirala My work is inspired by wandering off and breathing, vastness and emptiness, simplicity and silence.

Jules Tomi In the past two years, I’ve developed a photographic perspective that draws from photojournalism, documentary photography and sociology. Through my pictures I adopt the fleeting gaze of a random bystander and my goal is to create narratives through everyday symbols and an ‘iconography of banality’.

Megan Jezewski Big fan of CMYK and markers.

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