MASTHEAD
Co-Editors in Chief: Aja Papp, Eve Salomons
Graphic Designer: Greg Gibson
Photographer: Navin Adchariyavanich
Editors: Mia Chen, Judith Chow, Kiran Dhaliwal, Carly Formosa, Corey Morrell, Apanuba Puhama, Maisie Westerman, Irene Wang
Contributing Artists: Anneke Dresselhuis, Hazel Zhang
Contributing Writers: Michelle Chang, Kiana Shahnia, Samantha Bell, Ollie Beeby, Jeffrey Boone, Yasmine Semeniuk
articles
Jerome B. Thompson, The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain, 1858. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 69.182, Rogers Fund, 1969. Reproduced under the terms of the Met’s Open Access Policy.
Exhibitionary Platforms: Ordering of the World in Instagram Travel Photography
Fred Oliver Beeby Maglaque
Edwin Deakin, Street in Chinatown, 1885. Oil on panel. The Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State, Washington, RR-1971.0097, purchased with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. David L. Keeger. Image courtesy U.S. Department of State.
Segregation and Orientalism: Edwin Deakin’s Chinatown in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Michelle Chang
Attributed to Sahkulu, Dragon in Foliage with Lion and Phoenix Heads, mid-sixteenth century. Ink, gold, opaque watercolours on paper, 17.3 x 40.2 cm. Cleveland Museum of Art, purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.492. Reproduced under the terms of the CMA’s Open Access Policy.
Battles of Simurgh and Ezhdaha: The Ideological Transformation of Monsters
Kiana Shahnia
Sethembile Msezane, Untitled (Heritage Day), 2013. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Reimagining Black Feminine Identities: Self-Representation in Contemporary South African Art
Samantha Bell
artist profiles
Anneke Dresselhuis, Proxy, Proximal Approximate, 2021. Digital documentation of sculpture and performance, painted wood blocks, bookshelf. Artist photos.
Anneke Dresselhuis: (in)visibility in the information state
Maisie Westerman
Hazel Zhang, Manmade, 2022. Cyanotype print on paper. Artist photo.
Hazel Zhang: Exploring the Realms of Architecture, Perspective, and the Anthropocene
Syed Apanuba Puhama
REVIEWS
Graham Landin, Triangle Beach at PALE FIRE
Jeffrey Boone
Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment, VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
Yasmine Semeniuk
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Issue 14, 2023. Published since 2009. Cover design by Greg Gibson.