Figure 1 Backlist Kim Dorland by Katerina Atanassova, Robert Enright and Jeffrey Spalding "Kim Dorland" explores the mind and work of one of Canada's most intriguing contemporary artists. Named Globe and Mail 'Artist of the Year' in 2013, Dorland has captured the public's imagination with his tour-de-force, visceral creations. His paintings are at once referential, material, psychological, beautiful, and uncomfortable, resulting in a body of work that is seemingly disparate but undeniably connected through its idiosyncratic - and maximal - use of paint in all its forms Author Bio Katerina Atanassova is the chief curator of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Since her appointment in 2009, she has led and curated several special exhibitions, among them The Tree: Form and Substance (2011) and You Are Here: Kim Dorland and the Return to Painting (2013). She was also the co-curator for the enormously successful international touring exhibition, Figure 1 Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. She is a graduate of On Sale: Oct 3/14 Sofia University and holds an M.A. from the Centre for Mediaeval Studies, 10.35 x 8.81 University of Toronto. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of 9781927958254 • $45.00 • cl Art History and Visual Culture at York University, where she is working on Architecture / Landscape urban visuality and the emergence of urban culture in Canada. Robert Enright is the senior contributing editor and film critic for Border Crossings magazine and the University Research Chair in Art Theory and Criticism in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph. He is the author of a number of books and has contributed introductions, interviews, and essays to hundreds of books and catalogues. He was a nominator and contributor to both Vitamin P2 and Vitamin D2. In 2005 he was made a member of the Order of Canada. He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba Jeffrey Spalding is an artist, writer, and (...) 2 of 49 Figure 1 Backlist Deadhead Cedric, Nathan and Jim Bomford by Barbara Cole and Jen Weih, edited by Lorna Brown The Deadhead publication presents a rich visual narrative of an ambitious sculptural project by the Bomfords that leads the reader through phases of early research, studio production, installation, life on the water and final deconstruction. Mounted to a barge and towed to different locations during the summer of 2014, this large-scale installation acted as a curious marine outpost asserting a presence that both troubled and delighted. In amongst paddleboats, pleasure craft, passenger ferries, cruise ships, freighters and barges stacked high with global commodities, Deadhead introduced art as valuable cargo within a constantly changing flotilla of economic exchange. As a platform from which cultural activities unfolded, Deadhead hosted a lively program of events including weekly open houses, film screenings, workshops, choir performances and a series of improvisational sunset performances. Photographs by Cedric Bomford, Nathan Bomford, Barbara Cole, Maegan Hill-Carroll, Michael Love, Philip Nee Nee, David Peters, Bob Ross, Rachel Topham, Karen Zalamea Figure 1 On Sale: Sep 10/16 10.66 x 9.53 • 112 pages Author Bio 127 illustrations 9780986681936 • $35.00 • pb Lorna Brown is a Vancouver-based visual artist, curator, writer and editor. Art / Canadian Independent projects include the public artwork "Digital Natives", and "Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties". Brown is Associate Director/Curator of the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery at the University of British Columbia. Kimberly Phillips is Director/Curator of Access Gallery, a Vancouver artist-run centre committed to supporting the work of emergent and experimental artists. She has authored, edited and contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and her writings have appeared in Artforum, C Magazine, and Filip. Jen Weih is and artist and educator based in Vancouver. Her projects range from printmaking to video to participatory movement events to projects in public programming and community engagement. She is an instructor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. 3 of 49 Figure 1 Backlist The Games are Open Folke Kobberling and Martin Kaltwasser by Barbara Cole and Barbara Holub, edited by Lorna Brown The Games are Open by the Berlin-based artist team of Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser used materials recycled from the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Athletes’ Village to create a sculpture in the form of a larger-than-life bulldozer. Constructed from 1,000 sheets of wheatboard, the artwork gradually transitioned from sculpture to garden, it’s decomposition providing fodder for new growth. The Games are Open publication is designed as a hand-held flipbook, which animates the project’s transformation over a four-year period. The book features over 172 images taken by Vancouver- based photographer Hans Sipma, who passed by the sculpture each day on his bicycle commute to work. Interspersed on facing pages, curator Barbara Cole traces the project’s remarkable series of co-options, interventions and adoptions through an annotated chronology. Back pages feature a text by Barbara Holub, a Vienna-based artist, educator and writer whose transdisciplinary practice moves between art, urbanism, architecture and theory. Photographs by Hans Sipma and Barbara Cole. Figure 1 On Sale: Sep 10/16 8.83 x 5.09 • 288 pages Author Bio 172 colour photos 9780986681943 • $30.00 • pb Lorna Brown is a Vancouver-based visual artist, curator, writer and editor. Art / Canadian Independent projects include the public artwork "Digital Natives", and "Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties". Brown is Associate Director/Curator of the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery at the University of British Columbia. Barbara Cole is an artist, educator and founder and Executive Director of Other Sights for Artist's Projects. She is also the Principal of Cole Projects, a public art consulting firm that promotes experimental approaches to public art planning and commissioining. Based in Vienna, Barbara Holub co-founded transparadiso as a transdiciplinary practice between art, urbanism, architecture and therory. She is external expert for direct urbanism at Social Design/University of Applied Arts Vienna and lectures at the Vienna University of Technology. 4 of 49 Figure 1 Backlist A Sublime Vernacular The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug by Nancy Tousley and Peter White A Sublime Vernacular: The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug examines the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug (1918 - 1974), an itinerant artist who sold thousands of variations of essentially the same idyllic mountain scene in national parks, resorts, department stores, restaurants and bars across western Canada from the late 1930s through the 1960s. A self- described "speed painter", he turned out paintings in a matter of minutes, often working on several at the same time, that mesmerized customers as they watched them come to life. Flexhaug was painting a generic landscape fantasy for a society that had been shaped by the Dust Bowl and Depression, but the way he turned that popular formula inside out resulted in paintings of extraordinary richness and invention. This book features more than 120 colour reproductions of his paintings and historic photographs. Essays explore his relationship to the tradition of ideal landscape painting, the Prairie influence on his art and career, and his place within both the history of "market-driven" art (...) Figure 1 On Sale: Aug 17/15 10.50 x 8.50 • 160 pages Author Bio 9780994726902 • $45.00 • cl Art / General Nancy Tousley is an art critic, arts journalist, and independent curator. She was art critic of the Calgary Herald for more than thirty years and has been a contributing editor of Canadian Art since 1986. She has organized exhibitions and written numerous catalogue essays for public art galleries across Canada. In 2002 she was recognized for outstanding achievement in arts journalism by the Canadian Museums Association and in 2011 received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts for her contributions to contemporary Canadian art. She lives in Calgary, Alberta. Peter White is an independent curator and writer. Formerly a journalist for the Globe and Mail and curator/director of the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, he has organized numerous exhibitions of contemporary and historical art for public art galleries in Canada. He is author of It Pays to Play: British Columbia in Postcards 1950s-1980s (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1996) and co-editor of Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007). He lives in Montreal, Quebec. 5 of 49 Figure 1 Backlist LEAD Sister and I in Alaska by Emily Carr, edited by David A. Silcox Full of humour and delight, with a playful text and whimsical full colour illustrations, Sister and I in Alaska documents Emily and Alice's trip to Skidegate, Juneau and places beyond, an adventure that proved seminal in the development of Carr as one of the foremost painters of the last century. Author Bio David P. Silcox has received the Order of Canada and a Governor General’s Award for his many contributions to all the disciplines of the arts in Canada. He has written several award-winning books: Painting Place: the Life and Work of David B. Milne, Tom Thomson: The Silence and The Storm (with Harold Town), The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, and Christopher Pratt, as well as numerous articles, catalogues, and reviews on artists and the arts. Figure 1 On Sale: Apr 16/14 9.31 x 11.10 • 112 pages 9781927958018 • $24.95 • cl Art / Canadian 6 of 49 Figure 1 Backlist Harold Town by Iris Nowell The extraordinary life and art of one of Canada's most exciting painters Harold Barling Town (1924 - 1990) began drawing as a three-year-old and never stopped.