BlackFlash Magazine - Issue 31.3

In this issue

31.3 (August, 2014) Features and highlights:

Manon Blanchette investigates Marisa Portolese’s prolific back catalogue. Presented alongside this article is the second installment of our new ArtistFolio feature, showcasing Portolese’s beautiful new series Belle de Jour II.

Rhiannon Vogl interviews Zachari Logan about his relationship to photography as source material for his incredible nature-based tapestry works.

Andrea Williamson explores Tyler Los-Jones (de)constructed landscape photographs.

Michael Nardone (QC) conducts an interview with Jan Michalko (DE) about his various trips to Eastern Europe, his process, and the trajectory of his work as he continues to document the region through it’s ongoing transition.

J.J. Kegan McFadden (MB) continues his ongoing column “Notes With a Broken Camera no. 3″ which looks at Raymond Boisjoly’s (BC) new work Station to Station through McFadden’s trademark personalized lens.

These highlights are presented alongside our regular In Focus departments featuring the work of Thomas Gardiner (BC), Christina Battle (ON), Kristie MacDonald (ON), and Ryan Trecartin (US).

BlackFlash Magazine Description:

BlackFlash Magazine is a platform for contemporary visual art.

BlackFlash is dedicated to presenting critical opinions, urgent issues, and innovative ideas about divergent artistic practices from across Canada, the United States and beyond. Each issue includes feature articles, profiles, interviews, and artist projects from a diverse selection of artists, writers, and curators. BlackFlash fosters a rich public engagement with image-based practices, such as photography and video as well as sound, performance and social practice by promoting energetic debate and showcasing diverse voices and communities (local, regional, national and international).

BlackFlash was founded in 1983 by the Saskatoon artist-run centre, The Photographer’s Gallery (TPG). We are currently working on our 38th year of publication, making us one of Canada’s longest running magazines. BlackFlash is proudly published, designed, and disseminated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and is an internationally recognized resource and authority on Canadian and international contemporary art.

BlackFlash was created to promote contemporary photography and over its thirty-five year history, the magazine evolved, following the artistic trajectory of photo-based practice to include artists working with new technologies such as video and digital media. In its commitment to being responsive to artists and relevant to contemporary art practice, the magazine has recently broadened its editorial mandate, while affirming its distinctive prairie perspective.