Border Crossings
Border Crossings Magazines
Since 2005 I’ve been buying Border Crossings Magazine without fail. Four times a year I wait in anticipation for my next issue and all year round I pour over them, smelling the pages, running my hands over them, devouring articles and feasting my eyes on the imagery. I once heard John Brown call himself an ‘image slut’, and I think I am one too.
Today is my day off (I started a new job last week which requires work on Saturdays, so I have Sundays and Mondays off) and I found myself sifting through some old issues. Here are some of my favourite articles and artists:
Susan Rothanberg, Border Crossings
Etienne Zack, Border Crossings
I loved this spread so much I had it open in my work space while I was painting. Yes, that’s linseed oil at the top.
Etienne Zack, Border Crossings
Walter Ford, Border Crossings
This guy has stayed with me for a long time…
Walter Ford, Border Crossings
I can’t resist posting a few of his works.
Walter Ford, detail, Border Crossings
Border Crossings Issue 97
One of my favourite issues.
Evan Penny, Border Crossings
I finally saw Even Penny’s work in the ‘flesh’ this spring at the AGO. Incredible.
Peter Doig, Border Crossings
…and one of my favourite painters….
David McMillan, Border Crossings
These are beautiful photographs of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. I find them so painterly.
Aurel Schmidt, Border Crossings
…who is on this month’s cover…I first heard of her in 2007 when, in her early 20′s I believe, her work got bought up by Saatchi. She’s a bit of a self-taught,- young, -provocative -and all the rest- artist but boy can she draw.
Border Crossings Issue 103
Another of my favourite issues….
Lisa Yuskavage, Border Crossings
Hands down, one of the best artist interviews I have EVER read.
Lisa Yuskavage, Border Crossings
This photo doesn’t do her justice. I would LOVE to see her paintings in real life. They are deliciously skillful and beautiful. She is one of the most talented painters, and an extremely smart woman.
Tony Scherman, Border Crossings
Encaustic painter Tony Scherman. Exquisite.
Tony Scherman, Border Crossings
The most beautifully painted shrimp I have ever seen.
Shary Boyle, Border Crossings
I can’t leave out Shary Boyle. “I hope the painting and the colours are seductive becuase I believe in putting things in the world that have pleasure in them”. (Border Crossings, issue 102 pg. 87)
Carol Funk, Border Crossings
These are acrylic paintings – amazing.
Leonard Cohen, Border Crossings
Leonard Cohen’s self-portrait drawings…also an interesting interview…
Leonard Cohen, Border Crossings
…some more….
Lisa Wood, Border Crossings
I love the painterly-ness of these. I believe the oil on myler gives it that effect.
Wangechi Mutu, Border Crossings, detail
This is a detail. I looked at this spread for a looong time. This spring, I saw her collages in the AGO. Stuff I can’t peel my eyes away from.
Wangechi Mutu, Border Crossings
Another detail…
Francoise Sullivan
I studied her inside out in year 3…part of the Automatists….
Philip Guston, Border Crossings
…one of my favourite painters of ALL TIME.
Elizabeth Payton, Border Crossings
Love her figure painting…
Aurel Schmidt, Border Crossings
This month’s issue.
Aurel Schmidt, Border Crossings
A terrible photograph of a beautiful work.
Aurel Schmidt, Border Crossings, detail
I mean, really, you can think ‘gross’ all you want. But they are exquisitely rendered.
Aurel Schmidt, Border Crossings
And so ends, my tribute to Border Crossings.
June 22nd, 2009 13:36
I discovered your homepage by coincidence.
Very interesting posts and well written.
I will put your site on my blogroll.
June 22nd, 2009 13:48
Thanks Bruce!
June 24th, 2009 19:20
I LOVE mags. Love them. I love that you have collected these, every issue for four years. And I especially love how much you appreciate them. I think another subscription should be in the works for you at Christmas!
(Er-remind me!)
I’d like to look through them, especially at the ones you like that you posted here, in person. I did check out some while I was there last time.
June 30th, 2009 22:28
I will remind you! I started collecting Canadian Art, too. By mistake. I was at ‘Word on the Street’ last year and they were selling subscriptions for real cheap and giving away a really nice re-useable shopping bag with your purchase.