Patrick Mahon: Drawing Water
Jen Budney & Michael Blackstock

Documentation of a three part exhibition featuring Mahon’s selections from the gallery’s permanent collection, along with work produced in the artist’s community based workshops, and Mahon’s own drawings, sculptures and videos referencing the engravings by J.M.W. Turner. An essay explores Mahon’s definition of water from commodity to metaphor. Accompanied by a poetic text on the political, spiritual and ecological movements surrounding the issue of water.

Kamloops Art Gallery (12/2008) 48 pp col. ill. 8 x 5 in softcover 978-1-895497-74-8 $14.99 Can. $15.99 U.S. (12 euros)

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Store: Three Projects by Patrick Mahon
Robin Metcalfe, Tila Kellman & Shirley Madill

Mahon's paintings, banners and "wraps" explore the concepts of exhibition and exchange as they are embodied in a retail outlet - specifically the gallery shop. His gift shop and public art projects dissect the gallery's relationship to everyday life, consider questions about commodity culture, and advance the notion of the artwork as "gift". Developing a graphic design based on Canadian modernist abstract paintings, he has created banners that are installed in various public sites as well as a limited edition of gift-wrap available, of course, only in the shops. Three essays discuss three distinct projects.

Museum London / Art Gallery of Hamilton (2002) 46 pp 15 col. ill. 9x6 in softcover 1895800714 $12.95

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Patrick Mahon: Palindrome
Anne Brydon & Robin Metcalfe

Mahon's installations explore the relation between structure and surface through the medium of wallpaper that he designs and has fabricated himself. Deliberately referencing William Morris and Le Coubusier, Mahon suggests several modernist aesthetic traditions. Interestingly, given that the artist is a heterosexual male, the essayists look at his work in the light of feminist analysis and homosexual aesthetics. Bryden discusses the artist's treatment of domestic space as a comment on traditional sex roles while Metcalfe considers the work as a critique of the heroic masculinism of Modernist aesthetics.

Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2000) 48 pp. 27 ill. (20 col.) 10x8 in. 1894699009 softcover $15.00

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