Elizabeth Zvonar Explained

Elizabeth Zvonar
Birth Place:Thunder Bay, Ontario
Education:BFA, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 2002
Known For:Collagist, sculptor

Elizabeth Zvonar (born 1972) is a Canadian contemporary artist who works primarily with mixed-media collage and sculpture based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[1] She is currently represented by Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[2]

Life and education

Zvonar was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario.[2] She has attended Aichi Gakusen University in Toyota City, Japan (1994), Capilano College in North Vancouver, Canada (1995), and Hokkaido University of Art & Design in Sapporo, Japan (1996).[2] She ultimately received a BFA at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada in 2002, the same institution that would later reward her with the Emily Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Emily Carr Alumna in 2011.[2] [3]

Work

Working extensively with collage materials, Zvonar’s practice works towards presenting a new history by collecting images from a variety of sources (advertisements, lifestyle, and art history) and reinterpreting them through juxtaposition. By working with images of the female body, Zvonar’s work reinterprets the use of female representation through a reductive and additive process that investigates the nuances and disparities of printed material in relation to identity formation.

Solo exhibitions

Zvonar has exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Daniel Faria Gallery, Artspeak, and the Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite. In 2017, Zvonar participated in a residency at the Burrard Arts Foundation, where she exhibited her solo show To You it Was Fast. [4]

Her work THE CHALLENGE OF ABSTRACTION was exhibited at the Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto from May 2 to June 6, 2015.[5] Zvonar exhibited collages, sculptures, and casts. One of her featured works, IT’S THE GAPS THAT CHANGE THE SEQUENCE, "presents two different images of open legs arranged in a mesmerizing spiral."[6]

In 2018 her show Banal Baroque was presented at Daniel Faria Gallery, which explored themes of "bodily and sexual excess" by "recontextualizing mass-produced objects, mass media objects, magazines, and mannequin parts to animate the uncanny treatment of the human figure that lies dormant in this source material."[7] Her work is noted to evoke Surrealist and Dadaist collage, particularly those of Hannah Höch.[8]

Among the exhibited works were Marcel Meets Judy (2013), which featured a "mass-produced pink seashell candy dish." This object was rendered obsolete from its function and references Marcel Duchamp’s readymades and Judy Chicago’s porcelain vagina-flowers in The Dinner Party, 1974–1979.

Artworks in collections

Elizabeth Zvonar's artworks can be found in the following collections:

Solo exhibitions

Zvonar has exhibited both group and solo exhibitions across Canada, Australia, Belgium, Japan and in New York.[11]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Monte Cristo Magazine. - Sinkewicz. - Alison. April 4, 2017. Daniel Faria Gallery.
  2. Web site: Residency Unlimited Elizabeth Zvonar. www.residencyunlimited.org. 2018-03-10.
  3. Web site: Vancouver. 520 East 1st Avenue. V5t 0h2. Bc. Canada. 2015-10-29. Elizabeth Zvonar Offsite and Beyond. 2021-05-21. www.ecuad.ca. en.
  4. Web site: Burrard Arts Foundation. 2017.
  5. Genda. Dagmara. August 2015. "Elizabeth Zvonar". Border Crossings Magazine. 34. 105–107.
  6. Healey. Emma. Autumn 2015. Elizabeth Zvonar: THE CHALLENGE OF ABSTRACTION. C Magazine. 127. 60.
  7. Web site: Elizabeth Zvonar at Daniel Faria Gallery. www.artforum.com. June 2013 . 2018-03-10.
  8. Web site: Elizabeth Zvonar Artspace. Artspace. en. 2018-03-10.
  9. Web site: Daniel Faria Gallery Elizabeth Zvonar. danielfariagallery.com. en. 2018-03-10.
  10. Web site: Vancouver Art Gallery . 2019-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190419024511/https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/collection_and_research/2014_acquisitions.html . 2019-04-19 . dead .
  11. Web site: Elizabeth Zvonar. live. Residency Unlimited. https://web.archive.org/web/20160120214334/http://residencyunlimited.org:80/residencies/elizabeth-zvonar/ . 2016-01-20 .
  12. Web site: Cut and Paste. 2021-04-16. Capture Photography Festival. 26 February 2020 . en-CA.
  13. Web site: 2019-12-04. I Spy: Elizabeth Zvonar. 2021-04-16. The Polygon. en-US.
  14. Web site: Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. 2021-04-16. scotiabankcontactphoto.com. en-US.
  15. Web site: Ageless Ambiguity Artsy. 2021-04-16. www.artsy.net.
  16. Web site: Daniel Faria Gallery Elizabeth Zvonar. danielfariagallery.com. en. 2018-03-09.
  17. Web site: Elizabeth Zvonar – To you it was fast – BAF. 2021-05-21. en-CA.

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