On the Cover
Editor’s Letter
“Watching” and Learning
by Bill Clarke
Features
Portfolios
Exhibition Reviews
Paul Butler
by Dagmara Genda
Natascha Niederstrass
by Heather Saunders
Lindsay Morris
by Bill Clarke
Home Ground
by Amy Luo
Geoffrey Farmer
by Kyra Kordoski
Sarindar Dhaliwal
by Bart Gazzola
Anne-Renée Hotte
by James D. Campbell
Tom of Finland / #RAWHIDE
by Bill Clarke
Milutin Gubash
by James D. Campbell
Flesh Marble Leaf & Twig
by Benjamin Bruneau
Studio View
Parting Shot
Editor’s Letter
![Flash Forward Incubator Show & Silent Auction, July 2015, Twist Gallery](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-EditorsLetter-FFI_TwistGallery_July2015_43-1024x682.jpg)
“Watching” and Learning
Exhibition Reviews
![View of "Yinka Shonibare MBE : Pièces de résistance", 2015, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal. Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball), 2004. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-Review-ShonibareY_5_53-1024x744.jpg)
Yinka Shonibare
![Are You Experienced? (Installation View, Olafur Eliasson)](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-Review-AreYouExperienced_Eliasson-1024x682.jpg)
are you experienced?
![Jati Lindsay: Emmanuel Harrold 2014 #1, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-Review-BlackDandies_17-1024x684.jpg)
Dandy Lion
![Karen Kraven, installation view of Flip Flop, Punch Front, 2015. Photo credit Toni Hafkenscheid.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-Review-KravenK_6-1024x682.jpg)
Karen Kraven
![Paul Butler, Words Fall Short (Installation view). Courtesy Lisa Kehler Art + Projects.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-Review-ButlerP_InstallationView_1-1024x682.jpg)
Paul Butler
![Natascha Niederstrass, Installation view, Gallery 101, Ottawa.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-Review-NeiderstrassN_5857-1024x727.jpg)
Natascha Niederstrass
![Lindsay Morris, Ascending (2012). Courtesy Lindsay Morris / INSTITUTE.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-Review-MorrisL_03-1024x682.jpg)
Lindsay Morris
![Manal alDowayan: Suspended Together – (Standing Dove, Eating Dove), 2012, Porcelain. Photo by Miguel Veterano, Capital D Studio © Barjeel Art Foundation.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-Review-HomeGround-ManalalDowayan-1024x819.jpg)
Home Ground
![](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Farmer_12-1024x733.jpg)
Geoffrey Farmer
![Sarindar Dhaliwal: the cartographer’s mistake: untitled (detail) (2012). Marble, salt. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/Dhaliwal_thecartographersmistake_untitled-1024x682.jpg)
Sarindar Dhaliwal
![Anne-Renée Hotte: Solistes (2015). HD video, colour, sound. Images courtesy of the artist.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-Review-HotteA_6-1024x576.jpg)
Anne-Renée Hotte
![Tom of Finland: Untitled, (1987). Graphite on paper. Tom of Finland Foundation, Permanent Collection.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/IFd3lDHXay.jpg)
Tom of Finland / #RAWHIDE
![Milutin Gubash: Lamps (detail) (2015). Courtesy Galerie Trois Points.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/GTP_MGubash_OrindaryFolk_VueExpo_071-1024x682.jpg)
Milutin Gubash
![](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/48_IMG_7414.jpg)
Flesh Marble Leaf & Twig
Studio View
![Portrait: Toronto artist Romas Astrauskas at his home studio, August 2015. All photos: Bill Clarke.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-StudioView-AstrauskasR_Portrait-1024x730.jpg)
Romas Astrauskas
Parting Shot
![Contemporary art conservator Sherry Phillips at work on Simon Starling’s Infestation Piece (Musselled Moore). Courtesy the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Photos: Dean Tomlinson.](https://www.magentafoundation.org/magazine/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/09/MagMag-2015_Summer-PartingShot_0225-1024x695.jpg)
Saving Starling