Page 72 - Studio International - April 1970

Canada 25 Test Focus Field Figure, 1965, Studio International. Benjamin has recently 28 Rolled Woman 1, 1961, canvas, cardboard
spray enamels on canvas, 60 x 80 in. (Coll : been working as a visiting lecturer at the cylinders in wooden case, 304 x 25½ in.
Art Gallery of Ontario), by Michael Snow. University of Calgary, Canada. Currently he (Coll : Art Gallery of Ontario), another piece
As reported in News and Notes for January, has a show at the Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer by Michael Snow.
Michael Snow is the only Canadian artist Gallery, New York. 29 Untitled, 1969, wood, 4 x 8 x 12 ft., by
selected to represent Canada at the Venice 27 Triade, 1969, polyester, 73 x 73 cm, by Robin Mackenzie. Mackenzie is 32 years old.
Biennale, 1970, and his work Aluminium and Ina Rodenburg. Until recently his work consisted of light,
Lead has been chosen by the Government of sound and kinetic sculptures. He has now
Japan to be the piece that represents Canada moved into more organic fields as this
in the International Art Museum, Expo 70, illustration of one of the pieces from his show
at Osaka. Born in Toronto 1929, Snow lives last month at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery,
in New York. He graduated from the Ontario Toronto, shows.
College of Art, 1953, travelled and painted in 30 Nimbus, 1970, brass and acrylic, 34 x
Europe, 1954-55, has been a jazz musician 21½ x 90 in., another recent example of
and, recently, a maker of films. A survey of his Anthony Benjamin's work.
works closed at the Art Gallery of Ontario on
March 22.
26 Nimbus Arch, 1969, chrome and acrylic,
10 x 7 x 14½ in. high, by Anthony Benjamin,
who designed the cover for this issue of