Superscreen

This publication delves into Winnipeg’s pivotal artistic enclave from 1968 to 1987. Written by Timothy Long and Alex King, it chronicles the radical spirit of the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop, founded by William (Bill) Lobchuk as a beacon of artistic defiance and community collaboration, featured in the exhibition Superscreen: The Making of an Artist-Run Counterculture and the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop. Highlighting the shop’s advocacy for screenprinting as a democratic medium, the book explores its impact through the works of pioneering artists like Don Proch, Jackson Beardy, and Daphne Odjig. This comprehensive volume celebrates a sense of the innovation and diversity of Canadian cultural production from the 1960s-1980s, from playful psychedelia and the influence of Pop Art to conceptual questioning, political reflection, regional discourses, Indigenous pride and feminist practice. Bringing together prints, sculpture, commercial work, photographs and other ephemera from in and around the Screen Shop, this exhibition publication celebrates the spirit of a rebellious, fertile and overlooked chapter in Canadian art history. 
-MacKenzie Art Gallery Website

Author
Timothy Long
Alex King

Publishers
MacKenzie Art Gallery
University of Manitoba

Publication Date
2022

Size
9 x 11 inches
88 pages

Binding
Hardcover, perfect-bound

ISBN
9781896470962