A Good Play

Essays by Jan Verwoert and Monika Szewczyk.

Published by ECU Press.

“On the beauty of being bold, not blunt, and the audacity of realizing, in painting, that modernists were wrong to think that modernism was all about finding something final, but that, in effect, modernism much rather is about facing its challenges again, every day, in painting, in a manner that may be bold, not blunt, and, despite some agony, occasionally most joyful”
— Jan Verwoert

Through her work, McIntosh responds to Modernism, and specifically geometric abstraction, resisting the reverent nature of pure abstraction, through the constant tweaking of very subtle details.

This first monograph of Vancouver-based painter Elizabeth McIntosh features essays by Berlin based writer and critic Jan Verwoert, and Monika Szewczyk, head of publications for the Witte de With Centre for International Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.

Elizabeth McIntosh has been producing and exhibiting paintings since the mid-nineties. She has exhibited widely in Canada and shown internationally. Her work resides in collections such as the National Gallery of Canada. McIntosh is represented by Diaz Contemporary in Toronto.