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Future Retro: Drawings from the Great Age of American Automobiles
An eclectic ensemble of American car styling, from the post World War II generation of automotive designers – Future Retro is a rich collection of illustrations, which ranges from styling exercises to fully rendered prototypes.
This is an exciting peek int...
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Mathew Reichertz Gets Beaten Up
It’s a funny impulse, really, to want to depict yourself getting beaten up, again and again and again, until you’re a bloody, defeated mess. Unless, of course, you’re Mathew Reichertz.
Because his current body of paintings, called The Fight, does just that...
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'Forgotten' Homes Make Stunning Subjects
When I was a kid, driving with my family through rural Ontario, I was fascinated with old, abandoned houses. Taking a regular route to my grandmother's house, we'd often pass the same old buildings and I'd check it with them, once a season or so, to see how t...
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Gerald Ferguson's 'Frottage' paintings leave an Impression
The current exhibition of Halifax-based artist Gerald Ferguson’s work is more than just an impressive survey of paintings created in the last 12 years. The exhibition, encompassing Ferguson’s ‘Frottage’ paintings (more on this in a sec) and more recent ‘Ash C...
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'After Hours' Student Art at Anna Leonowens Gallery
One of the great things about having a major art school in town is in the artistic influence it wields, even if you aren’t dreaming of being the next conceptual art star or world-renowned painter.
If you’re interested in learning more about art, but can’t...
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22 Artists win big with the Nova Scotia Art Bank
On behalf of artists everywhere (no, I am not an artist, but my sympathies are that way inclined), I’d like to commend and thank the Nova Scotia Art Bank for their recent purchase of 22 works of art by Nova Scotian artists for their collection. This, I think, ...
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Stuffed Angst at Argyle Fine Art
Last night’s opening at Argyle Fine Art was a well-attended affair, as people clambered to see (and buy!) new paintings by Marcel Piet-Hein Kerkhoff (downstairs) and Sara Caracristi (upstairs).
If I could bet money on art, I’d put mine on Marcel Piet-Hein K...
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George Steeves: Photographs
It’s hard to know where to begin in writing about George Steeves whose work is on exhibition at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery until Sunday. He may be, as Halifax critic Sue Carter Flinn wrote on a recent arts blog, the kind of artist you either l...
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The Khyber's Kitchen Party
The Kitchen, the Khyber’s Annual Member’s exhibition, on-now, is a literal smorgasbord of work. From paintings of lentil soup to silk-screened tablecloths and crochet donuts, this is a show that explores food in all its tasty, messy, rotten glory.
The me...
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Making Noise on Hollis Street
Yesterday someone said “you’ve got to see the snare drums on Hollis St.” Snare drums on Hollis street, eh? So I went.
And there they were - three of them in a row - just below NSCAD’s second story windows, above the Christmas Store, the university art suppl...
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Wearable Art Show Dazzles The Senses
Flashing back to last Saturday, 7:30 pm, I was striding through the doors of Hell's Kitchen and it was a mad house everywhere I looked. Dozens of artists from all walks of life were in a mad dash to get the big show ready. The show I'm talking about is only NS...
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Daniel Joyce: Fogging up the Window at Substation
If you happen along Gottingen Street this week, don’t miss the odd collection of circles gracing the window next door to eyelevel gallery.
The window is actually a small gallery of it’s own called Substation — and until March 30, it’s hosting Newmarket, Ont...
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Emerging Artists Impress at Argyle Fine Art
There is all sorts of room here for me to haul out the cliches about 'seeing the artists of tomorrow today' and 'buying 'em now before you can't afford them,' but I'm going to resist using them.
Instead, I'm just going to point out that if you happen to be ...
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Soothing the Frazzled Spirit
Art is amazing stuff: take a blank white wall in an empty room and hang, for example, a fiery red, kinetic painting. The result is that the entire space is invigorated. If, by contrast, you hang a serene, muted painting of, say, a soft, unidentifiable landsc...
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Hartman Impresses at the AGNS
I know, I know—I wrote about John Hartman’s paintings last week. His work, lush, juicy depictions of cities from above, is on-view at Studio 21 Fine Art until the end of the week. But that’s not all.
A substantial touring exhibition of Hartman’s work, cal...
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Life in a Bubble at Eyelevel Gallery
It didn’t take long for me to become a serious Karine Giboulo fan.
The current show, Life Bubbles, is essentially a collection of 12 Plexiglas sphere’s hung from the ceiling. Captured within them, are the most compelling little diorama-like scenes, all usi...
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Awkward Curating Trumps Decent Painting at the Khyber
The biggest problem with the current exhibition at the Khyber is not the work - that bit is fine. The problem is in the amateur curating and awkward hanging, and in the fact that I had to ask a gallery attendant in another room to confirm that I was properly ...
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Salads Tossed with Landscapes at Fred
There was a funny moment at Fred Salon today: I’d gone into the stylish hair salon-cum-café/gallery to check out the current exhibition of paintings by Sharon Davis when I spotted a couple of friends eating lush-looking salads and typing away on their laptops....
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Heartbreak and Hilarity in New Video Work by Duke and Battersby
I’ve always liked Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby’s work, though it’s hard to articulate why. Their videos- richly textured, vaguely surreal- have intrigued me ever since I saw the first one at a screening in Toronto a number of years ago. The couple (re...
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Tiny Town: Graeme Patterson's Woodrow
So this isn’t news: Graeme Patterson is an art star. Neither is this: his exhibition, Woodrow, on now at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, is impossible not to like. It’s funny, inventive, and skillfully built, with a hint of genuine wistfulness. A visit to W...
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Beautiful Destruction at Dalhousie Art Gallery
Once and awhile, a show will come along that feels important, right deep down in the gut. This is one of those shows. I’ve now been to see it three times, lingering for different lengths each time— but it’s a weighty show, and its content almost demands that i...
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Susan Wood's flowers bloom at Studio 21
I’ve always had a soft spot for really good botanical drawing, which may be why I am attracted to many of Susan Wood’s works. Whether bending gracefully over vase edges or reaching upwards, Wood’s mixed media drawings of flowers, currently being exhibited at ...
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Contemporary Life and Other Anxieties
Peter Dykhuis is a multi-talented, multi-tasking sort of an artist. His prolific practice, squeezed into the spaces between life and work (he’s also the director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD) is dense and rich, textural and delicious.
The exhibi...
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Brendan Fernandes: Wish You Were Here
Though at first viewing it appears simple, Wish You Were Here, an installation by Brendan Fernandes, is anything but.
His work is mostly created out of commercially available materials brought together in interesting combinations – in this case, a troupe ...
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Suzanne Gauthier's 'Fox River Diaries' at the Corridor Gallery
I must confess, I couldn’t find the Corridor Gallery.
I was standing in a grey hallway at 1113 Marginal Rd, a complex housing a number of local arts organizations – and though I knew I had the address right, I couldn’t find the art. My blank stare must h...
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Tiny gallery, Titanic exhibit
The current exhibition on view at Gallery Deluxe Gallery involves Celine Dion, the Titanic, and a lot of white liquid that looks suspiciously like milk, all in an overhead space only two and a half feet high.
Gallery Deluxe Gallery is a miniature gallery s...
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AGNS Remembers Forgotten Female Artists
I was initially turned off by the title: if, as the show suggested, time had forgotten these artists, then surely there would be no point in seeing their work? I must confess that I dragged my feet in going to see the show… and only ended up catching it becau...
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Pizza Box Art Takes Viewers on a Journey
Pete’s not there, but it’s clear his mom is thrilled to see his work on the walls. “You forget that’s on a pizza box!” she exclaims, gesturing at a bright painting on the wall. Then, almost as if she’s just come around to the idea herself, she says “It’s art...
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Zimmerman's imagined spaces at the AGNS
Carl Zimmerman: Landmarks of Industrial Britain
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
On display until Sunday, January 14, 2007
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a big public gallery exhibition as engaging as Carl Zimmerman’s Landmarks of Industrial Britain, on ...
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Small Stuff Gets Big at Eyelevel Gallery
MacroMicro
November 2- December 10, 2006
Eyelevel Gallery, a small, non-profit, artist-run gallery space on Gottingen Street does consistently interesting things. This is not big news—galleries are more-or-less expected to do interesting things—but I am c...
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Helen Gregory: Desiccate
Sometimes, when you first walk into a gallery and have a look around, you’ll have an immediate reaction: 'This', you will think to yourself, 'is good. I like this. This makes me feel something.'
Other times you’ll dislike what you see - or even worse, ...
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Edward Burtynsky finds beauty in destruction
Ray Cronin, Senior Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, doesn’t hold back when he introduces photographer Edward Burtynsky, calling him “the most distinguished Canadian photographer working internationally.”
In town from Toronto for the opening of a...
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Abstract painting meets experimental media at MSVU
So here’s the thing about experimental, non-narrative film and video: even when you’re wedged between two people in a dark theatre, all your attention focused on the screen ‘cause there’s nowhere else to go, it can be tough.
The very nature of the term e...
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