JULY 2, 2009 – AUGUST 31, 2009 BETWEEN THE PAGES: THE ARTIST’S BOOK Participating member artists include, Sarah Reesor, Bonnie Baker, James MacSwain, Susan Tooke, Nicholas Johnson, Andrew Danson, Jan Edwards, Art Livingston, Anna Davidson, Karen Jeane Mills, Richard Rudnicki, Rowland C Marshall, Charlotte Wilson Hammond, Rachel Reeve and Susan Malmstrom.
LARGEsmall Experiments in Scale Visual Arts Nova Scotia Annapolis East Regional Exhibition May 22 – July 4th, 2009 Opening: May 22, 7pm Acadia University Art Gallery Wolfville, NS Discrepancy of size is a form of distortion, and all forms of distortion shock us into attention. —Steven Millhauser, “The Fascination of the Miniature” May 20, 2009…
corridor gallery: Lynn Rotin
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MAY 18 – JUNE 25, 2009 LYNN ROTIN WAXWORKS Encaustics on wood; a combination of pigment and beeswax.
Power of Place, VANS Regional Exhibition
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POWER OF PLACE APRIL – JUNE 2009 YARMOUTH, DIGBY AND SHELBURNE Power of Place is a Visual Arts Nova Scotia regional member art exhibit that explores the connections society, and likewise participating artists forge with a given landscape. Where and when do we feel at home and at peace? What are the qualities that attract…
Art in a Box: March 6 – June 26, 2009
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Works by Rae Smith, Gilbert van Ryckevorsel, Denise Soper, Darrin Auchterlonie, Becky Thompson, Kathy Richards, and Anke Holm
Art in a Box: March 5 – June 26, 2009
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Anke Holm, Becky Thompson, Darrin Auchterlone, Denise Soper, Gilbert van Ryckevorsel, Rae Smith and Kathy Richards.
corridor gallery: Claudia Mannion
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NOVEMBER 3 – DECEMBER 8, 2008 CLAUDIA MANNION NON-HUMAN PRIMATE BEHAVIOUR Pairing text with charcoal drawings alongside paintings of baboons, Claudia Mannion intersects history and observation with her most recent body of work. Mannion states: Non- Human Primate Behaviour is a series of drawings and stencilled text, mixed media works on paper, and paintings. The…
corridor gallery: Derrick Dale Johnson
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SEPTEMBER 3 – 29, 2008 DERRICK DALE JOHNSON CANADIAN POLITICS TODAY Derrick Dale Johnson calls Nova Scotia home. His current interest is in Canadian and world events, and how these events shape and influence our social institutions.
Po-lar: VANS Members’ Exhibition
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June 6 – August 29, 2008 Po-lar: VANS Members’ Exhibition Featuring works by: Becky Thompson, G.E. Newsome, Sarah Jane Conklin, Terry Drahos, Natan Nevo, Rod Mackay, Donna Underwood, Carol Morrow, Andrea Pottyondy, James MacSwain, Kenny Boone, Teena Marie Fancey, Giselle Beauchamp, Shaun Richardson, Vicki MacLean, Kathy Richards, Felicity Redgrave, Biserka Turčić, Virginia McCoy, Maxine Hannaby,…
VANS Awards – 2008
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Cathy Busby: Outstanding Year Cathy Busby receives the 2008 Outstanding Year Award. This award celebrates a visual artist who has enjoyed an exceptional year, with much artistic growth, at least one exhibition and critical recognition. Cathy Busby’s conceptually-based practice responds to the socio-political tensions inherent in everyday life. She lives and works in Halifax, with…
Biserka Turcic – Landbodies
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May 2 – 29, 2008 Landbodies Biserka Turcic Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Biserka Turcic immigrated with her family to Lake Huron in southern ontario at the age of four. She graduated from York University in Toronto in 1983 with an honours BFA. The next 4 1/2 years she lived in West Berlin where she studied…
April 2 – 29, 2008 Portraits and the Sea Art Livingston Geraldine Bushell Art Livingston was born in Montreal, Quebec, and joined the Royal Canadian Navy when he was eighteen. His love of the sea brought him to Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, where he now resides. Constantly inspired by his surroundings, Livingston creates paintings from the…
Larry Conrad – Mix and Match
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March 3 – 28, 2008 Mix and Match Larry Conrad Collage of memories recorded on canvas with oil – pet portaits, landscapes and abstracts. Larry Conrad is an artist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A graduate of the Art Instruction School in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1972-1976), Conrad has spent the majority of his artistic career focusing…
René Laramee – Scapes
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February 5 – 29, 2008 Scapes René Laramee Laramee’s abstractions of her home in Blandford, Nova Scotia René Laramee is an artist living on the South Shore who loves to experiment and explore. She works in watercolour, acrylic and mixed media and is inspired by the landscapes that surround her. Drawn to the abstract, she…
January 11 – February 1, 2008 Reproduction Reclamation Recollection – Misadventures while making a mint on the waterfront Christopher Webb Breathing new life into the work that launched this artist’s career.
November 12 – December 7, 2007 You’d know her to see her Kirk Mitchell Abstract sketches in clay of the human figure.
Works by Mary Ann Archibald, Lesly Benditsky, Nora Gross, Lio Lo, Laurie Mireau, Zehava Power, Charlotte Reinhold, Monika Wright
October 8 – November 1, 2007 Dear Diary: Selected Excerpts Claudia Mannion Small pencil drawings on paper from Claudia Mannion’s daily sketch diary. The images vary from abstract to representational influenced by Mannion’s state of mind or events of the day.
September 4 – 28, 2007 Walking the Red Line: Photos from China and Tibet James MacSwain and Andreas Guibert Andreas Guibert has been teaching English in China for two years and, in August of 2007, he vacationed in Tibet. James MacSwain visited China in December of 2006. The result of their travels is a collaboration…
Undercurrents: summer, 2007
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Undercurrents: summer, 2007 Publication by Briony Carros, Bruce Campbell, Suzanne Crowdis, Ingrid Jenkner Producer: Co-published by Visual Arts Nova Scotia and MSVU Art Gallery Production/Release Date: July 2008 Classification: Catalogues 36 pages, 35 colour illustrations, Introduction by Briony Carros; Essays by Bruce Campbell, Suzanne Crowdis, Ingrid Jenkner. Documents three exhibitions Figuring in the Figure, In Here Out There and Elegies and Effigies, organized by Nova Scotian university…