Jay LeBlanc – February Featured Artist
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Jay LeBlanc is a proponent of serious play who indulges in abstract art of varying kinds. Mostly known for her innovative stained glass hangings, she also experiments with painting, printmaking, mixed media, photography and poetry, along with a recent dabbling in installation. Her work “homing / vol de rentrée / de vuelta” is currently being shown at Gallerie Le Trécarré.
Super Phat – Dylan Fish
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This work derives from the mischief, mayhem and intimacy of eating cereal while watching Saturday morning cartoons. Suspended between the saturated visual overload of cartoon violence and the stillness of sitting on a couch in pajamas, Super Phat strives to find visual pleasure in all that is inherently gross.
Spring 2014 Workshop Survey
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia offers professional development workshops to artists accross the province based on feedback from members and artists. Let us know what you would like to see VANS offer by completing the Spring 2014 Workshop Survey.
Joy Laking – January Featured Artist
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Joy Laking is an artist and longstanding member of VANS. For the past forty years, she has tried to capture the beauty of her surroundings with paint, mainly working close to her home on the shore of the Bay of Fundy. Her work is featured in the Dalhousie Art Gallery exhibition CAPTURE 2014: Nova Scotia Realism, curated by Tom Smart.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia invites applications from Gallery and Group members for the inaugural Open Grants Program serving to support exhibition activity in Nova Scotia.
A Reason to Smile – Randy Engelberg
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Halifax based painter Randy Engelberg exhibits a series of non-objective paintings in the corridor gallery from January 9 -30.
Sherry Lynn Jollymore is a fan of the fantastic, awe inspiring and funny and tries to reflect these qualities in anything she makes.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia is pleased to announce a new VANS in Residence project. In partnership with The Woodlawn Public Library and with the support of the 2013 HRM Artist in Residence Initiative, this residency of a PAINTS artist will take place in March 2014.
Charley Young – November Artist Profile
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As an interdisciplinary artist, Charley Young is interested in drawing, printmaking, and public installation. To date, her work includes large-scale monoprints of historic building facades, that document a site’s appearance prior to its destruction.
TOPOPHILIA – Hangama Amiri
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Lunenburg based artist and recipient of the Portia White Protege award, Hangama Amiri presents a series of large scale paintings exploring the connection between human emotions and the natural environment. On view in the in the corridor gallery from Nov 15 – Dec 17.
Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents an artist talk by Toronto-based artist John Dickson at ARTsPLACE Gallery in Annapolis Royal, Saturday November 23 at 3pm. John Dickson is a Toronto-based artist visiting the province to present his solo exhibition From Light to Dark at the Khyber Centre for the Arts. Dickson’s sculpture and installation-based works explore the complex and troubled relationship that exists between the natural and constructed worlds which we inhabit.
Ehryn Torrell is a London-based Canadian painter visiting the province to present her solo exhibition Self Similar at the Cape Breton University Art Gallery this fall. Torrell’s large scale paintings and drawings incorporate visual elements of collapsed and derelict structures, and of remembered cityscapes. Using the lens of the built environment to explore personal and universal conditions of human experience, Ehryn Torrell’s work in painting examines empathy, contingency, loss and vulnerability.
Fall 2013 Workshop Series SOLD OUT
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The workshop series is built from feedback from members and the public, if you missed your chance to take one of the Fall 2013 workshops, let us know what you would like to see offered in your area by completing our Spring 2014 Workshop Survey online now.
Nancy Stevens – October Artist Profile
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Nancy Stevens left a safe and successful career to explore ideas and methods which resulted in HORIZON PAINTINGS, a solo exhibition of abstract paintings at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. After a 15-year career of teaching drawing and painting, creative and critical thinking, Stevens now lives and works in Antigonish County where her studio overlooks her vineyard, Cote St. George.
Delineations – Colin Canary
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Halifax based emerging artist and recent grad Colin Canary exhibits a series of brightly coloured abstract paintings exploring spatial cues.
Mia Rushton and Eric Moschopedis will be presenting a collaborative project at this year’s Nocturne: Art at Night festival on October 19. During their visit to the province, the artists will give a presentation about their practices in Wolfville, NS as part of Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s En Route Artist Talk Series. Mia Rushton & Eric Moschopedis are Calgary based artists who use public intervention, performance and radical crafting to interrogate day-to-day life.
Visual Arts News is requesting proposals from Atlantic Canadian artists interested in creating original work for a two-page spread in the Spring Issue of Visual Arts News. Interested applicants should submit their proposals by October 1.
This artist book was published as part of the Re-Focus Sustainable Art Residency in collaboration with the Ecology Action Centre and the Khyber Centre for the Arts. Introductions by Briony Carros (Executive Director, Visual Arts Nova Scotia) and Daniel Joyce (Artistic Director, Khyber Centre for the Arts), as well as an interview with D’Arcy by James MacSwain.
Bonnie Baker – September Artist Profile
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Bonnie Baker has always engaged in some form of cultural work. As a full time artist in Annapolis Royal, she explores the rich overlap between drawing, painting and printmaking while experimenting with the natural form.
Brights in Series: VANS in the Hub
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Visual Arts Nova Scotia presents Brights in Series, the 6th edition of VANS in the HUB featuring a broad range of artworks by Nova Scotian visual artists: Ellen Moershel, Violet Rosengarten, Jacqueline Steudler, and Kate Stinson.