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…
July 3 – August 24, 2007 Veith Street Gallery: Selected Members Works Peter Blackwell, Greg Brumwell, John Carson, John Cookson, Michelle Cookson, Kristine Erglis, Jack Merrell, Kemi Morrison, Mike Parsons, Anna Quon, Lisa Richard, Michael Seary, Sheila Smith and Patsy Wallace. Veith Street Gallery Studio (VSG) and Pedway Picture Gallery (PPG) are venues where artists…
Art in a Box: July 3 – October 26, 2007
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Mary Ann Archibald, Giselle Beauchamp, Peter Bresnen, Val Fulford, Cynthia Grove, Justine Kerr, Lisa Martin, Lynn Rotin, Rachel Ryan, Andrea Pottyondy Stoffer, Anna Horsnell Wade, Christopher Webb
VANS Honour Roll – 2007
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Founding Members and 1st Board of Directors of Visual Arts Nova Scotia Tom Bauld, Wayne Boucher, William Creighton, Hugh Eamon, Barrie Fraser, Alex Gigeroff, Joyce Hanson, Andrea MacIvor, Craig Mooney, Don Pentz, Ed Porter, Royce Porter Hatti Prentiss, Felicity Redgrave , Ron Shuebrook, Marina Stewart and Charlotte Wilson-Hammond.
Selected Works – Neal Livingston
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May 11 – June 22, 2007 Selected Works Neal Livingston
Paintings – Colleen Galloway
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April 23 – May 14, 2007 Paintings Colleen Galloway “I am interested in painting diverse subject matters which are inspired by my life experiences,” states Colleen about her work. “I am drawn to nature’s unique beauty whether it be traveling deep inside a beautiful flower or capturing the luminosity of the Atlantic, Provencal or Tuscan…
InHereOutThere
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Cape Breton University Art Gallery Curated by Suzanne A. Crowdis June 8-August 25, 2007 I would like to thank Briony Carros, Executive Director of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, for extending the opportunity to participate in this exciting celebration of VANS’s thirtieth anniversary. I also wish to acknowledge the other curators involved in the Undercurrents project,…
March 20 – April 13, 2007 Port and Starboard Tacks Catherine Poole Catherine’s work explores floral, nautical, landscape theme. This show has a variety of paintings in watercolours, acrylic and oil which focus on nautical subject matter.
Art in a Box: March 2 – June 30, 2007
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Dozay (Arlene Christmas), Brad Hall, Jesse Harrod, Colette Fontaine, Carol Kennedy, Lio Lo, Pat Loucks, Dawn MacNutt, Judy MacIntosh, Claudia Mannion, Zequirja Rexhepi, Donna Underwood, Monika Wright
Colette Fontaine – The Ocean and Nature
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February 12 – March 9, 2007 The Ocean and Nature Colette Fontaine “The ocean fascinates and terrifies me. I’m in awe of its powerful and dangerous energy and yet I can never get enough of its colors and moods,” states Colette Fontaine. “It is much like the human spirit: dark and dreadful at times, warm…