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.
Halifax based painter Randy Engelberg exhibits a series of non-objective paintings in the corridor gallery from January 9 -30.
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.
Halifax based emerging artist and recent grad Colin Canary exhibits a series of brightly coloured abstract paintings exploring spatial cues.
In my current series of paintings, I project an amalgamation of iconography from seasonally touristic destinations and places I have lived. Neon signs function in my work as landmarks for a community while also representing a historic relic or tourist attraction.
Andrew Maize is an emerging artist, art educator, and coordinator of the White Rabbit Residency and Festival. He is curious about the transference of energies, the obscenity of obsolescence and consumption, and inspired by craftsmanship and the possibilities and processes of working with materials.
This series began with paper-based ephemera – such as personal lists, envelopes and notes – that were cut-and-pasted onto clipboards, then overlaid with maps and images and, as sequenced works of art, posted onto the walls of the Gallery.
Emerging artist Jack Wong presents a series of lithographs depicting everyday objects of significant personal value.
Emerging Cape Breton textile artist Mary MacIntosh exhibits a series of embroidered quips in the corridor gallery from May 3 – 24.
Court Rooms is a survey of drawings rendered while sitting in on a myriad of trials in Halifax and New York City from 2011-2013. They cover high and low profile cases from petty violence, larceny, military espionage, marital homicide, gang violence, subway attacks, etc.
This body of work tries to capture the beauty of rain drops kissed by those first rays of sunlight.
Giving members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia an opportunity to create an exhibition of their work. Near Earth Objects Anne Macmillan January 9 – 28, 2013 Emerging Nova Scotian artist and former VANS Mentorship Program participant Anne Macmillan exhibits a series of sculptural works inspired by scientific observation from January 9 – 28, 2013. Describing…
corridor gallery Shimmers/Vibrations Hugh Mater November 9 – December 13, 2012 Emerging interdisciplinary artist Hugh Mater shows prints of faith in his exhibition Shimmers/Vibrations, on view in the Corridor Gallery from November 8 – December 13, 2012. Mater describes the impetus of the work exhibited: The work explores how an individual reacts in the face…
Giving members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia an opportunity to create an exhibition of their work. (i)Pad 3 Advertisement (i)Pad 3 Andrew Maize with a.corn inc March 5 – 29, 2012 The installation of (i)Pads by a.corn inc reconstructs the Corridor Gallery to display newly designed conceptual crafts from March 5 – 29, 2012. Describing…
Giving members of Visual Arts Nova Scotia an opportunity to create an exhibition of their work. Activating Space Ellen Moershel April 5 – 25, 2011 Ellen Moershel activates the Corridor Gallery at Visual Arts Nova Scotia from April 5 – 25, 2011. Moershels’ abstract work plays on the interactions and conversations caused by variation in…
In the summer of 2010, exhibiting artist – James MacSwain – traveled to the south of China to Yunnan Province visiting the cities of Dali and Jinghong. From Jinghong, MacSwain traveled into Laos where he took a boat down the Mekong River to arrive at the Buddhist temple city of Luang Prabang. MacSwain explains that: this exhibition consists of photographs taken…
November 8 – December 12, 2010 Lorraine Endicott Cracked Jug/Imperfect Life A cracked blue jug bought at the local flea market became a temporary obsession and a metaphor for exhibiting artist Lorraine Endicott about life. Endicott explains that “Life is not perfect. You work with what you are given and you may find beauty, anyhow”.…
February 1 – 27, 2010 Shelly Matthews, Pivotal Habitat This collection, comprising Pivotal Habitat, includes strong, simple, natural images in acrylics and watercolour as indicated by artist, Shelley Matthews. Matthews further states: I paint the images that hold my visual awareness; those which immediately send my mind into the process of making art and resonate…
October 3 – 30, 2009 Everything that you are reading, I have said before Bonnie Baker Bonnie Baker will exhibit two contiguous drawings that bind the walls of the gallery. These drawings were culled from a previous installation/performance piece, called Bindings, in which the interior of a small room was literally bound with interconnecting drawings…
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.