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corridor gallery: Claudia Mannion

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

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

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,…

Biserka Turcic – Landbodies

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…

Art Livingston & Geraldine Bushell – Portraits and the Sea

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

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

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…

Claudia Mannion – Dear Diary: Selected Excerpts

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.

Veith Street Gallery: Selected Members Works

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…

Paintings – Colleen Galloway

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…

Catherine Poole – Port and Starboard Tacks

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.

Colette Fontaine – The Ocean and Nature

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…

Suzanne Gauthier – Fox River Diaries

January 8 – February 2, 2007 Fox River Diaries Suzanne Gauthier A selection of graphite drawings made from notes and sketches written and executed over a one year period during sporadic stays in a 100 year old house in the village of Fox River, Nova Scotia, overlooking the Bay of Fundy. Originally, Suzanne wanted to…

PARADE!

June 19 – August 25, 2006 PARADE! Group show by Visual Arts Nova Scotia members A variety of work that revolves around the theme of PARADE!, whether in recognition of the centennial anniversary of the changing of the guard at the Citadel, or in response to the spectacle of a parade.