Exhibitions and Events
Film still from Bessie, dir. Dee Rees 2015.
African History Month Films: Black Music Biographies
SCREENINGS TUESDAYS AT 5 PM. FREE ADMISSION
Three African American directors—Don Cheadle, Dee Rees, and Darnell Martin—take on crucial motion picture biographies of legendary Black performers.
7 February - Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle, USA, 2015, 101 minutes. Written, starring, and directed by Don Cheadle, this surprisingly fresh and funny drama is about an imaginary incident during jazz great Miles Davis’s five-year ‘retirement’, and sports an appearance by Ewan MacGregor as an intrusive music reporter.
Film still from The Second Awakening of Christa Klages, dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 1978.
First Features
Some directors arrive fully formed on their debut features. Others never recover. In this survey of first features, we begin with one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, Citizen Kane, and then progress to more contemporary times where some directors—Duncan Tucker and Transamerica, for example—disappear from the scene after tackling some exceptional subject matter.
Paris Looking North (Pink Paris), 2009, watercolour and ink on paper.
Landon Mackenzie Parallel Journey: Works on Paper 1975-2015
Landon Mackenzie is a Vancouver-based artist, widely known for her large-scale works of paint on canvas. Less known are her smaller works on paper, which she produces voluminously as a tandem practice to her large paintings, often while travelling. Parallel Journey: Works on Paper tracks more than four decades of this production, beginning with a watercolour the artist painted when she was 14 years old, and ending with mixed media drawings from 2015.
Artist Talk: Lisa Hirmer
Dalhousie Art Gallery is pleased to present an artist talk by Lisa Hirmer, on her work Dirt Piles, Landscape/Displacement in the context of the exhibition “And yet we still remain, going around, and again, in dominion’s plot...”. Attendance is free and all are welcome.
