Steve Higgins, Urban #3, 2007, interior detail photo: Steve Farmer

Steve Higgins: All Things Considered: thoughts about cities and history, war and peace

Over the past 30 years, Steve Higgins, a Halifax resident for the last decade, has worked at the intersection of sculpture, architecture and the urban environment. This exhibition presents four aspects of the artist’s body of work, each highlighting a different mode of enquiry. In his current body of work, titled Urban, the viewer is invited to peer into four table-sized constructions which house miniature models of imagined cities as seen through Higgins’ lens of history and life in the modern age.

Caustic Assets

OPENING RECEPTION: 22 October, 8 PM

This program presents video works, selected from an open call to Canadian artists, that examine the effects on society of the current economic crisis, threatened job security and the continuation of a capitalist ideology that does not guarantee freedom from want and violence. The videos will be screened in the Media Gallery as a looped, continuous program.

Ron Shuebrook, Dark Spring, 2008, acrylic on canvas. 96" x 144"

Black and White with Storylines

Opening Reception Thursday 27 August at 8 pm In the Spring of 2009, the Dalhousie Art Gallery invited Ron Shuebrook, a senior Canadian painter based in Guelph, Ontario, to exhibit an overview of his current work. In concert with this, Shuebrook was asked to suggest the name of a younger artist – for whom he played a mentoring role and with whom he now has a relationship based on mutual peer respect – that he would like to share the exhibition space with.

Marla Hlady, Playing Piano, 2006/2008 Player piano, miscellaneous electronics and machines, logbook, player piano roll, sound using surface resonating speakers mounted to the piano's sound board

Resounding

Opening Reception Thursday 28 May at 8 pm RESOUNDING presents works by five artists that explore unexpected ways of generating sound, either through the manipulation of musical instruments – both real and toy versions – or through the construction of musical objects. Through these works the artists examine ideas about intended and unintended ‘music’, harmony and disharmony and what happens when human control is partially relinquished in the pursuit of specific musical outcomes.