Exhibitions and Events
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.
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.
Martha Wilson: Staging the Self
Opening Reception Thursday 19 March at 8 pm Guided Tour with Artist Saturday 21 March at 2 pm Martha Wilson is an American feminist artist and gallery director who began her career in the early 1970s in Halifax while studying English Literature at Dalhousie University and teaching English at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Working in a male-dominated Conceptualist milieu at that time, Wilson generated pioneering photographic and video work that explored her female subjectivity through role playing, costume transformations and invasions of male and other female personas.
Razzle Dazzle: The Uses of Abstraction
Opening Reception Thursday 22 January at 8 pm As an Official Canadian War Artist working in Halifax during World War One, it was Arthur Lismer’s job to document the naval activity in and around the busy wartime harbour. But as is evidenced in numerous sketches, drawings, and paintings, his aesthetic attentions were especially drawn toward the intensely abstract blocks and swirls of patterns and colour that clad many warships and converted ocean liners moving tens of thousands of troops overseas.
