Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

Exhibition

Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists

29 May – 31 July, 2005

Curator Matthew Higgs brings together an international cast of artists (including Roy Arden, AA Bronson, Heather Cantrell, Chuck Close, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Richard Prince) who have made portraits of other artists (such as Louise Bourgeois, David Hockney, Mary Kelly, Felix Partz, Dieter Roth, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol and many more) in a variety of media, offering the viewer an intimate look inside a usually private and privileged milieu. 

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Event

Art at Home and All That Jazz

10 April, 2005

Our popular annual fund-raiser returns on Sunday, 10 April, from 1:30 pm to 6 pm. Enjoy fine art, architecture and craft in four notable private houses in Halifax, followed by a live jazz performance in the Gallery, accompanied by delicious refreshments. Only 200 tickets are sold for this event. Mark the date in your calendar now!

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Alex Livingston, Water and Land Paintings (Series 2) 2001-2 Acrylic on canvas 18 parts, 20.3x25.4 each
Exhibition

Alex Livingston: Paintings 1985-2005

11 March – 15 May, 2005

Opening: Thursday, 10 March at 8 pm


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Film

Two by Two: Breakthrough and follow-up films by Black directors Charles Burnett and Kasi Lemmons

1 – 23 February, 2005

In the 1990s African-American Cinema flourished in the wake of directors such as Spike Lee and John Singleton, filmmakers whose work reflected an urban and often aggressive outlook. However, two accomplished Black cineastes, Charles Burnett and Kasi Lemmons, made breakthrough films in the 1990s that suggested an original and less rhetorical direction for African-American Cinema. Two of their films, Burnett's To Sleep With Anger and Lemmons' Eve's Bayou, have become established landmarks.

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Film

Roman Polanski: Master of Psychology

19 January – 6 April, 2005

The life and work of the controversial and accomplished Polish director Roman Polanski continues to provoke debate. While his Oscar-winning The Pianist (2002) brought him a new generation of fans, his earlier work from the 1957 to 1980 deftly balanced mainstream popularity with genuine originality, mining a range of cinematic genres for their psychological potential.

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Exhibition

Robert Bean: Lapsus

14 January – 27 February, 2005

What remains after the business meeting, to be swept away into the wastebasket? Twisted paper clips, the odd note, doodles. For a number of years, photographer Robert Bean has been collecting small lost or forgotten objects such as these (partial lists on scraps of paper, a creased photograph, the detritus of the office and the street). For his series Lapsus, Bean has photographed a selection of these tiny, ephemeral items.

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Exhibition

Snow Shoveling

14 January – 27 February, 2005

This three-part video installation by Hannah Jickling and Valerie Salez raises the quintessentially Canadian act of snow shoveling to new heights. Playful, bizarre, and occasionally simply beautiful, these performative actions by Jickling and Salez were made in Halfax and Dawson city (where the pair recently completed an artists' residency). The actions range in style from pleasing patterning, through social intervention to humorous vaudeville; in each instance the artists find something to value about the white stuff that most of us simply want to shovel away.

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Exhibition

Jérôme Fortin: ici et là / here and there

14 January – 27 February, 2005

Joliette native Jérôme Fortin's meticulous wall assemblages of recycled materials (such as plastic bottles, telephone wire, matchboxes, clothes pins and bottle caps) surprise the viewer with the unexpected beauty of the familiar.

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Exhibition

The 51st Annual SSFA Exhibition

3 – 19 December, 2004

Opening reception: Thursday, 2 December at 8 pm

Our annual celebration of the creativity of students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie and King’s College, in painting, graphic art, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and crafts welcomes your artwork for this exhibition, which makes no distinction between amateurs and professionals.

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Film

Jean Cocteau: Trans-Genre Genius

20 October – 8 December, 2004

The 20th Century French poet, filmmaker, artist, playwright, theatre designer and gay gadfly Jean Cocteau was often dismissed as much as celebrated. The protean artist collaborated with many of the key personalities - Diaghilev, Satie, Picasso, Bresson - who shaped music, visual arts, theatre, and the cinema in the early decades of the 20th Century. His small but crucial body of films are featured in this concise survey that begins with a documentary filmed in the artist's final years, as he decorates the interior of a chapel in the South of France.

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