Arthur Handy: New Work

Opening: Thursday 15 January at 8:00 pm

Paul Doucette: Views of Dalhousie

Opening reception: Thursday, 27 November 8 pm

This small exhibition of works by Nova Scotian photographer Paul Doucette has been selected as part of our 50th Anniversary celebratory programming. Doucette’s elegant black and white prints draw attention to architectural features of the Dalhousie campus that many of us pass by daily with hardly a glance. Through the subtle use of light, close-ups and cropping, Doucette creates formally beautiful images that encourage us to contemplate familiar views as if for the first time.

Nine From 1953

1953 saw the discovery of the double helix and the cracking of the DNA code. It was the year Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mount Everest; the year Elizabeth II was crowned, and Stalin died; the year both Playboy Magazine and The Paris Review were launched, and the Korean War ended in stalemate. At the beginning of 1953 there were 12 million television sets in the USA. In 1950 there had been only six million; by 1960 there were 60 million and the movies were in real trouble.

AbEx to PoMo (by way of Nova Scotia)

In 1953, the year that the Dalhousie Art Gallery was officially named, Abstract Expressionism was in full swing throughout North America. 50 years later, despite perennial announcements of its demise, painting has demonstrated the capacity to reinvent itself again and again, and remains a force to be reckoned with in the protean world of Post-Modernism. This exhibition presents paintings, both figurative and abstract, produced by Canadian artists and acquired for the Dalhousie Art Gallery’s permanent collection during the last 50 years.