Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

Film

Feature Films Directed by Canadian Women

22 January – 16 April, 2003

In recent decades, feature films directed by Canadian women have taken their place on the world stage. The following selection includes dramas and documentaries from a variety of regions of Canada -- films that are by turns fascinating, funny, frightening, classic, nostalgic, tragic, daring and inspiring -- by women with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. 

22 January - Bye Bye Blues

Anne Wheeler, Alberta/British Columbia, 1989, 116 minutes

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Exhibition

The Prints of Betty Goodwin

17 January – 2 March, 2003

Organized by the National Gallery of Canada, this exhibition surveyed the printmaking work of prominent Canadian artist Betty Goodwin, from her early figurative etchings and wood block prints, through her well-known iconic vest series, to her latest printmaking experiments. Throughout her career Goodwin has mixed traditional printing techniques and materials with a variety of unconventional methods, often combining several processes in one print.

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Exhibition

The 49th Annual SSFA Exhibition

13 – 22 December, 2002

OPENING RECEPTION: 12 December, 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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Excerpt from exhibition catalogue depicting Ken Gregory's 12 Motor Bells.
Exhibition

Cycles

2 – 24 November, 2002

We were pleased to collaborate with the Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT) for the presentation of Cycles, curated by Ælab, an artist research and communication unit (Montréal).

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Film

Abstract Painters Then

23 October – 27 November, 2002

What was it that made those historic abstract artists so different, so appealing...? This program takes a look at the New York Abstractionists of the 1950s and '60s, at some of their European predecessors, and at two Canadian counterparts, offering a broader critical context for the exhibition hungry eyes (recent abstract painting from New York and Toronto).

23 October - Painters Painting

Emile de Antonio, USA, 1972, 116 minutes

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Exhibition

Hungry Eyes

18 October – 1 December, 2002

The exhibition Hungry Eyes arose from the observation that contemporary abstract painting feeds on a great variety of sources, histories, and influences.

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Event

Memory and Archive: A Panel

26 September, 2002

In conjunction with the exhibition About Memory and Archive/Autour de la mémoire et de l'archive, participating artist Thomas Corriveau is joined by Halifax based artist Mathew Reichertz, Dalhousie Archivist Michael Mooseburger and King's College professor Dr. Dorota Glowacka to provide perspectives on this fascinating topic. 

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Film

Continental Riff: Feature Films from Australia and New Zealand

13 – 22 September, 2002

Once again, the Gallery collaborates with the Atlantic Film Festival in our five o'clock film series, screened daily in the Gallery during the Festival. Ron Foley MacDonald has selected ten less well-known films from "down-under", ranging from bizarre comedy and disturbing documentary to gentle, offbeat drama.

Friday, 13 September - The Cars That Ate Paris

Peter Weir, 1974, 91 minutes

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Film

Memory, come to think of it

11 September – 2 October, 2002

Three classic films to complement the exhibition About Memory and Archive/Autour de la memoire et de l'archive

11 September - Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Renais, France, 1961, 93 minutes

The very nature of memory is questioned in this fluid, oblique romantic drama that takes place at the famous European spa.

25 September - The Mirror

Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1976, 106 minutes

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Scan of exhibition essay.
Exhibition

About Memory and Archive / Autour de la Mémoire et de l'Archive

10 August – 6 October, 2002

Selected from the permanent collection of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal by curator of collections Josée Belisle, this fascinating and unusual exhibition featured painting, photography, film, mixed media and sculptural installations by nationally and internationally-known contemporary artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, Christian Boltanski, Melvin Charney, Thomas Corriveau, Angela Grauerholz, Claude Hamelin, Raymond Lavoie, Arnaud Maggs and Francine Savard.

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