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Chromophilia
16 Mar 2013 – 21 May 2013
“Chromophilia” is a neologism meaning “love of colour.” The aesthetic priority given to colour is the quality shared by the recent acquisitions in this exhibition.

New Work by Steve Higgins
20 Apr 2013 – 28 Jul 2013
By transposing his charcoal drawings into a wooden structure, Steve Higgins will create a temporary sculpture on an ambitious scale rarely seen in Halifax.

Forthcoming

Halifax Harbour in War Time by Arthur Lismer
23 May 2013 – 11 Aug 2013
The exhibition contains five paintings and four lithographs completed during Lismer’s tenure as Principal of the Victoria School of Art and Design (now Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) in the period 1916-1919.

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Visions & Other Phenomena 20 Jul 2002 – 8 Sep 2002 Visionary, scientific, and pseudo-documentary material offer disparate versions of truth in this selection of works from MSVU collection.
Portraits: Unsettled Subjects 24 Jun 2001 – 22 Jul 2001 Realized in painting, photography, sculpture, print media and video, these mostly contemporary works, drawn from the MSVU collection and loans from various Canadian sources, deploy individual likenesses in the service of social critique.
Jim Shirley Returns The Art of James R. Shirley 19 Feb 2000 – 16 Apr 2000 This retrospective, Shirley’s first major exhibition since his MSVU solo in 1977, includes approximately 50 monotypes and works in other media dating from the Nova Scotia years to the present.
Necessity: 21 Years of Collecting at the Mount 17 Feb 1996 – 24 Mar 1996 A selection of works reflecting the varieties of necessity that have shaped MSVU Art Gallery's acquisition program and the cultural communities it represents.