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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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Susanna Heller: Intensive Care 25 Feb 2012 – 29 Apr 2012 For decades, Susanna Heller (BFA, NSCAD, 1977) has distilled the peripheral landscapes of New York City in her wildly expressive, near-abstract drawings and paintings. Figures rarely appeared in Heller’s work before March 2010, when her husband was hospitalized with a devastating illness.
Danish Modern: Suzanne Swannie Textil 18 Oct 2008 – 23 Nov 2008 Suzanne Swannie is a Halifax-based designer and weaver who creates functional textiles, tapestries and large architectural installations for private and public environments. She also weaves pictorial tapestries and is known for unique fabric constructions such as the gallery installation Repassage.
Pulse: Film & Painting After the Image 14 Oct 2006 – 26 Nov 2006 Pulse brings experimental film into dialogue with contemporary abstract painting by presenting the two art forms adjacent to one another in the same gallery space.
Elspeth Pratt: Hang-ups 7 Aug 2004 – 17 Oct 2004 Elspeth Pratt is known for her inventive use of building supplies and her interest in leisure as it correlates with the built environment.
Changing Times, Time Changes Canadian Experimental Films and Videos of the 1990s 11 Mar 2002 – 25 Mar 2002 Gerda Cammaer’s selection highlights works in which time is used to create a physical experience, presented as a theme, or treated as a receptacle in which to collect images.
Cape Breton Modern: Terrence Syverson 1 Sep 2001 – 14 Oct 2001 The monumental shaped paintings of the 1980s and ’90s are luminous, monochromatic fields, often pierced in the centre and bounded by built-up edges resembling torn flesh.
Susan Feindel: Figura 22 Oct 2000 – 9 Nov 2000 This show includes paintings and drawings produced since 1983, which re-enact nature's creativity rather than mimicking natural appearances.
Winter Gardens 9 Jan 1999 – 21 Feb 1999 The exhibition presented 30 of the colour photographs resulting from Charlotte Lindgren's Winter 1995-96 train journey, during which she photographed private and public gardens at each stop.
1,000,000 Grapes 24 Oct 1998 – 22 Nov 1998 Ferguson's work is composed of 100 square, stretched canvases stencilled in black with an irregular, dot-like motif (or 10,000 "grapes"), installed in a closely spaced grid.
Notification 1 24 Oct 1998 – 13 Dec 1998 Ninety-six colour photographs of the backs of envelopes used for the mailing of death notices in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Field Notes 13 Jun 1998 – 2 Aug 1998 Field Notes consists of pieced fabric constructions which combine stitched, dyed and painted cloth, in compositions that blend abstract formal qualities with references to rural Ontario landscape.
Prospect 6: Painting by Sarra McNie 23 May 1998 – 2 Aug 1998 Like her predecessors in the Prospect series, Sarra McNie has constructed a version of herself — a persona — which then inhabits her work as subject matter.
Contingent 19 Sep 1995 – 29 Oct 1995 This exhibition placed the work of two contemporary Canadian women in the context of American postminimal art making of the 1960s and ’70s.
Prospect 2: Kelly Mark Works 15 Jul 1995 – 3 Sep 1995 This exhibition recreated the utilitarian space of the artist’s live-in studio, suggesting references to work as task and the concept of "a work."