BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MSVU Art Gallery - ECPv6.15.1.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.msvuart.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MSVU Art Gallery REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20040404T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20041031T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20050403T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20051030T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20060402T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20061029T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20070311T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20071104T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20080309T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20081102T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080324 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T142545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T142545Z UID:10000175-1200355200-1206316799@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:For Example (Andrews\, Goldman\, Koenig) DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]In the second instalment of the For Example series\, single works by three artists reveal stages of their respective production processes. Inspired by the idea of “The Thing Before The Thing”\, the exhibition consists of preliminary drawings\, animation cells and contact sheets. Stephen Andrews (Toronto) exhibits the hundreds of crayon-on-parchment drawings that make up his animated DVD The Quick and The Dead. Charles Goldman (New York) is represented by six contact sheets from his Mixtape series. Ingrid Koenig (Vancouver) presents two large drawings that are covered with hand-drawn research images. Each of the three vitrine installations opens a window into the artists’ working process\, while retaining the authority of an autonomous work of art.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”17059\,17060\,17061″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/for-example-andrews-goldman-koenig/ CATEGORIES:Drawing & Printmaking,Film & Video,Photography ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Stephen-Andrews-The-Quick-and-the-Dead-detail-crayon-on-parchment-and-video-animation-1-14-minutes-550-drawings-each-27.94-x-35.56cm-2004-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080323 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T142636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T142636Z UID:10000176-1200096000-1206230399@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Art Metropole: The Top 100 Organized by the National Gallery of Canada DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Art Metropole began in the 1970s as an informal agency of Torontonian and NSCAD-affiliated artists. It evolved into a unique Toronto artist-run centre\, collecting and distributing alternative artworks that bypassed the art market with accessibly-priced artists’ “multiples” such as audio recordings\, videos\, bookworks and postcards. Selected from the archival collection recently acquired by the National Gallery\, Top 100 highlights 160 works by 100 international artists\, dating from the 1970s to the present\, in an installation that merges boutique and archival display styles. Among the artists represented are Eleanor Antin\, David Askevold\, Joseph Beuys\, Dara Birnbaum\, Kate Craig\, General Idea\, George Maciunas\, N.E. Thing and Rosemary Trockel. \nTop Picks of the Top 100: Walk & Talk with Dr. Jayne Wark Sunday 10 February\, 2:00 pm \nDr. Jayne Wark will give a walkabout talk in the exhibition Art Metrople: The Top 100\, entitled “Top Picks of the Top 100.” The exhibition\, drawn from the Art Metropole Archive held at the National Gallery of Canada\, contains 160 works by 100 international artists. \nA free chartered bus leaves 5163 Duke Street at 1:30pm and departs from MSVU at 3:30pm. Refreshments will be served and admission is free. \nLECTURE by contemporary art writer and Top 100 catalogue contributor Peggy Gale\, on Sunday\, March 2 at 2:00pm.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”17064\,17065\,17066\,17067\,17068″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/art-metropole-the-top-100-organized-by-the-national-gallery-of-canada/ CATEGORIES:Feminisms,Film & Video,Gender & Sexuality ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Sherrie-Levine-2-Shoes1992-Library-and-Archives-National-Gallery-of-Canada-Ottawa-Art-Metropole-Collection-Gift-of-Jay-A.-Smith-Toronto-1992.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071215 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20210204T170820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T180628Z UID:10000205-1196294400-1197676799@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Annual Mount Community Show 2007 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Works by Mount Saint Vincent students\, staff\, faculty and alumnae.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nSpecial Event\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_id=”talkdate”]Saturday\, 23 June at 2-4pm[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Jane Kidd will present an informal talk about her work followed by a relaxed reception. \nAmerican Sign Language interpretation is available for all public programs. Please contact the Art Gallery (art.gallery@msvu.ca) by June 11 to request.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\nVideo\nA film by Black Rhino Creative[/vc_column_text][nectar_video_lightbox link_style=”play_button_2″ nectar_play_button_color=”Extra-Color-1″ image_url=”15323″ hover_effect=”defaut” box_shadow=”none” border_radius=”none” play_button_size=”default” video_url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfPwv6MkzYc”]\n \n \n \n Curiosities\n Jane Kidd\n https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4.-Phenomena-1024x744.jpg\n ALL CATEGORIES\n \n \n http://www.msvuartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2-Curiosities.mp3\n \n \n Wonderland\n Jane Kidd\n https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4.-Phenomena-1024x744.jpg\n ALL CATEGORIES\n \n \n http://www.msvuartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/3-Wonderland.mp3\n \n \n Land Sentence\n Jane Kidd\n https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4.-Phenomena-1024x744.jpg\n ALL CATEGORIES\n \n \n http://www.msvuartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4-Land-Sentence.mp3\n \n \n Phenomena\n Jane Kidd\n https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4.-Phenomena-1024x744.jpg\n ALL CATEGORIES\n \n \n http://www.msvuartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/5-Phenomena.mp3\n \n \n No HTML5 audio playback capabilities for this browser. Use Chrome Browser!\n \n \n [/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”19110\,19111\,19112\,19113″ layout=”4″ item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”7″ load_in_animation=”none”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/the-annual-mount-community-show-2007/ CATEGORIES:Community ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/gallery-077.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070623 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070917 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20210128T170413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210128T170413Z UID:10000219-1182556800-1189987199@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:For Example (Moodie\, Thib\, Walker) DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]This is the first in a series of four themed micro exhibitions commissioned from the New York-based Canadian artist Micah Lexier. The For Example exhibitions each incorporate works by three artists\, housed in identical\, separate vitrines. \nThe current exhibition draws attention to all-overness of composition\, and the density achieved by layering and distribution of motifs over a given pictorial field. Each work by Kim Moodie (a teeming\, edge-to-edge drawing)\, Jeannie Thib (stacked wood) and Joy Walker (silkscreened cloth) is housed in its own vitrine and must be viewed from above\, instead of in the traditional\, wall-mounted fashion. \nFor more than two decades\, London\, Ontario artist Kim Moodie has woven a personal vocabulary of imagery into complexly layered line drawings. His work finds a natural affinity with that of a new generation of artists who have returned to drawing as a primary practice. Inspired by classical painting\, Moodie’s unique imagery suggests Mexican “Day of the Dead” depictions\, medieval manuscript illuminations\, and underground comix. \nOrnament and pattern are the focus of Toronto artist Jeanne Thib’s installations\, sculptures\, print works and drawings. Historical designs\, altered through magnification and repetition\, are remade in altered forms using industrial materials. Motifs accumulated through cutting and stacking create nets and spills\, stepped landscapes and architectural models. These works invert the expected relationships between ornament and architecture\, culture and nature\, original and copy. \nJoy Walker is a Toronto textile artist who owns and operates WORK Textiles (since 1995)\, producing custom silkscreen printed fabrics. Her fabrics have been sold in retail stores throughout Canada and the U.S. Walker teaches in the Textile Department of Sheridan College\, Ontario. Micah Lexier notes that in Punctuation/Red Repeat: “Joy alternates the red and black motifs\, in some cases rotating them\, to generate a dense field that is both uniform and individuated…The work is deceptively simple\, yet maintains a dynamic tension between the distinctiveness of its individual elements and the consistency of its overall composition.” \nMeet the curator at the opening reception on Saturday\, June 23rd from 2:oopm to 5:00pm.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”19052\,19053\,19054″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/for-example-moodie-thib-walker/ CATEGORIES:Design,Drawing & Printmaking,Textiles ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Kim-Moodie-Untitled-detail-2006-Indian-Ink-on-paper.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070328 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070411 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20210129T144827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210129T145809Z UID:10000217-1175040000-1176249599@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:George Steeves DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]In addition to his mastery of historical techniques and his exquisite printing\, the Haligonian photographer George Steeves is known for an iconography “shot through with grotesque sexuality\, reverence for emotional pain\, and chilly black humour.” The subjects who appear in his photographs are Steeves’s friends\, many of whom live in the Halifax area and make their livings as writers\, dancers\, and performers in physical theatre. Their playful\, melodramatic and often undraped performances for the camera result from voluntary collaborations with the photographer\, who also occasionally steps in front of the lens. \n“Many of the people I work with are very unusual\,” says Steeves. “I see them as specialist personalities who bring things to the process that I could never invent. I have that tendency too. They see we’re of the same skin. They knew what I was up to and I knew a great deal about them\, so they could influence the situation just as much as I could.” \nThe theatricalization of the self is implicit in portraiture; to strike a pose is to present oneself to the gaze of another as if one were immobilized–already a picture. Steeves’s work is grounded in trust and a shared intention between photographer and subject. The meaning of the pose derives from the photographic act itself\, which takes place as part of a collective performance. The self is depicted as a scene of desire—one that overtly challenges the norms of middle-class sexuality. \nCatalogue and exhibition produced with support from Nova Scotia Tourism\, Culture & Heritage.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”19063\,19064\,19065\,19066\,19067\,19068\,19069\,19070\,19071\,19072″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/george-steeves/ CATEGORIES:Nova Scotian Artists,Photography ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/George-Steeves-E-minor-No.-21-GS-LH-2001-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070219 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T142802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T184922Z UID:10000174-1166140800-1171843199@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Prospect 11: Doug Taylor DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Born in Sydney and now living in Halifax\, CKDU broadcaster Doug Taylor attended the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design as a mature student\, graduating in 1992. His source images are photographs of recreations such as country fairs\, demolition derbies and Khyber Club performances. Taylor recreates these scenes in a painting style that borders on the caricatural\, with mannerisms suggestive of the self-taught artist. This exhibition is part of the Prospect series\, which introduces emerging Nova Scotian artists in a public art gallery context. \nOPENING RECEPTION jointly with Anna Torma: Needleworks\, on Sunday\, January 14 at 2:00pm. The artist will be present. The free charter bus leaves 5163 Duke Street at 1:30pm.\, returning downtown at 4:00pm.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”17046\,17047\,17049″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”4″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/prospect-11-doug-taylor/ CATEGORIES:Emerging Artists,Nova Scotian Artists,Painting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Doug-Taylor-Agricola-and-Roberts-oil-on-canvas-60.96-x-91.44-cm-1996.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061218 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T142942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T143117Z UID:10000173-1164844800-1166399999@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Annual Mount Community Show 2006 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Mount Saint Vincent University students\, staff\, faculty and alumnae are invited to enter examples of their creative work in the annual extravaganza. \nEntries will be accepted in the Gallery office\, Seton 209\, from November 20-24\, 9:00am to 5:00pm. Musical and dramatic performances and readings may be scheduled by calling Traci Steylen at 457-6160. \nThe exhibition opens with a reception at 12:00pm on Thursday\, November 30.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/annual-mount-community-show-2006/ CATEGORIES:Community ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/The-Annual-Mount-Community-Show.-Installation-view-2015.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061211 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T143224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T143224Z UID:10000172-1164758400-1165795199@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Connect the Dots DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]As a NSCAD student in the early 1990s\, Kelly Mark adopted a quasi-curatorial approach to sculpture\, collecting found objects and systematically arranging them. Her preference for salt shakers\, cutlery and paper napkins may be traced to her experience as a food service worker. \nThe MSVU Art Gallery hosted Mark’s first solo exhibition in 1995\, and acquired several pieces of her art for the university’s permanent collection\, including 144 White Jars and Connect the Dots\, both featured in this current exhibition. Since then the gallery has included her work in shows such as Beyond Words\, Work Work Work and in 2004 invited her to organize Free Sample\, which featured art by young artists from across Canada. \nConnect the Dots brings together Mark’s mixed-media art with that of two other artists—Gerald Ferguson and Shaun Gough—whose careers intersect with hers. Both Mark and Gough studied under Ferguson\, a NSCAD instructor whose process-oriented approach to painting and conscious avoidance of aesthetic decision-making characterizes both his practice and 10\,000 Grapes\, a painting created using rollers and stencils\, which the university acquired in 1998. \nSean Gough’s 300 Artists’ Names\, acquired in 1995\, reveals a similar investment in automated process—in this case a computerized “spell-check” program applied to well-known artists’ names. The software’s dedicated linguistic function results in substitutions of recognized words for familiar monikers (Salvador Dali is renamed Salvador Dally\, Frank Stella becomes Frank Stealer)\, revealing an amusing detachment from art fame. \nThis same disinterest in human celebrity emerges in Kelly Mark’s War Pigs video\, which depicts a cat sleeping soundly between two speakers playing top-10 hits. The art academy\, too\, comes under attack\, in Mark’s selection of everyday objects grouped carefully and displayed in museum style. \nThe University’s permanent collection is closely linked to the curatorial objectives of the MSVU Art Gallery’s exhibition program; hence the rationale behind mounting small group shows documented in small\, accessibly written free catalogues. It is our hope that Connect the Dots creates opportunities for the discovery of new insights into the works of these three artists.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”17041\,17039\,17038\,17036″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/connect-the-dots/ CATEGORIES:Film & Video,Painting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Kelly-Mark-144-White-Jars-1993-Mason-jars-filled-with-white-materials-Collection-Mount-Saint-Vincent-University-Purchase-1995.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061127 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T144517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T144517Z UID:10000171-1160784000-1164585599@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Pulse: Film & Painting After the Image DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]The collective La Femme 100 Têtes\, in collaboration with Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery\, presents Pulse: Film and Painting After the Image\, co-curated by Ingrid Jenkner and Barbara Sternberg\, in consultation with Gerda Cammaer. \nPulse brings experimental film into dialogue with contemporary abstract painting by presenting the two art forms adjacent to one another in the same gallery space. The films were selected for their tendencies to dismantle the stability of the representational image\, or to dispense with it altogether. The paintings match these tendencies by emphasizing optical vibration\, repetition\, rhythm\, layering and blurring of figure-ground distinctions. While traditional narrative cinema and representational painting offer fixed images\, the selections in Pulse bring out the counterimage (and afterimage) of process. The prevailing aesthetic is pulsatile–similar to that of blinking neon signs or the strobe effects of video games. This optically active environment emphasizes the shared concerns of artists who work in time-based and space-based media. \nFilmmakers: Christina Battle\, Vincent Grenier\, Emmanual LeFrant\,\nRose Lowder\, Frederic Worden \nPainters: Cora Cluett\, Stephen Fisher\, Nicole Collins\, Angela Leach\, Monica Tap\,\nShirley Wiitasalo \nOPENING RECEPTION Sunday\, October 15 at 2:00pm with informal talk by Barbara Sternberg\, filmmaker and member of La Femme 100 Têtes curatorial collective. The free charter bus leaves 5163 Duke Street at 1:30pm\, returning downtown at 5:00pm. \nAn illustrated catalogue with essays by Jenkner and Sternberg provides a complete document of the project. \nSupport from the Canada Council for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”17025\,17026\,17027\,17028\,17029\,17030\,17031\,17032\,17033″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/pulse-film-painting-after-the-image/ CATEGORIES:Film & Video,Modernist Survivals,Nova Scotian Artists,Painting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Pulse-Film-and-Painting-After-the-Image-Installation-View-MSVU-Art-Gallery-1-2006.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060805 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061003 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T160824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T160824Z UID:10000079-1154736000-1159833599@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Micah Lexier: To Be Sorted DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]To Be Sorted includes three vitrine displays of objects from the collection of Micah Lexier\, with each display accompanied by one of the artist’s works. \n\nBlank\nCircle to Square\nOrganizing Principle\n\nThe exhibition is circulated by Contemporary Art Gallery\, Vancouver. \nLexier\, a Canadian artist based in New York\, has developed his practice out of a reconsideration of the quasi-documentary strategies of early conceptual art\, retooled to accommodate his concerns with time\, identity and difference. Lexier has a sustained interest in the ephemeral products of conceptually based practices and over the past twenty years has amassed an extensive collection of such materials. He’s also collected hundreds of anonymous products that share similar graphic and aesthetic qualities. The individual objects in the collection include a large number of coins\, printed materials such as stationery\, score cards and books\, artists’ books and multiples\, packaging\, tools\, magic tricks\, and fragments of perforated cardboard found in the street.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”17008\,17021\,17020\,17015\,17012″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/micah-lexier-to-be-sorted/ CATEGORIES:Design ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Installation-View-Micah-Lexier-To-Be-Sorted-MSVU-Art-Gallery-Photo-Steve-Farmer-2006-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060715 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061002 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T160956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T161340Z UID:10000170-1152921600-1159747199@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Roots & Shoots DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]This exhibition draws out tendencies that circulate among the artists of Halifax Regional Municipality and its environs\, suggesting patterns of artistic affiliation as well as rifts. Individual artists from a range of career stages and practices were invited to nominate a work by another artist for presentation. Nominated artists\, in turn\, selected a work by their nominator. Each then contributed a text responding to aesthetic and thematic qualities of the work they selected. An illustrated catalogue containing the texts accompanies the exhibition. Artists include: Gerard Choy\, Frances Dorsey\, Wilma Needham\, Peter Dykhuis\, Drew Klassen\, Ivan Murphy\, Geri Nolan-Hilfiker\, Susan McEachern\, Dan O’Neill\, Ariella Pahlke\, Jan Peacock\, Mathew Reichertz\, Leah Garnett\, Joyan Saunders & Kathleen Tetlock\, Gary Wilson\, and Robert Zingone.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”17001\,16999\,16998\,16997″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/roots-shoots/ CATEGORIES:Drawing & Printmaking,Nova Scotian Artists,Painting,Photography,Sculpture & Installation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Susan-McEachern-Herbivores-detail-colour-photographs-with-etched-glass-2006.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060619 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060623 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T161742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T161846Z UID:10000169-1150675200-1151020799@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Nancy Nisbet: Exchange 2006 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Canadian artist Nancy Nisbet will be parking her 18-wheeler at Pier 21 on Wednesday\, 21 June and proceeding down the boardwalk to NSCAD and back\, from 1-4pm. This event is part of her Exchange 2006 tour — a freewheeling\, free trade-resistant\, frequency-jamming trek around the contintent. \nFear of terrorism and the perceived need for increased national security through identity authentication have given rise to widespread use of Radio Frequency Identification Devices. Sometimes referred to as “spychips\,” RFIDs use radio frequency signals to track moving objects and are emerging as a popular means of tracing consumer spending patterns. RFID technology is used in livestock management\, pharmaceutical labelling\, libraries\, public transportation\, credit cards and\, in some countries\, passports. More controversial is the embedding of RFID chips in consumer goods such as clothing\, and recent experiments in human under-the-skin tagging. \nExchange 2006 is a cross-border intervention combining surveillance technology\, a full-size transport truck\, and all of the artist’s personal belongings. In this sustained experiment\, which takes place directly out of the truck\, the belongings are inventoried\, RFID tagged and freely traded with individuals encountered during a six month road trip through Canada\, the United States and Mexico. The entire project constitutes a border-crossing critique of NAFTA\, an experiment in personal identification-jamming\, and a technology-tracked critique of modern-day intrusions on personal privacy. \nMany thanks to the Halifax Port Authority and the Pier 21 Society for their assistance in coordinating this event.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/nancy-nisbet-exchange-2006/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Nancy-Nisbet-Exchange-Tour-Route-Map-2006.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060731 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T161958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T161958Z UID:10000167-1148515200-1154303999@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Through Alberta Eyes - The Photographs of Orest Semchishen DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Orest Semchishen was born in Mundare\, Alberta\, the grandson of Ukranian immigrants. As a retired radiologist\, he photographed disappearing Albertan localities such as Pendryl\, Entrance and Plamondon. His entire portfolio is now preserved in the National Archives of Canada. The black and white photographs document Alberta’s remote communities and their inhabitants as they were thirty years ago. Dating from 1973 through 1986\, the images depict trappers\, wilderness camps and vernacular architecture–signs of a primary resource-based economy that scarcely resembles the prosperous\, oil-rich Alberta represented in today’s media. The starkness of the images resonates with the exhibition’s presentation in Nova Scotia—a region also beset by economic disparity that official photographs rarely represent. With support from Canadian Heritage.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16983\,16980\,16979″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/through-alberta-eyes-the-photographs-of-orest-semchishen/ CATEGORIES:Photography ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Orest-Semchishen-Pendryl-AB-August.-Silver-gelatin-print-1986.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060521 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T162124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T162124Z UID:10000165-1147824000-1148169599@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Wall Painting by Stephen Fisher DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]In dialogue with landscape painting traditions and the current mediascape\, Fisher appropriates place-related data\, such as migration routes and weather maps\, into vibrant\, layered compositions. The young Haligonian painter exhibited “Strange events in the invisible strata” at Eastern Edge\, St. John’s\, in Spring 2006. \nThe current wall painting is an expanded version of a small freehand copy of recomposed geological “block” diagrams downloaded from the Internet. The sampled diagrams have been allowed to collide visually\, and are depicted in the process of exploding. \nFisher began the painting after partially erasing and painting out Michael Fernandes’ chalk inscriptions on a black wall (Room of Fears) in preparation for the next exhibition. The gallery encouraged him to exploit the opportunity to work large\, on a scale that his current studio situation would not accommodate. \nImpromptu exhibitions provide selected Nova Scotian artists with ample space and limited time to work on projects in the gallery. Visitors are welcome to watch the artist at work.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16973\,16974\,16975\,16976″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/wall-painting-by-stephen-fisher/ CATEGORIES:Painting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Stephen-Fisher-Untitled-pencil-and-ink-on-paper-4x6-source-for-wall-painting-date-unknown.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060513 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060703 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T162249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210303T234447Z UID:10000168-1147478400-1151884799@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Libby Hague and Yael Brotman - Open Images\, Open Text DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]A chandelier motif\, layered colour and an affinity for Japanese graphics–such as woodblock prints\, manga (comics) and anime–link the works of Toronto-based artists Yael Brotman and Libby Hague. Their collaborative installation is composed of Brotman’s miniature acrylic and ink paintings mounted on wooden cubes and Hague’s spectacular\, wall-sized cascade of freely hanging woodcuts and cut-paper shapes. Inspired in part by the disastrous tsunami of 2004\, this curtain-like composition filled with tumbling gymnasts and explosions has been compared to “an apocalyptic passion play set under Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway.” Brotman’s diaphanous\, three-inch paintings offer a delicate counterpoint. Born in Israel\, Yael Brotman emigrated to Canada as a child and now practices painting and printmaking in Toronto. Also Torontonian\, Libby Hague works in printmaking\, photography\, sculpture and video. \nMeet Libby Hague and Yael Brotman at the opening reception on Saturday\, May 13\, at 2:00pm. Board the free charter bus at Dalhousie Arts Centre at 2pm. The bus departs MSVU and continues to Saint Mary’s Art Gallery at 3:00pm\, then travels to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia at 4:15pm[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16966\,16967\,16968\,16969″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/libby-hague-and-yael-brotman-open-images-open-text/ CATEGORIES:Drawing & Printmaking,Painting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Libby-Hague-Everything-Needs-Everything-Yael-Brotman-Off-in-the-Distance-4-2006.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060408 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060731 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T162405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T162405Z UID:10000166-1144454400-1154303999@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Paperworks DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]In 2004\, Eye Level Gallery commissioned Paperwork30– a limited edition of 25 boxed sets\, each containing one original work by each of 20 Halifax-affiliated artists—to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary. MSVU acquired one set for its permanent collection\, and the 20 framed works comprise the Windowbox exhibition\, Paperworks. Photography\, printmaking\, painting\, drawing\, ink wash–the works span a diverse range of media\, expertly handled by artists whose contributions exemplify thirty years of contemporary art practice in Halifax. The artists are: Lucie Chan\, Peter Dykhuis\, Cliff Eyland\, Michael Fernandes\, Suzanne Funnell\, Leah Garnett\, Suzanne Gauthier\, Arthur Handy\, Sarah Hartland-Rowe\, Steve Higgins\, Garry Neill Kennedy\, Drew Klassen\, Micah Lexier\, Kelly Mark\, Rita McKeough\, Daniel Olson\, Jan Peacock\, Mathew Reichertz\, Allison Rossiter\, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16962″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/paperworks/ CATEGORIES:Drawing & Printmaking,Nova Scotian Artists,Painting,Photography ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Lucie-Chan-Untitled-2004.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060501 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T162501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T162501Z UID:10000164-1142899200-1146441599@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Glynis Humphrey: Breathing Under Water DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Breathing Under Water is a multi-media installation by the Haligonian artist Glynis Humphrey. It provides an array of acoustic\, tactile and visual stimuli\, but contains no verbal components. At floor level\, acoustically active inflatables invite touching as well as listening. Overhead\, a monumental video projection depicts the floating draperies and repetitive movements of a woman who is submerged in water. \nAs in previous works\, Glynis Humphrey evokes a sensuous\, yet monstrous feminine presence that can be both threateningly and appealingly immersive. Alternatively seductive and grotesque\, Breathing Under Water involves its viewers in a dramatically spatialized experience of embodiment. \nSupport from the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism\, Culture & Heritage is gratefully acknowledged.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16956\,16957\,16958\,16959″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/glynis-humphrey-breathing-under-water/ CATEGORIES:Feminisms,Film & Video,Gender & Sexuality,Nova Scotian Artists,Sculpture & Installation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Glynis-Humphrey-Breathing-Under-Water-installation-detail-Photo-2-Steve-Farmer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060515 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T162605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T162605Z UID:10000163-1142640000-1147651199@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Michael Fernandes: Room of Fears and Fixing Room DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Michael Fernandes teaches Intermedia at NSCAD University. He has exhibited and performed throughout Canada and internationally. Through public interventions and gallery installations\, Fernandes generates social situations that solicit active participation by others. His work probes the intersection of private life with public space\, and the relationship between art and everyday life\, by combining linguistic and performance events with humour. \nRoom of Fears is composed of expressions of fear submitted by members of the public via e-mail and through ballot boxes distributed around Halifax. The fears were collected over the course of one month\, then transcribed onto the gallery walls by the artist and his assistants. The writing forms a blackboard-like graffiti of anonymous voices\, working both to amplify and to dispel the spectators’ anxieties. \nIn an adjacent space\, Fixing Room displays items submitted to the gallery in response to an open call\, for “things you never got round to fixing\, things that are broken.” The “fixed” items call attention to the modern-day impulse to pathologize\, as played out in our relationship with the objects in our lives. \nSupport from the Canada Council for the Arts is gratefully appreciated.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16948\,16946\,16947\,16950\,16949\,16944\,16945\,16943\,16942″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/michael-fernandes-room-of-fears-and-fixing-room/ CATEGORIES:Film & Video,Nova Scotian Artists,Sculpture & Installation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bank-Robbers-performance-with-Michael-Fernandes-and-Nancy-Prior-6-April-2006.-Documented-by-Barbara-Sternberg-2006.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060201 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T162733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T162733Z UID:10000058-1137283200-1138751999@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Alice Egan Hagen (1872-1972)\, Nova Scotian China Painter - Window Box Series DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Alice Egan Hagen\, an alumna of Mount Saint Vincent Academy\, is considered a pioneer of studio pottery in Nova Scotia. She was in her early sixties when\, in 1931\, she decided to learn to make pottery so as to teach it to others. Soon she had set up kilns at several locales and was conducting pottery classes. She continued to sell pottery from her home in Mahone Bay well after her ninetieth birthday. \nIn the early 20th century\, women who actively pursued education and professional careers were referred to as “New Women”. Alice Hagen fits this description: she financed her education as a china painter and made her living in this profession before transforming herself into a self-taught potter. Her contemporaries\, Helen Creighton\, the Nova Scotian folklorist\, and Mary Black\, the Nova Scotian craft promoter\, were also “New Women”. All three of these entrepreneurial women shaped the cultural profile of Nova Scotia as we know it today. \nThis exhibition presents four china vessels painted by Alice Egan Hagen around the turn of the nineteenth century. Three of the items have been selected from the large collection she donated to the University in 1966. \nWhen the young Alice Egan began to study the art in Halifax in the 1890s\, china painting was one the few occupations regarded as suitable for respectable women. (Some of the other approved occupations were dress-making\, teaching school\, and running boarding houses.) Egan enjoyed an international reputation for china painting and received several major commissions\, besides keeping up a flourishing teaching practice. \nChina painting is the hand decoration of commercially manufactured blank forms which have already been fired with a clear glaze. The china painter applies low-fire overglaze colours and fires the piece again. Alice Hagen\, for example\, used blanks imported from France\, Britain\, Bavaria and Japan\, among other countries. She worked in her own professional studio at the corner of Barrington and Sackville Streets in Halifax. In the late 19th century only a few women worked as professionals in china factories such as those operated by Wedgewood and Doulton. Most industrial or commercial china painters were men.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16937\,16938\,16939″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/alice-egan-hagen-1872-1972-nova-scotian-china-painter-window-box-series/ CATEGORIES:Design,Feminisms,Gender & Sexuality,Nova Scotian Artists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Alice-Hagen.-Jardinière-with-Mi’kmaq-Portraits-1901.-French-porcelain-handpainted-in-enamel-overglaze-and-gilt-20.5-x-29.2-cm.-MSVU-Collection-date-unknown.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060305 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T162829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T162851Z UID:10000057-1137196800-1141516799@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Sarindar Dhaliwal: Record Keeping DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]An OVA & Agnes Etherington Arts Centre Touring Exhibition \nBorn in the Punjab and raised in England\, Sarindar Dhaliwal now lives in Toronto. In Record Keeping\, a jewel-hued archive of paintings and installations embedded with journal entries\, folk tales\, gossip and news\, the artist draws upon a personal history of movement from her birthplace in India\, to Britain and then to Canada. Dhaliwal’s art highlights the ways in which words\, and the finely-tuned codes of dress and custom\, shape experience and relationships with others. \nWith Record Keeping\, MSVU Art Gallery extends its engagement with diasporic aesthetics to the South Asian Diaspora. The exhibition catalogue with texts by Jan Allen\, Sunil Gupta\, and Richard Fung\, further illuminates Dhaliwal’s treatment of the mechanisms through which ethnically marked individuals preserve and transform their identities.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16928\,16929\,16930\,16931\,16932\,16933\,16934″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/sarindar-dhaliwal-record-keeping/ CATEGORIES:Painting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Sarindar-Dhaliwal-Record-Keeping-Installation-View-MSVU-Art-Gallery-2006.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20041125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20041213 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T162955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T180443Z UID:10000055-1101340800-1102895999@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Annual Mount Community Show 2004 DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]From quilts to baking and from photographs to embroidery: practically anything made by Mount Saint Vincent students\, staff\, faculty and alumnae is eligible for entry in the annual creative extravaganza.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/annual-msvu-community-show-2004/ CATEGORIES:Community ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/MSVU-Art-Gallery-Mount-Saint-Vincent-University-Art-Gallery-Entrance-date-unknown.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20041023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20041213 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T163712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T163712Z UID:10000054-1098489600-1102895999@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Shifting Ground: Woven Works by Suzanne Swannie DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]For several years the Haligonian textile artist Suzanne Swannie has been weaving functional floor coverings for private and public environments. Her training in Danish design and weaving techniques informs the modular design of her reduced tapestry carpets. Shifting Ground includes two brilliantly coloured new carpets plus paper and fibre preparatory studies. Concerning her process\, Swannie comments that\, “To obtain a ‘live’ surface in these works I hand dye all weft yarns. Also\, while observing restraints imposed by technique and utilitarian requirements\, I like to set myself limitations in the design elements. Triangular forms are dominant\, and serve the idea of geological ‘shifts’ which are perhaps open to a wider interpretation.” \nOPENING On Sunday\, October 31 at 3:00pm\, craft historian Sandra Alfoldy will speak briefly about the exhibition; the artist will be present. Board the chartered bus that leaves 5163 Duke Street at 2:30pm. The bus will return passengers to downtown at 4:30pm.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16922\,16923″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/shifting-ground-woven-works-by-suzanne-swannie/ CATEGORIES:Design,Nova Scotian Artists,Textiles ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Carpet-in-progress-on-the-loom-2004-Photo-courtesy-of-Suzanne-Swannie-2004.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20041014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20041122 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T163851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T163851Z UID:10000051-1097712000-1101081599@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Godless at the Workbench DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Organized by Dunlop Art Gallery \nAfter the October Revolution\, the Soviet government worked to secularize the labour force. One strategy was to flood the popular press with imagery that debunked religious superstition while promoting the emancipation of women and scientific practices in agriculture. Prominent artists such as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Aleksei Gan contributed images to the propaganda campaigns conducted in satirical and anti-religious journals. \nCanadian art historian Annie Gérin selected the Soviet journals\, posters\, photographs and film (1918-1939) from the holdings of the British collector David King. The exhibition offers a gripping study of tensions between religion and the modern state as played out in state-controlled mass media. Historians may want to draw comparisons with Quebec’s Quiet Revolution and the “faith-based” shift in US political rhetoric. \nA SPECIAL LECTURE by Annie Gérin will be held in the gallery on Sunday\, 14 November at 3 pm. The chartered bus leaves 5163 Duke Street at 2:00 pm\, returning to the Mount at 5 pm to take passengers to the Khyber on Barrington Street.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16918\,16919″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/godless-at-the-workbench/ CATEGORIES:Design,Drawing & Printmaking ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Muscovites-reading-the-journal-Godless-1920s.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040828 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20041004 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T163954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T163954Z UID:10000050-1093651200-1096847999@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Tracking: Bombings\, Wars & Genocide - a Six Months Journey from New York to China\, Vietnam\, Cambodia & Indonesia–by Denyse Thomasos DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Displacement and confinement\, the spatial experiences that typified the Middle Passage (trans-Atlantic slave trade)\, inspire the gridded paintings of Denyse Thomasos. The artist was born in Trinidad\, raised in Mississauga\, and lives in New York. After the 9-11 bombing she travelled to photograph jails and burial sites in Asian countries. Those photographs are the source images of Tracking\, a spectacular floor-to-ceiling composition painted directly on the gallery walls. Thomasos’ restless geometry maps diasporic flows onto the static planes of the white cube. The eye-popping effects and optical illusions will be painted out at the end of the exhibition. \nCatalogue forthcoming with essays by M. NourbeSe Philip\, Franklin Sirmans\, Gaetane Verna\, co-published by MSVU Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Bishop’s University. \nTrack Record Panel Discussion\nOn Sunday\, September 12\, at 3:00pm\, catalogue writers M. Nourbese Philip (Canadian poet and activist) and Franklin Sirmans (US curator and editor) join Denyse Thomasos to discuss the positioning of her work in North American culture. Ride the chartered bus free of charge. It departs from 5163 Duke Street at 2:30 pm and returns to MSVU at 5:00 pm.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16904\,16905\,16906\,16907\,16908\,16909\,16910\,16911\,16912\,16913\,16914\,16915″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/tracking-bombings-wars-genocide-a-six-months-journey-from-new-york-to-china-vietnam-cambodia-indonesia-by-denyse-thomasos/ CATEGORIES:Painting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Denyse-Thomasos-Tracking-Thirty-Years-in-Canada-Thirty-Years-in-Trinidad-detail-of-the-wall-painting-installated-at-the-Art-Gallery-of-Bishops-University-Photo-Richard-Max-Tremblay-2004.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040807 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20041018 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T164045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T164045Z UID:10000047-1091836800-1098057599@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Elspeth Pratt: Hang-ups DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]In Vancouver\, where she has lived for more than twenty years\, Elspeth Pratt is known for her inventive use of building supplies and her interest in leisure as it correlates with the built environment. Her works borrow from the 20th century formal vocabularies associated with constructivist and post-minimalist sculpture. \nThe three wall-mounted sculptures exhibited at MSVU Art Gallery come from the collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Scar 1995\, Lucky Me 1992 and Arsenic and Lace 1997 hang in a mezzanine that overlooks a major wall-painting installation by Denyse Thomasos\, entitled Tracking: Bombings\, Wars & Genocide\, a Six Months Journey from New York to China\, Vietnam\, Cambodia & Indonesia. \nThe carceral grids and optical dynamism of Tracking offer an eye-popping counterpoint to the quasipictorial\, semi-architectural posturing of Pratt’s sculptures. One writer has described their effect as evoking a “hesitant response to her contingent and ephemeral negotiation of gravity.”[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16900\,16901″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/elspeth-pratt-hang-ups/ CATEGORIES:Modernist Survivals,Sculpture & Installation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Elspeth-Pratt.-Arsenic-and-Lace-1997.-cardboard-and-beads-103-x-96.5-x-25.0cm.-Art-Gallery-of-Nova-Scotia-Collection-Gift-of-the-artist-2003.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040804 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040809 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T164158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T164158Z UID:10000046-1091577600-1092009599@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Frances Dorsey: Rice Paddies / Vîet Nam DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]Organized by MSVU Art Gallery \nRice Paddies / Vîet Nam is a textile work-in-progress by Frances Dorsey\, who lives in Portuguese Cove and teaches part-time at NSCAD. It is being exhibited at MSVU Art Gallery as part of the “Impromptu” series\, brief exhibitions of important new bodies of work\, during which the artist uses the art gallery as a studio. \nLike Dragon’s Teeth 1994 (MSVU Collection)\, the surface of Rice Paddies is inscribed with memories of bloody combat\, in the form of handwriting from her late father’s World War II diaries. The work consists of multiple panels of linen\, cotton and rayon pinned to the wall\, measuring eleven by thirty-one feet installed. The surface design has been achieved with a variety of techniques\, including fibre-reactive dyes\, discharge\, pigment\, stitching and silver leaf.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16894\,16895\,16896\,16897″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/frances-dorsey-rice-paddies-viet-nam/ CATEGORIES:Nova Scotian Artists,Textiles ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Frances-Dorsey-Rice-Paddies.-fabric-dye-discharge-pigment-silverleaf-detail-3-2004.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040612 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040628 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T164335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T164335Z UID:10000044-1086998400-1088380799@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Peter Walker: Last Supper Dance DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]New paintings of biblical dimensions make up this impromptu exhibition. Nova Scotian artist Peter Walker is known for his mastery of trompe-l’oeil (fool-the-eye) illusionism and his skill with airbrush and stencil. Yet his infrequent exhibitions put spectators on the spot. Is it OK to admire the technique and ignore the subject matter\, or would it be better just to admit that one is thrilled/repelled by his version of Roman Catholic iconography?[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16887″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”4″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”7″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/peter-walker-last-supper-dance/ CATEGORIES:Drawing & Printmaking,Nova Scotian Artists,Painting,Sculpture & Installation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Peter-Walker-A-Flower-for-Saint-Sebastion.-charcoal-oil-acrylic-on-canvas-2003.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040529 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040628 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T164444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T164444Z UID:10000042-1085788800-1088380799@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:too small too big DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]The Mount is Canada’s only co-ed university dedicated to the education of women\, and the university collection reflects this priority. Too big too small is composed of works on paper by Canadian artists who make strategic use of textured media such as makeup\, paper collage\, electrical tape\, and human hair. The tactility of the materials lures viewers into an intimate relationship with emotionally charged subject matter. Mixed-media works by Andrea Ward and Rosalie Favell are included\, together with prints and drawings by the Nova Scotian artists Chrystal Clements\, Marie Koehler and Susan Wood.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/too-small-too-big/ CATEGORIES:Drawing & Printmaking,Feminisms,Gender & Sexuality,Nova Scotian Artists ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/MSVU-Art-Gallery-Mount-Saint-Vincent-University-Art-Gallery-Entrance-date-unknown.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040410 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040606 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T164622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T164622Z UID:10000162-1081555200-1086479999@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:The Found and Familiar - Snapshots in Contemporary Canadian Art DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]A genre of artmaking has arisen that hinges on the integration of the snapshot\, whether found or selected from the artist’s personal archive\, into complex works of art. As the curators suggest\, this set of practices intervenes at the moment when “digital technologies are changing the ways in which we make\, look at and keep our snapshots. In the midst of a technological revolution\, this exhibition acknowledges the power of the snapshot as well as its materiality\, and marks a shift in our relationship to this most personal of objects.”[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16880\,16881″ display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ masonry_style=”true” item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”2″ load_in_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/the-found-and-familiar-snapshots-in-contemporary-canadian-art/ CATEGORIES:Photography ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Chris-Curreri.-Untitled-detail-from-the-series-The-Bicycle-Race.-Giclee-print-with-thread-approx.-40-x-50-in-2002.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040327 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040524 DTSTAMP:20260423T000349 CREATED:20190816T164741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T164741Z UID:10000161-1080345600-1085356799@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Work Work Work DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]These works from the university collection invite comparison with hobby craft\, housework\, and puttering. Plywood\, acoustic tile\, a tea towel and pantry equipment are some of the materials used. Artists represented include Gerald Ferguson\, Kelly Mark\, Elspeth Pratt\, and Leslie Sampson. With the exception of a plywood sculpture by Pratt\, all of the works were made in Nova Scotia in the last 15 years. A highlight of the exhibition is Kelly Mark’s 144 White Jars\, a group of Mason jars containing white materials purchased at the dollar store.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/work-work-work/ CATEGORIES:Nova Scotian Artists,Painting,Sculpture & Installation,Textiles ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Installation-view.-Photo-Sigrid-Mahr-2004.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR