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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/
LOCATION:Canada
CATEGORIES:Film & Video,Painting
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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/
LOCATION:Canada
CATEGORIES:Nova Scotian Artists,Painting,Sculpture & Installation,Textiles
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SUMMARY:1\,000\,000 Grapes
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URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/1000000-grapes/
LOCATION:Canada
CATEGORIES:Modernist Survivals,Nova Scotian Artists,Painting,Photography
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