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DTSTART:20230312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20231105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20240310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20241103T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240818 DTSTAMP:20260430T013220 CREATED:20240610T184334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T193552Z UID:10000256-1718928000-1723939199@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Marks & Recreation: Works from the MSVU Permanent Collection 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” overflow=”visible” 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” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]Selected from the MSVU Permanent Collection\, the works in this exhibition consider our relationship with nature and how repetitive acts of human interaction can transform the purpose and history of a place or an object\, shaping its significance and meaning over time. Featuring works by Renate Deppe\, Gathie Falk\, Carol Fraser\, and Kelly Mark. \nFeatured image: Beautiful British Columbia Thermal Blanket – Huyen 1980\, Gathie Falk. Oil on canvas quilted and stuffed with fibreglass insulation. Collection\, MSVU Art Gallery.[/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][/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” overflow=”visible” 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” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\nOpening Reception\nFriday\, June 21 at 6:00-8:00pm \nCelebrate the opening of Marks and Recreation: Works from the MSVU Permanent Collection on Friday\, June 21st at 6:00 pm. All are welcome! MSVU Art Gallery is dedicated to making our events accessible to all. Information about access\, location\, and interpretive services can be found in the About section of our website. Please feel free to reach out to art.gallery@msvu.ca with any access requests\, service needs\, or inquiries.[/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” overflow=”visible” 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” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”]\n \n \n \n Exhibition statement\n Marks & Recreation: Works from the MSVU Permanent Art Collection\n https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1981.004-a-989x1024.jpg\n ALL CATEGORIES\n \n \n https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MR-audio-guide.mp3\n \n \n No HTML5 audio playback capabilities for this browser. Use Chrome Browser!\n \n \n [/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/2″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text css=”” text_direction=”default”]\nAbout the exhibition:\nAs we wander through public parks and rural landscapes\, we are reminded of our ever-changing relationship with the natural world. Repetitive acts of human interaction can transform the purpose and history of a place or object\, shaping its significance and meaning over time. \nThrough these selected works from the MSVU Permanent Art Collection\, we invite you to contemplate the ways in which humans have shaped – and been shaped by – nature. From the carefully manicured paths of public parks to the untamed beauty of rural landscapes\, each location tells a story of human influence and interaction. Through photographs of the Halifax Public Gardens\, depictions of public and private spaces and mass-produced objects\, we explore how repetitive acts have left their mark on the environment and how the environment\, in turn\, has left its mark on us.[/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” overflow=”visible” 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” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_gallery css=”” type=”image_grid” images=”20859\,20860\,20861\,20862\,20864\,20865\,20866\,20867\,20868″ image_grid_loading=”default” display_title_caption=”true” layout=”3″ item_spacing=”default” gallery_style=”7″ load_in_animation=”none”][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://www.msvuart.ca/exhibition/marks-recreation-works-from-the-msvu-permanent-collection/ LOCATION:Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1981.004-a.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080405 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080602 DTSTAMP:20260430T013220 CREATED:20190816T142348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T142348Z UID:10000178-1207353600-1212364799@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Kelly Mark: Stupid Heaven 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 the JM Barnicke Gallery\, University of Toronto \nAn interest in everyday moments and time-filling activity is mixed in Mark’s work with deadpan humour and self-deprecatory purpose. The artist studied at NSCAD and had her first curated exhibition at MSVU Gallery in 1995\, before moving to Toronto. Since then she has become an internationally respected neo-conceptualist\, particularly renowned for her task-oriented approach to artmaking and her use of vernacular practices such as sampling and mash-up. \nStupid Heaven presents key works from Mark’s past twelve years of production\, including drawing\, sculpture\, video\, performance\, audio\, multiples and television-based projects. \nIn Hiccup\, a multi-channel video-recorded performance\, the artist is seen spending an identical amount of time doing exactly the same thing in the same location over several days\, thus highlighting the constancy of change–in weather\, light\, traffic\, passersby–around her. Mark uses her work and her presence as a frame through which to witness the flux of time\, events\, and ritual endeavour. \nRecent pieces focus on television\, the medium that consumes time as no other. Rather than taking issue with televisual content\, Mark draws attention to an oblique aspect of its presence by making installations that consist simply of the flickering glow characteristic of specific program genres\, such porn and romance. The exhibition culminates with the new video mash-up REM\, culled from 170 broadcast TV sources\, and edited together in a tour-de-force\, dream-like narrative. The story is shaped as though to wrest meaning out of the experience of channel-surfing\, including attention-span disorder\, which might be the temporal condition of television watching. \nOPENING RECEPTION You and your friends are cordially invited to meet the artists and attend the opening reception on Saturday\, April 5 at 7:30pm. The free chartered bus leaves 5163 Duke Street at 7:15pm and departs from MSVU at 8:30pm. \nThe exhibition catalogue is a co-publication of Justina M. Barnicke Gallery\, Toronto; Contemporary Art Gallery\, Vancouver; and MSVU Art Gallery.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”17079\,17080\,17081″ 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/kelly-mark-stupid-heaven/ LOCATION:Canada CATEGORIES:Film & Video,Sculpture & Installation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/33-Minute-Stare1996-DVD-33-minutes-silent-edition-of-5-Colour-silent-Loan-of-the-artist-1996.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061211 DTSTAMP:20260430T013220 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/ LOCATION:Canada 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:20060408 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060731 DTSTAMP:20260430T013220 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/ LOCATION:Canada 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:20040327 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040524 DTSTAMP:20260430T013220 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/ LOCATION:Canada 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20031028 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20031124 DTSTAMP:20260430T013220 CREATED:20190816T165631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T165631Z UID:10000156-1067299200-1069631999@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Beyond Words 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]Co-organized by the Art Gallery of Bishop’s University\n& MSVU Art Gallery \nThe art in “Beyond Words” encourages viewers to think of language as something more than a transparent medium of communication. Each piece incorporates printed or handwritten text in ways that defeat a simple reading response. Letter forms\, cursive script and printed pages are transformed into sensuous\, enigmatic\, and even illicit “material.” Letraset collage\, pulled threads\, sandblasted glass\, recorded sound and video\, are some of the media represented. In order to read these works\, viewers must pay attention to form and materials\, in addition to the text. Verbal unintelligibility becomes part of the overall meaning. \nSome of the works voice languages other than English\, such as Cree\, Hebrew and French. Indian Act\, by the Algonkin-Québécoise artist Nadia Myre\, and Word for Word by Ruth Cuthand and Elizabeth MacKenzie\, also dramatize cultural assimilation and language loss. To make Indian Act\, for example\, Myre downloaded the text of “The Indian Act” and invited friends and relatives to replace each letter on the page with a white bead. The remainder of each page was to be filled with red beads. The resulting refusal to communicate in shared cultural terms eloquently talks back to the legislation. \nBy pulling coloured threads through gauze\, Sylvia Ptak achieves a remarkable facsimile of manuscript pages. The sense of her work rests on its uncanny mimicry of authoritative paper documents\, which it replaces with a silent countertext. Rober Racine’s Signatures sonores and Dessins also set up a correspondence between handwriting (autographs collected during the “Radio Rethink” residency at Banff) and its representation\, through the whispering recorded sound of the writing. \nKelly Mark brings out the strangeness of language by associating it with formalist art styles of the past. To compose her black and white “drawings\,” Mark uses salvaged Letraset\, a type of self-adhesive vinyl lettering\, as though letters and punctuation were abstract design elements. Paul de Guzman goes further\, by laboriously excising the linguistic elements from monographs on the artists Roni Horn\, Raymond Pettibon and Doris Salcedo. Through an extraordinary displacement that is nevertheless a tribute\, the encased husks of these books are transformed into an intricate architecture. \nThe works of Gilbert Boyer are inspired by structures containing words\, ranging from tefillin (phylacteries) or prayers encased in boxes\, used in Jewish ritual\, to electronic communications framed by the luminous screen of the computer. His poetic inscriptions fuse the ephemerality of the spoken word with the conventions of the commemorative monument.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16843\,16844\,16845\,16846\,16847\,16848″ 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/beyond-words/ LOCATION:Canada CATEGORIES:Film & Video,Textiles ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Beyond-Words.-Installation-view-3-MSVU-Art-Gallery-2003.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20010424 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20010618 DTSTAMP:20260430T013220 CREATED:20190816T171215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T171215Z UID:10000028-988070400-992822399@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Do Try This At Home 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 works of young artists from Halifax\, Montreal\, Toronto and Winnipeg are examined for indications of their makers’ positioning in two distinct economies: the money economy of subsistence-level day jobs\, and the field of artistic production. In the latter economy\, the medium of exchange is “symbolic capital” compounded of artistic reputation\, peer recognition and avant-gardist gestures. The artists typically produce at home and mainly for confirmed exhibitions. In this exhibition\, most works have been assembled from scraps\, discards and inexpensive household supplies by means of repetitive procedures such as knitting\, filling\, stuffing\, stapling\, and so on.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16760″ 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/do-try-this-at-home/ LOCATION:Canada CATEGORIES:Emerging Artists,Nova Scotian Artists,Textiles ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Leah-Garnett.-Untitled-2000-detail.-Sewn-fabric-and-cotton-batting-variable-dimensions-2000.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19981109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19981219 DTSTAMP:20260430T013220 CREATED:20190816T174202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T174202Z UID:10000124-910569600-914025599@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Grid Works (Window Box) 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]Grid Works was conceived as a miniature\, “satellite” pendant to two concurrent shows in the main gallery (1\,000\,000 Grapes and Notification 1)\, since all used modularity as a common organizing principle \nThe installation consisted of four works from the university collection that ranged across three decades and encompassed various media. These included Untitled No. 4 (1976)\, an intaglio print by Marion Mertens; Imaginary Landscapes (1980)\, four miniature tapestries by Suzanne Swannie; Untitled (Basket Panel) (1978)\, a basket-woven wallpiece by Mi’kmaq artist\, Margaret Johnson; and\, connect-the-dots (1996)\, graphite tracings on perforated acoustic tiles\, by Kelly Mark.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”14933\,14934\,14932\,14935″ 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/grid-works-window-box/ LOCATION:Canada CATEGORIES:Design,Drawing & Printmaking ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Margaret-Johnson.-Untitled-1978.-Black-ash-splints-sweetgrass-105-x-109-cm.-MSVU-collection-1979.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19950715 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19950904 DTSTAMP:20260430T013220 CREATED:20190816T182143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190816T182143Z UID:10000088-805766400-810172799@www.msvuart.ca SUMMARY:Prospect 2: Kelly Mark Works 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]Works recreated the utilitarian space of the artist’s live-in studio\, suggesting references to work as task and the concept of “a work.” Mark’s process\, involving the presentation of altered readymade objects in series\, unites a handyman’s sensibility with obsessively disciplined minor acts of violence. The physical means used to evoke a complex subjectivity place her work in the post-minimalist tradition of Jackie Winsor and Eva Hesse — influential sculptors of the 1960s and 1970s.[/vc_column_text][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”16402\,16401″ 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/prospect-2-kelly-mark-works/ LOCATION:Canada CATEGORIES:Emerging Artists,Modernist Survivals,Nova Scotian Artists,Sculpture & Installation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.msvuart.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Kelly-Mark.-Mended-Stool-1995.-Four-legged-maple-stool-pronged-mending-plates-76.2-x-30.4-x-30.4-cm.-MSVU-Collection.-.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR