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| TITLE | PRICE |
| Martha Wilson: Staging the Self | $25.00 |
| David Diviney: Head for the Hills | $10.00 |
| Giving Notice: Words on Walls | $25.00 |
| Disrupted Pictures: Dyan Marie and Bill Marshall | $10.00 |
| Black and White with Storylines: Ron Shuebrook and Carol Wainio | $15.00 |
| Sara Graham: Department of Systems Oversight 1968-1973 | $3.00 |
| Exalted Beings: Animal Relationships | $15.00 |
| David Morish: Nature Morte | $3.00 |
| Close to You: contemporary textiles, intimacy and popular culture | $25.00 |
| Actual | $10.00 |
| Gerald Ferguson: Frottage Works 1994-2006, Ash Can Paintings 2006 | $10.00 |
| A walk in the park: Contemporary work from the permanent collection | $3.00 |
| Material Transfer | $8.00 |
| Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby: Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure | $3.00 |
| Lani Maestro: Sing Mother (twilight eats you) | $20.00 |
| Bryan Maycock: (de)composed | $8.00 |
| The Idea of North | $15.00 |
20th Century Prints |
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Authors: |
David Armstrong, Brenda Christiansen, Dan O'Neill |
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Date: |
March 2004 |
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$5.00 |
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| 36-page catalogue with 9 colour and 10 B & W illustrations |
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| With commentaries by printmaker/teachers David Armstrong and Dan O’Neill, this catalogue discusses the modern and contemporary prints in the Dalhousie Art Gallery collection, and provides a handy glossary of techniques. |
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The Collection |
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Authors: |
Susan Gibson Garvey, Michele Gallant, Sandra Paikowsky |
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September 2003 |
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$25.00 |
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184-page catalogue with 55 colour and 70 B & W illustrations and accompanying CD-ROM |
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This richly illustrated catalogue of the Permanent Collection of the Dalhousie Art Gallery includes an interesting history of the gallery, informative descriptions of the various sections of the collection — works on paper, paintings, three-dimensional and mixed-media works, and a miscellaneous section called “A Cabinet of Curiosity” — as well as a CD-ROM with a searchable database of the entire collection. A useful research tool, a “good read” and a fascinating insight into how a small university collection grows into a valuable resource. |
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Arthur Handy: New Work |
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Author: |
Ron Shuebrook |
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Date: |
January 2004 |
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$5.00 |
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16-page catalogue with 6 B & W illustrations |
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| Ron Shuebrook, President of the Ontario College of Art and Design, examines the life and work of long-time abstract artist Arthur Handy in this catalogue, which includes images of Handy’s latest abstract works in Oilbar on mylar. |
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Theodore Wan |
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Authors: |
Christine Conley, Cindy Stelmackowich |
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December 2003 |
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SOLD OUT |
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100-page catalogue with 8 colour and 30 B & W illustrations |
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| The extraordinary life and work of the late Chinese-Canadian conceptual artist Theodore Wan is presented in this definitive study by Ottawa-based art historian Christine Conley. The lavishly illustrated catalogue also features a companion essay on the relationship of Wan’s images to the history of medical illustration by Cindy Stelmackowitch. |
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Views of Dalhousie |
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Authors: |
Susan Gibson Garvey, Paul Doucette |
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Date: |
December 2003 |
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$3.00 |
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8-page catalogue with 5 B & W illustrations |
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| Brief commentaries on Halifax-based photographer Paul Doucette’s elegant black and white images of buildings on the Dalhousie campus. |
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Search and Rescue |
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Authors: |
Sym Corrigan, Susan Gibson Garvey, Eleanor King |
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October 2003 |
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$8.00 |
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26-page catalogue with fold out centre, 6 colour and 9 B & W illustrations |
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| Curated by “The Basement Collective” who have each contributed an essay to the catalogue, the exhibition featured installations and video works around themes of salvage and personal reconstruction by seven up-and-coming young artists: Tashia Friesen, Andréa Lalonde, Larissa Muzzy, Spencer Ramsay, Valerie Salez and Grentak (the collaborative duo Greg Reynolds and C.A. Swintak) |
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Matter/Flesh/Spirit/Ground |
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Author: |
Jayne Wark, Jim MacSwain |
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Date: |
May 2003 |
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$6.00 |
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20-page catalogue with 13 B & W illustrations |
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| Organized by the Centre for Art Tapes in collaboration with Dalhousie Art Gallery and curated by Jim MacSwain, this exhibition presented selected works by groundbreaking feminist videomaker Wendy Geller. Dr. Jayne Wark’s catalogue essay traces the various stages of her production, from the early witty critiques of Freudian psychoanalysis to her last allegorical journeys through the “garden” of nature. |
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Goya |
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Author: |
Ian McKinnon |
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Date: |
May 2003 |
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$5.00 |
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20-page catalogue with 4 B & W illustrations |
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Ian MacKinnon’s catalogue essay provides a context for approaching the final, grotesque and most enigmatic series of etchings by the great Spanish artist Francisco de Goya. In this series, his social criticism and disgust at the human condition has transcended specific instances, and no-one is spared the artist’s ironic and penetrating gaze. The catalogue includes a Spanish translation of the essay. |
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Dualities: Contemporary works from the Permanent Collection |
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Author: |
Sue Gibson Garvey |
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Date: |
May 2003 |
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$3.00 |
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Brochure with 4 colour and 2 B & W illustrations |
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| The wide-ranging works in many different media in this exhibition are united only by the fact that they represent dualities either in physical fact (they are pairs or twins) or in their obvious dialectical content - or both. The brochure essay by Susan Gibson Garvey outlines some of the interesting issues arising from these dynamic oppositions. |
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Shelley Miller |
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Author: |
Susan Gibson Garvey |
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Date: |
January 2003 |
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$2.00 |
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Bi-fold brochure with 3 B & W illustrations |
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Shelley Miller uses carved aluminum oven pans, and ephemeral materials such as cake-icing to transform architectural spaces. Susan Gibson Garvey traces the influences on and trajectory of this young Montreal-based artist's career so far. |
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Hungry Eyes |
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Author: |
Monica Tap |
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Date: |
October 2002 |
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SOLD OUT |
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40-page catalogue with 9 colour and one B & W illustrations |
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Monica Tap discusses work by eight early- to mid-career abstract painters from Canada and the US (Jordan Broadworth, Paul Campbell, Steven Charles, Jane Fine, Elizabeth McIntosh, Julie Sass, David Urban and Dan Walsh) highlighting important differencesbetween recent abstractionsts and their almost mythic precursors. Tap's essay includes a cogent summary of the history of Western abstraction. |
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An Invested Nature |
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Author: |
Ian McKinnon |
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Date: |
May 2002 |
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$2.00 |
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brochure, 6 colour and 2 B & W illustrations |
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Ian McKinnon discusses recent acquisitions of photographic works by Canadian artists Marlene Creates, Lorraine Gilbert and Susan McEachern that present different views of actions in the land. |
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Some Canadian Landscapes/ |
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Author: |
Lorraine Field |
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Date: |
May 2002 |
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$3.00 |
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6 pages with fold out centre, 10 colour & 4 B & W illustrations |
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Lorraine Field comments on her multi-panel photographic installations that combine images of kitschy memorabilia from emblematic tourist sites (such as Peggy's Cove and Niagara Falls) with "unspoilt" views of these sites in the "off" season. |
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Donald Lawrence: |
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Authors: |
Katy McCormick (essay), Susan Gibson Garvey, Corinne Corry, Karen Ruet and Donald Lawrence (discussion) |
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Date: |
May 2002 |
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$10.00 |
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46 pages with essay, five-person Q & A, 8 colour and 26 B & W images. |
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This publication has been produced collaboratively between the host galleries of this exhibition: Gallery 44, Gallery Connexion, Dalhousie Art Gallery, and the Richmond Art Gallery. Katy McCormick's essay relates Lawrence's works to 19th-century adventurers and the fiction of Jules Verne in the context of contemporary photography. The artist and three discuss the project in a 4-way conversation. |
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A is for Apple |
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Author: |
Gary Kibbins |
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Date: |
March 2002 |
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$6.00 |
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16-page publication, with fold-out histogram and CD-ROM. |
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Halifax-based new media artist David Clark presents his labyrinthine digital piece “A is for Apple” as an interactive installation, along with a CD-ROM and an internet Flash site of the same piece. Gary Kibbins likens this work to collage in an informative essay. |
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The World in the Evening |
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Author: |
Susan Gibson Garvey, Sara Hartland-Rowe and Mitchell Wiebe |
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Date: |
March 2002 |
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$10.00 |
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40-page catalogue with 14 colour illustrations, B & W drawings and fold-out colour poster of Hartland-Rowe's wall painting |
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Sara Hartland-Rowe makes paintings based on Renaissance fresco techniques and subjects, up-dated to a present-day sense of Apocalypse; Mitch Wiebe's huge, expressionistic, witty canvases follow the misadventures of stuffed animals. The catalogue includes a 3-way conversation concerning the challenges of making narrative paintings today. |
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