Exhibitions and Events
Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists
Curator's Talk with Steven Loft Saturday 22 October at 7 pm Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada Curated by Andrea Kunard and Steven Loft This exhibition brings together profoundly symbolic works by some of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous artists and sends a powerful message about the evolution of Aboriginal self-determination in Canada.
Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words
ARTIST’S PRESENTATION Thursday 22 September at 8 PM This survey exhibition traces four decades of art-making by London, Ontario artist Jamelie Hassan and presents a body of work that intertwines her enduring interests in text, language, memory, personal history, and identity. Her pioneering practice steadfastly asserts that artists have a responsibility to address the critical issues of our time, while her geographical location in the ‘regions’ of Southwestern Ontario grounds her practice.
Materials and Space: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions 2007 - 2010
Displayed in two sections, this exhibition presents a selection of contemporary works from the Gallery’s permanent collection that have been acquired since Peter Dykhuis was appointed Director/Curator in August, 2007. The works in the first section share an origin in the practice of process art combined with a post-conceptualist, utilitarian approach to materials. Ten are by Garry Neill Kennedy, former President of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and were donated to the Gallery by the artist in 2010.
Second Impressions
In 2008, the Gallery was very fortunate to receive an extensive collection of re-strike etchings (prints carefully produced from original, historic etching plates), woodcuts, linocuts, lithographs and offset lithographic images, etchings and engravings, and letterpress pages. Donated by a collector who prefers to remain anonymous, this is the first major acquisition for the Gallery’s Print Study Collection – a subset of the Permanent Collection – since its formation in 1926 with a gift from the Carnegie Corporation.
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980 is the first major exhibition to focus on the influence and manifestations of conceptual art in Canada, a movement that can be largely understood through Sol LeWitt’s famous 1967 statement that “the idea becomes a machine that makes the art”.
