Exhibitions and Events
Betty Goodwin: Darkness and Memory
OPENING RECEPTION Thursday 13 January at 8 pm A constant presence on the Montréal art scene since the late 1960s, Betty Goodwin (Montréal, 1923-2008) is recognized as one of the leading figures of contemporary Canadian art. In 2003 the Dalhousie Art Gallery presented The Prints of Betty Goodwin, organized by the National Gallery of Canada, which featured a rich selection of iconic prints by the artist.
David Diviney: Head for the Hills
OPENING RECEPTION Sunday 24 October at 2 pm ARTIST'S GUIDED TOUR Thursday 25 November at 8 pm
2010 RBC Painting Competition
Established in 1999, the RBC Canadian Painting Competition, with the support of the Canadian Art Foundation, is a unique initiative to help nurture and support promising new artists in the early stages of their careers, at a time when they need both recognition and financial support. The competition provides the artists with a forum to display their artistic talent to the country and hopefully open doors to future opportunities. Montréal-based artist Alexis Lavoie was recently selected as the national winner for his work Restants and was awarded $25,000.
Giving Notice: Words on Walls
CATALOGUE LAUNCH: Thursday 23 September at 8 pm Giving Notice: Words on Walls presents projects by artists who, with hand-painted letters or custom-cut vinyl, apply font-based words, phrases and sentences directly onto gallery walls; in effect, these artists borrow the walls as public tablets to write on. The texts – in some installations filling entire walls – play with the ‘authority’ of the gallery and the written word while exploring the relationship between visual art and language.
Peter Coffman: Anglicana Tales: Stories of the Nova Scotian Church, Shown and Told
Halifax will host the 39th Session of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada from 3 – 11 June. Central to the activities will be the commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the first Anglican service in mainland Canada at Annapolis Royal in 1710. Peter Coffman, a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Dalhousie University, is an architectural historian specializing in English medieval and Canadian Gothic Revival architecture.
