56th Annual SSFA Exhibition

Opening Reception Thursday 10 December at 8 pm Our annual celebration of the creativity of the students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College, in painting, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and crafts.

Steve Higgins, Urban #3, 2007, interior detail photo: Steve Farmer

Steve Higgins: All Things Considered: thoughts about cities and history, war and peace

Over the past 30 years, Steve Higgins, a Halifax resident for the last decade, has worked at the intersection of sculpture, architecture and the urban environment. This exhibition presents four aspects of the artist’s body of work, each highlighting a different mode of enquiry. In his current body of work, titled Urban, the viewer is invited to peer into four table-sized constructions which house miniature models of imagined cities as seen through Higgins’ lens of history and life in the modern age.

Caustic Assets

OPENING RECEPTION: 22 October, 8 PM

This program presents video works, selected from an open call to Canadian artists, that examine the effects on society of the current economic crisis, threatened job security and the continuation of a capitalist ideology that does not guarantee freedom from want and violence. The videos will be screened in the Media Gallery as a looped, continuous program.

Ron Shuebrook, Dark Spring, 2008, acrylic on canvas. 96" x 144"

Black and White with Storylines

Opening Reception Thursday 27 August at 8 pm In the Spring of 2009, the Dalhousie Art Gallery invited Ron Shuebrook, a senior Canadian painter based in Guelph, Ontario, to exhibit an overview of his current work. In concert with this, Shuebrook was asked to suggest the name of a younger artist – for whom he played a mentoring role and with whom he now has a relationship based on mutual peer respect – that he would like to share the exhibition space with.