Martha Wilson, I make up the image of my perfection/I make up the image of my deformity, 1974

Martha Wilson: Staging the Self

Opening Reception Thursday 19 March at 8 pm Guided Tour with Artist Saturday 21 March at 2 pm Martha Wilson is an American feminist artist and gallery director who began her career in the early 1970s in Halifax while studying English Literature at Dalhousie University and teaching English at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Working in a male-dominated Conceptualist milieu at that time, Wilson generated pioneering photographic and video work that explored her female subjectivity through role playing, costume transformations and invasions of male and other female personas.

Art: 21 Art in the Twenty-First Century

Now in its fifth season, the groundbreaking PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century provides a behind the scenes view of a diverse range of contemporary artists. Viewers observe intimate footage of artists at work in their homes, studios and communities and speaking in their own words about their practice.

The featured artists, including painters, photographers, sculptors, performance and video artists, represent the breadth of current artistic practice and demonstrate the relevance of contemporary art to everyday life. 

Season 2

John Everett, S.S. Sardinian (Allan Line), 1918

Razzle Dazzle: The Uses of Abstraction

Opening Reception Thursday 22 January at 8 pm As an Official Canadian War Artist working in Halifax during World War One, it was Arthur Lismer’s job to document the naval activity in and around the busy wartime harbour. But as is evidenced in numerous sketches, drawings, and paintings, his aesthetic attentions were especially drawn toward the intensely abstract blocks and swirls of patterns and colour that clad many warships and converted ocean liners moving tens of thousands of troops overseas.

How Real Was Neorealism... And Just How Far Was its Reach?

Join film curator Ron Foley Macdonald for an illustrated presentation on Italian Neorealism, its precursors, practitioners and policy, and its long and still-lingering influence in both Hollywood and Canada, and around the world.