Exhibitions and Events
Media Souvenir: Travel & Tourism in Contemporary Art Video
Media Souvenir is a video exhibition that relates to questions of travel and tourism in a time when numerous people are on the move due to immigration, education, freedom from war and poverty and visits to other distinct cultures. This exhibition, sponsored by the Centre For Art Tapes, was created from a national call to distributors and individuals, resulting in a program that encompasses all of these questions. Personal journeys predominate as children of immigrants return to their parents’ culture in an attempt to come to terms with a past that challenges their expectations.
Ursula Johnson: The Urban Aboriginal Guide to Halifax, NS
When looking through the catalogue for Defiant Beauty: William Hind in the Labrador Peninsula, Ursula Johnson, a Mi'kmaq artist from Eskasoni in Cape Breton, was fascinated with the depictions of the Innu guides on the Hind expedition. She empathized with them as path-finding guides who helped the Europeans to ‘discover’ the Innu’s ancestral land for their own colonizing purposes.
Defiant Beauty: William Hind in the Labrador Peninsula
In the summer of 1861, Canadian artist William Hind (1833-1889) accompanied his brother Henry on his first exploration of the interior of the Labrador Peninsula, a vast, defiant landscape of breathtaking beauty. Few Europeans had traveled into this inaccessible and near mythical land which, after more than ten thousand years, still remains the familiar home of many First Nation’s peoples.
Marlene MacCallum: The Architectural Uncanny
Opening Reception Thursday 10 January at 8 pm Remarks by Mark Bovey, Assistant Professor of Printmaking, NSCAD University Organized and circulated by the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland This exhibition consists of three series of photogravure prints, eight book works and one photographic body of work. Underlying all of the projects is MacCallum’s interest in the uncanny potential of domestic spaces.
Close to You: contemporary textiles, intimacy and popular culture
Guest curated by Sarah Quinton (Senior Curator at the Textile Museum of Canada), this exhibition examines the use of idioms and images from popular culture in the work of contemporary textile artists from Canada and the US. Participating artists Ai Kijima, Scott Kildall, Allyson Mitchell, Mark Newport and Michèle Provost explore popular myth, comic book heroics and contemporary social and sexual mores through their material practices of knitting, appliqué, embroidery and crochet.
The Shock of the New
Art Critic and author Robert Hughes’s brillliant series The Shock Of The New is often considered the official sequel to the landmark BBC art history series Civilization, starting where Civilization left off, with the rise of Modernism in art.
