Exhibitions and Events
Bryan Maycock: (de)composed
Opening Reception Friday 18 August at 5:30 pm
Back/Flash
Back/Flash is an examination of aboriginal media art ranging from early video production to ground-breaking video installation, virtual reality, net art, and digital works.
Art at Home and All That Jazz
Our popular annual fund-raiser returns on Sunday, 9 April, from 1:30 pm to 6 pm. Enjoy fine art, architecture and craft in four notable private houses in Halifax, followed by a live jazz performance in the Gallery, accompanied by delicious refreshments. Only 200 tickets are sold for this event. Mark the date in your calendar now!
I am a music video
Opening Reception Thursday, 9 March at 8pm
Curator Becka Barker explores the ways in which three contemporary artists, Skawennati Tricia Fragnito, Meesoo Lee and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, subvert the music video genre. Self-consciously exploiting the trappings and stylistic patterns of music videos, these artists address ideas of authorship, identity, artistic collaboration across disciplines, and consumer culture. Organized by the Centre for Art Tapes in collaboration with Dalhousie Art Gallery and funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Out of Africa
7 February Xala (Impotence)
Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 1974, 123 minutes. In this trenchant social comedy, Sembene follows the story of a corrupt businessman who marries for a third time expressly to improve his standing in the community. After a disastrous wedding night, he undergoes a series of embarrassing folk-remedies for impotence which continuously decreases his social position. Barely concealed by the film’s humour are the political and social drawbacks of neo-colonialism symbolized by the character’s condition.
Northern Lights
These unusual feature films and documentaries have been selected by Ron Foley Macdonald to compliment the exhibition The Idea of North. Nordic, Japanese and Canadian filmmakers present exciting, bizarre and, occasionally, transcendent views of the North — an ever-present backdrop to the often all-too-human action of the narratives.
18 January Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
Nicolas Baier: Scénes de genre [Genre Paintings]
Opening Reception Thursday, 12 January at 8 pm
Opening remarks by Mark Mayer
Director, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
The Idea of North
Opening Reception Thursday, 12 January at 8pm
The 52nd Annual SSFA Exhibition
Opening Reception Thursday, 1 December at 8 pm
Our annual celebration of the creativity of students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie and King's College, in painting, graphic art, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture and crafts.