Exhibitions and Events
The Active Line: A Brief History of Film Animation
Motion picture animation has a long and distinguished history, sadly overshadowed by second-rate, mass-produced children’s cartoon entertainment. This 8-week survey of feature films and selected shorts attempts to place animation in its proper context in the history of the cinema. In additon, there will be three special presentations: an illustrated lecture on animation, a screening of local animators’ works and an introduction to the commercial animation industry in the Maritimes.
Just My Imagination
Organized by Museum London and the MMB Collective, and curated by David Merritt and Kim Moodie, Just My Imagination presents recent work in the expanded field of contemporary drawing in Canada. Few of the fourteen participating artists restrict themselves to drawing’s traditional means. In a world where psychic, social and material processes are intimately entwined, their practices extend into textile, sculpture, digital and mixed media, or provocatively cross disciplines to produce new visual compounds.
Dan Petrie Retrospective
The Nova Scotian-born Hollywood-based film director, producer, editor and script writer Daniel Petrie Senior was one of the most respected Canadian motion picture artists. A contemporary of giants such as Arthur Penn, Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman, his work has rarely been considered in the same context despite the many awards he won over nearly 50 years of filmmaking.
States of Being: Works by contemporary Canadian women selected from the permanent collection
By their titles, their imagery or their physical presentation, these works suggest a variety of emotional or metaphysical states of being.
About 1789: Etchings by Tony Scherman
Quirky, iconic images of shoes, flowers, animals, severed heads and slices of pie embody the artist’s personal interpretation of violent historical periods, such as the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France. This group of twelve etchings by contemporary Toronto-based artist Tony Scherman demonstrate his skillful use of intaglio processes. It has been researched and selected from the Gallery’s permanent collection by Eliza Chandler.
Susan Feindel: Scan
Through paintings, videos, bookworks and mixed-media installations, Nova Scotian artist Susan Feindel continues her investigations into remote sensing in marine and medical environments.
Portrait of the Artist
1 June: Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Chuck Workman, USA, 1991, 87 minutes. Hands down the best and most entertaining documentary on the great American Pop artist, this film collects testimonials from Warhol’s oddball relatives, his associates in the Factory demimonde, and even a Campbell’s Soup spokesman, in an attempt to unravel the mystery behind Warhol’s sphinx-like visage.
8 June: Basquiat
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists
Curator Matthew Higgs brings together an international cast of artists (including Roy Arden, AA Bronson, Heather Cantrell, Chuck Close, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Richard Prince) who have made portraits of other artists (such as Louise Bourgeois, David Hockney, Mary Kelly, Felix Partz, Dieter Roth, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol and many more) in a variety of media, offering the viewer an intimate look inside a usually private and privileged milieu.
Art at Home and All That Jazz
Our popular annual fund-raiser returns on Sunday, 10 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!

Alex Livingston: Paintings 1985-2005
Opening: Thursday, 10 March at 8 pm