Exhibitions and Events

Film

The Active Line: A Brief History of Film Animation

19 October – 14 December, 2005

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.

Exhibition

Just My Imagination

14 October – 23 November, 2005

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.

Film

Dan Petrie Retrospective

15 – 24 September, 2005

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.

Susan G. Scott, As For Me, I Still Have You Here, 1994
Exhibition

States of Being: Works by contemporary Canadian women selected from the permanent collection

19 August – 2 October, 2005

By their titles, their imagery or their physical presentation, these works suggest a variety of emotional or metaphysical states of being.

Exhibition

About 1789: Etchings by Tony Scherman

19 August – 2 October, 2005

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.

Marine Landscape, 1999-2000 [catalogue 1]
Exhibition

Susan Feindel: Scan

19 August – 2 October, 2005

Through paintings, videos, bookworks and mixed-media installations, Nova Scotian artist Susan Feindel continues her investigations into remote sensing in marine and medical environments.

Film

Portrait of the Artist

1 – 29 June, 2005

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

Exhibition

Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists

29 May – 31 July, 2005

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. 

Event

Art at Home and All That Jazz

10 April, 2005

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, Water and Land Paintings (Series 2) 2001-2 Acrylic on canvas 18 parts, 20.3x25.4 each
Exhibition

Alex Livingston: Paintings 1985-2005

11 March – 15 May, 2005

Opening: Thursday, 10 March at 8 pm



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