Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

Exhibition

AbEx to PoMo (by way of Nova Scotia)

8 August – 5 October, 2003

In 1953, the year that the Dalhousie Art Gallery was officially named, Abstract Expressionism was in full swing throughout North America. 50 years later, despite perennial announcements of its demise, painting has demonstrated the capacity to reinvent itself again and again, and remains a force to be reckoned with in the protean world of Post-Modernism. This exhibition presents paintings, both figurative and abstract, produced by Canadian artists and acquired for the Dalhousie Art Gallery’s permanent collection during the last 50 years.

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Exhibition

Arctic Visions: Inuit Art from the Permenant Collection

8 August – 5 October, 2003

Animal and human spirits frequently intermingle in the Inuit world view, where material appearance can dissolve and change in an instant into the manifestation of a spiritual being. The Gallery’s small but well-focused Inuit art collection of sculptures and prints has been acquired largely through gifts from Dalhousie alumni and friends.

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Matter/Flesh/Spirit/Ground: An overview of the video work of Wendy Geller

8 August – 5 October, 2003

Opening 7 August 8:00 pm

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Francisco Goya y Luicentes The Sleep of Reason produces Monsters Plate 43 from Los Caprichos c1797-1799 Prints Division, New York Public Library
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GOYA: Los Proverbios: Marvels and Monsters

23 May – 6 July, 2003

The great, late-eighteenth-century Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes is famous for his court portraits and his monumental print series The Disasters of War.

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Marlene Creates, A Stone Carried from the Sea to a Summit Lake, Scotland, 1981
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Dualities: Contemporary works from the Permanent Collection

23 May – 6 July, 2003

Opening reception: Thursday, 22 May, 8 pm.

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Walk Ways

21 March – 11 May, 2003

Curator Stuart Horodner wrote that the exhibition Walk Ways "brings together a selection of works by a diverse group of artists who have focused on the theme of walking, a purposeful or meandering activity that unites bodily and mental freedom.

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Michael Fernandes: Performance and Installations

21 March – 11 May, 2003

In conjunction with the exhibition Walk Ways, the familiar but elusive Halifax artist Michael Fernandes presented two small installations, Hannah and Sinatra

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Film

Reel Dance on the Road: Selections from the 11th Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video

13 – 15 February, 2003

Thursday, 13 February - Global Moves

International Showcase featuring short works from the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, the US and the Netherlands.

And Atlantic Shorts TBA

Friday, 14 February - Dance of the Warrior

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Film

Dramatically Black

3 – 24 February, 2003

The Dalhousie Art Gallery honours African Heritage Month with four films that are in fact adaptations of stage-plays written by or about African-Americans and West Africans.

3 February - To Be Young, Gifted And Black

Michael Schultz, USA, 1972, 90 minutes

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Exhibition

The Rise and Fall

24 January – 2 March, 2003

Montreal-based artist Shelley Miller transformed the ceiling of the New Media Gallery using hand-carved aluminum cake pans. Reminiscent of traditional tin ceilings, this installation took on the appearance of an ornate vaulted ceiling more common to a Romanesque cathedral. For the last few years, Miller has been transforming everyday domestic materials (especially culinary items) into elegant and often monumental forms.

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