Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

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
Exhibition

Dualities: Contemporary works from the Permanent Collection

23 May – 6 July, 2003

Opening reception: Thursday, 22 May, 8 pm.

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Exhibition

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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Exhibition

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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Film

Feature Films Directed by Canadian Women

22 January – 16 April, 2003

In recent decades, feature films directed by Canadian women have taken their place on the world stage. The following selection includes dramas and documentaries from a variety of regions of Canada -- films that are by turns fascinating, funny, frightening, classic, nostalgic, tragic, daring and inspiring -- by women with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. 

22 January - Bye Bye Blues

Anne Wheeler, Alberta/British Columbia, 1989, 116 minutes

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