Exhibitions and Events
The World in the Evening: works by Sara Hartland-Rowe and Mitchell Wiebe
While Halifax-based painters Sara Hartland-Rowe and Mitchell Wiebe have pursued distinctly different practices, they both work in narrative-figurative modes that draw upon historical painting traditions. Both have developed casts of characters that turn up in their works in different guises and in varied scenarios. Hartland-Rowe reconstitutes fragments of early renaissance frescos as 21st-century stories of "everypersons" set within a post-industrial landscape of commerce, conflict and pollution — and, occasionally, of beauty and redemption.
David Clark: A is for Apple
Halifax-based film and media artist David Clark presented a new interactive digital installation, A is for Apple, that explored a "hermeneutics or cryptography of the apple", and created a labyrinthine network of images, anecdotes, associations and meanings (with surround sound). The work was simultaneously accessible in the New Media Gallery, and on the world wide web as an online interactive project, as well as in CD-ROM form as a part of the exhibition catalogue.
semble: Works by Lyn Carter, Ginette Legaré and Jeannie Thib
Ontario-based artists Lyn Carter, Ginette Legaré and Jeannie Thib create uncanny, witty and provocative objects. Each artist is in mid-career and has a significant practice, but only one has previously exhibited her work in the Atlantic region of Canada. The works in semble were constructed out of materials such as fabric, paper, neoprene, stainless steel, and latex rubber, and seemed to have their origins in spaces such as the kitchen, the laboratory and the archive.
No Man's Land: the Photographs of Lynne Cohen
For almost three decades, internationally renowned, award-winning photographer Lynne Cohen has been hunting down and photographing "found" interiors of astonishing variety, presenting us with a funny, perplexing and ultimately chilling vision of the world - a humanly engineered environment "where the boundaries between inside and outside, nature and culture, pleasure and pain, have been blurred, stripped of their original connotations.
