Timeline Exhibitions and Events

Exhibitions and Events

Exhibition

The 45th Annual Student, Staff, Faculty and Alumni Exhibition

4 – 20 December, 1998

Our annual celebration of the creativity of students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie, Daltech, and King’s College, in painting, graphic art, photography, mixed media, sculpture and crafts. We welcome your artwork for this exhibition, which makes no distinction between amateurs and professionals. Entries will be accepted during Gallery hours, from 14 November to 29 November. Pick up your entry from after mid-October at the Gallery’s front desk.

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Nancy Edell: Bricàbra

16 October – 29 November, 1998

These recent multi-panelled works Nova Scotia-based artist Nancy Edell are her most ambitious and complex to date, combining hooked mats, carved and incised wood panels, intricately painted and stained surfaces, and various cut out forms. They support a cast of mutating figures in visual dramas that are at once humorous, erotic and enigmatic. Women and girls are the main protagonists in these fragmented, dreamlike narratives, interacting with a bizarre range of characters: human, animal, and insect.

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love affair: the book of joan

16 October – 29 November, 1998

These paintings, poems and photographs by Jim Logan (a First Nations artist now living in Nova Scotia) deal with what he describes as a “Native love affair”. Curator Heather Smith (who organized this exhibition for the Moose Jaw Art Museum) comments “The work transcends a simple critique of the genre of Native ‘romance’ in pulp fiction…this is a human story, made rich with indecision and complicated by circumstance.” Logan’s paintings of Joan have a directness that resembles the simplified forms of posters.

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The Bachelor Stripped Bare: The male nude in prints and drawings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century.

28 August – 11 October, 1998

The image of the male nude has dominated western art from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. The privileged role of the iconic, classical nude, an ideal of power and beauty, was affirmed in the all-male life classes of the European Academies of art. This selection of over 70 prints and drawings from the permanent collection of the National Gallery includes images by artists of historic importance such as Alberti, Delacroix, Dürer, Gandolfi, Golzius, Raimondi and Rembrandt, as well as examples of the more modern school by Cézanne, Chagall, Hockney and Schiele, to name a few.

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A Gentler Time: English and Canadian watercolour landscapes and other works on paper from the Dorthy Ward Bequest

22 May – 12 July, 1998

This exhibition of over 70 watercolour landscapes and prints selected from the Ward Bequest (part of the gallery’s permanent collection) provides a unique window on the relationship between the English and Nova Scotian art scenes in the late 19th century and in the early decades of this century. Its slightly ironic title refers to the fact that the works reflect no hint of the darker aspects of the period – as if the golden scenes of haymaking or of tan-sailed luggers drifting off the coast would continue unchanged forever.

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Wayne Boucher, Middling, 1995
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Landscape in Question: Contemporary works selected from recent acquisitions to the Permanent Collection

22 May – 12 July, 1998

Selected from recent Permanent Collection acquisitions, these contemporary works by Nova Scotian artists provide a quizzical perspective on the conventions of landscape painting. Gerald Ferguson’s lushly painted views of Nova Scotia are, in fact derived from tourist postcards and turn out to have been painted by another artist altogether, who followed Ferguson’s minimal instructions. Susan McEachern’s intricate mixed-media panels present a narrative of maps, text and photographs layered into rough-hewn wood and plexiglass frames.

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Theatrum Mundi: The 1997 Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition

5 March – 19 April, 1998

Paintings, prints, sculpture, bookworks, video and mixed-media installations by twenty-five contemporary artists from all four Atlantic Provinces were selected for this biennial touring exhibition. Curator Susan Gibson Garvey uses the metaphor of a sixteenth-century “cabinet of wonder” to present a thought-provoking perspective on regional art production. Organized and circulated by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, this exhibition is funded by the McCain Family in memory of the late Marion McCain.

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In Passing/ En passant

9 January – 22 February, 1998

This exhibition brings together works that deal with ephemeral aspects of existence in a poetic, non-didactic manner. In contrast to the more analytical approach often taken when presenting contemporary art, the motive behind this show is to suggest feelings, memories and visions that gather around the notion of temporality, and encourage a contemplative response.

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Herzl Kashetsky: A Prayer for the Dead

9 January – 22 February, 1998

For more than 20 years, Saint John artist Herzl Kashetsky has been working on this series of paintings and drawings which represent a personal attempt to come to terms with the events and meaning of the Holocaust.

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Exhibition

The 44th Annual Student, Staff, Faculty and Alumni Exhibition and works from the Faculty of Architecture

28 November – 21 December, 1997

Our annual celebration of the Dalhousie community's creativity, in painting, graphic art, photography, mixed media, sculpture, and crafts, makes no distinction between amateurs and professionals. The exhibition is open to students, staff, faculty and alumni of Dalhousie, Daltech, and of the University of King's College. Entries of work (ready to install, please) will be accepted during Gallery hours, from 4 November to 21 November. Entry forms will be available at the Gallery's front desk by mid-October. 

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