Mollie Cronin
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Visual art review: The Light Fantastic
The Light Fantastic To September 16 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street If you witnessed any of the events from the fall’s RESPONSIVE: International Light Art Project (or have seen the final season of Sex and the City) the term Light Art might be familiar to you. If not, it is as simple […]
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Visual art review: Danika Vandersteen, Works
This month Eyelevel christens its new gallery space with a member’s show by Danika Vandersteen. Shifting from landscape paintings to cartoons, from the decorative arts to quirky assemblages, Vandersteen’s paintings, sculptures and buttery leather goods show an eye for detail and a goofy sense of luxury. In her paintings lanky, cartoonish figures with oblong googly […]
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Maria Hupfield’s balancing act
Maria Hupfield: The One Who Keeps on Giving Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery 166 Bedford Highway To May 13 Dressed all in black, four artists slip into orange work vests in headlamps before their faces are painted with neon makeup: Lines of hot pink across foreheads, small purple triangles on cheeks and electric yellow […]
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Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke’s epic feminist poem
Shary Boyle & Emily Vey Duke, The Illuminations Project To April 29 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1723 Hollis Street “Meet Bloodie,” reads the promotional material for the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s latest exhibition. A naked, dirt-encrusted girl stands in murky darkness as colours burst from her body: Rainbows stream from her arms and […]
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Eyelevel Gallery’s steady outlook
The last few years have seen some serious redesigns for Halifax’s artist-run centres. Around the same time that the Khyber was pushed out of its home on Barrington Street, Eyelevel Gallery—one of Canada’s oldest artist-run centres—also moved out of its space downtown, due to high rent costs. The Eyelevel board and then-director Katie Belcher took […]
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Review: Melanie Authier, Contrarieties and Counterpoints
Melanie Authier, Contrarieties and Counterpoints To March 4 MSVU Art Gallery 166 Bedford Highway When you think about “drama” in relation to abstract painting, what may first come to mind is controversy. The art form has had its fair share: More than 60 years since painting first concerned itself with abstract formalism (line, colour and […]
