Yo, check your pagan calendars. We are halfway between the winter solstice and equinox and if you don’t care about charging your crystals in the Imbolc moonlight then here’s the deal: It means more daylight, more daylight means the days stretch longer. Add in a couple of art-focused outings in that extra time and improve […]
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New Art 2017: Jade Byard Peek’s increased visibility
We are the Griots Opening Monday, February 13, 5:30pm To February 18 Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street Jade Byard Peek can meet an hour after the interview request. She’s running on a tight schedule but that afternoon she has a rare hour to talk, maybe the only one she’ll have that week. In addition […]
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New Art 2017: Steven Zuo goes into the abstract
Surfaces and Subtleties Vicky Gallagher, Shelby Johnson and Steven Zuo Opening February 27 at 5:30pm To March 4 Anna Leonowens Gallery Tiandongding Zuo (you can call him Steven) doesn’t always know what art should be, but he knows what it isn’t. It’s not the rigourous, literal recreation of things—like painting bowls of fruit or posing […]
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OBEY Convention goes off
James Hoff w/D/A A/D, Nylon Tarps Saturday, January 14, 10pm Garrison Brewery, 1149 Marginal Road $15 suggested donation The Air You Breathe is Metallic To January 21 Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street Brooklyn artist and musician James Hoff is a disruptor. Case in point: His album Blaster features beats infected by the Blaster virus […]
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Meryl McMaster turns inside out
Meryl McMaster: Collected Journeys June 28-July 9 Artist presentation: Tuesday, June 28, noon Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street free Meryl McMaster’s portraits feel kinetic and layered. With light and sculpture, the Ontario-based artist brings new dimension to an often stoic art form, and questions the role of photography and depictions of the self. “There was […]
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How to spend your summer in the galleries
OUT OF TOWN To June 24 YORODEO, New Findings If the air-conditioned glory of the cinema isn’t cutting it, head to CBU’s gallery for some static 3D images from Coast illustrator Paul Hammond and design partner Seth Smith. Showing their ongoing body of 3D screenprints, the works in the exhibition draw from sci-fi, fantasy and […]
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Annotated Photo: NSCAD’S Art District
With this week’s relocation of the Atlantic Film Festival office, NSCAD’s “art district” vision is complete. Here are some of the key tenants that should help turn the arts university’s Fountain campus into a renewed downtown arts and culture destination—at least until NSCAD decamps to a new “integral campus” sometime in 2019. 1. Art Bar […]
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The power of transformation
Next week, NSCAD’s Queer Collective and its Feminist Collective team up for the annual group show, Art in Drag, at Anna Leonowens Gallery. Curated by Emily Lawrence and Ryan Josey, with the work of 11 artists, the show is an exploration of transformation. Here we take a detailed look at what’s going into one piece, […]
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Tour NSCAD’s refurbished Anna Leonowens Gallery
The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design’s bustling gallery recently reopened after nearly two months of safety and space renovations, just in time for the first alumni exhibition in recent memory. Director Melanie Colosimo walks us through the gallery’s updates, and promises an exciting year of art exhibitions. 1. Melanie Colosimo, visual artist and […]
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Wallace Brannen 1952-2014
A baseball caught in a glove, a bat in mid-swing, a mustard-drizzled hot dog, cheeks smeared with black greasepaint: for artist Wallie Brannen, there was a time when his sons’ little league baseball diamond became his studio. The resulting photographic banners are some of the works currently on display at the Anna Leonowens gallery in […]
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New Art: Peter van Gurp
Wandering into Peter Van Gurp’s recent exhibition at Anna Leonowens Gallery you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d mistakenly walked into a room under construction. A pallet, cardboard boxes, a road work sign, an orange barrier, a length of chain, cinderblocks—Van Gurp’s pieces are so unremarkable in their everyday familiarity that you may not notice […]
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New Art: Brandon Brookbank
Brandon Brookbank’s photographs capture places normally packed with life and action, in a state of abandon. These are still friendly places—rec centres, public pools, cardio theatres—but without folks to enjoy them, the photographs have a tree falling in the woods vibe. In his newest work, in an exhibition titled Pools and other nouns, Brookbank made […]
