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 […]
Gallery Page & Strange
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There’s something strangely intimate about the sketchbooks at Gallery Page and Strange. In some cases, like with Karen Kulyk’s packed hard covers, you become privy to the view from her window on travels from Stockholm to Toronto or the differing styles she experiments with, like detailed street scenes that give way to the more graphic […]
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The AGNS keeps earning the love of Coast readers with thoughtful and provocative exhibitions, such as the current collection of work by Montreal-born, Nova Scotia-based abstract painter, Jacques Hurtubise, or the thematic media in the show Framed, which is a collection of never-before exhibited pieces from the gallery’s contemporary storehouse going back to 1972, all […]
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Gerald Ferguson’s landscapes
When Victoria Page talks about this last exhibition for long-time friend and late artist Gerald Ferguson, her excitement, while laced with sadness, is easily contagious over the phone line. “It’s unique because of the fact that he used a brush, which is very unusual,” she says. The retired NSCAD prof and internationally influential conceptual artist […]
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Taking back its crown, the big boy on Hollis Street is at the top of Coast readers’ minds again. Top of our mind is the Jean-Pierre Gauthier show opening December 20. The Sobey Art Award-winner is bringing his *Machines At Play* kinetic sculptural work to the AGNS, an installation that takes cables, wires and electrical […]
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Hot Summer Guide: Visual arts events
Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here Through August 23 Guelph-based artist Will Gorlitz begins a painting by looking for the telling detail. “When determining the actual subjects I wish to paint, a crucial consideration is that the subjects present some acutely visual feature,” he explains in an email. “Commonly, this involves the tactile materiality of […]