The patch of river rock tucked under the stairs at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery may never have caught your eye, but it’s one of the first things Bridget Moser mentions when she talks about her upcoming show. “The gallery has this really nice mezzanine setup, and then this river rock, and I thought […]
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HFX Art Gossip’s 2015 picks
Spaces and places Young Offenders Gallery has moved spaces (2130 Gottingen, one floor down) and has some cool projects for winter. BSide Gallery (2180 Gottingen) is really blossoming under the direction of Laura Baker-Roberts, Britt Ward, Emily Lawrence and David Figueroa. Hermes (5682 North) has also come under new leadership, with a group of local […]
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Use your Beautiful Illusions
Melanie Colosimo and Charley Young, Beautiful Illusions Opening reception Saturday, January 17, 2-4pm To March 8 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 166 Bedford Highway The pieces in Melanie Colosimo and Charley Young’s Beautiful Illusions are perfect souvenirs of place and time. Young’s mountains and building facades provide a panorama, Colosimo’s scaffolding and fences both […]
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Radiant music
When you look at painting, what do you feel? Perhaps a bit of music will put you in the mood for some artistic imagination. The fusion of art and music comes together at the Radiance music event at the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery on Saturday, June 28 from 3 to 5pm. Ron Shuebrook’s […]
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Dick Averns was caught in an unfamiliar situation. A group of young Jewish women began a protest in the narrow roads around the Western Wall in Jerusalem. As the Israeli military began to break up the protest, Averns quietly recorded the moment. “I recorded the protest with my SLR camera, which really doesn’t look like […]
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Active culture
There’s something about print. Even with growing technology, artists still flock to the printed form. “We have the instinct to create with one’s hands,” says Ericka Walker, a visual artist and instructor at the Nova Scotia College of Art of Design. With the accessibility of machinery at the Dawson Print Shop, artists mix digital imagery […]
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Kitty pride
The Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery has gotten right down to brass tacks. You and everyone you know likes cat videos. Don’t even attempt to front. Running to November 24 at the MSVU Art Gallery (166 Bedford Highway), the Here Kitty, Kitty Cat Video Festival is a collection of submitted feline-centric videos (either homemade or […]
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Karen Tam trades spaces
Walking into the Khyber building in the fall of 2003, you found offices, a record store, a ceramics studio and a Chinese food restaurant on the second floor. Most of those were legitimate businesses; the restaurant, titled No MSG at Friendship Dinner, was an installation by artist Karen Tam, recreating a typical Chinese-Canadian diner of […]
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The rise of fall arts: visual arts
Nocturne October 17 at various locations, dusk-midnight, free, artgalleryofnovascotia.ca Last year’s inaugural Nocturne festival brought 5,000 people out to local streets and galleries from dusk to midnight. Following up on that success, this year’s after-dark art festival will feature 32 gallery spaces opening their doors and more than 30 artists setting up installations and performances […]
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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 […]
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Jason Fitzpatrick’s skin city
Jason W.F. Fitzpatrick hopes to “stir things up a bit and challenge the way people think” at Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery this Saturday night, by deliberately making himself and others feel uncomfortable. Fitzpatrick talks excitedly of his plans to rig up a “floaty, kind of bouncy stage” out of pink insulation and gyprock, upon […]