A small sampling of some fresh local art brains. FYI: Galleries are a great place to warm up and provide just enough inspiration to coast on until the spring. Click here for the full feature.
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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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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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Review: Mathew Reichertz, Garbage
Garbage To March 8 Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, 5865 Gorsebook Avenue Every piece of art tells a story. Mathew Reichertz’ touring exhibition Garbage is a giant comic book unfolding on the walls of the Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery. The artist cleverly shares his strange, engrossing adventure with his north end Halifax neighbours as […]
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Review: Peter Dykhuis and Angela Glanzmann
Peter Dykhuis, Peripheral Traces (Dark Heart) and Angela Glanzmann, Bodies & Bodies & Bodies To February 1 Hermes, 5682 North Street /p> What would your life look like on a clipboard or in a drawing? Peter Dykhuis explores his life through ephemera in his latest work Peripheral Traces (Dark Heart). His exhibition sits alongside Angela […]
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2014’s top 14 moments in art
picks by Stephanie Johns Friends of the Khyber Though the Khyber’s move was devastating to the centre and the community dependent on it (disclosure: I am a board member), the move also necessitated action. With the creation of Friends of the Khyber—a group including “members of the queer community, artists, activists, business owners, not-for profit […]
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Love the way we bitumen
Fort McMurray artist Lucas Seaward began painting with bitumen after 10 years of traditional visual art. It was a slow shift that marked a deepening of his connection to the natural world, and despite his move to Fort McMurray being a reluctant one, Seaward found the location was a front-row seat to the environmental impact […]
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U sad bro?
Sad X-Mas :(emotionally unavailable holidays) To December 7 Opening Friday December 5, 7:30-9pm BSide Gallery, 2180 Gottingen Street It could be the 4:30pm sunset, it could be the inevitable high expectations, but for many of us, something about the holidays often results in an impromtu crying jag. If you identify with this, you’re not the […]
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Rat pack
Cellar To January 4 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Janice Wright Cheney’s Cellar is not for the squeamish. Exiting the elevator on the fourth floor of the AGNS, the viewer is confronted with two extremely realistic looking Norway rats conferring with each other in the corner. You can almost hear the squeaks. Further inside the […]
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The creepy and awesome work of Michael Lewis
Sculpture and painting is perfectly matched in the Michael Lewis exhibit Recent Work: Canvas and Wood. Lewis, a local woodcarver and painter, combines his two loves so well in this eclectic, mesmerizing exhibition. His previous shows in Halifax had a knack for mixing the two different art forms together and this exhibition is no exception. […]
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D’Arcy Wilson schools you on zoos
Joining previous CFAT artist-in-residence alumni Krista Davis, Will Robinson, Khanhthan Tran, Melanie Colosimo, Eryn Foster, Sym Corrigan and Léola Leblanc is D’Arcy Wilson, a Halifax-based interdisciplinary artist (and big nature fan). From CFAT’s release about the program, here’s a description of what Wilson intends to produce during her residency. Includes: Little known facts about zoos! […]
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Home is where the art is at Young Offenders Gallery
When Laurel Wagner and Jacob Perry first moved into their new condo on Gottingen Street, the large white walls of their kitchen screamed “art gallery” immediately. The couple, who both study at NSCAD, debuted the Young Offenders Gallery almost three weeks ago during Nocturne. “There aren’t many places to show art in this city anymore, and that’s […]