The busy video installation artist, who lives and creates in Lethbridge, AB, beams his Scenes from a Dream House into the AGNS for nearly three months after a run at the National Gallery of Canada (in between trips to the Yukon and the Olympics). Hoffos’ “multi-year, multi-phase” project consists of five dioramas of everyday spaces, […]
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Manuela lalic’s meeting accessort is “a metaphor for a collective movement”
The French artist Manuela Lalic uses found objects from her daily life to create installations and structures—apparatuses—that comment on modern society’s production and consumption excesses. For her Eyelevel exhibition—“a metaphor for a collective moment,” she writes from New York, where she’s been “adapting my work with the garbage that I find on the street” in […]
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IRiSs Labs #7: Mined machine dreams
When laboratory artist Chris Spencer-Lowe explains the experiment he and fellow artists will be conducting Saturday at the North Street Church, you’re not sure whether the night will erupt in photo-epileptic seizures or a dance revolution. “We take the disparate elements, the film which we usually shoot ourselves and process ourselves, and the sound elements […]
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NSCAD gets fired up
Get your prize at NSCAD’s finish line by checking out the university’s ceramics department’s exhibition and sale next week. Publicity coordinator and exhibitor Steven Peters says it’s a chance for the public to buy ceramics in the sale section of the Port Campus’ third floor, and walk through the more gallery-like exhibition that will accompany […]
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Isolation
Looking at artist Jessica Korderas’ artwork titled Isolated Thoughts fulfills that need to be a nosy neighbour. The four-storey brick apartment building stands unassuming from its outside windows, with the art of people and spaces painted on a thin, polyester film, then layered in acrylic resin, giving it a 3D and glassy appearance. If you […]
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Dyan Marie and Bill Marshall: Disrupted Pictures
Looking at Dyan Marie’s photographs and Bill Marshall’s oil-painted landscapes (Detail of “Navigating Complex Systems—091,” above) separately would make you question what, if anything, they have in common—Marie’s still-life shots of urban Toronto life, altered in Photoshop to create streaks of elongated colour, seem more than a province away from Marshall’s almost artificially coloured landscape […]
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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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Those left behind
Scott Chisholm knows better than most how difficult it is to speak openly about suicide. “It’s such a difficult word to say, let alone a subject to talk about,” he says. Nearly 30 years after his own father’s suicide, Chisholm’s voice still drops to a hushed whisper whenever the word lands in one of his […]
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The Centre for Art Tapes: Animation with Love!
The Centre for Art Tapes’ animation program brings you Animation with Love! this week—a screening of short animated media from across the country. Curator and filmmaker Siloen Daley says she chose the theme of heartfelt art—and the name—as a way to spread beauty and positivity through the filmmakers’ works. “We looked for heartfelt films, films […]
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Get signed by Cameron Stewart
Award-winning Canadian comic artist Cameron Stewart is visiting Halifax for the first time this weekend, signing comics and saying hello. Fresh from illustrating a story arc for DC Comics’ Batman and Robin, Stewart writes from Paris about the newly finished project. “Working on Batman and Robin was a joy—I’ve been a fan of the writer, […]
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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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Yassine Ouhilal goes north
When sought-after surf and travel photographer Yassine Ouhilal describes the Arctic over the phone, he’s present in the memory. “Twenty-four hours of daylight in those areas—if you’re a photographer, it’s like a never-ending sunset, the light’s amazing,” he details with what sounds like a smile, even if he has to travel on a four-wheel-drive through […]
