Mixed-media artist Arjun Lal is deep in thought, their expressive brown eyes surveying the Halifax Common as if the perfect word they’re searching for will be found in the grass. Sitting beneath a squat tree, they are sharing the story of how their art has evolved. “I grew up in the Halifax-Dartmouth area and went […]
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Séamus Gallagher rings the climate crisis alarm with candy-coloured art
When Séamus Gallagher laughs, it’s a bright, jangly sound that brings to mind the eye-searing colour palette present in their photography and performance work. Heavily influenced by drag and internet culture, they’re known for images like a figure drowning in a sea of red and yellow stickers blaring “UH OH”—or the perfectly made-up corpse covered […]
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Visual arts review: group effort at The Craig Gallery
To July 21 The Craig Gallery, 2 Ochterloney Street Group effort, the aptly named exhibition at Dartmouth’s Craig Gallery, features work by eight artists at various stages in their careers. Since 2006, Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s mentorship program has paired emerging and established artists for a 10-month period; the resulting show works to highlight the […]
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Katarina Marinic’s family ties
Katarina Marinic, Oceans of Change To November 3 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 1055 Marginal Road Katarina Marinic is the child of immigrants, the ways many of us who live on this large rock called North America are. The travelling branches of her family tree are more fresh and linear than some, though, stretching […]
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Here We Are Here and the complicated presence of Blackness in Canada
The history of Black lives in Nova Scotia is oft little recorded and little taught in the traditional channels of textbooks and classrooms, but a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is looking to give space to this illustrious history with Black voices front and centre. Here We Are Here: Black Canadian […]
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Vox Lux
First You Dream: Celebrating 75 Years of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust To July 28 MSVU Gallery, 166 Bedford Highway Opening reception Saturday, May 25, 2pm A lthough she’s known for two years, Lux Habrich says sometimes she still can’t believe it. At 27, Habrich is the youngest visual artist to be selected to exhibit […]
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Biological art fare
IOTA bio art series To June 21, various venues, free Stelarc artist talk w/Andrew Pelling Wednesday, May 29, 7pm Paul O’Regan Hall, 5440 Spring Garden Road Full schedule at iotainstitute.com T he genre of bio art—less a genre, perhaps, than a way of life—is not an easy elevator pitch. “It’s a term that resists being […]
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Visual arts review: The Captive Rain Forest
To June 2 ViewPoint Gallery, 1459 Brenton Street I n Oracle, Arizona, there is a rainforest in the desert. Specifically, there is a rainforest in a biosphere in a desert, and it is the largest closed ecosystem to date. On a recent visit to the research facility and tourist attraction known as Biosphere 2, photographer […]
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Visual arts review: Rebecca Hannon, Contemporary Camouflage
To April 28 Mary E. Black Gallery, 1061 Marginal Road The human body is an unavoidable topic in conversations about jewellery. As a wearable art form, considerations have to be made for jewellery to hang correctly from a neck, for clasps to be manageable by hands and rings to sit comfortably on fingers. But for […]
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Visual arts review: Poems for Impending Doom
Poems for Impending Doom Art Bar, 1873 Granville Street March 29, 7pm cfat.ca/poemsforimpendingdoom “The world is pretty fucked up right now—let’s write some poems about how we would do it if we could do it all again,” reads the opening statement for Poems for Impending Doom, launching March 29 at Art Bar. In this spirit, […]
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Yes she can: inside the process of a beer can designer
Amy Corbett’s been drinking North Brewing’s beer since it was called Bridge Brewing. A graphic designer, web developer, art educator and abstract painter with 20 years of creating under her belt, she’d hustle to the Alderney Landing farmers’ market to grab her swing-top bottles every Saturday. Her official collaboration with the brand started later when—in […]