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The warm up drawings of John Martz
Before I put pen/pencil to paper I tend to do some warm-up, nothing formal just some casual drawing to loosen my creative side up a bit before plunging into whatever I’m doing. John Martz, of robotjohnny.com has taken the warm-up to it’s own end and posts them...
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Robot Musem Page Two
And here's page two. I'm putting up earlier than I meant but I'm pretty excited about it. There is text in the bottom panel, Quentin says: Hi Feebot, have you seen Nora.
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Bic pens as art
A more expected title might have been Bic pens creating art, but here we have Bic pens AS art. You’d be surprised where this simple ballpoint turns up. Take a look at this link for some neat examples.
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Paper, Paper, and Paper.
Three quick links having to do with paper: first, you can download patterns to make working paper locks from the amazing Flying Pig, a site dedicated to animated paper toys.
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Revolving Blog
As a bit of a stop-gap measure I've started a new blog that will act as a temporary portfolio site. I can't really afford a designer right now and I want a nice site but the one I have now is full of older pieces and stuff that probably shouldn't be on there.
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The Interimaginational Institute for Fantastical Exploration and Cartography
This map of Mysteria is the work of etsy seller Alison Whittington. She's also done maps of The United Kingdom of Jubilation (sounds like the name of a funk band or perhaps a charismatic church), Strange Island, Unicornia, the Sea of Laughter, and many more.
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Shake It Baby........
I was painting page two of the Robot Museum late last night and Julie came into my studio on her way to bed. I was painting a panel of Quentin levitating a bunch of robot parts while smoke billows out of the robot. I was listening to Tom Waits album Real Gone ...
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New Painting: Sturm & Drang
This is the second last painting of the exhibit. One left to go!
The exhibit is at the Black Duck Gallery, in Lunenburg NS. July 13th-August 8th. Opening reception, Sunday, July 13th from 2-4pm.
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Celebrating the Nineties with Ghost Rider
Over at the Invincible Super Blog, Chris Sims is having a contest to celebrate the most nineties-looking covers of all time.
Although you basically can't top any cover in the Marvel 2099 universe, I feel that issue #15 in the oh-so-90s Ghost Rider/Blaze Spiri...
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Melty building
I have no idea where this building is located, but I love it. Everyday architecture is usually treated in such a traditional manner, It’s good to see a unique spin things. Must have been a nightmare for to actually build.
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Happy, unhappy and surprised
I’ve got a story in my head that I’m very faintly considering putting to paper in a series of illustrations or something similar. I’ve started drawing locations for backgrounds, and people in various poses and expressions just to sort out who’s who and what th...
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First two Panels, And Colour Notes
These are the first two panels in the Robot Museum graphic novel, unless I rewrite it at some later point. The first page is all done and I'm well into the second. After I'm done page two I have to get back to the Scholastic story, so there will be a long paus...
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Museum Pencil Roughs
I am not going to tell you all about how I inked the first two pages of the Robot Museum on high quality water colour paper only to find I was working on the wrong side and how the paint smeared and bubbled on the paper.
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ba-na-na-na-na-na-na-naaaaaaa!
Um ok…Gallery Page and Strange is living up to it name, well the “strange” anyway, by displaying a new art installation by local artist and NSCAD faculty, Michael Fernandes called “Banana Installation”
According to Mr Fernandes artist statement:
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My Dinosaur Summer
And here's a slightly blurry photo of the other painting I sold. The painting in the last post was for a little girl and this one was for a little boy. this was actually a book cover for Orca books.
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I Need Your Help
I'd like an opinion on which painting I should use to advertise my upcoming exhibit with. I've narrowed it down to five choices. If you could leave a comment, or vote (if I get my polling application to work), that would be awesome.
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Clouds
Sorry for reposting an old picture but I still don't have a scanner and this painting just sold.. I find it so hard to sell originals and I have no idea why. Maybe I paint and tell stories for myself? And have a bit of a shock when I have to let something go.
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This Week's Haul...Is Not Happening.
Alright, so it's pretty clear that I'm not going to get my reviews up this week. I've been all busy, what with school, wedding preparations (less than a month away!) and preparing for my trip to Charlotte this weekend.
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Martian Manhunter Week: Earth Girls Are Easy
Let's see what happens when Detective John Jones, the Manhunter from Mars, faces his greatest challenge yet...the charms of a female!
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Back in the Studio...thank God.
3 days in a row. Open 12 – 5. Even had a few folks drop in. I think one person was a bit weirded out by my red church prayer votive candles and the Gregorian sounds of Mysterium- the brothers of San'Antimo performing a mass.
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Today's Painting
Like my teachers, Fritz Brandtner and Lucy Jarvis, I have always been interested in "social realism" and the plight of the working class. Here's my version, untitled.
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Martian Manhunter Week: Play Ball!
Due to the recent death of a beloved DC character, I hereby declare the next seven days at Living Between Wednesdays to be
MARTIAN MANHUNTER WEEK
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Happy Drawing Day 2008
This is image is my contribution to Drawing Day 2008. It is all in ink. I have not illustrated in ink since art school so it was really nice to try this way of working once again. It was a challenge to show the bird in flight without actually drawing anything ...
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This Week's Haul: Grab Bag Week
Every four to five weeks or so I hit what I call the 'grab bag week.' This was one of those weeks. The big titles this week were, of course Buffy and Dark Tower, but since I don't read those I get an odd selection of sidekicks and minor characters. With a coup...
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New Painting: Breakaway
The paintings are finally starting to pile up! Hope I'm done in three weeks, I'm running out of time. This one has a much-needed looseness and brightness, it was time to lighten things up a bit.
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green tree green lamp
Here's a thing from a series that I've been sort of working my way around for a while...I might still work more on this. We shall see!
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The Dreaded In-Between Time
I once watched a documentary on a Canadian artist who stated that she tried to work on projects that lasted in increments of 5 -10 years so that she didn't' have to face, as often, the depression that usually sets in post project.
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The Peer Gallery of Contemporary Art
I’m not sure that I’ve ever mentioned it here, for it’s a failure that somehow hits very close to home. But years ago, my first web design project was to create A Gathering of Artists, a site to promote the wonderful artists and artisans who live in Atlantic C...
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New Painting: Devil's Paint Brush
This was my favorite wildflower when I was a kid. It looks a lot like a dandelion, only red and orange around the edges, and smaller. Unlike a dandelion, it was a real treasure to find one.
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Back to Work
As I write this I am procrastinating. I can see my studio from where I am sitting but I have thought of a dozen things that need doin' before I go there. First of which is update my blog. The second is update my i-pod with more Andrea Bocelli.
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Comics Are For Everybody!
Hey y'all. There's a new blog for you to check out. This one is written by my pal/bandmate/comic shop co-worker, Tiina Johns. It's over at the Shameless Magazine site (a Canadian feminist blog/magazine) and it's called Comics Are For Everybody. It aims to intr...
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New Painting: Lift
A good painting day! I love this one, and though I've been told over and over that my paintings are gloom and doom, I really feel that the gloom enhances light and colour. An artist only has so much control over how their work is interpreted, but as the artist...
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Robert Frank, Fashion Photographer?
I knew Robert Frank used to work in advertising, he was Walker Evans assistant, and worked for Harper’s Bazaar, but I was completely unaware of his fashion photo output of the late 80’s and mid-90’s
The great photo-book blog site 5B4 has and interesting comme...
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Animafitti?
Check out this for an amazing work of imagination - stop motion animated graffiti - made in Buenos Aires and Baden.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
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Getting Ridiculous
I swear this is the last time. It still wasn't sitting right with me, and now I'm finally happy. Dandelions will most likely resurface in a different painting, but the hues between the yellow and blue just didn't have the kind of chemistry I wanted. What an ep...
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The dreaded invitation.
Do you know that it’s a well documented fact1 that the image you put on the invitation is not only used to peak people's interest in an exhibit, but at a commercial gallery is likely the first painting to sell? It's true!
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Final Project
My professor for modelled forms kicks ass. His name is Scott Price, and he is one of the funniest, sweetest guys I've met in a long time. He opened me up to conceptual art in a way no one's been able to do, so cheers to him for coaxing an appreciation and enth...
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Traffic Box Murals in Halifax
My next mural project will be painting traffic boxes at two intersections in north Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The two locations I will be painting are at Windsor at Kempt Road , and at Joseph Howe at Scot Street . I will take up to a week's time to com...
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Future Retro: Drawings from the Great Age of American Automobiles
An eclectic ensemble of American car styling, from the post World War II generation of automotive designers – Future Retro is a rich collection of illustrations, which ranges from styling exercises to fully rendered prototypes.
This is an exciting peek int...
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AGNS Adds Important Painting By Sam Gilliam
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia has added an important painting by internationally acclaimed artist Sam Gilliam to its permanent collection.
One source suggests that he and Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) are the two most significant African-American artists of ...
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Eyelevel Gallery moving to new Gottingen St. space
Eyelevel Gallery is relocating to a redesigned space just down the street at 2063 Gottingen. The gallery moved to Gottingen from barrington Street three years ago.
For more than 30 years Eyelevel Gallery has fostered research and development of innovative ...
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The North End
The North End is an archive of posters that celebrate the abundance of cultural activity emerging from this small Halifax neighbourhood. Artist Cathy Busby presents them as a floor-to-ceiling installation at Art Metropole, papering the walls with hundreds of s...
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Friends and supporters of the Art/Craft World, artists, clients, collegues...
I write to you briefly and ask for your help, for a friend, and have attached some info about Sandra Winter and the fund raising that needs to happen ASAP! Many of you already know her-some of you might remember her from the past-others may just be reading abo...
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Mathew Reichertz Gets Beaten Up
It’s a funny impulse, really, to want to depict yourself getting beaten up, again and again and again, until you’re a bloody, defeated mess. Unless, of course, you’re Mathew Reichertz.
Because his current body of paintings, called The Fight, does just that...
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'Forgotten' Homes Make Stunning Subjects
When I was a kid, driving with my family through rural Ontario, I was fascinated with old, abandoned houses. Taking a regular route to my grandmother's house, we'd often pass the same old buildings and I'd check it with them, once a season or so, to see how t...
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Gerald Ferguson's 'Frottage' paintings leave an Impression
The current exhibition of Halifax-based artist Gerald Ferguson’s work is more than just an impressive survey of paintings created in the last 12 years. The exhibition, encompassing Ferguson’s ‘Frottage’ paintings (more on this in a sec) and more recent ‘Ash C...
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Argyle Fine Art
Argyle Fine Art represents a unique variety of contemporary art by established and emerging Canadian artists. Selection includes painting, drawing, limited edition prints, fibre, sculpture and photography.
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'After Hours' Student Art at Anna Leonowens Gallery
One of the great things about having a major art school in town is in the artistic influence it wields, even if you aren’t dreaming of being the next conceptual art star or world-renowned painter.
If you’re interested in learning more about art, but can’t...
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22 Artists win big with the Nova Scotia Art Bank
On behalf of artists everywhere (no, I am not an artist, but my sympathies are that way inclined), I’d like to commend and thank the Nova Scotia Art Bank for their recent purchase of 22 works of art by Nova Scotian artists for their collection. This, I think, ...
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Stuffed Angst at Argyle Fine Art
Last night’s opening at Argyle Fine Art was a well-attended affair, as people clambered to see (and buy!) new paintings by Marcel Piet-Hein Kerkhoff (downstairs) and Sara Caracristi (upstairs).
If I could bet money on art, I’d put mine on Marcel Piet-Hein K...
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George Steeves: Photographs
It’s hard to know where to begin in writing about George Steeves whose work is on exhibition at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery until Sunday. He may be, as Halifax critic Sue Carter Flinn wrote on a recent arts blog, the kind of artist you either l...
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The Khyber's Kitchen Party
The Kitchen, the Khyber’s Annual Member’s exhibition, on-now, is a literal smorgasbord of work. From paintings of lentil soup to silk-screened tablecloths and crochet donuts, this is a show that explores food in all its tasty, messy, rotten glory.
The me...
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Making Noise on Hollis Street
Yesterday someone said “you’ve got to see the snare drums on Hollis St.” Snare drums on Hollis street, eh? So I went.
And there they were - three of them in a row - just below NSCAD’s second story windows, above the Christmas Store, the university art suppl...
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Wearable Art Show Dazzles The Senses
Flashing back to last Saturday, 7:30 pm, I was striding through the doors of Hell's Kitchen and it was a mad house everywhere I looked. Dozens of artists from all walks of life were in a mad dash to get the big show ready. The show I'm talking about is only NS...
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Daniel Joyce: Fogging up the Window at Substation
If you happen along Gottingen Street this week, don’t miss the odd collection of circles gracing the window next door to eyelevel gallery.
The window is actually a small gallery of it’s own called Substation — and until March 30, it’s hosting Newmarket, Ont...
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Emerging Artists Impress at Argyle Fine Art
There is all sorts of room here for me to haul out the cliches about 'seeing the artists of tomorrow today' and 'buying 'em now before you can't afford them,' but I'm going to resist using them.
Instead, I'm just going to point out that if you happen to be ...
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Soothing the Frazzled Spirit
Art is amazing stuff: take a blank white wall in an empty room and hang, for example, a fiery red, kinetic painting. The result is that the entire space is invigorated. If, by contrast, you hang a serene, muted painting of, say, a soft, unidentifiable landsc...
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Hartman Impresses at the AGNS
I know, I know—I wrote about John Hartman’s paintings last week. His work, lush, juicy depictions of cities from above, is on-view at Studio 21 Fine Art until the end of the week. But that’s not all.
A substantial touring exhibition of Hartman’s work, cal...
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Halifax Loves Hartman
This town’s got a thing for painter John Hartman.
A significant travelling show of the Ontario-based artist’s work, Cities, is currently on view at the AGNS—I haven’t seen it yet, though, so I don’t have much to write. What I do know is this: the concurr...
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Life in a Bubble at Eyelevel Gallery
It didn’t take long for me to become a serious Karine Giboulo fan.
The current show, Life Bubbles, is essentially a collection of 12 Plexiglas sphere’s hung from the ceiling. Captured within them, are the most compelling little diorama-like scenes, all usi...
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Awkward Curating Trumps Decent Painting at the Khyber
The biggest problem with the current exhibition at the Khyber is not the work - that bit is fine. The problem is in the amateur curating and awkward hanging, and in the fact that I had to ask a gallery attendant in another room to confirm that I was properly ...
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Salads Tossed with Landscapes at Fred
There was a funny moment at Fred Salon today: I’d gone into the stylish hair salon-cum-café/gallery to check out the current exhibition of paintings by Sharon Davis when I spotted a couple of friends eating lush-looking salads and typing away on their laptops....
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Heartbreak and Hilarity in New Video Work by Duke and Battersby
I’ve always liked Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby’s work, though it’s hard to articulate why. Their videos- richly textured, vaguely surreal- have intrigued me ever since I saw the first one at a screening in Toronto a number of years ago. The couple (re...
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Tiny Town: Graeme Patterson's Woodrow
So this isn’t news: Graeme Patterson is an art star. Neither is this: his exhibition, Woodrow, on now at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, is impossible not to like. It’s funny, inventive, and skillfully built, with a hint of genuine wistfulness. A visit to W...
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Cereal Boxes Become Landscapes
An Hour of Landscape Painting: 1-Minute Paintings on Cereal Boxes is the accumulation of a series of robust acrylic paintings on commercially produced cereal boxes - each of which took no longer than one minute of time to accomplish.
"I began to make 1 minu...
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Beautiful Destruction at Dalhousie Art Gallery
Once and awhile, a show will come along that feels important, right deep down in the gut. This is one of those shows. I’ve now been to see it three times, lingering for different lengths each time— but it’s a weighty show, and its content almost demands that i...
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Susan Wood's flowers bloom at Studio 21
I’ve always had a soft spot for really good botanical drawing, which may be why I am attracted to many of Susan Wood’s works. Whether bending gracefully over vase edges or reaching upwards, Wood’s mixed media drawings of flowers, currently being exhibited at ...
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Sugar High
A few notes on Sweet Tooth: The Craving Continues, currently on show at Argyle Fine Art in downtown Halifax.
1. This is a show that oozes cuteness:
From ceramic cupcakes to paintings of gummy worms, every work in this exhibition is sweet food related. ...
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Contemporary Life and Other Anxieties
Peter Dykhuis is a multi-talented, multi-tasking sort of an artist. His prolific practice, squeezed into the spaces between life and work (he’s also the director of the Anna Leonowens Gallery at NSCAD) is dense and rich, textural and delicious.
The exhibi...
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Jeff Friesen's photographs capture Peggy's Cove with a new perspective
Photographer Jeff Friesen moved to Halifax from Winnipeg in 2005. On arrival, he became transfixed by the barren landscape of Peggy’s Cove. His first exhibition since moving to the east coast, inspired by that landscape, is on view at Studio 21 Fine Art.
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Centre For Art Tapes screens scholarship program films
I know, I know… I’m the art person. I’m supposed to write about stuff that happens in galleries, stuff that gets applied to canvas, stuff that people like to dismiss with an “I coulda done that” sneer.
But one thing I haven’t been doing enough of is writ...
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Brendan Fernandes: Wish You Were Here
Though at first viewing it appears simple, Wish You Were Here, an installation by Brendan Fernandes, is anything but.
His work is mostly created out of commercially available materials brought together in interesting combinations – in this case, a troupe ...
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Suzanne Gauthier's 'Fox River Diaries' at the Corridor Gallery
I must confess, I couldn’t find the Corridor Gallery.
I was standing in a grey hallway at 1113 Marginal Rd, a complex housing a number of local arts organizations – and though I knew I had the address right, I couldn’t find the art. My blank stare must h...
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Tiny gallery, Titanic exhibit
The current exhibition on view at Gallery Deluxe Gallery involves Celine Dion, the Titanic, and a lot of white liquid that looks suspiciously like milk, all in an overhead space only two and a half feet high.
Gallery Deluxe Gallery is a miniature gallery s...
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AGNS Remembers Forgotten Female Artists
I was initially turned off by the title: if, as the show suggested, time had forgotten these artists, then surely there would be no point in seeing their work? I must confess that I dragged my feet in going to see the show… and only ended up catching it becau...
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Zwicker's Gallery acquires two paintings by Jean-Paul Riopelle
This is a story to make both gallery owners and casual art collectors salivate. It’s the stuff of fiction and fantasy – the kind of story the people who watch Antiques Roadshow are always hoping to see.
It began with a phone call to Ian Muncaster, directo...
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Pizza Box Art Takes Viewers on a Journey
Pete’s not there, but it’s clear his mom is thrilled to see his work on the walls. “You forget that’s on a pizza box!” she exclaims, gesturing at a bright painting on the wall. Then, almost as if she’s just come around to the idea herself, she says “It’s art...
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New gallery on Gottingen features ceramic work
Burnt.normal, Halifax’s newest gallery (it’s not even a week old yet) is on the main floor of a house – and in many ways, it still feels like a home. That’s because it is.
The gallery’s co-owner/director/curator, Eo Norris, (she runs the gallery with her...
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Zimmerman's imagined spaces at the AGNS
Carl Zimmerman: Landmarks of Industrial Britain
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
On display until Sunday, January 14, 2007
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a big public gallery exhibition as engaging as Carl Zimmerman’s Landmarks of Industrial Britain, on ...
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Small Stuff Gets Big at Eyelevel Gallery
MacroMicro
November 2- December 10, 2006
Eyelevel Gallery, a small, non-profit, artist-run gallery space on Gottingen Street does consistently interesting things. This is not big news—galleries are more-or-less expected to do interesting things—but I am c...
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Drawings by Rachael Parsons tell strange stories
Rachael Parsons: New Drawings
One World Café
Nov. 5 – 19, 2006
Rachael Parsons has a sense of humour. In one of her mixed media drawings, currently tacked to the walls of the One World Café, Anxious Dog and Summer Camp Counsellor, a figure wearing...
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Helen Gregory: Desiccate
Sometimes, when you first walk into a gallery and have a look around, you’ll have an immediate reaction: 'This', you will think to yourself, 'is good. I like this. This makes me feel something.'
Other times you’ll dislike what you see - or even worse, ...
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Edward Burtynsky finds beauty in destruction
Ray Cronin, Senior Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, doesn’t hold back when he introduces photographer Edward Burtynsky, calling him “the most distinguished Canadian photographer working internationally.”
In town from Toronto for the opening of a...
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Abstract painting meets experimental media at MSVU
So here’s the thing about experimental, non-narrative film and video: even when you’re wedged between two people in a dark theatre, all your attention focused on the screen ‘cause there’s nowhere else to go, it can be tough.
The very nature of the term e...
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David Lacey's One Man Show
Photographer/painter David Lacey showcases his work on an on-going basis in what he describes as a "continous one-man show" at his gallery.
Presently, David has a variety of watercolours and oil paintings up for sale. Many of which depict serene Maritime su...
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Anna Leonowens Gallery
Named after NSCAD’s Victorian founder—feisty heroine of film and theatre productions of The King and I—the Anna Leonowens Gallery is the public exhibition space and resource centre on campus. Three public galleries are devoted to the exhibition of contemporary...
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