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Receptions Mondays at 5:30pm to 7pm unless otherwise noted*

Anna Leonowens Gallery 1891 Granville Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Hours 11am – 5pm Tuesday to Friday

12pm – 4pm Saturday

More information 902.494.8223 annaleonowens@nscad.ca alg.nscad.ca

Director Melanie Colosimo mcolosimo@nscad.ca

Exhibitions Coordinator Kate Walchuk kwalchuk@nscad.ca

Public Projects Coordinator Andrew Neville aneville@nscad.ca

Note Wheelchair accessible by appointment

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Kim Morgan, faculty exhibitor May 24 - June 3

Jay Crocker, OBEY Convention visiting artist May 24 - June 3

NSCAD Community Studio Residency group May 24 - June 3

Evan Peacock & Levana Schutz, graduate curators June 6 - 10

LandMarks: Art+ Places+ Perspectives June 13 - 24

Beth Stuart, visiting artist June 13 - 24

Erica Flake, Séamus Gallagher & Lydia Hunsberger June 6 - 10

A Round, undergraduate group exhibition June 6 - 10

Liz Ingram, visiting artist May 24 - June 3

Brendan Fernandes, visiting artist June 13 - 24

Anna Leonowens GalleryProgramming Synopsis

May 24 - June 3, 2017Opening Reception WEDNESDAY 24 May, 7:30pm* in partnership with “Connection To Place”, the 2017 ICOMOS Canada Annual Meeting Blood Work Kim Morgan, faculty exhibitor Gallery 1

Blood Work is a selection of blood samples magnified 5,000-10,000X using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and then superimposed on cross-sections of blood cells imaged with a transmission electron microscope (TEM), which gives the particular shape to the Plexiglas objects. Because the electron beam does not transmit colour information, electron micrographs are black and white unless colour enhancement has been added using computer technology. Morgan sees the images as individual and distinctive as the 16 people who contributed blood samples. They’re portraits of the medical students, artists, family, and friends, from diverse backgrounds, ethnic groups, and sexual orientations that contributed to the project, telling of who they are and where they’re from. The samples were collected, prepared, and scanned at Dalhousie University during a HEALS Artist-in Residence Program at the Dalhousie Medical School during 2014-2015. Liz Ingram: Site Collaborations Liz Ingram, visiting artist Gallery 2

Liz Ingram: Site Collaborations features prints that were developed through the long-term engagement with a specific location in the boreal forest of Alberta. For over 35 years source material has been generated from this particular place/lake/stream, with water and the human body as ongoing subjects. A substantial number of works involve collaboration with her partner Bernd Hildebrandt. Ingram offers, “I am attempting to connect the viewer to a sense of our place in/as nature. My work represents an attempt to stimulate a heightened awareness of our inextricable and fundamental oneness with nature, and of the elemental aspect of water to all life forms.” Bio: Liz Ingram was born in Argentina and grew up in New Delhi, Mumbai and Toronto. For over forty years she taught at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and is currently Distinguished University Professor Emerita of printmaking and drawing/intermedia. Her artworks have been exhibited in numerous solo and duo exhibitions, and over 300 group exhibitions in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. She has participated in juried International Biennials and Triennials for many years and has received awards for her prints at juried exhibitions in Canada, Slovenia (Yugoslavia), Poland, Korea, Brazil, Estonia, India and Finland. In 2016 she was appointed to the Order of Canada. She has been visiting artist at universities in North America and overseas including the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, the Musashino Art University in Tokyo and the University of Applied Sciences in Münster, Germany. The BIBELOT Jay Crocker, visiting artist In partnership with OBEY Convention Gallery 3

The BIBELOT is an instrument and installation piece. It functions as an orchestra of 16 amplified, synthesized and motorized units that hang overhead from a custom built conduit truss system. Each unit is outfitted with a music box, score (paper loops), drive system, and amplification system.

The BIBELOT creates music that mimics life on a moment-to moment time lapse. The unsynchronized behaviours and sounds of the 16 cells blend into a sonic whole and achieve synchronicity. The way this machine both achieves synchronicity and is continuously changing reflects a natural environment in which different melodies interact and in their interactions create their environment. Like the different beings dwelling within nature or a city, the interactions between these changing memory-sounds make up the overall sonic world.

Bio: Jay Crocker is an artist, composer, producer, arranger, instrument builder, multi-instrumentalist, and musical explorer residing on the south shore of Nova Scotia. Originally from Calgary, Crocker has performed and recorded with countless artists including Buffy Saint Marie, Calexico, Ghostkeeper, NoMoreShapes, Jon McKiel, Chad Van Gaalen, and many more. He has been awarded recording and composition grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Music Nova Scotia, Canada Council for the Arts, and Nova Scotia Heritage and Tourism. His work has been nominated for an APCMA (Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards) and long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize. Crocker’s work pushes through boundaries to create beautiful and stimulating sonic structures that defy convention. NSCAD Community Studio Residency group exhibition PORT LOGGIA

A look at new works to date from 2016 - 17 NSCAD Community Studio Residents. The residents have been working since September to practice outreach, community building, and ultimately create a body of work which reflects their time in a new place and the unique character and influence of their respective communities around Nova Scotia.

June 6 - 10, 2017 Opening Reception Monday 5 June, 5:30 – 7pm

The Skewed Persona Erica Flake, Séamus Gallagher, Lydia Hunsberger, undergraduate exhibitors Gallery 1

In the age of the ‘selfie’ what does it mean to take a portrait of oneself? Three artists based in photography who work with their own bodies have each created a self-portraiture series in which they explore and challenge the conventional aspects of portrait photography. Each series highlights a different struggle the artist faces throughout their day to day life including feminist issues, mental illness, and fear of inadequacy. Through each individual series these photographic artists strive to share their experience with others and seek comparison with viewers who may be struggling with some of the same issues.

A Round Isabelle Foisy, undergraduate organizer Gallery 2

A Round is a collaborative project that traces reciprocal inspiration and influence between artist friends. Drawing names from a hat, each artist is selected to create an artwork inspired by the previously drawn artist’s work. None of the artists involved have seen the entire project: only the round they were given to work with. The results are a series of independent works that showcase how ideas evolve through different creative perspectives. The show contains works by ten artists in a variety of mediums including painting, jewelry, and poetry.

stand back 5 feet/tenez vous 5 pied en avant Evan Peacock & Levana Schutz, graduate curators Gallery 3

This group exhibition is concerned with movement, distance, and translation. Two sets of artists have been selected to exchange works between Halifax and Paris. The work of the curated artists responds to the title. This name points towards the mathematical space between Paris and Halifax, the transmission of language through time, and the offsets of meanings caught between two destinations. Perfect translations will not be possible. This offset is the focus of stand back 5 feet/ tenez vous à 5 pied en avant.

June 13 - 24, 2017 Opening Reception Monday 12 June, 5:30 – 7pm

An interlude, or, intelligent tan Beth Stuart, visiting artist Gallery 1

An Interlude, or, intelligent tan, suggests the gallery as a space of psychic experimentation. Using the sculpture Proposal for a Viewing Apparatus (2014) as an imaginary lens through which to conjure and distort, the artist will work in the gallery over the course of the exhibition, using raw clay and Venetian plaster on the walls to develop figures and images of imaginary pasts and more hopeful futures. She will also make herself available for impromptu tarot readings, consultations on spiritual well-being from a secular skeptic, and general solidarity in questionable times.

Bio: Beth Stuart received her MFA in 2009 from the University of Guelph. In 2010, Stuart was shortlisted for the RBC Canadian Painting Competition; she received one of two honourable mentions in 2011. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Latcham Gallery (Stouffville), La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse and Battat Contemporary (both in Montreal). Currently, her work may also be seen in The Painting Project, Galerie UQUAM, Montreal. Stuart lives and works in Hamilton.

Move In Place Brendan Fernandes, visiting artist Gallery 2

Move in Place is a series of digital, photographic collages produced in collaboration with the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, ON. Images and 3D scans of objects from the Seattle Art Museum African collection and The Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection of African Art at the Agnes were unfolded, digitally cut, reassembled and juxtaposed with body parts of ballet dancers. The African art objects, which represent the accoutrements of West African masquerade, form new hybrids with the gestures of Classical French ballet. Combining these two languages against the backdrop of an ambiguous and archival digital space, Move in Place raises questions about the visual and discursive habits that shape understandings of African art within Western museums. Bio: Brendan Fernandes is a Canadian artist of Kenyan and Indian descent. He completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007) and earned his MFA (2005) from the University of Western Ontario and his BFA (2002) from York University in Canada. He has exhibited internationally and nationally including exhibitions at the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Museum of Art and Design New York, Art in General, the Musee d’art contemporary de Montreal, The National Gallery of Canada, the Brooklyn Museum, Mass MoCA, Deutsche Guggenheim and the Western New York Biennial through The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Fernandes was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s pre-eminent award for contemporary art in 2010, and was on the longlist for the award in 2013 and 2015. He was a 2014 recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Residency and Fellowship. A national Canadian tour of his work recently concluded with the publication of an artist monograph, Brendan Fernandes: Still Move produced by Black Dog Press in London, which will be launched June 21st at 6pm at the Anna Leonowens’ Art Bar +Projects!

LandMarks: Art+ Places+ Perspectives, group exhibition Kim Morgan and Steve Higgins, faculty organizers Gallery 3

LandMarks is a network of collaborative, contemporary art projects across Canada’s national parks on the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation. Under the umbrella of the LandMarks project, students in this studio course have spent the semester exploring our complex relationship to the local landscape from many perspectives. Their multidisciplinary works aim to foster a dialogue about our collective histories and shared futures. Additional installations in Halifax’s Point Pleasant Park are exhibited concurrent to the works within the gallery.

June 27 - July 3, 2017 Closed for gallery maintenance.

Receptions continue every Monday from 5:30 - 8pm at Art Bar +Projects, 1873 Granville St.