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ReceptionsMondays at 5:30pm
to 7pm unless otherwise noted*
Anna Leonowens Gallery 1891 Granville Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Hours11am–5pm
Tuesday to Friday12pm–4pm
Saturday
More information902-494-8223
[email protected] theanna.nscad.ca
DirectorMelanie Colosimo
Exhibitions CoordinatorKate Walchuk
See theanna.nscad.ca for accessibility notes
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NSCAD Art Factory October 19 - 26 + NOCTURNE
Mikayla Victoria Anne Halliday October 29 - November 2
Nothing to See Here October 19 - 26 + NOCTURNE
Marek Radke, //RESPONSIVE Light Art Project Halifax September 25 - 28
Nova Scotia Art Bank 2019 Purchase October 8 - 17
NSCAD/AUArts Exchange September 10 - 21
Marianne Nicolson, //RESPONSIVE Light Art Project Halifax September 25 - 28
Greg Sims, faculty exhibitor September 10 - 21
Public Picnic Table Prints October 8 - 17
Brittany Moore-Shirley & Brody Weaver October 29 - November 2
Anita Joh & Natasha Verbeke October 29 - November 2
Jiaxin Lin October 29 - November 2
September 10 - 21, 2019 Opening receptions: Monday 9 September, 5:30 - 7PM
Objects of Affection —Greg Sims, faculty exhibitor — Gallery 1
A recent retrospective of thoughts and ideas around jewellery, Sims presents the many facets of a contemporary creative practice... from speculative artworks and gallery displays to (more functional) wedding rings and commissioned medals. Digital representations are explored and realized, transitioning through different stages; from image & 3D model through to prototypes & precious objects. Using various inputs and interactions, outside factors influence or affect the final outcomes, allowing meaningful sentiments and relationships to emerge.
Greg Sims is an accomplished artist, jewellery designer/maker and educator. He recently joined the NSCAD faculty (2018), teaching
in the Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing program. A strong proponent and leader in 3D digital design and digital fabrication technologies, Sims’ expertise span the areas of jewellery, materials and craft, product design, manufacturing and aspects of the built environment. This versatility has led to working across disciplines, initiating and collaborating on innovative projects from intricate stone settings through to interactive stage sets.
NSCAD Jewellery Design & Metalsmithing Department exhibition — Gallery 2
Anna Leonowens Gallery kicks off each Fall semester with an exhibition highlighting one of NSCAD’s areas of study. This year we are showcasing NSCAD’s Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing
department. This exhibition is an opportunity to see the work of faculty and technicians spanning several decades of jewellery and metalsmithing at NSCAD.
A Medal For NSCAD/AUArts jewellery exchange exhibition— Gallery 3
In Winter 2019, NSCAD professor Rebecca Hannon and AUArts professor Lyndsay Rice set aside a week to initiate an exchange project between the two universities to facilitate new connections between senior jewellery students. Agreed upon was the symbolic form of the medal which students interpreted in thoughtful, modern, and humorous ways.
September 25 - 28, 2019 //RESPONSIVE Light Art Project Halifax Hours: 11am - 5pm and 7pm- 12am daily
//RESPONSIVE International Light Art Project Halifax returns from its successful 2017 debut. This year, the curatorial team, Ralf Seippel, Melanie Colosimo, Peter Dykhuis and Frankie Macaulay welcome over a dozen international light artists to Halifax for another exciting indoor/outdoor exhibition throughout the city’s centre. Visit responsive-halifax.com for the complete schedule of programming!
The Sun Shines, the River Runs Marianne Nicolson — Gallery 1
Nicolson’s piece is based on the window architecture of the Dominion Public Building in downtown Halifax. The name of the building evokes a sense of Canadian Nationalism based in colonial oppression and resource extraction, the word “dominion” implying dominance, supremacy, superiority, hegemony and authority. “Dominion” has been used to refer to the state creation of Canada which at the time of its birth required agreements
with the Indigenous Peoples which since then have largely been ignored or denied. The artwork appropriates an architectural feature of the Dominion Building (metaphorically an architectural feature of the nation itself ) and integrates/transforms it into a blue lit glass window which is incised with pictograph imagery celebratory of the entrenchment of Section 35 into the Canadian Constitution in 1982, referential to the recognition of treaty rights. Nicolson’s piece is inspired in part by the success of the Donald Marshall Jr. case, which forced Canadian authorities to recognize the treaty rights of the local Indigenous Nations. The window is lit from behind and casts a powerful blue shadow on the floor/ground in front of it. It acts as a visual metaphor for the treaty saying: “As long as the sun shines and rivers flow…”
Another Unknown World Marek Radke & student participants — Gallery 2
Marek Radke frequently collaborates with school groups to create
public light art installations. Using disposable plastic items like bottles, yogurt packaging, laundry containers and so on, Radke and the students repurpose these objects to create a new world.
“My intention is to create collectively a story that will live in space.”
The Way of the Life Marek Radke — Gallery 3
The artist offers, “As a child I dreamed that I could achieve everything in life if I only wanted to. Today it shows that my path in life is as varied and as open as a game of Mikado: I win, I lose, I win…” Radke’s light art installation is inspired by his reflections on his own life, remarking that the older he gets, the more intensive his analysis of life becomes.
October 8 - 17, 2019 Opening receptions: Monday 7 October, 5:30 - 7PM
Public Picnic Table Prints Charley Young, faculty organizer — Gallery 1
Public Picnic Table Prints is a large-scale, collaborative printmaking project that exists to create a place of exchange between newcomers and other community members. In the Fall of 2018, participants worked together to design, carve, and print, site-specific woodcuts based upon the people and plants
found in Glen Community Garden. This project was created as a part of Welcome to this Place, presented by Mabelle Arts in partnership with Immigrant Service Association of Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia Art Bank 2019 Purchase — Galleries 2 & 3
Arts Nova Scotia is unveiling the Nova Scotia Art Bank purchases for 2019. Since 1975, the Nova Scotia Art Bank Program has
encouraged the development of artistic excellence and stimulated awareness of visual arts and fine craft among Nova Scotians and visitors. This has been accomplished through the acquisition, development, maintenance and display of a working collection of professional Nova Scotian art. Works are added to the collection annually through a peer selection committee, composed of established artists, who review all applications and select works to purchase based on artistic merit.
October 19* - 26, 2019 *NOCTURNE: Saturday 19 October, 6pm - midnight
Embed and embody NSCAD Art Factory — Galleries 1 & 2 NSCAD Art Factory in collaboration with Nocturne and ISANS (Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia), present an exhibitionto showcase the unique art works made as part of Noisemakers, a community-based art program involving local artists, art students and members of the Halifax newcomer community.
As part of this exhibition, viewers will see one-of-a-kind textile and jewellery based-pieces created by a group of young artists. Over the course of several weeks, these artists have worked with NSCAD student instructors as well as professional artists as they investigate self-expression through material exploration. The resulting fashion and jewellery pieces reflect their individual stories translated into wearable art forms.
In addition to this project, viewers will also see examples of artworks also made as part of the Noisemakers program. These works (additionally exploring themes of embodiment and embellishment) were created as part of a series of all ages workshops facilitated by artists at Glen Garden, an ISANS coordinated community garden located in Clayton Park. There will also be hands-on art-making opportunities for the general public during Nocturne.
Nothing to See Here: Experimental Radio from NSCAD Gallery 3 Nothing to See Here is an experimental radio art show produced by David Clark in collaboration with students and special guests. It is broadcast on CKDU (88.1FM) and archived episodes are available at soundcloud.com/nothing_to_see_here_radio
The program began in 2016 with a variety of improvisational
techniques, interviews and radio dramas that were designed to sustain a ‘premise’ that determined the theme of the show. Soon regular participants and guests began to write material and the show evolved from episode to episode without a particular formula for how the explorations would materialize. The show has evolved to explore many aspects of spoken word radio. A core group has been involved in many of the show and regularly contribute while many others have made appearances and contributed to the show (including the cleaners in the building who stumble upon the nocturnal recording sessions and often join in.)
Clark offers, “In celebration of reaching 50 episodes of the show, we are going to play the episodes back to back over the week and show a scrapbook of images and texts involved in the production of the show. During the Nocturne event we will turn Gallery 3 into a recording studio and a performance space to bring the public into the mad, mad world that is Nothing to See Here.”
October 29 - November 2, 2019 Opening receptions: Monday 28 October, 5:30 - 7PM
Line Relationship Jiaxin Lin, undergraduate exhibitor — Gallery 1
In her practice, Lin uses jewellery-making techniques to explore shapes, materials and thoughts. Her exhibition showcases the progression of her works throughout her time at NSCAD, mainly utilizing silver wire. Lin remarks that the scale of her work is “large for jewellery but small for sculpture”.
Face Time Anita Joh & Natasha Verbeke, undergraduate exhibitors — Gallery 2A Multi media artists Natasha Verbeke and Anita Joh present a participatory performance exhibition exploring meaning in relationships and concepts of connection. Through the action of creating blind contour drawings, the artists
and guest are pushed to engage in a minute of face to face connection. This also aligns with the artists’ interest in interrupting society’s immersive relationship of communicating through technology. Throughout the week the artists will spend time in the gallery drawing and sitting with guests, in hopes of exploring and challenging the relationship between subject and viewer, and blurring the lines between the two.
(re)tracing Britt Moore-Shirley & Brody Weaver, undergraduate exhibitors — Gallery 2B
In (re)tracing, co-exhibitors (and best friends) Brody Weaver and Britt Moore-Shirley explore social research as contemporary queer subjects. Using influential experiences, documents, places, objects, and memories as sites of primary research, the duo allow affect to guide their inquiry. Intersecting queer and feminist theory,
affect theory, and critical ethnography, this dual publication launch and exhibition contends with topics of queer futurism, care ethics, and autobiography.
Over Home Mikayla Victoria Anne Halliday, undergraduate exhibitor — Gallery 3 Halliday explores the growth of patina and evidence of decay from one of her family’s aging dwellings. In the process, capturing the remanences of another time. Using the square frame of the medium format camera and the pages of preserved family journals, she captures a landscape filled with memory and history that has been frozen in time. A place once warm and welcoming, now a ghost. Though time has passed, still can be found are small intimate details of everyday life - details that soon may disappear forever.
