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The Amazing World of Alan Syliboy at Dalhousie Art Gallery to Aug. 11

Open the door to a wonderful world of hot colour, celebratory spirit and amazing imagery in Alan Syliboy: the Journey So Far at Dalhousie Art Gallery to August 11. The gallery’s retrospective for the revered, widely collected and much loved Mi’kmaw artist is Syliboy’s largest show to date and already drawing high numbers, as well as repeat visitors, says the show’s curator and gallery director Pamela Edmonds. It opens officially […]

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Contemporary Art Society’s 49th big on colour and light

The painting looks at you from across the room at the Chase Gallery. Elise Doane’s acrylic vision of a Halifax Harbour sunrise, inspired by a Sherman Hines photograph, is a magical, masterful painting full of dreamy, varied orange light contrasted with deep foreground blues and blacks. Doane’s painting won the Pauline Manning Award in the Contemporary Arts Society’s 49th exhibit on view through May 31 at the Nova Scotia Archives. […]

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Dance Nation is Wild!

Take a walk (or dance) on the wild side with Dance Nation, a fierce and funny, loud and large play about 13-year-old dancers fighting, laughing and crying on the road to a national dance competition Clare Barron’s Pulitzer-Prize nominated play, first produced in England in 2018 and inspired by the TV reality show Dance Moms, has a limited run through Sunday at Alderney Landing, Dartmouth, by Keep Good (Theatre) Company […]

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‘Accelerated Erosion:’ Clay about Clay (and the Environment)

Accelerated Erosion – exposing ancient clay is a beautiful, innovative exhibit about clay and erosion at the Craig Gallery, Alderney Landing, Dartmouth, to May 26. The medium is the message as Seaforth artists Iris Naessens-Patterson and Marlene York experiment with locally-found red clay for a variety of artworks from carved landscape plaques to York’s series of paintings using clay as paint. (Pottery enthusiasts take note; Naessens-Patterson’s functional dishes and vessels […]

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A Fantastic Connectivity of Colour, Movement and Soul in reView

Artist websites: marybarnardfitzgeraldart.com Shown in reView, clockwise from top left, Along Mill Road, Christiane Poulin; The Universe Within, acrylic on canvas, Monika Wright; Glimpse of Aqua/Teal Stairs Between Paintings, oil and acrylic on board, Mary Barnard Fitzgerald; Jawbone, bone, plaster, dyes, Genny Killin; Waves, wool on linen, Carla Middelburg. Colour, pattern and content weave in and out with startling connectivity in reView, a five-woman exhibit at the Chase Gallery, Nova […]

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Mind and Media: Sydney Blum and Alex Livingston at Studio 21

Deer by Calm Water, by Alex Livingston, archival pigment ink print, 47 ” x 65.5,” at Studio 21 Fine Art, 5431 Doyle St., Halifax. Alex Livingston’s new digital paintings of deer in landscapes play with the mind. What is real and what isn’t? These beautiful, pastoral images created solely on a computer refer to traditional art forms of photography, printmaking and painting. The bodies of the deer appear to be […]

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