| Exhibitions 2012 |
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The Living Is Easy: a series of summer projects by our members
April 30 to August 31, 2012 |
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Jessica Arseneau / April 30 - May 12, 2012
Darlene Teahen / April 30 - May 12, 2012
Andrew Maize / May 14 - May 26, 2012
Sue Rose & Gisli Sigtryggsson / May 14 - May 26, 2012
John Cushnie / May 28 - June 9, 2012
Rena Thomas / May 28 - June 9, 2012
Indu Varma / May 28 - June 9, 2012
Al Barbour & Sarah Evans / June 11 - June 23, 2012
Corey Isenor / June 11 - June 23, 2012
Ilse Kramer & Jocelyn Pringle / June 11 - June 23, 2012
Jared Betts / June 25 - July 7, 2012
Rebecca Blankert & Chelsea Poole / June 25 - July 7, 2012
Nic Wilson / June 25 - July 7, 2012
Sarah Burwash / July 9 - July 21, 2012
Jerry Ropson / July 9 - July 21, 2012
Peter Manchester & Struts-Putts / July 30 - August 5, 2012
Courtney Kelsey & Zach Barkhouse / August 13 - 25, 2012
Leah Garnett / August 27 - September 1, 2012
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| Jessica Arseneau April 30 - May 12, 2012 |
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Transparency and ways of superimposing elements are continually explored. She uses three plexiglass panels that she lined up one in front of the other in I3. The game with the positive and negative spaces of the silhouettes of a character in repetition allows us to see through this installation that suggest transitional status of personal identity. The repeated and shifted shape shows a change within time in parallel with the change of the self in daily contexts. The silhouette is curved when looked from a point of view and is redressed on the hands when looked at the other.
With colors chosen by the aesthetic desire of the artist, a gay and ecstatic aspect tints her work, parallel, makes the viewer reflects on the human’s longing, his temptations, his pleasures.
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| Darlene Teahen April 30 - May 12, 2012 |
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During a two week residency Darlene Teahen grew sprouts and painted them.
Visitor were invited to drop in to learn how to grow sprouts, to try sprouts and even paint them.
Dr. Vadana Shiva's fight against "geopiracy" and biotech giants like Mosanto were an inspiration throughout the development of the project as she looked to develop imagery of seeds in relation to health, global foods and politics.
Darlene was in the gallery from 1-5, Monday to Friday, for the duration of the project. |
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| Andrew Maize May 14 - May 26, 2012 |
Sue Rose & Gisly Sigtryggsson May 14 - May 26, 2012 |
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Time For To Play: Members' Projects
March 4 - April 28, 2012
A series of projects by Struts & Faucet members. |
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March 4 - March 17: |
Sarah Hamilton |
What Has Happened To Me |
March 5 - March 16: |
Marilyn Walker |
Sacred Landscapes |
March 10: |
Marilyn Walker |
Drum Circle, 7pm |
March 11 - March 24: |
Amy Siegel |
Bunny and Sam |
| March 19 - 31 |
Colleen Collins |
Little Deaths |
April 1 - 14: |
Leah Garnett |
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April 15 - 28: |
Mary Farrell |
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April 15 - 28: |
Kamaya Lindquist |
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| Colleen Collins - Little Deaths - March 19 - 31, 2012 |
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Colleen Collins is a bilingual Canadian interdisciplinary artist of Métis and Irish descent. Her praxis centers on ecophenomenology, temporality, the ouroboric and the polyglottic. She has studied at the Burren College of Art in Ireland, the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, the University of New Brunswick and the Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design in New Zealand, where she received her MFA. She performs and exhibits in multiple media, including installation, video, photography, drawing, sound and music. She has done so across Canada and in the United States, as well as in New Zealand and across Europe. She lives and works in Nova Scotia with her partner David Trenaman.
Little Deaths installation at Struts Gallery, March 19th- 31st
The works included in Little Deaths incorporate two series of large photographs. The first series comprises three separate photographs, each of a small insect caught in a spider’s web. The installation’s fourth photograph is an image of a lilac tree with a gold medal (strung from a red ribbon) suspended from a limb of the tree, shot at night.
The large scale of these small final throes and soundless victories is intended to allow the images in Little Deaths to be read as anthropomorphic portraits; as little deaths, writ large. As in past works such as The Large Mammals Collision Project, Collins’ work here seeks to investigate consciousness, futility, and belied attainment. The images work to create a quietly transgressive space whereby the viewer is asked to bear witness to various little deaths—deaths seemingly met, by turns, in supplication, stoicism, and resignation.
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Marilyn Walker
Sacred Landscapes - March 5 - 16, 2012 |
Sarah Hamilton
What Has Happened To Me - March 4 - 17, 2012 |
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intallation view: Marily Walker - Sacred Landscapes
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installation view: Sarah Hamilton - What Has Happened To Me |
installation view: Marilyn Walker - Sacred Landscapes
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detail: Sarah Hamilton - What Has Happened To Me |
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