Painter Jenny Johnson Brings her Scenes from the Multiverse to Halcon

Artist Jenny Johnson will sell her sci-fi/fantasy
art at Halcon, October 26-28 

Jenny Johnson will sell her prints and original paintings from her Scenes from the Multiverse series at Halcon in Halifax.

The sci-fi/fantasy conference takes place from October 26 - 28, 2018 at the Halifax Convention Centre.

Jenny is a realist painter who received a Talent Trust scholarship to support her studies in visual arts. Raised in Baddeck, Cape Breton, she holds a BFA from NSCAD University. 

In addition to her studio work, she teaches perspective drawing and colour theory in the Scenography program at Dalhousie University.

Jenny’s work ranges from figurative to landscape, but the underlying theme of her painting is to monumentalize brief, often overlooked moments in our lives; to reveal the sublime in the ordinary. 

Her paintings have been featured in a number of exhibitions in Nova Scotia, most recently at Argyle Fine Art Gallery in Halifax, and can be found in numerous private collections from Vancouver Island to New York City. 

Since its inception in 2010, Halcon has become a wildly popular community-focused conference. It's brought some of the best-known names in the sci-fi, fantasy, and gaming world to Halifax.

Jenny's booth can be found on the Ballroom Convention floor at B9-7/8, beside the autograph/photo-op area.

To learn more about Jenny and to see her work, visit her website at jennyrjohnson.com.

Lux Habrich Selected as Media Arts Scholar for the Centre for Art Tapes Class of 2018-19

Lux Habrich is among the 2018-19 media arts scholars at the Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT). 

Originally from Montréal, Lux moved to Atlantic Canada in 2012 to complete an Interdisciplinary BFA at NSCAD University. She received Talent Trust scholarships in interdisciplinary visual arts to assist with her studies in 2016.

Lux was a participant in Craft Nova Scotia’s Craft LAIR, an eight-week community focused local artist in residence program in 2015, and was a mentee in the 2017-18 Visual Arts Nova Scotia Mentorship Program.

She employs tactile craft processes in her work as she explores their highly political nature as a domestic, feminine and often undervalued form of production.

Details of work by Lux Habrich from CONVERSATIONS: the VANS Mentorship Program exhibition

The CFAT scholarship program is an intensive six months of education and mentorship for artists who will make a media art piece in a medium where they have little to no experience. Artists will learn new art-making skills during the program, and are responsible to complete their projects by the program deadline.

To learn more about Lux, visit her website at luxhabrich.com.

Charley Young Mentors Emerging Nova Scotia Artist in Visual Arts Nova Scotia Mentorship Program

Charley Young will mentor an emerging Nova Scotia artist in VANS 2018-19 Mentorship Program

Visual Arts Nova Scotia has announced the participants of their 2018-19 Mentorship Program. 

The artists are Carrie Allison, Emily Lawrence, Jenny Yujia Shi, and Katharine Vingoe-Cram. The mentors are Ursula Johnson, Peter Dykhuis, Karin Cope, and Charley Young.

The 10-month program supports four dedicated emerging Nova Scotian artists who are individually paired with established artists and mentors. 

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Charley received a Talent Trust scholarship to help support her studies at NSCAD University as she pursued her BFA. In 2012 she received the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Award and the Lieutenant Governor Award.

She holds an MFA from the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine.

Installation by Charley Young

Charley has been Artist-in-Residence at the Klondike Institute for Arts and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon, the Vermont Studio Centre in Johnson Vermont, and Spark Box Studios in Picton County, Ontario and The Banff Centre, in Banff, Alberta. In 2014 she participated in the Arctic Circle Program Expedition to Svalbard, Norway.

Charley is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is primarily drawing, sculpture, and public installation. She teaches traditional and non-traditional approaches to drawing and printmaking at NSCAD University and Mount Allison University in New Brunswick.

To learn more about Charley Young and see her work, visit her website at charleyyoung.com.

NAT chantel Selected as Media Arts Scholar for Centre for art Tapes Class of 2018-19

NAT chantel. Photo: Kate Ward

NAT chantel is a hardworking artist. She's been selected as a Media Arts Scholar for the Centre for Art Tapes (CFAT) class of 2018-19.

The CFAT scholarship program is an intensive six months of education and mentorship for artists who will make a media art piece in a medium where they have little to no experience. 

CFAT scholars will learn new art-making skills during the program, and are responsible to complete their projects by the program deadline.

NAT is a primarily self-taught artist who engages repetitive processes to recall memory and personal history as a way to reclaim the body and voice.

NAT chantel's work from NSCCD residency exhibition, Echoes

She was a participant in the 2017-18 VANS Mentorship Program, and the 2018 Summer Professional Development Residency with the Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design. 

During the summer of 2018 NAT studied with artist Kate Ward, where she deepened her exploration into textiles.

NAT holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature, and received Talent Trust scholarships to assist with her studies in painting and mixed media art. She’s an active member in the Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, and Nova Scotia Basketry Guild.

During her time at CFAT, NAT will incorporate sound and visual art, and will present a performance piece during Nocturne, Halifax’s art at night festival.

To see more of NAT’s work, visit natchantel.com. 

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond Exhibition In/Visible Comes to Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond with a piece from In/Visible. Photo credit: Elissa Barnard

Talent Trust board member Charlotte Wilson-Hammond brings her exhibition In/Visible to Memory Lane Heritage Village on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore.

Charlotte has been active in Nova Scotia’s arts community for the past 30 years, serving on the Board of Governors of NSCAD University, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Conference of the Arts, and Canadian Artists Representation (CARFAC). 

She’s also our past chair, and continues to be a respected and active advocate for the arts.

In 2004 Charlotte was awarded the Portia White Prize, a $25,000 award honouring a senior artist in the Province of Nova Scotia. She used part of the award to establish the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Scholarship, which is administered through the Talent Trust.

In/Visible explores the human condition: fragility, ageing, beauty and strength, incorporating images of her own body in the work. 

In/Visible was first exhibited at ARTsPLACE Gallery in Annapolis Royal earlier this year. The exhibition will be at St. F.X. University Gallery November 15 to December 17.

In/Visible
Opening Saturday, September 9, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Exhibition runs September 10 - 16, 2:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Admission: free

The Clam Factory
Memory Lane Heritage Village
28 Clam Harbour Road
Lake Charlotte, Nova Scotia

To learn more about Charlotte and her work, visit her website at charlottewilsonhammond.net.

Barbara McLean in On & Off the Wall, a Peer Gallery Exhibition at the Chase Gallery in Halifax

Barbara McLean at the opening of
her solo exhibition Timelines in 2017

Barbara McLean and her colleagues at Peer Gallery celebrate their 17th anniversary by presenting On & Off the Wall, an exhibition at the Chase Gallery in Halifax.

Barbara studied at NSCAD University, where she earned her BFA (she received a Talent Trust scholarship to help further her studies as a painter). She also holds a Certificate of Design from Sheridan College. Barbara has taught painting classes for NSCAD Extended Studies and workshops across Nova Scotia.

Her abstract paintings are in corporate and private collections in Canada and abroad, and have been purchased by the Nova Scotia Art Bank.

Peer Gallery, founded in 2001, is a registered cooperative gallery in the town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

The gallery features established Nova Scotia artists who work in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, mixed media, coloured fused glass, wood turning, and printmaking.

Exhibition details:
September 8 - 28, 2018
Chase Gallery, Nova Scotia Public Archives
6016 University Avenue Halifax

Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Wednesday - 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. 
Saturday - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Sunday - closed

Member artists will be in attendance at the gallery from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Peer Gallery member artists: Zalman Amit, Jennie Carton, Jacqueline Cohen, Regina Coupar, Bob Hainstock, Anke Holm, Susan Hudson RCA, Barbara McLean, David Pember, Anne Tweed, George Walford, Tom Ward, Sally Warren, Jane Whitten, and Lisa Wright.

Helah Cooper Hosts Open Studio, Workshop, Show in Lunenburg

Helah Cooper will be hosting a series of events in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, where she’s participating in the NSCAD Community Studio Residency Program.

Open Studio

July 31, 2:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Old Fire Hall, 42 Duke Street

Rope Walk
(Free drop-in rope-making workshop)

August 6, 3:00 - 7:00 p.m.

The Boardwalk, Lunenburg waterfront

Year End Show & Reception
August 21, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Old Fire Hall, 42 Duke Street

Helah is an interdisciplinary artist from Toronto who incorporates costume, drawing, sound and craft in her practice. She creates tactile sculptures that are made to be played with and touched, and collaborates with other artists to facilitate play and performance. She constructs non-linear networks between objects and people to find unexpected points of connection and create queer narratives.

A recent graduate of NSCAD University, Helah received a Talent Trust scholarship to participate in the 2018 Residency Program. 

In/Visible: Recent Work by Charlotte Wilson-Hammond

Charlotte Wilson-Hammond is a longtime supporter and current board member of the Talent Trust. Her recent work, In/Visible, is at ARTsPLACE Gallery, 396 St. George Street in Annapolis Royal, until July 1.

For the past thirty years Charlotte has been an active advocate for the arts, both provincially and nationally. She was a founding member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Eye Level Gallery and the Coalition For Arts and Culture.  

She’s served on the Board of Governors of NSCAD University, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Canadian Conference of the Arts, and Canadian Artists Representation (CARFAC). She’s ex officio to the Board of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, as well as serving on the Board of the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia. 

Charlotte currently sits on the board of the Talent Trust, and is our past chair.

In 2004 Charlotte was awarded the Portia White Prize, a $25,000 award honouring a senior artist in the Province of Nova Scotia.  With part of the award she established the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/Visual Arts Nova Scotia Scholarship administered through the Talent Trust. She's pictured here with Curtis Botham, the 2017 winner of the award.

We’re very grateful for her generosity, dedication, and her tireless work. 

Three years ago, Charlotte began a new series of conté drawings and shadow photograph/print/drawings, using herself as the subject. In this new work, she reflects on the fragility, vulnerability and yet the beauty and strength of this timeless human condition, noting that one of the most mystifying aspects of aging is that one’s presence is diminished within the general public, often to the point of invisibility. 

The final body of work, which can be seen at ARTsPLACE, consists of large (3'x 4 1/2') drawings using photographs of Charlottes’s shadow in the landscape. These are then digitally manipulated, printed on semi-transparent mylar with the resulting image then worked with coloured pencil.

For more information on the exhibition and directions to the gallery, visit the ARTsPLACE website.

Opening May 4, 2018 - Ascension: New Drawings by Charley Young

Ascension: New Drawings by Charley Young opens May 4, 2018 at Studio 21 in Halifax. 

The drawings explore "ascension and proximity to make visible rock faces, scree slopes, tree lines, striations, and mountain contours.” The works are based on helicopter travels through the Rocky Mountains, tracing the artist’s passage through the physical landscape as well as her memories of the place.  

The opening reception is from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Ascension runs to June 6. 

For more information or to view the work online, visit the Studio 21 website: http://studio21.ca/exhibitions/ascension-new-drawings/

Weekend Plans: Apply for a Talent Trust Scholarship

May 1, 2018. 5:00 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Time.

Take the weekend, gather your materials, fire up Google Chrome, and apply for a Talent Trust scholarship.

(We know. We've been reminding people for a couple of weeks now. But we also know this is way better than someone reminding you to eat your broccoli.)

We want to help emerging artists across Nova Scotia, and across disciplines, achieve their creative dreams. We want to hear from you!

Here's the link for all the information: nstalenttrust.ns.ca/Scholarships/Apply

Don't wait! Apply now!

Emily Vey Duke's 'The Illumination Project' with Shary Boyle will open at the Art Gallery of NS on February 3, 2018

SHARY BOYLE & EMILY VEY DUKE: 

THE ILLUMINATIONS PROJECT

l-r: Emily Vey Duke and Shary Boyle (video still)

Opening 

February 3, 2018

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

1723 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS

The exhibition will continue until April 29, 2018

The AGNS notes:

Through their respective individual practices, artists Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke have long been committed to exploring the relationships between feelings, drives and fantasies and…read more

A video about their collaboration can be found on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/HwRH9kNVwD0

Ambera Wellmann, visual artist Exhibition Opening on April 21, 2017 at Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam

Ambera Wellmann, 2017. Ravenous Night Dour Sins, oil on linen, 90 x 80 cm 

Slipper is an exhibition of new porcelain sculptures by Shary Boyle, and oil paintings by Ambera Wellmann. 

Exhibition runs from 

22 April to 27 May, 2017

The Canadian artists respond to 18th century European porcelain traditions: seducing through materiality while subverting classical form and subject through uncanny and feminist dialogues. Slipper acknowledges slippage, from surface to shape, from 2D to 3D, and image to object. Dutch artist, filmmaker and writer Ine Poppe will introduce her new freeform ceramic experiments as counterpoint.

Ambera Wellmann (Berlin) is an emerging Canadian artist working in painting, assemblage, photography and video. Wellmann uses porcelain in her paintings as a surrogate for the human form to explore themes of mimesis, violence and affect. She is the recipient of numerous Canadian grants and awards, and has been exhibited widely throughout Canada. The presentation of Wellmann's paintings in our exhibition SLIPPER is her premiere in Europe.

Suzanne Biederberg Gallery
Eerste Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, Amsterdam 1015 RW 
E: info@biederberg.com

 

W: www.biederberg.com

 

Gallery Opening hours: Thursday - Saturday 2 to 6 pm and by appointment 

Veronique MacKenzie Exhibition at Gallery 1919 in Halifax

Veronique MacKenzie former NSTT scholarship recipient is not only a wonderful dancer but also a talented visual artist. 

Veronique's first solo exhibition can be seen at Gallery 1919 until September 16, 2016.

Gallery 1919 is located inside Dean's Flowers & Goody Basket at 6025 Stanley Street, Halifax. 

Opening hours are Monday-Saturday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

More info at https://www.facebook.com/gallerynineteennineteen/

Charley Young presents her visual work at MSVU Art Gallery

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Charley Young, Rocky Mountains Diorama (detail) 2014 (image courtesy of the artist) Beautiful Illusions Melanie Colosimo & Charley Young Organized by MSVU Art Gallery Ingrid Jenkner, Curator 10 January through 8 March 2015 OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, 17 January, 2 to 4pm. Opens jointly with Prospect 17: Joanna Close. Beautiful Illusions presents works in graphic media by two young Nova Scotian artists. Colosimo’s principal practice is drawing; Young favours drawing and indexical techniques, such as casting and monoprinting. For both, materials and process are key determinants of the meaning of their works. Themes of memory, transitory states and trace imagery pervade their art. The title of the exhibition evokes the realism with which each artist renders subjects such as the façade of a wooden shack, a range of mountain peaks, or the intricate patterning of twisted wires in a chain-link fence. Virtuosic mimicry is not the only point of such images, however; “failures” such as smudges and anomalies of scale disrupt the illusions and remind viewers of the usually compliant but sometimes faltering hands and memories upon which the illusions depend. ARTIST’S TALK & PUBLIC DRAWING EVENT Saturday, 7 February, 2 to 4pm. Visitors are invited to take part in a collaborative drawing project during Colosimo’s artist’s talk. ARTIST’S TALK & WORKSHOP Saturday, 28 February, 2 to 4pm. Following a discussion of her work, Young will lead a workshop exploring textures through the art of frottage. For more information please contact program coordinator, Susan Wolf, susan.wolf@msvu.ca or visit our website www.msvuart.ca. Melanie Colosimo, Chain-Link Fence (detail) 2014 (image courtesy of the artist)

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M.E. Sparks at VANS Corridor Gallery

Image: Google Images (detail), 2014, charcoal on paper, 24 x (8” x 15”)

VANS

corridor gallery Image M.E. Sparks June 5 - 26, 2014

Emerging New Glasgow based painter M.E. Sparks exhibits a series of drawings derived from Google Image searching a previous work, on view in the corridor gallery from June 5 – 26. Describing her process of abstraction, Sparks explains:

Google Images is created using Google’s reverse image search capabilities. The source image for each drawing is derived from googling a digital image of an existing drawing, resulting in a series of progressively disparate images (much like the game “Telephone”). While Google Images does not recognize the subject matter of each drawing, “visually similar images” are found through recurring formal and abstract qualities. Through the removal of original context and connotation, the images are further objectified and abstracted by Google Images’ search engine algorithms. This work explores the idea of instant and universal access to unlimited imagery, illustrating the ever-growing gap between past and present modes of image sourcing.

M.E. Sparks holds a BFA, 2013 from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, NS. She is currently an artist in residence for the 2013-2014 NSCAD – New Glasgow Community Studio Residency Program. In September 2014 she will begin her Master of Applied Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC. Sparks is a current recipient of Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grant and Nova Scotia Talent Trust Scholarship, as well as the Gordon Smith Painting Scholarship (Sept. 2014). Her recent work explores the categorical grey area between abstraction and representation. As a painter, she is interested in the relevance, persistence and variability of the medium.
www.mesparks.com

Located inside the Visual Arts Nova Scotia (VANS) office at the Halifax Seaport, since 2000, the Corridor Gallery is complimented by a historical legacy of Nova Scotia culture, simple yet modern architectural elements and an array of current cultural activity in the Cultural Federations of Nova Scotia office. The Corridor Gallery is located at 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia and is open Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm.

Visual Arts Nova Scotia advances the visual arts through leadership, education, and communication.

For further information regarding the exhibition, please contact:
Becky Welter-Nolan
Programming Coordinator
Visual Arts Nova Scotia
1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, NS B3H 4P7
902.423.4694    1.866.225.8267   f: 902.422.0881
communicate@visualarts.ns.ca