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

annaleonowens@nscad.ca theanna.nscad.ca

DirectorMelanie Colosimo

mcolosimo@nscad.ca

Exhibitions CoordinatorKate Walchuk

kwalchuk@nscad.ca

See theanna.nscad.ca for accessibility notes

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Alexandra Gasparis August 13 - 17

Kayza DeGraff Ford, Excel Garay, Natasha Grenke, Zoé Newell August 13 - 17

Koei Kao, MFA Thesis Exhibition July 9 - 13

Dr. Harold Pearse, Professor Emeritus July 23 - August 3

Armstrong, Dionne & Valcourt-Synnott July 30 - August 3

Maddie Alexander, Dana Buzzee & Wren Morris July 23 - 27

Jennifer MacLatchy July 16 - 20

Sage Sidley July 9 - 13

Heather Murray July 16 - 20

Alcuin Society Book Design Awards July 9 - 20

Arjun Lal August 6 - 10

Patrick Cruz July 23 - August 3

Celeste Cares & Alex Sutcliffe July 16 - 20

Luke Mohan & Gabi P.S. August 6 - 10

Rachel Anzalone July 9 - 13

Mark Mitchell, visiting artist August 6 - 17

1891 Granville St. Halifax, NS annaleonowens@nscad.ca902-494-8223

July 9 - 20, 2019 Opening reception: Monday 8 July, 5:30–7PM

Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, travelling exhibition — Gallery 2B

The Alcuin Society has announced the 2018 winners of its annual winning books, which will be exhibited in Germany at the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fairs; at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo; and in

nine Canadian provinces. The Alcuin Society is a Vancouver based non-profit society for the support and appreciation of fine books. For more information and list of winners visit www.alcuinsociety.com

July 9 - 13, 2019 Opening reception: Monday 8 July, 5:30–7PM

JIAN — Koei Kao, MFA Thesis Exhibition — Gallery 1

Kao’s MFA thesis exhibition explores concepts of negative space, translation between human race and animal species in embossing works, and ink and oil paintings. Emphasis on negative space and breathing rooms through transparent embossed text pieces and Xieyi paintings, the artist draws attention to the distance created through every translation and an ESL interpretations. These works invite viewers to engage with further translations that go beyond the artist’s lenses. How much or how less is needed for us to communicate? How long does it take to see a creature?

North Block— Rachel Anzalone, graduate exhibitor — Gallery 2A

During her studies at NSCAD, Rachel Anzalone travelled up and down the North Block stairway, continuously leaving from and arriving at her studio. She noticed paint chips bubbling and departing from the walls. With curiosity, she peeled the chips, only to discover the layers of paint underneath. With sheets of mylar, acrylic paint, and the paint chips collaged together, Anzalone has documented a piece of the building’s history and someone’s attempt at patching up the walls.

Deposits— Sage Sidley, graduate exhibitor — Gallery 3

This exhibition explores digital and physical location-based data collection and its influence on experiencing place. Sidley’s interdisciplinary drawing research concerns the intangible transformation of public and semi-public spaces into digital data harvesting sites and the proliferation of social surveillance practices. The gallery space will swarm with forms such as: found objects and notes, drawings, prints, and sculptures to investigate the traces of these unseen influences.

July 16 - 20, 2019 Opening reception: Monday 15 July, 5:30–7PM

Preparation Suites — Celeste Cares & Alex Sutcliffe, undergraduate exhibitors — Gallery 1 Celeste Cares paints a mushy, girlish muse in various states of activity. Applying lipstick; combing hair; spilling coffee – these states of getting ready prove to be messy, chaotic, and fun. Alex Sutcliffe’s oil paintings abstract figures and forms in nebulous, unreal landscapes. Muted colours and rich brushwork reveal hazy figures that wait, withdraw, and dance in a visualized space of existential malaise, suspended on a stage where they prepare for nothingness.

Ocean Treasures: Anthropocene Artifacts — Jennifer McLatchy, IDPhD Candidate — Gallery 2A

Artist-researcher Jennifer MacLatchy combs shorelines in Nova Scotia by kayak and by foot, searching for and collecting marine debris, or, anthropocene era artifacts. This exhibition is a museum-like display of artifacts that have been documented and preserved with great care in order to study the relationship between humans and the ocean in a time of great change and loss. This work is an enactment of small acts of great care aimed at addressing massive and overwhelming environmental problems. In doing this, it engages

with feelings of futility, grief, and maybe hope.

Not Place Heather Murray, undergraduate exhibitor — Gallery 3

This exhibition presents paintings, sculptures and audio works by Heather Murray. About the exhibition concept, Murray offers,

“this project is an exploration of the ecstatic flight of ideas that occurs during extreme mood states, extracting ideas from these experiences and bringing them into a relatable realm.“

July 23 - August 3, 2019 Opening reception: Monday 22 July, 5:30–7PM

TWO DOGS AND A CAT EVERYDAY FOR A YEAR Dr. Harold Pearse, Professor Emeritus, NSCAD University — Gallery 1

Dr. Harold Pearse presents a series of drawings consisting of two dogs and a cat, raising questions about the relationship between an artist and his subject, a man and his pets, a human being and animals.

Lobster Spirits — Patrick Cruz, visiting artist, with support from Arts Nova Scotia — Gallery 2

Once abundant and bountiful, lobsters were previously served as prison food and used as fish bait and garden fertilizer. It wasn’t until the mid 19th century that lobsters were recognized as haute cuisine elevating its marginal status into an aristocratic one. Besides its innate capability to continually molt, lobsters possess unique anatomy. Supposedly, the stoic crustacean cannot process pain due to the absence of cerebral cortex. In addition to this strange biological phenomenon, its brain is located in its throat, nervous system in its abdomen, teeth in its stomach and

kidneys in its head. It listens with its legs and tastes with its toes.

Patrick Cruz a Filipino-Canadian artist working between Toronto, Canada, and Quezon City, Philippines. Cruz studied Fine Arts at the University of The Philippines and received his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and an MFA at the University of Guelph. Cruz is the founder of Kamias Special Projects, an artist-run space in Quezon City, Philippines that hosts the Kamias Triennial; a platform for cross-cultural exchange and experimental curatorial strategies. In 2015, Cruz won the national title for the 17th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition and was recently longlisted at the 2019 Sobey Arts Award.

July 23 - 27, 2019 Opening reception: Monday 22 July, 5:30–7PM

Flagging Velvet — Maddie Alexander, Dana Buzzee & Wren Morris — Gallery 3

Alexander, Buzzee and Morris offer documents of queer sexualities and desires which reclaim context and space from a conventional hetero gaze. Through a multidisciplinary approach they create community-based pornographies that seek to

honour historical leather dyke culture, while contributing to its contemporary current, offering audiences a view of self-determined representation of queer + trans sex and empowered BDSM play.

July 30 - August 3, 2019 Opening reception: Monday 29 July, 5:30–7PM

re(interpret) — Jacinte Armstrong, Louis-Charles Dionne & Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott, — Gallery 3 Drawing inspiration from past, present and future this show

combines sculpture, installation, dance, movement, and music. NSCAD professor Bruce Barber’s 1974 piece Like a Bat Out’a Hell, which was last performed at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 1976, opens the events and will set the tone for the week. Each day new

(re)creations performed by NSCAD students, faculty, and special guests will take place for the duration of this week-long exhibition.

August 6 - 17, 2019 Opening reception: TUESDAY 6 August, 5:30–7PM

White Work — Mark Mitchell, visiting artist, with support from Arts Nova Scotia — Gallery 1

Mark Mitchell uses fine dressmaking and millinery techniques to make highly realized sculptures that tell stories, mourn, and memorialize often using the tropes of funeral traditions. He exhibited his last large body of work in 2013 in a solo exhibition

at the Frye Art Museum. Burial dealt with issues of mortality and mourning through burial garments. White Work takes on mourning in a different form, with activist intention. Based in Tucson Arizona, Mark Mitchell’s contributions span art, music, and theater. His magnum opus, Mark Mitchell: Burial, a performance and installation, was showcased in a solo exhibition

at the Frye Art Museum, 2013, to critical and popular acclaim. In November 2016, Burial was presented in a solo exhibition in Beirut, Lebanon. Mitchell was shortlisted for the Neddy Artist Award at Cornish, 2015, for the Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award, 2016 and 2017 and was the recipient of the Kayla Skinner Award, Betty Bowen Committee, Seattle Art Museum, 2016. His work is in public and private collections, including that of the Frye Art Museum.

August 6 - 10, 2019 Opening reception: TUESDAY 6 August, 5:30–7PM

A Lack, A Look, A Lark Luke Mohan & Gabi P.S., undergraduate exhibitors — Gallery 2 A Lack, A Look, A Lark presents a synthesis of sculpture, drawing, and installation that cultivates Mohan and P.S.’s interest in humour, poetry and story-telling. Mohan and P.S. wish to share their fondness for characters and amusement, and to reinvigorate elements of

curiosity and magic into the gallery.

QUEER WORKS Arjun Lal, undergraduate exhibitor — Gallery 3

Lal offers, “As a queer artist, I feel pressure to constantly shape my

work to fit within heteronormative spaces and audiences. Reviewing and editing has always played a big role with how I present myself and when choosing ideas to share. The creation of my alternative-ego, Vagine, has allowed me to let my guard down and share other parts of myself in a safer space. I think its important to recognize that public spaces are mostly heteronormative which makes additions of queer content challenging.”

August 13 - 17, 2019 Opening reception: Monday 12 August, 5:30–7PM

here nor there Kayza DeGraff Ford, Excel Garay, Natasha Grenke & Zoë Newell, undergraduate exhibitors — Gallery 2 Four painters will explore modes of non-traditional portraiture in here nor there. Painting is a medium that calls into question reality versus reinterpretation, as the act of constructing an image becomes inescapably personal. Is a painting more or less authentic due to its inherent subjectivity? A variety of contemporary portrait methods will be on display, creating a diverse conversation involving the renegotiation of images.

Splurge Alexandra Gasparis, undergraduate exhibitor — Gallery 3

With a fondness for material that has outlived its intended use, Gasparis collects textures, colors, and form. Material is manipulated and juxtaposed to create playful, vibrant pieces that serve as adornment, small-scale furniture, and sculpture.