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Exhibitions

Current EXHIBITIONS

Jan 28 – March 25, 2022. A public reception to gloat the exhibition volition be announced.

Gallery hours are Monday – Fri, x:00 – 12 apex; i:00 – 3:thirty pm. Individual visitations practice not currently require appointments. For group visitations please contact the gallery in accelerate. CBU requires that all visitors to campus exist fully vaccinated. Security check-in for visitors to the Gallery is located at the Great Hall entrance.

A Table for Two  showcases the wood sculptures created by Henry and Gevee Boudreau in their home on Janvrin Island in Isle Madame, Cape Breton. The two worked at their kitchen tabular array, talking through ideas for what Henry should sculpt. The sculptures, frequently depicting friends or family in their customs tending to their work, hobbies, or domestic lives, were starting time carved in wood by Henry, with an attention paid to small detail. Henry would also sew article of clothing for the figures. Gevee would paint the figures in vibrant colours for a cheerful final product. The show features a wide range of the Boudreau'due south subjects, including self portraits and a likeness of Sidney Crosby shooting pucks against a apparel dryer.

Henry and Gevee shared a love at offset sight. The piece of work they collaborated on was an extension of their relationship, exemplifying their closeness through a shared artistic vision. While Henry passed away in 2016, the Gallery is pleased to join with Gevee in celebrating the fine art the two made together.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

Ken Lywood: Anything Goes

Cape Breton University Art Gallery, September 24 – November 19, 2021

PLEASE Note: Visitation during current, regular gallery hours (Tuesday-Friday 10am-12pm and 1-4 pm), requires proof of vaccination to be presented to security upon arrival on campus (a security station is located in the Nifty Hall near the Gallery archway).

Annihilation Goes presents an boggling selection of paintings and drawings by the established Canadian creative person, Ken Lywood. Classical mythology, figuration, landscape, the nude, history painting… all come together in Ken's work to nowadays a vibrant and circuitous portrait of the creative person in an exhibition that defies convention and embraces the run a risk of life and art.

Almost the Artist:

Formerly an instructor at The New School of Art in Toronto, Ken Lywood left the urban center's fine art scene over xx years ago to retreat into the woodlands of Unama'ki / Cape Breton to raise his family and paint.

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Ko'kmanaq emittukutijik I Yonkhinatá:res ne onkwara'séhson I Our Cousins Visit

Greatcoat Breton University Art Gallery, September 26, 2020 – present (ongoing)

Curated by Elizabeth Doxtater & Greg Davies

Available for onsite, gallery viewing past appointment. Please contact greg_davies@cbu.ca to book.

Opening on September 26th and continuing through 2021, The CBU Art Gallery presents an exhibition of visual piece of work past young Indigenous artists from Eskasoni, Potlotek and the 6 Nations of the Grand River Territory in Ontario. The exhibition is at once a celebration of emerging talent and the coming together of younger 'cousins' hosting their older cousins beyond Turtle Island, where the gallery space becomes a site of peace and friendship and a coming together ground for sharing expressions of experience, thoughts, ideas and values. The Two-Row Wampum (or Peace and Friendship Treaty), was made over 1,000 years ago between Indigenous nations.

There were likewise three 2 Row agreements made with Europeans that historically goes back to the 17th century. The latter is more commonly referred to because of the touch of contact. The visual signification reflects two vessels (a canoe and a European vessel), side-past-side, each navigating the river of life. It resembles a mathematical 'equal' sign when held sideways. Regarded lengthwise, information technology is understood that the ancestors had expectations for the coming faces when they placed their canoe in those waters and so many years agone.

Each concurrent generation of matriarchs and leaders take been responsible for command of the paddle to guide to calm waters while protecting everything in that canoe. These young people currently have a responsibility to prepare to take that paddle every bit they become the next generation to fill up those leadership roles. Equally we look at the works brought together in this exhibition, nosotros are reminded that these immature artists are besides the 'coming faces' to the earth of Indigenous Art.

EXHIBITION IMAGES:

ONNI NORDMAN: MAX PLANCK RESIDENCY WORKS

Cape Breton University Art Gallery, April 9 – August 27, 2021

Curated by Greg Davies

Exhibition visitation by online reservation only due to COVID-19 restrictions. Note that seating is limited for visitation during regular gallery hours (Tuesday-Friday 10am-12pm and 1-4 pm). To book a seat, please contact Deanna_Manolakos@cbu.ca

This exhibition brings to Cape Breton a body of work initiated in Deutschland by local, multi-media artist, Onni Nordman. In 2020, just prior to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, Onni was invited to the Max Planck Constitute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Munich, for a three-month residency to produce and exhibit work related to his interests in the molecular composition of the human body and its links to the subatomic world. This was to have been followed by a second residency at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics in Garching, Munich before the global pandemic compelled Onni and his partner and manager, Paula Muise, to return dwelling to South Bar. Fortunately, the larger portion of the first residency was consummate by the time of his departure.

Of his time at the Institute, Onni notes:

"I went at that place with a question, for the experts. Is life, going from the unmarried cell, to consciousness, to civilization – is it an unbroken chain of cause and effect, or, does there, at some point, be a suspension, where the patterns of our life are contained of the laws of the subatomic world? Are we dissimilar, or, is everything an infinite lineage from the big bang?"

Onni Nordman: Max Planck Residency Works presents art inspired by this line of questioning and the  conversations held with scientists and researchers in Munich. The exhibition is both a celebration of this special moment of intersection between scientific discipline and fine art, sparked past curiosity, and an invitation to join with Onni on his path of research about the key questions of life itself.

Creative person'south Bio:

Onni Nordman is an established multi-media artist, from Sydney, Cape Breton. Formally trained at the Nova Scotia College of Fine art and Design, he has exhibited widely across Nova Scotia and has had solo exhibitions in Michigan, Helisinki and Munich. His work is represented in private collections across Canada as well as New York, Munich, Prague, Dublin, Tallinn, Dubai, Melbourne, Helsinki, Turku, Lahti, Joensuu. In 2009, Onni was the recipient of an Established Artist Recognition Honor from the Nova Scotia Arts & Civilization Partnership. He as well received a Visual Art Honor from the Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design in 2015. His professional piece of work has included teaching in the field of painting and regular activity in local arts initiatives. Onni's contributions to the arts in Greatcoat Breton accept also involved ongoing mentorship and support for colleagues and aspiring artists.

Following two exhibitions in Federal republic of germany and Republic of finland, as well as a two-month residency in Munich in 2015, Onni returned to that metropolis for 3 shows and 2 residencies, the beginning of which happened to be at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry where the scientists were studying the pandemic before it took agree. The third evidence and residency were postponed when Canadians were called dwelling. The piece of work featured in this exhibition is an extension of the interests and explorations he cultivated there.

TO BE FRANK: ROBERT FRANK & CHAD TOBIN

Continuing online! To Be Frankfeatures piece of work by the celebrated Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank, and Cape Breton photographer Chad Tobin. A paired exhibition of nine prints by Frank from the permanent drove of the CBU Fine art Gallery along with xx prints past Tobin taken over a x year menses during which he visited Robert and June Leafage at their summer home in Mabou. The exhibition is a securely personal and resonant celebration of friendship and mentorship. Delight be certain to revisit this infinite equally we expand the selection of gallery images, notes and videos featuring insights and commentary from from the artists and curator. Currently the exhibition must remain online due to COVID-xix quarantines; still, nosotros will provide notification here and on our social media platforms should in that location exist whatever changes to the public access restrictions. We thanks for your patience and understanding.

Robert Frank, Automobile Accident U.South. Road 66 Between Flagstaff and Winslow Arizona, 1955 (b&west photograph, Ten.050.01,

Robert Frank, Ranch Market, Hollywood, 1955 (b&w photo

Chad Tobin, Untitled, 2019. Archival paint print

Chad Tobin, Untitled, 2016. Archival pigment print

PAST EXHIBITIONS

Baronial 16, 2019 – October 4, 2019

First You Dream: Celebrating 75 Years of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust

Artist: Charley Young, Dan O'Neill, Despo Sophocleous, Emily Vey Duke, Jordan Broadworth, Lucy Pullen, Lux Habrich, Pamela Ritchie, Sandra Brownlee, Sara Hartland-Rowe

Organized by MSVU Art Gallery in partnership with Cape Breton University Fine art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

The Nova Scotia Talent Trust was founded in 1944 and has been application scholarships to visual artists since 1949. To gloat the NSTT 75^th Anniversary,First Y'all Dream developed out of a telephone call for entries to all scholarship recipients, inviting submissions of contempo work. The final exhibition selection resulted in a broad range of media, including drawing, ceramics, fibre, jewellery, mixed-media, painting, printmaking, sculpture and video. The generational mix of the artists (indicated by the dates of their Talent Trust scholarships) ranges from 1979 to 2016—a span of 37 years. The exhibition includes piece of work past Jordan Broadworth, Sandra Brownlee, Lux Habrich, Sara Hartland-Rowe, Dan O'Neill, Lucy Pullen, Pamela Ritchie, Despo Sophocleous, Emily Vey Duke, and Charley Immature.

The Nova Scotia Talent Trust and partner galleries recognize the back up of the Province of Nova Scotia through the Department of Communities, Civilization and Heritage.

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Proletariart 2019:

Proletariart 2019 is scheduled to open on Fri November 4, from ii-4 p.g. Details regarding submission guidelines and dates will be appear this summertime on our social media and webpage platforms.

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