The Department of Prints and Drawings 11 Jun 2016 – 19 Aug 2016
How can a small university art gallery, itself a department, oversee a Department of Prints and Drawings? The provocative title of this exhibition is meant to prompt skepticism about the medium-based categories that still define large public collections, such as those at the National Gallery of Canada.
Chromophilia 16 Mar 2013 – 21 May 2013
Chromophilia is a neologism meaning love of colour. The aesthetic priority given to colour is the quality shared by the recent acquisitions in this exhibition.
Roots & Shoots 15 Jul 2006 – 1 Oct 2006
This exhibition draws out tendencies that circulate among the artists of HRM and its environs, suggesting patterns of artistic affiliation as well as rifts.
Paperworks 8 Apr 2006 – 30 Jul 2006
In 2004, Eye Level Gallery commissioned Paperwork30– a limited edition of 25 boxed sets, each containing one original work by each of 20 Halifax-affiliated artists—to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary. MSVU acquired one set for its permanent collection.