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Soft: Works from the University Collection
12 May 2012 – 12 Aug 2012
The Art Gallery’s special mandate to collect textile-based art, due to the medium’s traditional association with women, is augmented in this selection by the inclusion of another material associated with domesticity—aluminum foil. All of the works have in common the tactile quality of softness.
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![Anna Torma, Red Flowers III 2006 Anna Torma, Red Flowers III 2006](images/torma_ph2_thb.jpg) |
Dirt, Detritus and Vermin
21 May 2011 – 8 Aug 2011
The artists make use of the tools of fine craftsmanship, their ornamentation alluding to historical forms, but subvert tradition by applying it to degraded objects. |
![Janice Wright Cheney, Encroach 2011 Janice Wright Cheney, Encroach 2011](images/encroach3_ph_thb.jpg) |
Beneath the Surface
23 Oct 2010 – 12 Dec 2010
The Nova Scotian artists Nancy Edell, Kim Morgan and
Susan Wood share an interest in corporeal experience. In these works from the MSVU Collection, the artists present metaphors for the invisible, sometimes pathological processes at work within the body. |
![Nancy Edell, Spiracle 1 (Beneath the Surface) Nancy Edell, Spiracle 1 (Beneath the Surface)](images/ph_beneath_the_surface_edell_spiracle_thb.jpg) |
Somewhere along the line
10 Oct 2009 – 22 Nov 2009
Amplifying the emphasis on process-oriented execution, the drawings in this exhibition depict motifs in transition: dissolving, connecting, fusing and forming. |
![Michelle Gay Portraits from the End of the Day Michelle Gay Portraits from the End of the Day](images/michelle_gay_thb.jpg) |
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