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Alone Time/ Queer Portraits
JJ Levine is a Montreal-based artist working in intimate portraiture. Levine is holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from Concordia University. Mostly known for the series Queer Portraits, Alone Time, and Switch. Levine has been honoured with several awards and received grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. Levine’s work has been exhibited at galleries and art festivals across Canada, the United States, and Europe. As well Alone Time and Switch have been featured in art magazines, journals, and newspapers internationally. Levine’s artistic practice balances a radical agenda with a strong formal aesthetic. Of his work, Levine writes: “I am interested in expressing fierceness, beauty, and resistance through the confrontational gaze of my subjects and the aesthetic of a queer subculture, a goal that underlies the series and my work as a whole.”
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Kootenay Pride: We Love a Parade!
Queer Kootenays: We Love a Parade! explores the history of the LGBTQ2S+ movement in the Kootenays since the late 1960s. The exhibition is community curated, featuring stories, photographs, videos, costumes, and other information from the community, supported with archival photographs from the Shawn Lamb Archives. Together, the items tell a familiar tale; one where organizers and supporters have been met with fear and anger as often as they were welcomed with open arms.
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Time Warp
John McKinnon has been an important and prolific part of the Kootenay artistic landscape since the 1970’s. His sculptures are part of the City of Nelson’s public art collection and his work is also featured in a number of cities across Canada and Internationally. John is an sculptor first and foremost, but also an instructor, a print maker, a builder and a Kootenay legend!
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All Things Considered
With large scale paintings, Cynthia Fuhrer proposes a mythical framework for the depiction of human beings in the wild, connected and responsible to a diverse community of plant and animal inhabitants. The tropes of historical painting post-Renaissance through the Romantic period, and into 19th century Modernism provide the framework for the artist to picture a tableaux that captures the symbiotic presence of these enlightened spirit beings. The figures are presented as a formally composed portrait; directing their gaze, confronting and acknowledging the viewer. Human presence is juxtaposed in a natural setting with mythical animals where children stand with fortitude alongside sacred creatures, sharing the burdens of a history that is left to them. The subjects are depicted as guardians of a shared landscape, invoking a positive coexistence and perhaps a glimpse into a sustainable future
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THROWN
THROWN is a group ceramic exhibition that features a diverse cross-section of artists from across the country, all of which offer a distinct and exemplary approach to the ceramic medium. THROWN is the second iteration of an ongoing series of medium-centric exhibitions which was inspired by ‘Lost Thread’
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The REDress Project
The REDress Project is an installation art project created by Métis artist Jaime Black. The installation consists of hundreds of red dresses suspended in public spaces to mark the absence and evoke the presence of Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered.
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As Immense as the Sky
A single subject, dressed in ornate costumes or wielding intricate, handmade props, stands alone in a vast, empty landscape. It feels dreamlike, otherworldly, magical. From the shores of Newfoundland to the Saskatchewan prairies and between, Canadian artist Meryl McMaster seeks out these desolate places and poses her lone model for her photography series As Immense as the Sky, which is being shown this fall at Nelson Museum, Archives, & Gallery.
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Turning Pages
Turning Pages documents the history of the Nelson Library and its 100 years of service in the name of community and literacy. In the 100 years since the founding of the Nelson Public Library much has changed—and will continue to change in an increasingly digital era while, as a society, we need more than ever to find ways to connect and engage with one another. Documenting that change in a comprehensive exhibition allows us to celebrate how far we’ve come as well as offer a thoughtful lens to the future. Additionally, research and development for the exhibition will support the production of a companion history book that will be made available free of charge to museum and library archives in BC. The addition of commissioned illustrations created by a local professional who works worldwide, and that may be used in both exhibition and book, adds a unique thematic touch.
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Tom Thomson Centennial Swim
On July 8th 2017, Paul Walde swam the length of Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park on the 100th Anniversary of Canadian Painter Tom Thomson’s death. The swim, a site-specific and temporally specific event, was used as an opportunity for exploring and understanding this landscape and history through performative experience. The duration of the piece was determined by the length of the lake (3kms) and the artist’s ability to navigate it. The swim was accompanied by a series of interconnected events: a brass band with a mandolin soloist performing a new long form music composition by Walde, three synchronized swimming routines a various points along the route, and a flotilla of canoes carrying the band. The work primarily exists in two forms, that of the event itself and an audio/video work based on the footage of the event. The Nelson Museum will be the first gallery to premiere the video and score as an installation.
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2020 Members’ Show and Sale
The ‘Members’ Show and Sale’ exhibition events are excellent opportunities to get a visual measure of our membership and reciprocate the support that our members give us as an organization.
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