Join us at Sunbury Shores on Friday, March 8, 2024, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm for the double opening for “The Great Kind Mystery” by Ella Morton and “The Adventure of Rivet Boy” by David Norris.
Photographer, Ella Morton’s exhibition of photographs captures the transcendent, mysterious, and fragile qualities of landscapes in Newfoundland. Artist and musician David Norris’ animated musical film uses constructed scenes to evoke a sense of nostalgia for adults while accessible and enchanting for younger viewers.
World Premier of “The Adventures of Rivetboy” at 6pm!
Join us on the evening of January 25th for the grand opening of our two newest exhibits: “I AM HERE” (a multimedia show facilitated by River Stone Recovery Centre and Solo Chicken Productions) and “Untitled Dialogue” (a solo exhibit by Yousef Hussain). The opening begins at 4:30pm and runs until 6:00pm. Food and refreshments will be provided. Come out, see some amazing new works, and talk to the artists and organizers!
I AM HERE: The exhibition features original poetry from the participants and the staff of the River Stone Recovery Centre created collaboratively with artist Lisa Anne Ross, portraits by photographer Kelly Baker and oil portraits from artist David Porter. The exhibition is a part of the larger I AM HERE – Postcards from the Edge community arts project, sponsored by the Atlantic Mentorship Network- NB, meant to foster compassion in our community for the participants of River Stone Recovery Centre. Since April 2023, centre participants and staff worked weekly with Ross talking, writing, and building a creative and personal relationship. The result is a collection of deeply personal poetry and intimate portraits by Kelly Baker that are being turned into quietly public postcards that will be shared widely with our community.
Untitled Dialogue: This exhibit invites the audience to engage with the artwork and contribute their own interpretations. The artist presents a series of unlabeled illustrated artworks, creating a blank canvas for the audience to fill in. Those who participate in the exhibit have a chance to win one of the exhibited pieces. The exhibit aims to foster a sense of connection and community through art.
Originally, B70 Internment Camp about 25 miles outside Fredericton was home to German and Austrian Jews who fled the Nazis during the Second World War; later, becoming a prisoner-of-war camp. “Escape” presents a collection of artworks that explore the metaphorical escape from the painful reminders of internment behind barbed wire, as well as appreciating the incredible artistic talent, creativity, and resourcefulness of these internees.
By exploring the drawn, the painted, and the crafted items by many of these prisoners, the exhibition grapples with the memory and memorialization of a difficult and sometimes uncomfortable aspect of Canadian heritage that involved the unjust internment of civilians, including Jews escaping Nazi oppression and many Canadians with only tenuous ties to Axis nations.
Curated by Todd Caissie and organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
In Vision & Dialogue seasoned artists Jennifer Pazienza and Paul Édouard Bourque celebrate the power of conversation with an exhibition that features their distinct and complementary views on painting and drawing, landscape and portraiture. At once critical and poetic, themes of identity, of explicit and implied human presence infuse their unique compositional styles. Place, friendship, and the fluidity of time punctuate the narrative threads of this dynamic duet exhibition.
Curated by Jennifer Pazienza and Paul-Édouard Bourque and organized by the Beaverbrook Art Gallery.
Manuel Mathieu is known for vibrant, colourful paintings that seamlessly merge abstraction with figuration. His work reflects on our intertwined lives, in which the boundaries between the past and present or the personal and political are often blurred. Sharing recollections that depict everyday scenes, Mathieu also blends into his canvases an interrogation of the complex history of his familial homeland, Haiti. By unearthing the traumas of state violence, he addresses issues that remain as urgent today as they have been throughout Haitian history.
This exhibition features a collection of new and past works—including paintings, drawings, and ceramics—shedding light on Haiti’s relationship to the world. Positioned at the fault lines of modern political and environmental crises, Haiti epitomizes a global longing for liberation, and grassroots resistance to imperialist and capitalist exploits. At the centre of this exhibition is an examination of the long-lasting repercussions of Haiti’s pioneering revolt—launched in 1791, challenging slavery and colonialism—and its quest for self-determination, which have led in more recent decades to embroiling the nation in the intrigues of the Cold War. In Zapruder/313 (2016), Mathieu borrows from footage capturing the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy to raise questions about American support of Haiti’s ruthless dictatorships in pursuit of neo-colonial interests.
Other paintings delve into memories of the Duvalier dictatorships (1957-1986) to bring harrowing incidents back into contemporary consciousness. Fort Dimanche 2 (2017) hints at the atrocities committed at the infamous prison where countless political opponents vanished. Mathieu’s work is a reminder that commemorating the tragedies of the past does not fall solely on the shoulders of a nation’s local or diasporic communities. Instead, it is part of our collective responsibility. His works suggest a distinct understanding of Haiti’s history—a history defined by global currents, which occasionally collide to erupt in frenzied episodes of mass violence. Mathieu, therefore, proposes that the dynamics of the world might manifest themselves in one place, like Haiti. Underlining common links and struggles that unite us despite national borders, he invites us to enter a world discovered under other skies.
GSN is thrilled to officially kicked off its 2023-24 programming with 4 new exhibitions on Friday, September 8th!
A collaboration with Imago has once again granted us the pleasure of showing the work the recipient of the 2023 Imago Bursary! This year, Jack Symonds presents: Wait for the fall • S’attendre de tomber.
AND, Rotchild Choisy, recipient of the Bourse Bon à tirer is showing Ou Gon Chay Wap pote? Prends une pause/pose ou porte tes émotions! Portes-tu un fardeau? Do you carry a burden? Strike a pause/pose or wear your emotions! in the Imago Artist-Run Print Studio’s gallery space.
AND, Salle Sans Sous welcomes Serving Wonderlust by Lysanne Lombard and the Member’s Wall is showcasing Pierre Martin’s work Prélude : Un Voyage dans la Forêt Enchantée.
Save the date! Phyllis Webstad is the inspiration for Orange Shirt Day and the Every Child Matters movement and she is coming to Sussex! Thanks to the Sheila Hugh MacKay Foundation and Arts Culture NB, the public is invited to attend the ‘unveiling’ of a massive, temporary, public art installation in honour of Phyllis Webstad on May 24th from 6 to 6:30 at the Sussex High School Theatre. Her books will be available for sale and she will be signing books and orange shirts so be sure to bring your favourite!
Mary Conley’s Time Flies! So Have Fun! and I-Chun Jenkens’ Wonder
OPENING NIGHT May 19, 5:00 to 7:00
See Mary Conley’s playful paper pop-up constructions in the front gallery and I-Chun Jenkens’ woven mixed media works. Both artists will be in attendance. Cash bar, books and artwork will be for sale. Everyone welcome!
