Having a drink with Dalì
Fredericton’s Beaverbrook Art Gallery is once again providing the opportunity to drink with Dalí in 2012. New Brunswick’s provincial art gallery is putting on eight open-house events this year called Drinks with Dalí. The events celebrate the gallery’s prized piece Santiago El Grande – a painting by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí – while exposing new [...]
Herménégilde Chiasson has been photoshopping since before Photoshop existed. This past Thursday, St. Thomas University’s Yellow Box Gallery officially opened Identities, its newest exhibit. The collection is from the early works of Chiasson, who was New Brunswick’s Lieutenant Governor from 2003 to 2009. Chiasson is an accomplished Acadian artist. Originally from Saint-Simon, N.B., he’s worked [...]
Continue reading …New exhibit at Gallery Connexion explores the relationship of art and science
October 25, 2011 Comments Off
Fredericton’s Gallery Connexion on York Street welcomed Prague native and Sainte-Marthe, Quebec resident Lenka Novakova last Thursday night for an opening of her Rivers and Skies exhibit, a showcase inspired by the manipulative flowing and bending of light beams through cone-shaped objects made from glass and fishing line. Using a pair of projectors and over [...]
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Close to 100 people escaped the gloom and humidity that was Friday night by attending Méli-Mélo: STUdent Art Show, held at Gallery Connexion. Moving to the musical of Inda Intiar and Kylee French and fuelled by the cookies and pretzel sticks that were provided, they explored the artistic offerings of a student community that is [...]
Continue reading …Former STU student shows off rural / urban photography at Wilser’s Room
September 20, 2011 Comments Off
Mike Erb has shaggy hair, an unshaven look, and one hell of an eye for photography. As you walk into Wilser’s Room downtown, you’re greeted with sounds of music and the clinking of glasses, smells of old wood and booze, and the sight of Erb’s latest exhibition titled Rural / Urban. Known in Fredericton for [...]
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Candace Mooers was in high school when she started to make her own zines. “[My friends and I] were kind of looking for a way to define ourselves and mainstream magazines weren’t cutting it,” she said. “Everything was about dieting and what make-up to use and how to get boys to date you.” They created [...]
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Gallery hopes to attract an alternative scene during Fredericton’s festival season. Many Frederictonians will be flocking downtown for the Harvest Jazz and Blues next week, but Gallery Connexion intends to harbor those not psyched by the festival’s genre-strictness. The Celestial City Art and Culture Fair will feature punk and hardcore bands from all over Canada [...]
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Mike Erb has a flair for seeing what others do not. His new photography show, “Locals”, is about showcasing areas of Fredericton even long-time residents may have never seen. “It’s about areas of Fredericton that are off the beaten path,” Erb said. The photo series was sponsored by Gallery Connexion and is showing in the [...]
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Tara Chislett – The Aquinian – Emerging artist documents OCD through photography Chelsea Stevens has a scar above her left eyebrow. Small and hidden behind her glasses and hair, most people don’t notice it. If someone does, she tells them it’s just a chicken pox scar, leaving out the part where she took tweezers to [...]
Continue reading …Lily Boisson – The Aquinian – Gallery 78 is doing something different. The downtown gallery will exhibit drawings from 13 New Brunswick artists from March 12 until April 4. Gallery assistant Kim Bent said the show will highlight all kinds of drawings, whether they are quick sketches or ready-to-frame works of art. “Primarily it’s to [...]
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Danie Pitre – The Aquinian Gallery Connexion is hosting the Salmon Run auction to raise money for their renovation of their new home, the Chestnut Complex on York Street. The gallery was displaced after the 2008 flood, which caused extensive damage to many buildings in the downtown area. The auction will showcase 23 salmon sculptures [...]
Continue reading …Gallery 78 opens exhibit honoring artists who helped during early years.
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