SKIN: SEDUCTION OF SURFACE - AG of NS

NEW EXHIBITION AT THE ART GALLERY OF NOVA SCOTIA 
May 18 to September 8, 2012 

Curator: Sarah Fillmore

Place, race, religion, fragility, identity and sexuality are all probed through physical and conceptual ideas of skin. This exhibition brings together works by Canadian and international artists whose work explore notions of skin in paint, print, sculpture and performance. Opening a dialogue that goes beyond sex and figure, the artworks included in this exhibition help articulate the seduction of surface.

Artists include: Colleen Wolstenholme, Attila Richard Lukacs, Gillian Wearing, Mitch Mitchell, Til Friewald, Shary Boyle, Evergon, Vito Acconcci, Kent Monkman, among others.

Sarah Maloney
Skin, 2011
Glass beads and thread
Collection of the artist

Shary Boyle
Live Old, 2010
30.0 x 25.5 x 22.0 cm
Porcelain and glass beads

Sellars, Kathleen
affinities, 1b and 1c 1998
80.0 x 50.0 x 48.0 cm;
80.0 x 23.0 x 40.0 cm
Cast silicone Purchased with funds provided by The Canada
Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program
and the Art Sales and Rental Society, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, 2001

Janice Wright Cheney
Widow (walking) 2012
wool, cochineal dye, velvet, taxidermy form, pins and wood
 photo: Jeff Crawford
 the artist gratefully acknowledges the support of the New Brunswick Arts Board