The Space was founded in 1997 by Judith Mackin, Karina van der Linden, Jason Fitzpatrick and Chris Lloyd. Judith Mackin managed the gallery from 1998 – 2002, and was instrumental to the founding of the current third space gallery in 2005 and convincing Chris Lloyd to move from Montréal to become Artistic Director.
Sam Blue created the website archives for exhibitions occurring between 1997 – 2000, which can be viewed here or below. For more recent activities, please check our blog page.
November 7th – January 7th, 2000
SUZANNE HILL (Saint John)
Strathbutler Award Winner 1999
Weir
Installation
Opening November 7th, 1999 @ 2:00 pm
A Body of Work based on a consideration of the Weir – as a presence, as a structure and as a metaphor. Hill is an active professional artist and art education consultant. A graduate of Mount Allison and McGill Universities, she exhibits in the Atlantic Region and in Montreal. Weir is funded through a New Brunswick Creations Grant. In May 1999, she received the Strathbutler Award for Excellence. Her works are included in many public and private collections, most recently included in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Private Collection.
Cronin is an artist, writer and freelance curator. He is a regular contributor to ARTS Atlantic and C: International Contemporary Art.
McCluskey is a writer and editor living in Toronto.
October 3rd – November 3rd, 1999
ROSI JORY
My Colors Sing
30 years of art – making
Opening October 3rd, 1999 @ 2:00 pm
(Saint John, born and raised in Germany)Jory, a retired university professor, active artist and language-based painter, provides a retrospective of her work in paintings and sculpture. The Space, in conjunction with Jory’s exhibit, provided a venue for the University of Saint John (where Jory taught for 30 years) to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the “Saint John N.B. – Times Four” Scholarship that was awarded to two students this year.
Sept 5th – Oct. 1st 1999
MITCH ROBERTSON (Toronto)
Famous
photo/paintings/installationOpening September 5th, 1999 @ 2:00 pmExhibition of famous “portraits”
“Buy Sell Trade. Obsessions of fame, beauty, wealth, and collectibles; we are all a part of it, I just want to make you aware.” mitch robertson
Using a wide range of materials, Mitch Robertson creates work based on these four pop-culture obsessions in such a way best described as “condemning by celebrating” their importance to society.
Like every major museum, hall-of-fame, or tourist attraction, famous portraits is comprised of two key elements: The attraction you came for. The souvenir you left with.
Mitch Robertson is a fine arts graduate from both York University, Toronto and Toronto School of Art.
August 6 – September 3, 1999
ALEXANDRA FLOOD (Fredericton)
Gem Hour
Paintings/photographsAugust 6th – Sept. 3rd, 1999
Opening: August 6th, 1999 @ 7:00 pm till midnight! Party! (Cash Bar and DJ)
(in conjunction with the four galleries/one night tour [Trinity Galleries, Handworks Gallery, Peter Buckland Gallery, and THE SPACE] held August 6th, 1999)
Gem Hour, Flood’s latest series of paintings and photographs, began as a series of photographs taken from odd angles off the Home Shopping Network. The photographs were selected for their rich colors and surrealistic views of jewelry. The paintings are photographs that have been transformed into acrylic paintings.
July 22, 1999
“LIVE POETS SOCIETY”
in collaboration with The Space – a co-op Gallery presents a poetry reading by three southern New Brunswick Poets
Host: Derek Hamilton
Poets: Anne Compton, Kelly Cooper & Mark Henderson
Producer: Margot Wright, CBC
CBC Radio One presents a series of readings by Maritime poets on “Live Poets Society”, broadcast each Sunday morning throughout the Summer at 8:30. This evening’s program was being taped for broadcast. Audience reaction to the readings was an important part of the show, and was therefore asked to applaud, laugh or react in any way. The Saint John show was heard this past year on August 8th, 1999, across the country.
July 15th, 16th, 1999
LALO ESPEJO (Vancouver Artist)
Sand in my shorts
Performance/play
Before coming to Vancouver, Lalo was a journalist in Belize. He is a member of the Playwrights Theatre Centre’s writers cabal and one of five writers, with Karen Turner, of On The Brink’s up-coming weekly production of The Thousand Year Itch: Tales of the Countdown.
July 4th, 1999 to August 4th, 1999
CHRIS GILES
Faucet
Installation Giles – (Fredericton)
Giles presents work of photography in a large scale (5 ft X 6 ft) of garbage, roadkill, and the like, that upon closer inspection, prove to posses beauty. He creates an installation that takes found objects and photographs, which in turn present the contrast between garbage and beauty, life and death, motion and stillness.
June 17th, 1999
BETH POWNING
Shadow Child (Best Seller List)
Penguin Books
Book Reading
Beth Powning – New Brunswick
Powning reads from her moving novel of meditation on love and loss that takes readers and listeners on a powerful journey into the heart of grief and renewal as she speaks of her life in delivering a stillborn child. Powning’s writing and photography have been published widely in magazines and literary journals. Her first book Seeds of Another Summer, received great critical acclaim throughout North America.
May 19, 1999
Barbera Nickel (Vancouver)
Dual poetry Reading
The Gladys Elegies
Brick Books
Born in Saskatoon and raised in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Nickel now writes and teaches violin in Vancouver. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of BC where she is the poetry editor of PRISM International.
Stephanie Bolster
Governor General’s Award Winner
The Alice Poems
McLelland & Stewart
Stephanie Bolster – Ottawa
Bolster’s poems have been published internationally in literary journals and anthologies. She has won awards for her poetry, including the Bronwen Wallace Award and The Malahat Review’s long poem prize. Her first collection, White Stone: The Alice Poems, published in 1998, won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Born and raised in Vancouver, she now lives in Ottawa where she works as an editor for the National Gallery of Canada and a writing instructor.
April 10th, 1999
CAROLE LANGILLE (Governor General Nominee)
In Cannon Cave
Brick Books
Poetry Reading
Originally from New York, now living in Lunnenburg, Nova Scotia, she is the author of another book of poetry, All That Glitters in Water, and the children’s book, Where the Wind Sleeps, a Canadian Children’s Book Centre Choice for 1996-1997.
May 2nd, 1999-May 29th, 1999
RCS NETHERWOOD GRADE 12 ART STUDENTS
Transitions
Curated by: Roger Gilman
Mixed Media
Motivators: Richard Flynn and Jason Fitzpatrick
Open House in Conjunction with
Deep See – “Off the Wall” outdoor festival of Art ’99
May 8th, 1999
Rothesay High School Students
Transitions is an attempt to negotiate the shifting terrain of a post-modern environment. Bridging the social, political, and cultural spheres. Transitions functions as a marriage of individual freedom and collective responsibility in a response to deficiencies within existing paradigms.
April 15th, 1999
RICHARD SANGER
Reading from Shadow Cabinet and other recent work
April 10th, 1999
IN MOTION – New Music
Mark Carmody
Nadia Francavilla – Violin
D’arcy Philip Gray – percussion
Andrew Miller – BassIn Motion is a non-profit music organization dedicated to innovation, excellence and education. In Motion is a presenter of new music and interdisciplinary performance across NB in public venues, art galleries, schools and bars. In Motion has presented music to thousands of children throughout New Brunswick. In Motion is small high-energy ensemble selected from the finest professional artists from across NB, often mixed with top performers from beyond.
March 28 – April 28th, 1999
CAROL TAYLOR
History Lesson
Sculpture
Saint John
Sculptural Clay Heads containing several mediums; barbies, books, computer chips, cards, glaze, etc. Taylor’s pieces were made over the prior year being the right method of expression for this time of her life. A time to consider what “being older” means, a time of seeing friends and relatives age into nursing homes, a time of realizing how important having a clear mind is in the process of aging, experiencing illness and unwanted changes in ourselves and our lives.
Image: Herzl & Nadia Kashetsky, “Nadia”, 24?X 24?, pencil, marker, oil
February 21st -March 19th, 1999
GROUP SHOW
In the Womb
GAIL DUJOHN, DOMINICK EDEN, HERZL KASHETSKY, JUDITH MACKIN, SONYA MAHNIX, SAMUEL PALMER, PETER SALMON, CLIFF TURNER
Special Guests: Gallery Connexion Members
LINDA BRINE, NOREEN CARR, SUZANNE HILL, PHILIP IVERSON, MONICA MACDONALD, SARAH PETITE, VITA PLUME, PAT SCHELL, CAROL TAYLOR
Choosing a theme can be somewhat difficult as themes can be constrictive to the artist. After some thought I decided that the “Womb” is a Universal topic that effects everyone in some fashion, and reveals many interpretations: emotional, political and social – as experienced by the work in this exhibit.My thanks and appreciation go out to the artists who embraced this theme and participated in the show. It has been a privilege dealing with the artists in Fredericton from Gallery Connexion. It is my hope this shared exhibit is just a small step towards building a strong (and necessary) relationship between the two art communities. – Judith Mackin, Curator
“We were together from the womb, and even before that Do you think this ancient thing between us can be simply willed away?” – Exerpt from “Heaven of Small Moments” poems by Allan Cooper translation of Lin Chu Broken Jaw Press
January 10th – February 12th, 1999
ANDREA MANTIN, JASON JONES, SYM CORRIGAN, CAROLYN MEILLI KRISTINA LAHDE
RSVP
Sculptural Installation
respond, commit, engage
A sculptural installation that has evolved out of a collaboration between five Halifax-based artists. The exhibition examines the constructs of visual display in public institutions using the museological format of the diorama.
1998
October 4th – November 13th, 1998
BILL HICKS
Oil Drums
Illustrations
September 30th, 1998
JOHN TERPSTRA
The Church Not Made With Hands
Book Launch, Poetry Reading
IN MOTION – New Music
Choreographer/performance artist, violin
Lee Saunders/Nadia Francavilla percussion, bass
D’Arcy Philip Gray, Andrew MillerIn Motion is a non-profit new music organization dedicated to innovation, excellence and education.
In Motion will present several newly commissioned works by New Brunswick composers in the 98-99 season.
Performances take place in public venues, art galleries, schools, and bars.
In Motion entertains and enlightens thousands of children throughout New Brunswick.Andrew Miller (director of In Motion, Fredericton)
Andrew Miller has played with Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The Canadian Opera, and the Stra
Lee Saunders (choreographer, Petitcodiac)
Performances by Lee Saunders can thrill you, take you to the edge of your seat. Lee’s unique approach to personal research, teaching, and performance has taken her throughout North America and Europe. The late Christina Sabat called her “an acknowledged dance original”.
Nadia Francavilla (violin, Moncton)
Nadia was educate at McGill University and is a member of the Quatuor Arthur LeBlanc. She has also toured the world with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and once had all her luggage lost and was forced to shop for new clothes at several boutiques in Los Angeles.
September 1st – October 2nd, 1998
LISE HANSEN
Into the Garden
Illustrations, Paintings
August 9th – August 29th, 1998
CHRIS LLOYD, JEREMIAH DEGRANDPRE
Collaboration/Installation/Paintings
July 19th – August 7th, 1998
Mark Dixon, Chas Mackay, John Friedirchsen
SCULPTURE SHOW
Image: Pat Schell, (wall piece), tar paper ‘shingles’, red sticks, metal, 1998
June 28th – July 16th, 1998
PAT SCHELL
Process/Red Installation
“The Space Gallery is a wonderful area for ideas to be realized. The Space offered me an opportunity to create art in an ideal, open workshop. My art making involves a time consuming process of looking for and gathering materials. Branches, stones, and other materials are the lines, shapes and textures of my work – they are my media. I see installations being similar to architecture – first the conception, then the plan, next the units, and finally the construction on site. – Pat Schell
* this exhibit listed in Sue McCluskey’s top 10 year end list for 1998 art shows
* reviewed in Espace Sculpture Magazine Issue # 47, page 40
April 30th, 1998
PAUL BOWDRING
A Night Season
Book Launch/Reading
May 24th – June 20th, 1998
LISE ROBICHAUD
Birth-Place
Installation
Lise Robichaud, an Acadian Born in Caraquet (NB), lives in Moncton since 1978. She uses research to create and explore painterly art and installation, drawing on themes from her memory and her historical, social and ecological context. She earned a masters degree in fine arts from the Universite du Quebec a Montreal and a PH.D. in Art Education from Concordia University. Lise is one of the 17 francophone artists from around the world whos installation art project was slected to participate in the Symposium d’art actuel in Moncton 1999, an international event dealing with contmeporary art. She is currently teaching art and art education courses at the Universite de Moncton.
“Robichaud’s work in Birth-Place is subtly evocative tying together the Myriad themes and motifs, using numbers and carefully chosen symbols. Through repetition and evolution of its forms, Birth-Place is an installation that speaks of connectedness, the connectedness of place and time, of land and sea, and, finally, of birth and rebirth.” (Review by McCluskey 1998)
McCluskey, S. (1998, May). Natural Numbers: Moncton artist Lise Robichaud’s exhibit takes numbers beyond math. Saint John: Times Globe
April 26th – May 16th, 1998
GLENN HALL
Portraits
Paintings, Sketches
April 23rd, 1998
DAN WALSH
Games, Dreams and Paper Bags
Book Launch/Reading
April 5th -April 25th, 1998
RICHARD PURDY
Recent Works
Paintings
March 15th – April 4th, 1998
PAUL HEALEY
Recent Works
Paintings
March 1st – March 14th, 1998
ROGER GILMAN
Human
Installation
January 18th – February 14th, 1998
l9 ARTISTS (Group Show)
Portraits
Mixed media
1997
December 14th – January 10th, 1998
NSCAD Students
Printed Matter
Literature, books
November 16th – December 13th, 1997
GORDON JENNINGS
Recent Works
Paintings
October 12th – November 8th, 1997
JASON FITZPATRICK
Plumb
Installation
Plumb implies a form of primal truth. The “plumb’ defines energy that can not be seen, perhaps the relationship of tension between gravity, earth and the body.
The installation is built by sensuality and aggression not as a consumable image but an experience. – Jason Fitzpatrick
Image: “nastursiums”, oil on board, 6?x12?, 1997
September 14th – October 11th, 1997
GERARD COLLINS
Recent Works
Paintings
A native of Saint John, Gerard Collins has been exhibiting regularly for more than two decades. He has had numerous exhibitions in Saint John, Fredericton, Moncton, Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto and London (UK). Collins’ work has been praised by critics, curators and collectors. Two works recently acquired by the National Gallery places Collins in league with other notable Saint John painters: Jack Humphrey, Miller Brittain, Ruth Starr and Fred Ross.
Image: Grant D. Kelly, “Sanctuary”, sepia toned, hand coloured, 12? x 24?
August 19th – September 10th, 1997
Freeman Patterson, Grant Kelly, Jamie Wilson, Chris Lloyd
PHOTOGRAPHY (Group Show)
August 3rd – August 16th, 1997
POVERTY
Children’s exhibit on local poverty
What it is. Ways to reduce it.
Guest Photographer – Rob Roy
July 13th – July 26th, 1997
16 artists (Group Show)
A GATHERING
Mixed Media
Gerry Collins, Elizabeth Cran, Victoria Charters, Peter Doyle, Viola Frazier, Jason Fitzpatrick, Lise Hansen, Glenn Hall, Paul Healey, Gordon Jennings, Stephen Jorden, Chris Lloyd, Stephane Martin, Murielle McDonald, Madison Shadwell & Rob Stafford
June 22nd – July 5th, 1997
CHRIS LLOYD, JASON FITZPATRICK
Installation
(shelac, enamel paint, school desk, dust)
“.. it was an event which occured in June 1997. I had just set up a temporary studio on the top floor above Printing Plus. Karina pointed out a heavy steel door on rollers by a far wall and wanted to see what was behind it. I was convinced that there would be nothing but a brick wall, but after she drove me crazy with her curiosity we combined our efforts and managed to get the door back on its track and slide it open to reveal….nothing. Just empty, dark space; the antithesis of a brick wall. as our eyes adjusted to the darkness, we slowly ventured in, up a slight ramp and into a cavernous, empty room. An empty, dusty room. Very dusty. Years and years of dust, I’m sure. What fascination we felt for this discovered space! We were convinced immediately that it would make the perfect gallery… and I must admit I am pleasantly suprised that it became a reality and has been evolving ever since…..
Artist Run Centres, co-ops and the like are important elements in a community. Art is not always about an object created for a marketplace; it tends to exist all around us and manifests itslef in many forms. Venues like the Space exist to allow art to unfold in a myriad of ways; to be critical and engaging, to be informative and moving and to challenge us…
Chris Lloyd
– 2000
The Space was founded in 1997 by Judith Mackin, Karina van der Linden, Jason Fitzpatrick and Chris Lloyd. Judith Mackin managed the gallery from 1998 – 2002, and was instrumental to the founding of the current third space gallery in 2005 and convincing Chris Lloyd to move from Montréal to become Artistic Director.
Sam Blue created the website archives for exhibitions occurring between 1997 – 2000, which can be viewed here or below. For more recent activities, please check our blog page.
November 7th – January 7th, 2000
SUZANNE HILL (Saint John)
Strathbutler Award Winner 1999
Weir
Installation
Opening November 7th, 1999 @ 2:00 pm
A Body of Work based on a consideration of the Weir – as a presence, as a structure and as a metaphor. Hill is an active professional artist and art education consultant. A graduate of Mount Allison and McGill Universities, she exhibits in the Atlantic Region and in Montreal. Weir is funded through a New Brunswick Creations Grant. In May 1999, she received the Strathbutler Award for Excellence. Her works are included in many public and private collections, most recently included in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Private Collection.
Cronin is an artist, writer and freelance curator. He is a regular contributor to ARTS Atlantic and C: International Contemporary Art.
McCluskey is a writer and editor living in Toronto.
October 3rd – November 3rd, 1999
ROSI JORY
My Colors Sing
30 years of art – making
Opening October 3rd, 1999 @ 2:00 pm
(Saint John, born and raised in Germany)Jory, a retired university professor, active artist and language-based painter, provides a retrospective of her work in paintings and sculpture. The Space, in conjunction with Jory’s exhibit, provided a venue for the University of Saint John (where Jory taught for 30 years) to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the “Saint John N.B. – Times Four” Scholarship that was awarded to two students this year.
Sept 5th – Oct. 1st 1999
MITCH ROBERTSON (Toronto)
Famous
photo/paintings/installationOpening September 5th, 1999 @ 2:00 pmExhibition of famous “portraits”
“Buy Sell Trade. Obsessions of fame, beauty, wealth, and collectibles; we are all a part of it, I just want to make you aware.” mitch robertson
Using a wide range of materials, Mitch Robertson creates work based on these four pop-culture obsessions in such a way best described as “condemning by celebrating” their importance to society.
Like every major museum, hall-of-fame, or tourist attraction, famous portraits is comprised of two key elements: The attraction you came for. The souvenir you left with.
Mitch Robertson is a fine arts graduate from both York University, Toronto and Toronto School of Art.
August 6 – September 3, 1999
ALEXANDRA FLOOD (Fredericton)
Gem Hour
Paintings/photographsAugust 6th – Sept. 3rd, 1999
Opening: August 6th, 1999 @ 7:00 pm till midnight! Party! (Cash Bar and DJ)
(in conjunction with the four galleries/one night tour [Trinity Galleries, Handworks Gallery, Peter Buckland Gallery, and THE SPACE] held August 6th, 1999)
Gem Hour, Flood’s latest series of paintings and photographs, began as a series of photographs taken from odd angles off the Home Shopping Network. The photographs were selected for their rich colors and surrealistic views of jewelry. The paintings are photographs that have been transformed into acrylic paintings.
July 22, 1999
“LIVE POETS SOCIETY”
in collaboration with The Space – a co-op Gallery presents a poetry reading by three southern New Brunswick Poets
Host: Derek Hamilton
Poets: Anne Compton, Kelly Cooper & Mark Henderson
Producer: Margot Wright, CBC
CBC Radio One presents a series of readings by Maritime poets on “Live Poets Society”, broadcast each Sunday morning throughout the Summer at 8:30. This evening’s program was being taped for broadcast. Audience reaction to the readings was an important part of the show, and was therefore asked to applaud, laugh or react in any way. The Saint John show was heard this past year on August 8th, 1999, across the country.
July 15th, 16th
LALO ESPEJO (Vancouver Artist)
Sand in my shorts
Performance/play
Before coming to Vancouver, Lalo was a journalist in Belize. He is a member of the Playwrights Theatre Centre’s writers cabal and one of five writers, with Karen Turner, of On The Brink’s up-coming weekly production of The Thousand Year Itch: Tales of the Countdown.
July 4th, 1999 to August 4th, 1999
CHRIS GILES
Faucet
Installation Giles – (Fredericton)
Giles presents work of photography in a large scale (5 ft X 6 ft) of garbage, roadkill, and the like, that upon closer inspection, prove to posses beauty. He creates an installation that takes found objects and photographs, which in turn present the contrast between garbage and beauty, life and death, motion and stillness.
June 17th, 1999
BETH POWNING
Shadow Child (Best Seller List)
Penguin Books
Book Reading
Beth Powning – New Brunswick
Powning reads from her moving novel of meditation on love and loss that takes readers and listeners on a powerful journey into the heart of grief and renewal as she speaks of her life in delivering a stillborn child. Powning’s writing and photography have been published widely in magazines and literary journals. Her first book Seeds of Another Summer, received great critical acclaim throughout North America.
May 19, 1999
Barbera Nickel (Vancouver)
Dual poetry Reading
The Gladys Elegies
Brick Books
Born in Saskatoon and raised in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Nickel now writes and teaches violin in Vancouver. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of BC where she is the poetry editor of PRISM International.
Stephanie Bolster
Governor General’s Award Winner
The Alice Poems
McLelland & Stewart
Stephanie Bolster – Ottawa
Bolster’s poems have been published internationally in literary journals and anthologies. She has won awards for her poetry, including the Bronwen Wallace Award and The Malahat Review’s long poem prize. Her first collection, White Stone: The Alice Poems, published in 1998, won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Born and raised in Vancouver, she now lives in Ottawa where she works as an editor for the National Gallery of Canada and a writing instructor.
April 10th, 1999
CAROLE LANGILLE (Governor General Nominee)
In Cannon Cave
Brick Books
Poetry Reading
Originally from New York, now living in Lunnenburg, Nova Scotia, she is the author of another book of poetry, All That Glitters in Water, and the children’s book, Where the Wind Sleeps, a Canadian Children’s Book Centre Choice for 1996-1997.
May 2nd, 1999-May 29th, 1999
RCS NETHERWOOD GRADE 12 ART STUDENTS
Transitions
Curated by: Roger Gilman
Mixed Media
Motivators: Richard Flynn and Jason Fitzpatrick
Open House in Conjunction with
Deep See – “Off the Wall” outdoor festival of Art ’99
May 8th, 1999
Rothesay High School Students
Transitions is an attempt to negotiate the shifting terrain of a post-modern environment. Bridging the social, political, and cultural spheres. Transitions functions as a marriage of individual freedom and collective responsibility in a response to deficiencies within existing paradigms.
April 15th, 1999
RICHARD SANGER
Reading from Shadow Cabinet and other recent work
April 10th, 1999
IN MOTION – New Music
Mark Carmody
Nadia Francavilla – Violin
D’arcy Philip Gray – percussion
Andrew Miller – BassIn Motion is a non-profit music organization dedicated to innovation, excellence and education. In Motion is a presenter of new music and interdisciplinary performance across NB in public venues, art galleries, schools and bars. In Motion has presented music to thousands of children throughout New Brunswick. In Motion is small high-energy ensemble selected from the finest professional artists from across NB, often mixed with top performers from beyond.
March 28 – April 28th, 1999
CAROL TAYLOR
History Lesson
Sculpture
Saint John
Sculptural Clay Heads containing several mediums; barbies, books, computer chips, cards, glaze, etc. Taylor’s pieces were made over the prior year being the right method of expression for this time of her life. A time to consider what “being older” means, a time of seeing friends and relatives age into nursing homes, a time of realizing how important having a clear mind is in the process of aging, experiencing illness and unwanted changes in ourselves and our lives.
Image: Herzl & Nadia Kashetsky, “Nadia”, 24?X 24?, pencil, marker, oil
February 21st -March 19th, 1999
GROUP SHOW
In the Womb
GAIL DUJOHN, DOMINICK EDEN, HERZL KASHETSKY, JUDITH MACKIN, SONYA MAHNIX, SAMUEL PALMER, PETER SALMON, CLIFF TURNER
Special Guests: Gallery Connexion Members
LINDA BRINE, NOREEN CARR, SUZANNE HILL, PHILIP IVERSON, MONICA MACDONALD, SARAH PETITE, VITA PLUME, PAT SCHELL, CAROL TAYLOR
Choosing a theme can be somewhat difficult as themes can be constrictive to the artist. After some thought I decided that the “Womb” is a Universal topic that effects everyone in some fashion, and reveals many interpretations: emotional, political and social – as experienced by the work in this exhibit.My thanks and appreciation go out to the artists who embraced this theme and participated in the show. It has been a privilege dealing with the artists in Fredericton from Gallery Connexion. It is my hope this shared exhibit is just a small step towards building a strong (and necessary) relationship between the two art communities. – Judith Mackin, Curator
“We were together from the womb, and even before that Do you think this ancient thing between us can be simply willed away?” – Exerpt from “Heaven of Small Moments” poems by Allan Cooper translation of Lin Chu Broken Jaw Press
January 10th – February 12th, 1999
ANDREA MANTIN, JASON JONES, SYM CORRIGAN, CAROLYN MEILLI KRISTINA LAHDE
RSVP
Sculptural Installation
respond, commit, engage
A sculptural installation that has evolved out of a collaboration between five Halifax-based artists. The exhibition examines the constructs of visual display in public institutions using the museological format of the diorama.
1998
October 4th – November 13th, 1998
BILL HICKS
Oil Drums
Illustrations
September 30th, 1998
JOHN TERPSTRA
The Church Not Made With Hands
Book Launch, Poetry Reading
IN MOTION – New Music
Choreographer/performance artist, violin
Lee Saunders/Nadia Francavilla percussion, bass
D’Arcy Philip Gray, Andrew MillerIn Motion is a non-profit new music organization dedicated to innovation, excellence and education.
In Motion will present several newly commissioned works by New Brunswick composers in the 98-99 season.
Performances take place in public venues, art galleries, schools, and bars.
In Motion entertains and enlightens thousands of children throughout New Brunswick.Andrew Miller (director of In Motion, Fredericton)
Andrew Miller has played with Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The Canadian Opera, and the Stra
Lee Saunders (choreographer, Petitcodiac)
Performances by Lee Saunders can thrill you, take you to the edge of your seat. Lee’s unique approach to personal research, teaching, and performance has taken her throughout North America and Europe. The late Christina Sabat called her “an acknowledged dance original”.
Nadia Francavilla (violin, Moncton)
Nadia was educate at McGill University and is a member of the Quatuor Arthur LeBlanc. She has also toured the world with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and once had all her luggage lost and was forced to shop for new clothes at several boutiques in Los Angeles.
September 1st – October 2nd, 1998
LISE HANSEN
Into the Garden
Illustrations, Paintings
August 9th – August 29th, 1998
CHRIS LLOYD, JEREMIAH DEGRANDPRE
Collaboration/Installation/Paintings
July 19th – August 7th, 1998
Mark Dixon, Chas Mackay, John Friedirchsen
SCULPTURE SHOW
Image: Pat Schell, (wall piece), tar paper ‘shingles’, red sticks, metal, 1998
June 28th – July 16th, 1998
PAT SCHELL
Process/Red Installation
“The Space Gallery is a wonderful area for ideas to be realized. The Space offered me an opportunity to create art in an ideal, open workshop. My art making involves a time consuming process of looking for and gathering materials. Branches, stones, and other materials are the lines, shapes and textures of my work – they are my media. I see installations being similar to architecture – first the conception, then the plan, next the units, and finally the construction on site. – Pat Schell
* this exhibit listed in Sue McCluskey’s top 10 year end list for 1998 art shows
* reviewed in Espace Sculpture Magazine Issue # 47, page 40
April 30th, 1998
PAUL BOWDRING
A Night Season
Book Launch/Reading
May 24th – June 20th, 1998
LISE ROBICHAUD
Birth-Place
Installation
Lise Robichaud, an Acadian Born in Caraquet (NB), lives in Moncton since 1978. She uses research to create and explore painterly art and installation, drawing on themes from her memory and her historical, social and ecological context. She earned a masters degree in fine arts from the Universite du Quebec a Montreal and a PH.D. in Art Education from Concordia University. Lise is one of the 17 francophone artists from around the world whos installation art project was slected to participate in the Symposium d’art actuel in Moncton 1999, an international event dealing with contmeporary art. She is currently teaching art and art education courses at the Universite de Moncton.
“Robichaud’s work in Birth-Place is subtly evocative tying together the Myriad themes and motifs, using numbers and carefully chosen symbols. Through repetition and evolution of its forms, Birth-Place is an installation that speaks of connectedness, the connectedness of place and time, of land and sea, and, finally, of birth and rebirth.” (Review by McCluskey 1998)
McCluskey, S. (1998, May). Natural Numbers: Moncton artist Lise Robichaud’s exhibit takes numbers beyond math. Saint John: Times Globe
April 26th – May 16th, 1998
GLENN HALL
Portraits
Paintings, Sketches
April 23rd, 1998
DAN WALSH
Games, Dreams and Paper Bags
Book Launch/Reading
April 5th -April 25th, 1998
RICHARD PURDY
Recent Works
Paintings
March 15th – April 4th, 1998
PAUL HEALEY
Recent Works
Paintings
March 1st – March 14th, 1998
ROGER GILMAN
Human
Installation
January 18th – February 14th, 1998
l9 ARTISTS (Group Show)
Portraits
Mixed media
1997
December 14th – January 10th, 1998
NSCAD Students
Printed Matter
Literature, books
November 16th – December 13th, 1997
GORDON JENNINGS
Recent Works
Paintings
October 12th – November 8th, 1997
JASON FITZPATRICK
Plumb
Installation
Plumb implies a form of primal truth. The “plumb’ defines energy that can not be seen, perhaps the relationship of tension between gravity, earth and the body.
The installation is built by sensuality and aggression not as a consumable image but an experience. – Jason Fitzpatrick
Image: “nastursiums”, oil on board, 6?x12?, 1997
September 14th – October 11th, 1997
GERARD COLLINS
Recent Works
Paintings
A native of Saint John, Gerard Collins has been exhibiting regularly for more than two decades. He has had numerous exhibitions in Saint John, Fredericton, Moncton, Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto and London (UK). Collins’ work has been praised by critics, curators and collectors. Two works recently acquired by the National Gallery places Collins in league with other notable Saint John painters: Jack Humphrey, Miller Brittain, Ruth Starr and Fred Ross.
Image: Grant D. Kelly, “Sanctuary”, sepia toned, hand coloured, 12? x 24?
August 19th – September 10th, 1997
Freeman Patterson, Grant Kelly, Jamie Wilson, Chris Lloyd
PHOTOGRAPHY (Group Show)
August 3rd – August 16th, 1997
POVERTY
Children’s exhibit on local poverty
What it is. Ways to reduce it.
Guest Photographer – Rob Roy
July 13th – July 26th, 1997
16 artists (Group Show)
A GATHERING
Mixed Media
Gerry Collins, Elizabeth Cran, Victoria Charters, Peter Doyle, Viola Frazier, Jason Fitzpatrick, Lise Hansen, Glenn Hall, Paul Healey, Gordon Jennings, Stephen Jorden, Chris Lloyd, Stephane Martin, Murielle McDonald, Madison Shadwell & Rob Stafford
June 22nd – July 5th, 1997
CHRIS LLOYD, JASON FITZPATRICK
Installation
(shelac, enamel paint, school desk, dust)
“.. it was an event which occured in June 1997. I had just set up a temporary studio on the top floor above Printing Plus. Karina pointed out a heavy steel door on rollers by a far wall and wanted to see what was behind it. I was convinced that there would be nothing but a brick wall, but after she drove me crazy with her curiosity we combined our efforts and managed to get the door back on its track and slide it open to reveal….nothing. Just empty, dark space; the antithesis of a brick wall. as our eyes adjusted to the darkness, we slowly ventured in, up a slight ramp and into a cavernous, empty room. An empty, dusty room. Very dusty. Years and years of dust, I’m sure. What fascination we felt for this discovered space! We were convinced immediately that it would make the perfect gallery… and I must admit I am pleasantly suprised that it became a reality and has been evolving ever since…..
Artist Run Centres, co-ops and the like are important elements in a community. Art is not always about an object created for a marketplace; it tends to exist all around us and manifests itslef in many forms. Venues like the Space exist to allow art to unfold in a myriad of ways; to be critical and engaging, to be informative and moving and to challenge us…
-Chris Lloyd, 2000