Classically gendered paintings from wikipedia are disrupted by meaningless Morse Code messages, texturally layered over the images.
Yearly Archives: 2016
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Documentation of a half hour walk down Connolly Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Completed by Ben Mosher on September 16, 2016 at 7:00 exactly until 7:30 exactly. Images taken with an iPhone at 15% battery life.
TERROIR: A NOVA SCOTIA SURVEY
Saturday, 25 June 2016 to Sunday, 15 January 2017
June 25, 2016 – January 15, 2017
Curators: David Diviney, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bruce Johnson, Independent Curator, and Sarah Fillmore, Chief Curator, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Borrowing heavily from the language of wine, this three-part exhibition will look at regional artistic production through the culture from which it emerges. The word “terroir” refers to the complete natural environment in which a particular wine is produced, including factors such as the soil, topography, and climate.
Terroir: a Nova Scotia Survey presents works by 29 artists working in the province, mining its history and culture, and offering a diversity of production.
Artists from across the province responded to an open call, and this exhibition was built exclusively from that list of respondents. The exciting range of experienced and emerging artists make for a dynamic, engaging and diverse exploration of artistic practice. From painters, weavers, sculptors, printmakers, makers of video and installation art, hookers and beyond, Nova Scotia is home to some of the country’s best artists, this is an opportunity to showcase that talent, and unearth its roots.
Group exhibition at NAC Flea Market Gallery curated by Maggie Groat
Collaboration with Katie Mazi
Uncommon Common Art 2016
Pursuing an interest in communication technologies Mosher responds to Kings County’s unique place in communications history. Under Edward Duke of Kent’s instruction a visual semaphore line was constructed intersecting present day Kings County. Mosher reimagines and modernizes this colonial military communications line for civilian use.
Edward’s visual semaphore line began operating in 1797 and ran from Halifax, to Windsor, through Kings County, and then on to Annapolis Royal. A boat crossing the Bay of Fundy relayed messages to St. John and on to Fredericton. Mosher’s communication line traces the old route by crossing the Annapolis Valley from the community of Canaan on the mountain to Woodville, 15kms away on the North Mountain.
Venue: Around Town
Time: Ongoing
Category: Interactive + Workshop
City of Origin: Halifax, NS
Price: FREE
Website: https://benmosherart.wordpress.com/amateur-dendrology/
SNAPSHOT:
See your city from another angle and get in touch with St. Catharines’ tree residents. FREE tours daily.
ABOUT:
Amateur Dendrology was first presented and and performed at the Sculpture Garden Party at Brock University. Since, Ben has beenengulfed in figuring out what types of trees are around him at all times.
PRAISE:
“It’s so wonderful to see people looking at trees.” – Donna Akrey
ARTIST BIO:
Ben Mosher (Field Researcher, Performer, Tree Lover) is an artist originally from Nova Scotia but has resided in Ontario for the last six years until recently returning home. Through this tension of place an interest in dualities and memory developed and forms the basis of their work.
WARNINGS:
This is a walking tour.
What About Rodman Hall?
A Group Show by Members of the Niagara Artists Centre
Opening Reception > Friday 1 April 9PM at NAC
ARTWORKS BY
Gregory Betts, Marcie Bronson, Brittany Brooks, Sandy Fairbairn, Geoff Farnsworth, Alexa Fraser, Janny Fraser, Amy Friend, Will Griffiths, Joe Harris, Marinko Jareb, Duncan MacDonald, Melanie MacDonald, Kate Mazi, Sandy Middleton, Ben Mosher, Catherine Parayre, Carrie Perreault, St. Catharines Arts & Letters Club, Donna Szőke, Matthew Tegal, Amber Lee Williams, Carolyn Wren
As an art gallery, Rodman Hall’s place in the consciousness of our community has fluctuated over its fifty-five-year history. The gallery has at times been a proud emblem of civic health and an indicator of our collective progress, while at other times it has been misunderstood and purposefully marginalized.
The history of the Niagara Artists Centre and Rodman Hall are intertwined. Rodman Hall’s founding curator and director, Peter Harris, was one of NAC’s founding sixteen members. NAC also made an early home in the Coach House on the grounds of Rodman.
The place of the Rodman Hall Art Centre in our community is once again the subject of deliberation. Brock University, which in 2003 pledged to be the sole operator of the art gallery for twenty years, is now reconsidering the terms of its supporting role.
Why is it that our community leaders have not always recognized the value of having a strong, well-resourced public or university art gallery like Rodman Hall?
NAC circulated a call for submissions to our visual artist members in search of ideas about these and other questions around Rodman Hall, an organization mandated to support the development of artists and cultural workers in southern Ontario, as well as to provide art experiences to enrich peoples’ lives.
A large and diverse collection of art work has been assembled for the exhibit. Some of it is obviously aimed at creating controversy; all of it is thoughtfully created and provocative.
NAC invites the public to join with the artists on Friday 1 April at 9PM (April 1st is NAC Day in St. Catharines as decreed by former Mayor Joe McCaffery) to explore questions and issues surrounding the role of Rodman Hall in our community and the possible future of the centre.
Sent to Got Mail East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol, United Kingdom, February 2016
fundraising exhibition of mail art
The Eyelevel Re-shelving Initiative is a biennial exhibition of artist’s books, multiples, and printed matter, refreshing Eyelevel Gallery’s Bookstore with works from established and emerging artists.
Eyelevel Gallery has been invited by the Dalhousie Art Gallery to provide programming in tandem with the exhibition “Why are we saving All these artist publications + Other Galleries stuffs?” which uses content from Eyelevel Gallery’s archives to examine the emergence of artist‐run culture in Halifax in the 1970s. ERI 7 takes the first slot within this exhibition. Work on display will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition during regular gallery hours.
I included a set of 3 typed poems based on spam messages
