Gallery Connexion

Souls of God (Get Back to Us) and Slaughterhouse

Juan Luis Zavaleta

January 13 to February 24, 2011

Working on the kill floor, Zavaleta saw ten thousand hogs slaughtered every single day in an amazingly efficient production line. As an artist, he took advantage of this bleak day job to develop a body of work that brings to public attention, the immoral way these animals are killed, bled to death and dismembered.

Difference by Robin Peck and Virutorium by the KIT Collaboration and Robert Saucier

March 17 to May 6, 2011

A dual solo exhibition: a minimalist installation by Robin Peck in the main gallery and an interactive robotic sound installation by the Kit Collaboration and Robert Saucier in the 1922 Gallery.

Rivers and Skies

Lenka Novakova

October 20 to December 1, 2011

Rivers and Skies is an installation project exploring the relationship of two elements through interconnection of art and science. It is a body of work consisting of several thematically related installations combining sculptural structures as optical instruments with simple technologies and cinema.

Out of Purgatory

Gallery Connexion members

December 2 to 31, 2010

Works completed by Gallery Connexion members: Carol Collicutt, Derek Davidson, Carol Taylor, WhiteFeather, Joss Richer, Kim Vose Jones, Amanda Saulnier, Rita Sassani, Oliver Flecknell, Karen LeBlanc, Monica Lacey, Ann Kittredge

Immony Men

Last Night at the Chestnut

October 20 to November 25, 2010
Opening reception Wednesday, October 20 at 5pm with an artist talk at 6pm - free / Music by Slate Pacific, Play Guitar, Ten Kens at 8pm - $6 admission

Immony Men's installation Last Night at the Chestnut is the result of a two week residency. The artist's goal was to create an exhibition that reflects the history of the building Gallery Connexion is housed in. Using research from the Provincial Archives including transcribed interviews from factory workers, books on the Chestnut Canoe Factory, and a compilation of memories and stories of local community members.

Doug Guildford

May 19 to June 30, 2011

10 years ago the artist began collecting and editing bait bags, rope and fishing tackle, that wash up on the shore by his home in Nova Scotia. These cultural artifacts – the flotsam and jetsam of salvaged fragments of tools and materials, resonate for the artist as evidence of the expiring offshore fishery.

All My Little Failures

Andrew McPhail

August 4 - September 23, 2011

Andrew McPhail’s recent work has centered on his HIV status. All My Little Failures is a sculptural installation made of band-aids. This body of work has recently taken the form of a large veil made of 30,000 band-aids that the artist uses in performance pieces or installed in an installation.

Suzanne Caines

Artist-In-Residence

July, August, September 2010

Suzanne Caines is a professional artist and graduate of the Chelsea College of Art and Design. Her work has focused, through performance pieces in public spaces, on manipulating fiction into reality, which leaves the viewer questioning their identity.

Clark Ferguson

In Search Of Desire

May 20 to June 24, 2010

Featuring a mixture of video and installation, Ferguson's exhibition explores weighty topics such as nihilism, voyeurism vis-à-vis mortality, and the futility of emotional experiences all through the lens of humor.

Derek Besant

15 Restless Nights

April 8 to May 13, 2010

15 Restless Nights is an exhibition of large-scale images of reconstructed unmade hotel beds, plus a noir-like soundtrack with 15 moments by author Diane Schoemperlen in French and English about anonymous nights spent in different cities in motels.

Jose Luis Torres

Nomadic Landscape, Artist Residency and Exhibition

Residency: February 2 -11, 2010
Exhibition: February 11 to March 25, 2010

José Luis returns to Fredericton to complete his artist-residency with a gallery component. From July 8 to 15, 2009 José Luis built a permanent outdoor sculpture in the Culture Garden behind the Charlotte Street Art Center.

Jose Luis Torres

Nomadic Landscape, Outdoor Residency

July 8 to July 15, 2009

Gallery Connexion, in partnership with Fredericton Arts and Learning, is thrilled to announce an outdoor residency with José Luis Torres. José Luis is working outdoors from July 8 to July 15 on a new and exciting permanent sculpture to be part of the newly developing Culture Garden behind the Charlotte Street Art Center at 732 Charlotte Street.

Paule Mainguy

Master Printmakers 3/3 – Printer's Proofs

March 12 to April 25, 2009

Printer's Proofs is an acknowledgment of Paule Mainguy's love for engraving and of her immense pleasure in working with artists who are so very different from one another in their practices as well as in their printed work, especially in intaglio.

Immony Men

Effections: We Need to Talk

April 30 to June 21, 2009

Effections: We Need to Talk is a series of video installations based on a labour-intensive process. Each installation is a video composed of digital prints illustrating different components of intimate relations.

Peter Kingstone

100 Stories About My Grandmother

January 24 to March 7, 2009 at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in the Joseph and Fanny Oppenheimer Gallery

A documentary work, 100 Stories About My Grandmother is a four channel video installation weaving together portraits of male sex trade workers telling stories about their grandmothers.

Sophie Jodoin

Head-Games: hoods, helmets & gasmasks

September 19 to October 17, 2008 at the UNB Art Centre

Gallery Connexion, in partnership with the UNB Art Centre, is pleased to present Head-Games; hoods, helmets & gasmasks, an exhibition of drawings and video by Montreal artist Sophie Jodoin, video in collaboration with David Jhave Johnston.

Tony Scherman

Paper Works

September 22 to October 17, 2008 at Old Government House Gallery

Gallery Connexion is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings titled Paper Works by artist Tony Scherman. The exhibition is hosted by the Honourable Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, Herménégilde Chiasson at Old Government House at 51 Woodstock Road.

Lois Schklar

Familiar Territory

August 1 to August 22, 2008

Familiar Territory is an ongoing series utilizing urban and natural objects that Lois avidly collected or used in creating art for over twenty-five years. Part of Lois' residency will involve collecting objects from the Fredericton area.

Gallery Connexion Exposed

Group Show

City Hall Gallery, July 3 to August 29, 2008 and Charlotte Glencross Gallery, June 3 to July 15, 2008

Gallery Connexion Exposed is a non-juried group exhibition showcasing some of the excellent work being produced by Connexion's artist members, including artists from Prince Edward Island, Saint John, and Fredericton.

Robert Van de Peer

Master Printmakers 2/3 - Then and Now

April 4 to May 16, 2008

Then and Now is an exhibition of prints by Master Printmaker Robert A. Van de Peer. Van de Peer is the second in a series of three Master Printmakers to be showcased at Gallery Connexion over the course of three years.

Bonnie Devine

Writing Home

February 1 to March 21, 2008

In this work Devine remodels the act of 'writing home' into an actualization of her correspondence with home, specifically Serpent River. Through photographs, sound, and impressions cast in glass, the artist presents her home, replete in texture and history.