Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Although the exhibit Protection and Social Harmony in the Art of West and Central Africa has little symmetry, the individual pieces are worth viewing.
  • 9 years 4 months ago

Empowerment in figures

A new exhibit on campus puts truth behind the saying “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”Continue...

Masters of Time allows viewers to experience the elasticity of time.
  • 9 years 4 months ago

A study in static time

There aren’t many people who would be interested in an art exhibit that demands knowing every nuance of the art world.Continue...

Déjà déjà visité, meaning “already been visited,” combines the works of artists Mike Bayne, Jocelyn Purdie and Maayke Schurer at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre (AEAC) to present a collective view of urbanized settings that depict a certain vacant quality.
  • 9 years 4 months ago

A quiet crisis

Urbanization has shaped the course of human interaction, plaguing society with a sense of emptiness and lack of interpersonal contact.Continue...

One of three compilations of pseudo-evidence make up the installation Superstition.
  • 9 years 5 months ago

Artful paranoia

The installations in the Knot Knock: Decoy Signs and Occult Operatives exhibit are simple yet the space they occupy is anything but empty. It’s charged with an enigmatic atmosphere.Continue...

  • 9 years 5 months ago

The gift of artistic diversity

As someone without much Canadian art background, A Canadian Collection: The Soloway Gift was a welcome introduction.Continue...

Shayne Dark’s sculptures in his exhibit Critical Mass have alien-like qualities that have the ability to simultaneously awe and disturb their viewers.
  • 9 years 5 months ago

A haunting shock of colour

Unlike the artist’s surname, his exhibit Critical Mass is anything but gloomy.Continue...

Collecting Visions contains pieces made of wood, leather and stone.
  • 9 years 10 months ago

Collecting visions of primal art

It’s sexuality in its primitive form.Continue...

In the exhibit Tobit: Miracles and Morals, several 16th and 17th century artists provide their own individual depictions of scenes from the Biblical story of Tobit and his family. The paintings follow the time from when Tobit’s family was expelled from their country to their journey of redemption.
  • 9 years 11 months ago

A tale of morals and miracles

There’s a fine line between a substantial story line and aesthetic appeal in art.Continue...

Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge’s exhibit The Plague draws comparisons between modern day consumerism and the Biblical plagues.
  • 10 years 1 month ago

A plague of politics

The plagues have moved out of the Bible and into society.Continue...

Erin Shirreff’s exhibit toys with the idea that an object will always remain the same, but our perception of it is subject to change at any moment given the lighting in the space.
  • 10 years 2 months ago

Let it shine

Step into Erin Shirreff’s Available Light exhibit and you’ll leave with an ostentatious realization about the tricks of illumination.Continue...

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