[PHOTO] Art around Charlottetown
Jul. 17th, 2014 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI've been seeing art about town. I thought I'd share eight of these in today's photo post, annotated.
The first four were photos of works in residence at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. The first is part of the permanent collection of the gallery, Jean Paul Lemieux's 1964 mural Confederation Revisited painted for the centennial of confederation in 1967. The next three all, I think, belong to the touring Oh Canada exhibition. General Idea's 1975-1976 photo mosaic Manipulating the Self, The Fence produced out of styrofoam by Quebec City art collective BGL, and Micah Lexier's 1993 Book Sculptures: Three Generations.
This next work is a mural painted by the senior art class of Colonel Gray High School, painted on paper and displayed on the wall of the Confederation Centre Public Library. The subject is, of course, the famous 1864 photo of the Fathers of Confederation gathered at the Charlottetown Conference.
On the southwest corner of Queen Street and Water Street, Island artist Ahmon Katz's statue of a blue heron stands. Mumbling Jack has pictures of the sculpture taken immediately after its installation in September 2013.
For comparison is this skeleton of a distant ancient relative of the blue heron, a quick predatory dinosaur, displayed as part of Alberta's show this week in the Celebration Zone at Confederation Landing Park.
Gerald Beaulieu's Bluefin Bullet, installed in 2011, is a sculpture of a tuna on the southwest corner of Queen and Richmond. (The scales are spoons.)
The first four were photos of works in residence at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. The first is part of the permanent collection of the gallery, Jean Paul Lemieux's 1964 mural Confederation Revisited painted for the centennial of confederation in 1967. The next three all, I think, belong to the touring Oh Canada exhibition. General Idea's 1975-1976 photo mosaic Manipulating the Self, The Fence produced out of styrofoam by Quebec City art collective BGL, and Micah Lexier's 1993 Book Sculptures: Three Generations.
This next work is a mural painted by the senior art class of Colonel Gray High School, painted on paper and displayed on the wall of the Confederation Centre Public Library. The subject is, of course, the famous 1864 photo of the Fathers of Confederation gathered at the Charlottetown Conference.
On the southwest corner of Queen Street and Water Street, Island artist Ahmon Katz's statue of a blue heron stands. Mumbling Jack has pictures of the sculpture taken immediately after its installation in September 2013.
For comparison is this skeleton of a distant ancient relative of the blue heron, a quick predatory dinosaur, displayed as part of Alberta's show this week in the Celebration Zone at Confederation Landing Park.
Gerald Beaulieu's Bluefin Bullet, installed in 2011, is a sculpture of a tuna on the southwest corner of Queen and Richmond. (The scales are spoons.)
