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Abbas Akhavan awarded 2015 Sobey Art Award
Congratulations to Toronto-based artist Abbas Akhavan for winning the 2015 Sobey Art Award. The Tehran-born Akhavan, 38, prevailed over four other finalists to take the juried prize at a ceremony held at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax. Abbas works in a variety of idioms – installation art, video, drawing, painting, sculpture and performance […]
Read moreAkimbo Burning Rubber
Halifax By Sue Carter Flinn – June 28th, 2007. The school bus was filled with excited chatter and laughter as it left Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery for Exhibition Park, about twenty minutes outside of downtown Halifax. Only this wasn’t your typical field trip: in fact, no one on the bus knew exactly why we […]
Read moreBurning Rubber exhibition – Akimbo review
http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=121 Article by Sue Carter Flinn
Read moreBurning Rubber – Documentary Film
by Ariella Pahlke – Writer, Director and Producer Burning Rubber is a provocative re-framing of burnouts and rural car culture – a filmaker’s search for meaning in a disregarded and maligned for of self-expression. This film explores issues that relate to art, mark making, rural culture, gender, music, and self-expression. When I leave my house […]
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