Dave Dyment/Roula Partheniou | We Love

The Sweetest Little Thing is an event held annually on Valentine’s Day, which features an in-person and online auction to benefit Struts and the Owens Art Gallery. 

This year includes affordably priced works by Shary Boyle, Micah Lexier, Andrea Mortson, Graeme Patterson, Kerri Reid, Jon Sasaki, Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky and others who have appeared on this site numerous times. 

Roula and I donated this collaborative work, made last month. It is a plexiglass sculpture painted with acrylic paint and features a wooden gravity bar on the verso. 

100% of the proceeds from the auction go towards programming costs of the two galleries. 

Bid here: 

https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/78578/auctions/175799?r=1&t=all

Paul Henderson | In the Dark

Paul Henderson

In the Dark

Sackville, Canada: Self-published, 2023

36 pp., 8 x 10”, staple-bound

Edition of 150 signed and numbered copies

A 36-page book consisting of full-colour, full-bleed images of thirty analog collages produced between 2019 and 2023. The title is printed on uncoated, recycled paper stock. To maintain a bookwork free of text, an info card with a list of titles is tipped in. 

The works combine imagery from children’s books with art historical references and religious ephemera. While playful and funny, an undercurrent of violence is revealed in the source material. 

Paul Henderson’s two-person exhibition with Andrea Morton is up now at the Blue Building in Halifax, with a rescheduled opening reception for Saturday February 10th, from 6 to 8pm. Titled The Eye is the Blade, the exhibition continues until March. The Blue Building is at 2482 Maynard Street. Visit their website, here, for more information. 

Read Jon Claytor’s review of the exhibition here. 

In the Dark can be purchased directly from the artist, here for $20 CDN + shopping  ($5 in Canada and $15 Internationally). 

The Rubber Stamp Project: Andrea Mortson

Andrea Mortson, 2001, for

[Various Artists]
The Rubber Stamp Project
Sackville, Canada: Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre, 2003
[68 pp.], 24 x 10 cm., soft cover
Edition size unknown

(see earlier posts)