Review

Dance Like No One’s Watching

CELEBRATION AS LIBERATION As you venture deeper into the exhibition, a spread of black-and-white photographs lines the walls on either side of the room. On the right side is Allen D. Crooks’s Lose yourself to dance,most of which was photographed during a fiftieth-anniversary family celebration and vow renewal at the East Preston Recreation Centre. The photos pull you into a room full of joy, laughter, and celebration. Glistening suits and well-worn floors set the scene, as family members—old and young, anonymous and identified—strut their stuff, skirts swaying with the music, arms raised in jubilation.

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an image of a gallery wall with four artworks. Titles in the photo caption.

Behind Moving Eyelids at 13 Cedars  

While the wild green of a sunny May afternoon blazed outside, the bright white interior of a barn on a rural New Brunswick property radiated with its own kind of energy. These synergies are from a joint exhibition, Behind Moving Eyelids (May 10–11, 2025) in Rowley, New Brunswick, by Jeneca Klausen and Caitlin Lapeña, whose deceptively simple works hummed with ideas about feminine power, both surface and projected, and those of a deeper, darker, more private nature. 

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Lifting As We Rise

Multiple works on gallery walls As We Rise at the Dalhousie University Art Gallery

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