Scrim(s)
Angela Henderson and Robert Bean

February 16 — March 16, 2025
open 12-6pm Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, or by appointment


Opening Reception: Saturday, February 15th at 2pm

Artist’s Presentation: Saturday, March 1st at 1pm

The exhibition Scrim(s) intersects with recent art projects by Robert Bean and Angela Henderson. Showing together is a consequence of many years of conversation and collaboration. Ambitious Angle (dreams go after the mouth) (2024) and Lines of Flight (Assisi)(1979/2025) are works that share common interests in poetic ecology, creative process, perception and technê (practical knowledge). The exhibition also shares concerns about living in a precarious environment and why the future must remain open to agency and hope. The artwork has personal and poetic affinities to how we live and how we survive together within the human and non-human environment.

Angela Henderson is an artist and designer living in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Her work employs a variety of media including drawing, sculpture and installation. She explores themes of correspondence, the occult, collective unconscious and the interconnectedness of dreams and ecology. She has exhibited internationally and across Canada and currently teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Robert Bean is an artist, writer and curator living in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He is Professor Emeritus at NSCAD University. Bean is a recipient of SSHRC and Canada Council for the Arts grants and was Artist in Residence at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2010. He has published books and essays on photography, contemporary art and cultural history. He is a founding member of Narratives in Space+Time Society. Bean’s art is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank, Global Affairs Canada, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, ZKM Karlsruhe and the Donovan Collection, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto.