Exhibitions
Bernard Clark: Tattoo Portraits
Davies Foundation Gallery
14 January - 15 April 2012
Drawing on Bernard Clark's success as a first-order documentary photographer of ink culture, this solo exhibition features surreal composited portraits of tattooed subjects in...
Historical Feature Gallery
13 August - 13 May 2012
Whether to catch the eye, assert status, arouse desire or fulfill an ideal, adorning the body is a universal social pursuit. By pairing accessories of late 18th- to early 20th-century elegance with contemporary works of art, this exhibition...
African Gallery
4 September - 21 August 2012
In 1984, the Art Centre received the spectacular gift of almost 600 hundred works of African art, from a wide and diverse range of cultures in West and Central Africa...
Samuel J. Zacks Gallery
21 January - 1 April 2012
Like many portrait painters in the 19th century, William Sawyer sought commissions in the various cities and towns of Canada East and Canada West. While visiting Kingston, he ...
Diamonds in the Rough: Discoveries in the Bader Collection
Bader Gallery
18 June - 12 August 2012
Many of the Art Centre’s historical European paintings are here thanks to the remarkable collecting activity of long-time donor and friend Alfred Bader. Among other things, he has gained fame for acquiring important paintings...
Contemporary Features Gallery
14 January - 15 April 2012
This selection of recent additions to the Art Centre collection takes its title and theme from Adrian Göllner’s wry pseudo- Modernist installation documenting artists’ paint colours that...
The Constantine Collection of Northern Indigenous Art
R. Fraser Elliott Gallery
1 July - 11 March 2012
The Constantine Collection at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre contains rare carved and engraved historical indigenous objects, primarily from Alaska, the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The objects were first amassed by ...