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A Postcard from Victoria

A Postcard from Victoria

Robert Morin & Lorraine Dufour, Raymond Boisjoly, Geoffrey Farmer, Julia Feyrer

Date: May 2, 2013 - July 7, 2013

Guest Curated by Michael Turner

A Postcard from Victoria is an immersive exhibition that features video, artifact and works on paper.

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Kawase Hasui

Landscape Prints of Kawase Hasui

A Revival of Excellence

Date: April 5, 2013 - July 14, 2013

Curated by Barry Till

Kawase Hasui is considered one of the most important Japanese landscape artists of the 20th century. Hasui could evoke Japan of the pre-war period as none other.

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Carr, Emily | Sea and Sky

Emily Carr: On the Edge of Nowhere

Date: June 30, 2010 - June 30, 2015

Although Emily Carr described herself as an “isolated little old woman on the edge of nowhere” her work has an appeal that is universal in its expressive messages.

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Koshashin

The Hall Collection of 19th century Photographs of Japan

Date: February 15, 2013 - June 9, 2013

Pollard Gallery

Curated by Catherine Crowston and organized & circulated by the Art Gallery of Alberta.

The exhibition presents a rare opportunity to view one of the world’s largest collections of early Japanese photography. There are more than 230 works in this exhibition from the personal collection of Edmontonian Arlene Hall. Its debut was at the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), which organized the exhibition in 2009. The photographs in the exhibition reflect the transitional period from 1860 to 1899, when feudal Japan was opening to the outside world and yielding to modern influences.

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Black Ice

David Blackwood Prints of Newfoundland

Date: May 3, 2013 - September 8, 2013

Curated by Katharine Lochnan and organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario

David Blackwood is one of Canada’s leading printmakers and most popular artists. He has been telling stories about Newfoundland in the form of epic visual narratives for over 30 years.

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Netsuke of Daikoku

Netsuke is the figure of Daikoku (god of wealth and farmers) wearing a patterned kimono, carrying a large bale of rice at his front and with a small bag of treasure on his back. Fine details are incised and coloured with brownish pigmentation.

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