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December 14, 2024 - April 27, 2025

From Balzar to Hunt

December 14, 2024 - April 27, 2025

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November 30, 2024 - May 25, 2025

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April 27, 2024 - April 27, 2029

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🙌 Happy International Women’s Day!

Visit the AGGV to celebrate artworks by many women, including Joan Balzar (1928-2016). Looking back on the artist's life and career, cultural writer Adele Weder noted “Even within the dynamic and tumultuous 1960s West Coast art scene, painter Joan Balzar stood out from the crowd…Her canvases matched her persona: intensely bright and highly sophisticated.”

The featured artwork, Moonbeam II, was made by Balzar in 1967 and is currently on view in our exhibition, From Balzar to Hunt. This exhibition runs until April 27th, 2025.

📸 Image Credit: Joan Balzar, Moonbeam II, 1967, Acrylic on canvas, with neon light, AGGV 2003.007.001. Gift of Sigrid Ellison. Photo courtesy of the AGGV.

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🙌 Happy International Women’s Day!

Visit the AGGV to celebrate artworks by many women, including Joan Balzar (1928-2016). Looking back on the artist's life and career, cultural writer Adele Weder noted “Even within the dynamic and tumultuous 1960s West Coast art scene, painter Joan Balzar stood out from the crowd…Her canvases matched her persona: intensely bright and highly sophisticated.”

The featured artwork, Moonbeam II, was made by Balzar in 1967 and is currently on view in our exhibition, From Balzar to Hunt. This exhibition runs until April 27th, 2025.

📸 Image Credit: Joan Balzar, Moonbeam II, 1967, Acrylic on canvas, with neon light, AGGV 2003.007.001. Gift of Sigrid Ellison. Photo courtesy of the AGGV.

#IWD #IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2025 #VictoriaArtists #VictoriaArts #BCartists #CanadianArtists #AGGV #JoanBalzar #FromBalzarToHunt #artgalleryvic

Territory Acknowledgement

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is located on the traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples, today known as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations. We extend our appreciation for the opportunity to live and learn on this territory.

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