A Brush with War

Military Art from Korea to Afghanistan

The exhibition, A Brush with War: Military Art from Korea to Afghanistan, explores the two military art programs that started more than twenty years after the Second World War; the Canadian Armed Forces Civilian Artists Program (1968-1995) and the Canadian Forces Artists Program (2001- present). Initially influenced by the art of the First and Second…

War and Disaster in Japanese Prints

During the Meiji period two significant wars were fought and won, one against China in 1894-1895, and the other against Russia in 1904-1905. There was an avalanche of prints dealing with these wars produced in Japan, especially referencing the Sino-Japanese War.

They were distributed throughout the country and some even overseas. The prints were usually commissioned by…

☹ You Blew It

Blair Taylor

Curated by Nicole Stanbridge
Artist Talk and Opening Reception Thursday April 21, 2011 7:30pm
The LAB Gallery

Victoria artist Blair Taylor transforms the lab into an archive of his subconscious illustrating the eerie and absurd narratives that play out night after night in his dreams. His installation of models are “simplified to their barest elements” and “can also…

The Immortal Garden

For thousands of years mankind has tried to overcome the transience of Nature’s most beautiful gift:  flowers.  The Immortal Garden explores the ways in which artists and craftsmen have translated the beauty of the garden into objects to delight the eye of the collector winter and summer, generation after generation.   It will include rarely-seen objects…

Flora

The Garden in Historical Art from the Permanent Collection

A blend of garden imagery and music, this exhibition named in honour of the Roman goddess of flowers and springtime reflects an exploration of growth, fertility, and renewal in the life cycle as expressed in art throughout the centuries.Largely drawn from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s historical collections, this thematic exhibition asks us to…

Down the Garden Path

Mark Lewis, Scott McFarland and Yedda Morrison

The works in this exhibition lead us through an experience that hovers between reality and artifice. From the social construct of gardens and parks to the politics of environmental policies and precariousness of the ecosystem which we inhabit; each artist reveals new perspectives for the viewer and provides an opportunity to question how we use,…

Silent as Glue

Lynda Gammon, Matt Harle and Elspeth Pratt

Silent As Glue is organized and circulated by Oakville Galleries.

This exhibition brings together work from three established North American artists, Lynda Gammon (Victoria, BC), Matt Harle (Beacon, NY) and Elspeth Pratt (Vancouver, BC). The common thread in their work is that it allows for a contemplative exploration of the relationships between architecture and space; handmade…

The LAB: 250 REMIX Tegan Forbes

My public art practice is heavily inspired by street art, travel, social revolution and community collaboration, all of which have the capacity to infiltrate a personal narrative into public space. The starting point for 250 Remix is an investigation into Victoria’s urban landscape through the navigation of media, social eccentricities and areas of communal tension….

Serenity

the Asian Garden

Serenity pervades the Asian garden for this was a place of retreat from the pressures of everyday life.  It is where the elite could indulge in their “longing for mountains and waters” without turning their back on their unrelenting obligations to state and family.The object of the garden was to capture all the elements of…