Giant Landscape: British Columbia Landscapes

Everything in British Columbia is larger than anywhere else in Canada; the mountains, trees, flowers, the Pacific vistas. The extremes of physical scale and rugged beauty have alternately intimidated and attracted artists. In 1940 artist Jack Shadbolt made reference to British Columbia’s ‘giant landscape’ as something the artists of his time could easily accept. Earlier…

Edo: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age (1603-1868)

Edo is the old name for the city of Tokyo; it is also the name for the historic period from 1603 until 1868 when Japan was ruled by military leaders, called shoguns, that came from the Tokugawa family.  They ruled Japan for a remarkable 250 years.  Edo started as a small fishers’ village, but it…

Assume Nothing: New Social Practice

This exhibition hosts 115 days of art, including sculpture, video-documentation, drawings, films, performances, actions, networks, sound works, and a theatrical performance, exploring the expanding field of socially engaged art. What unites the disparate projects in this exhibition is their ability to challenge the traditional relationship between art and society.  In the 60s, art intersected the…

Religious Arts of Asia

Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent, with millions of different peoples.  They follow a wide variety of different religions. Asia was the birthplace of most of the world’s mainstream religions including: Shamanism, Shintoism, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as many other beliefs.

Historical backgrounds and development…

LAB 8.3: Reconstitution Nicholas and Sheila Pye

Reconstitution is an installation project incorporating a blend of experimental and narrative techniques to shape a cinematic perspective that experiments with visual language commonly used in painting. The installation will be comprised of 3 parts, with all three cinematic panels playing simultaneously. The concept for the installation is inspired by altarpiece triptychs from the Renaissance…

Emily Carr and her Contemporaries

Sponsored by the Volunteer Committee
of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Emily Carr (1871-1945) achieved the status of one of Canada?s most beloved and original artists due to her hard work, artistic and spiritual passion, dedication to life-long learning, and exposure to different influences and experiences.

From the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Greater…

Yoko Takashima: Blend

Yoko Takashima presents an interactive new media project along with recent works exploring ideas of sensuality, embodiment, domesticity and maternity through photography, installation and new media. Takashima’s works are remarkable for their questioning of gendered roles, here extending to the performance of family life and its transformation of the individual.  Takashima’s works are poignant intelligent…

Lab 8.2: Kaie:ri Nikawera:ke (four directions) – Jackson 2bears

Jackson 2bears creates an interactive and performable project that reflects on traditional Indigenous spirituality and its deep connection to the land and the natural environment….

Don Jean-Louis: Silver Works

Don Jean-Louis’s career presents a journey of individual discovery and visual exploration. Initially interested in mapping nature through precise organic drawings and paintings in the early 1960s, Jean-Louis’s work shifted to the orchestration of perceptual situations with new materials such as vacuum-formed uvex (plastic) and neon. This exhibition presents Jean-Louis’s Silver Works from 1985 and…