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…

Rice is Life

Presented by ODLUM BROWN
Supported by Libra – The Rice People and The Market on Yates

Rice is Life, co-organized by the Vancouver Museum and the Canadian Society of Asian Arts, draws upon a rich variety of art and material culture from a dozen Asian countries to explore the traditional significance of rice for this region’s people….

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…

Lot in Life

Through the Gallery’s collections spanning the 16th to 20th centuries, this exhibition explores the activities we perform to survive the labour and industry that establishes our position in the world our Lot in Life. The subject of labour has long drawn the interest of artists because of its narrative, symbolic, and expressive possibilities. Lot in…

Chinese Folk Art The Small Skills of Carving Insects

Presented by ODLUM BROWN
Supported by Libra – The Rice People and The Market on Yates

Diao chong xiao ji meaning ‘the small skills of carving insects’ is a derogatory expression first given by old China’s aristocracy to the arts and crafts produced by the peasants.  The upper classes, who liked fine arts like calligraphy and painting,…

Lab 8.1: street games (an exercise in lightness), Doug Lewis

Doug Lewis’s work investigates streets and sidewalks as sites of social exchange, finding people that play games in order to hustle, hoodwink, perform and commune for social and economic survival.? This exhibition of video, photo and sculptural installation features abstracted images of street games from his travels in England, China, USA and Victoria, and works…

WARHOL: Larger Than Life

Credited as one of the major artistic innovators of the 20th century, Warhol’s fame spread well beyond painting and printmaking. Filmmaker, sculptor, author, collector, publisher, provocateur, music producer, celebrity’Warhol understood and negotiated the ride of fame, a sophisticated arbiter and manipulator of popular culture and fashion.

Warhol: Larger than Life examines the entirety of the artist’s…

Althea Thauberger: Chelsea Girls

Using Andy Warhol’s 1966 film, Chelsea Girls as a conceptual starting point, Vancouver-based artist Althea Thauberger creates a film collaboration with the residents of a Victoria apartment building. In Warhol’s original work, episodes took place within New York’s Chelsea Hotel. Thauberger’s homage follows the original in format and construction, but also addresses urgent contemporary themes,…

Majestic Colours: Ancient Chinese Textiles

This exhibition from the Gallery’s collection showcases the rich heritage of costumes and textiles from China’s Qing dynasty (1644-1911). The five primary colours of the costumes are significant. Yellow, symbolizing the earth, was reserved for the imperial use of the Qing dynasty’s Manchu rulers. Red symbolizes fire and was associated with family celebrations such as…