Transporters: Contemporary Salish Art

Kindly supported by a generous gift from George Smyth. Transporters: Contemporary Salish Art is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Canada Council for the Arts. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is grateful for their support over these very important years. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which…

Feast for a Scavenger

Rebecca Belmore

Feast for a Scavenger, Artist in Residence, Rebecca Belmore is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Canada Council for the Arts.

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is grateful for their support over these very important years. Proudly supported by the Telus Community Board, Market Square and Aarrow Productions, Inc.

The residency will be…

LAB 7.2: 360 Degree Video: a Guided Tour of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Chris Gillespie

Victoria-based artist Chris Gillespie undertakes an anthropological examination of the Art Gallery through a multidirectional video tour.  Jon Blair, the Gallery’s Senior Security Guard, provides the narration for Gillespie’s film. The work, presented in the Lab as a four part projection, builds on connections to historic documentary films that focus on the everyday event to…

Woodblock Prints of Kiyoshi Saito (1907-97)

Kiyoshi Saito was the first modern Japanese printmaker to become popular in the West and is credited with being one of the main reasons why modern Japanese prints became a major success the world over. In tracing the evolution of Saito’s style one clearly sees evidence of the strong relationship the artist had with the…

Robert Youds: beautifulbeautiful artificial field

This is the first solo exhibition for local artist Robert Youds to be presented at the Art Gallery in over a decade. Driven by a fascination with systems of perception, space, colour, light, representation and abstraction, Youds has explored a multitude of forms of practice over the years which predominately revolve around discourses on painting,…

Folk Yarn: Japanese Textiles

Much can be learned about the everyday lives of the humble classes of Japan during the 19th and early 20th centuries by studying their textiles. Common folk wore cottons rather than silks, but their clothing had a great variety of beautiful designs, using different production techniques, like Southeast Asia- influenced batik (resist-dye) method. Peasant wear,…

Passing Through

Iain Baxter& Photographs 1958-1983

The exhibition marks a unique opportunity to see, for the first time, a collection of photographs from one of Canada’s most recognized conceptual artists. In the 1960s, Baxter& formed the N.E. Thing co., which was instrumental in turning Vancouver into an internationally recognized centre for contemporary art. Baxter& has taken photographs since the 1950s, however,…

LAB 7.1: The Holland Drawings: Remastering the Architectural Landscape

This is Atlanta-based artist Scott Ingram’s first exhibition in Canada. During recent travels to the Netherlands, he was struck by the democratic use of design and colour, from high architecture to humble shed, which, he said has as much visual prominence as the ultra modern building under construction right next to it.For his LAB project…

Bijin-ga

The Feminine in Japanese Art

The women portrayed in art throughout Japanese history show a changing style of hair and costume as well as social standing.  In older times there were images of powerful female rulers, legendary heroines and famous courtesans depicted in a melancholic ideal style with a serious demeanor. The courtesan was an important person in the social…