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Althea Thauberger: Chelsea Girls

May 30, 2008 May 30, 2008

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

May 28, 2008 May 28, 2008

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…

Lab 8.0: Over My Dead Body, Caleb Speller

May 22, 2008 May 22, 2008

Caleb Speller’s project Over My Dead Body examines the play between art and life, explored so thoroughly by Andy Warhol during his illustrious career. On Tuesdays and Thursdays in June, Speller will be artist-in-residence, building on his project in a cumulative fashion. Beginning with photographs that scrutinize the surroundings in which death can take place…

Lab 7.5: Hedgerow Series Brian Flynn

March 28, 2008 March 28, 2008

Drawing from childhood experiences in South Armagh, Northern Ireland, Brian Flynn explores a specific event in the conflict between the IRA and the English army:  the assassination of a British undercover agent, Robert Nairac.  Using the artist?s own Super 8 film footage, and key scenes depicted in carpet underlay, a material typically hidden from view…

Sosaku Hanga: The Creative Prints of Japan

March 19, 2008 March 19, 2008

This modern Japanese print movement began in the first decade of the 20th century when a group of Tokyo artists started exploring the artistic possibilities of printmaking. Working within their Japanese heritage, but influenced by their admiration of Western art, these artists produced graphics which were the first modern Japanese art to be truly international,…

WOODROW: Graeme Patterson

March 13, 2008 March 13, 2008

What would Halifax, Saskatoon or Victoria look like as a ghost-town’ We don’t have to answer that question about our city, but the fear of one’s home ceasing to exist is very real for many people living in rural Canada, who are watching their towns wither before their eyes. In Woodrow, an exhibition of sculpture…

Heaven & Earth Unveiled: European Treasures from the Tanenbaum Collection

January 25, 2008 January 25, 2008

Heaven and Earth Unveiled presents highlights from the Tanenbaum Collection that emphasize the transformative period of the 19th century, when painting reigned supreme and France was the leader in movements varying from neoclassicism to romanticism and realism to symbolism. The exhibition?s history and religious painting, portraiture, genre, landscape, and still life reveal the Tanenbaums? eye…

LAB 7.4: Interactive Translocation Fariba Samsami

January 25, 2008 January 25, 2008

Fariba Samsami’s multimedia installation presents a multiple projection installation featuring scenes from Canada and Iran. Scenes will be projected on the wall of the  LAB, and with a touch screen computer, viewers can select a scene and specific person. Once they have made their selection the viewer can then insert their own image into the…

LAB 7.3: Pagoda Pads, Karen Tam

November 23, 2007 November 23, 2007

Montreal-based artist Karen Tam works with the Asian collection at the Art Gallery to address themes of cultural identity, communication, and memory in her ongoing exploration of the history of the North American Chinese experience. Through entities such as the Chinese restaurant or novelty store, Tam?s work addresses the projection of ideas about China to…
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