LAB 6.3: In Growing

Curated by Lisa Baldissera. Painter Stephen B. Nguyen and sculptor Wade Kavanaugh create collaborative installations using elements from their independent practice to address the uncertain territory between imagined and physical space….

Live Art 2: TimePieces

Curated by Lisa Baldissera This four-day interdisciplinary performance event presents time as a fantastic framework in contemporary music and performance art. After the ultra successful Live Art Nitely in 2002, the Gallery again explores performance art, new music, theatre and this year, durational and performative installations….

Fantastic Frameworks: Architectural Utopias + Designs for Life

Curated by Lisa Baldissera. How do individuals organize themselves in private and public spaces social, temporal, geographic, psychological, political, architectural and erotic and participate in the design of everyday experience Fantastic Frameworks examines utopian ideals and design impulses used to structure, formalize and contemplate daily life. This exhibition offers experimental models for experience and examines…

LAB 6.2. Romances

Curated by Lisa Baldissera. Following his 10-day journey through the Canadian Forces Artist Program on the HMCS Calgary from Pearl Harbour to the Esquimalt Naval Base….

Bill Burns: Safety Gear for Small Animals

Curated by Annette Hurtig. Safety Gear for Small Animals addresses animal rescue, relocation and rehabilitation. Bill Burns is the Director of the Safety Gear for Small Animals, “the largest safety gear for small animals producer in the world.” Using the conventions of a traditional natural history museum, Burns humorously juxtaposes his tiny rescue and safety…

Dawn: Sketches by the Group of Seven

Curated by Ian Thom, Vancouver Art Gallery

Dawn is the first exhibition in Across the Province: The Vancouver Art Gallery Collection, bringing works of art from the Gallery’s permanent collection to communities throughout British Columbia.

The artists of the Group of Seven have left an indelible mark on Canadian culture. The landscapes depicted have come to represent…

Toni Onley: Flight Paths

Curated by Lisa Baldissera Drawn from the collections of the Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, the Toni Onley Archive, the BC Art Collection, the Art Gallery’s permanent collection, and private collections, Flight Paths explores the early work of one of BC’s most celebrated artists and the abstract collages and compositions from the 1960s for which…

LAB 6.1. Witness Marks: The Exotic Close to Home

Through sculpture, film, video and photography, Donald Lawrence (Associate Professor, Visual and Performing Arts) and Will Garrett-Petts (Professor, English and Modern Languages) of Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, combine their disciplines to investigate childhood recollections of two small islands off Willows Beach, Victoria, BC. Garrett-Petts’ recollection of Jimmy Chicken Island (the local naming of Mary…

Nineteenth-Century Views of Japan by the Hiroshiges (I, II, III)

Curated by Barry Till. Ando Hiroshige (1797 – 1858), famous for his landscape paintings, is also considered one of the most dominant figures of Japanese printmaking. During his lifetime, Hiroshige was well known and commercially successful in Japan. Ando Hiroshige died in 1858 at the age of 62 in Edo, with an output of an…