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…

Less is More: Japanese Zen Paintings of the Edo Period (1615 – 1868)

Curated by Barry Till. Zen is a meditative school of the Buddhist religion. The fundamental concept of Zen is said to have been brought to China from India by the Indian monk Bodhidharma (Daruma in Japanese) in the 6th century. The primary aim of Zen Buddhism is personal enlightenment which, according to Daruma, cannot be…

LAB 6.0: High Early, Gary Pearson

Kelowna-based artist Gary Pearson explores the artwork of Maxwell Bates in this multimedia LAB project. Pearson examines Bates’ fascination for the living theatre of social life. Pearson’s project revisits two of Bates’ works to develop a creative dialogue and an environment that examines the idea of entertainment. Pearson states, “The silence and stasis of paintings,…

Maxwell Bates

At the Crossroads of Expressionism

Presented by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Volunteer Committee

Artist, architect, and writer Maxwell Bates (1906 to 1980) is a pivotal figure in the history and evolution of Canadian art. We are particularly pleased to be exhibiting his work at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Bates’ tremendous impact on the art scene here from…

ItuKiag?tta!

Inuit Sculpture from the Collection of the TD Bank Financial Group

ItuKiag?tta! is an expression that means “How it amazes us!” in the Labrador Inuktitut dialect. This exhibition features some of the finest sculptures from the TD Bank Financial Group’s (TDBFG) Inuit art collection, representing an early, vital period in the development of Inuit art. Throughout its history the TDBFG has been a generous patron of…

Abraham Anghik Ruben

The Gallery is pairing our presentation of ItuKiag?tta! with a small selection of contemporary Inuit sculpture by Abraham Anghik Ruben. This prolific artist was born in 1951 near Paulatuk in the Western Arctic. He lives and works on Salt Spring Island. During his studies at the University of Alaska’s Native Art Center in Fairbanks in…