The Sobey Award Touring Exhibition 2004

Scotiabank presents the Sobey Award Touring Exhibition 2004

The Gallery is extremely pleased to welcome works from Canada’s top emerging artists and finalists of the Sobey Art Foundation’s Sobey Art Award….

General Idea Editions

Organized and circulated by the Blackwood Gallery, this exhibition is the first comprehensive overview of General Idea’s editions to tour across Canada and internationally. Having come to international attention for their incisive interventions in the contemporary media environment, General Idea perfected the principle of inhabiting forms of media and contemporary culture and bending them to…

The Mr. Peanut Mayorality Campaign of 1974

One of the most persistent challenges for artists during the twentieth century has been to locate a fertile meeting ground between art and the everyday, where the artist can function as an artist uncompromised, and where the art is not so removed from our daily lives. Between 1969 and 1974, Vancouver artist Vincent Trasov assumed…

LAB 5.1: Graeme Patterson The Games Room

Halifax based artist Graeme Patterson creates a multimedia installation comprised of stop-animation and electronic sculpture for his exploration of pre-digital gaming culture. Originally from Saskatchewan, Patterson comments, “Within the last few months I have found myself in small towns and cities participating in activities such as bowling, ping-pong, and darts with family members and friends….

Tradition & Innovation

The Art of Meiji Japan

During the Edo or Tokugawa period (1615-1868), the shoguns closed Japan off from the rest of the world. When the American Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrived in 1853 with his famed ‘black ships? outfitted with their superior weaponry, he forced Japan to open its ports and the Japanese quickly realized how far behind the rest…

LAB 5.0: Adrienne Lai Recollected

Through this LAB project, Vancouver artist Adrienne Lai explores how memory and history can physically manifest in a space through traces such as decay, wear and tear, and lived experience. What can this visual evidence, these remnants, presented via photography, tell us about past events or experiences Recollected is a series of photographs that investigates…

Pat Martin Bates

Destinations, Navigations, Illuminations

In this exhibition, the Art Gallery celebrates the career and achievements of one of Victoria’s most loved and colourful personalities, master printmaker Pat Martin Bates. Known for her remarkable and inventive printmaking techniques across the world and honoured as “Lady Print” in the UK, Bates has been pushing the boundaries of printmaking for over 40…

The Discerning Eye

The George and Lola Kidd Collection

As supporters of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, George P. Kidd and Lola Kidd contributed an enormous amount of time, energy and commitment to our institution. They were also avid collectors and their collection grew to include works by some of the best Canadian artists working in the 20th century. The Gallery has been…

Byron Johnston

Between the Lines ? Part 2

Kelowna artist Byron Johnston constructs an installation that calls on the architectural space of the Ker Gallery. Utilizing nylon twine to create a series of “walls” within the exhibition space, the work is intended to trigger revelations about the viewer’s interior world through the creation of a unique perceptual space. At once an architectural, graphic…