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The Natalie Brettschneider Archive
October 1, 2016 - October 1, 2016
October 1 2016 – January 8 2017 | Curated by Michelle Jacques | Pollard Gallery
Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive. For more than fifteen years, Vancouver-based Sawyer has been creating photographs, texts, video, and music recitals reconstructing the life and work of genre-blurring, fictional artist Natalie Brettschneider. Brettschneider’s story is enhanced with new chapters inspired by…
Asian Art Through the Ages
September 17, 2016 - September 17, 2016
Sept 17 2016 – April 2 2017 | Curated by Curator of Asian Art Barry Till | Centennial and Ker Galleries
Few people realize that the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria houses one of the most outstanding collections of Asian Art in North America. This exhibition features seventy of the most stunning, interesting and rare examples…
July 1, 2016 - July 1, 2016
July 1 – October 16, 2016 | Founders Gallery | Curated by Barry Till
The brown Yixing stoneware teapots caught the fancy of many tea connoisseurs throughout the years. They rose to prominence with the Chinese literati of the Ming and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties who used the stoneware as their preferred vessels. To this day, they…
Ancient Chinese and Japanese Erotic Images
June 18, 2016 - June 18, 2016
June 18 – October 16, 2016 | Drury Gallery | Curated by Barry Till
The exhibition offers about one hundred erotic works of art from China and Japan. These works contain sexual content and may not be suitable for all audiences.
Most early Chinese erotic images were quite tame, but by the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) erotica became…
Video Art Across the Pacific
June 4, 2016 - June 4, 2016
June 4 – September 5, 2016 | Curated by Haema Sivanesan | Centennial and Ker Galleries
Trans-Pacific Transmissions: Video Art Across the Pacific brings together the work of artists from around the Pacific Rim* to examine a broad history of trans-Pacific exchange as it has captured the imaginations of artists working in video. The works in this…
Images of Changing Architecture, Transportation and Wars
April 22, 2016 - April 22, 2016
April 22 – August 28, 2016 | Pollard Gallery | Curated by Barry Till
Meiji woodblock prints are fascinating in that they reveal to us a country in total transition. During the short period of Emperor Meiji’s reign (1868-1912) of nearly 45 years, Japan made an astonishingly swift metamorphosis from a feudal state into a modern…
Literati Painting of Old Japan
April 9, 2016 - April 9, 2016
April 9 – June 26, 2016 | Curated by Barry Till | Founders Gallery
It was only in the 18th century that the literati style Chinese Southern School painting of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911), came to be studied on a regular basis in Japan. The works that resulted in Japan were called bunjinga (paintings in…
Experiments in Watercolour from the AGGV Collection
January 30, 2016 - January 30, 2016
Curated by Michelle Jacques and Nicole Stanbridge | Centennial and Ker Galleries | January 30 – May 23, 2016
How do you define watercolour? While it is one of the more challenging mediums to work with, it has at times throughout history been seen as a medium of leisure, used for studies or sketches, or as a precursor…
Japan's Creative Print Movement
January 16, 2016 - January 16, 2016
January 16 – April 17, 2016 | Pollard Gallery | Curated by Barry Till
During the early 20th century, Japanese artists studying in Europe discovered that many internationally acclaimed Western artists handled all aspects of the printmaking process from the first sketch to the last pull of the print. This discovery had a profound effect on…