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2007 Exhibitions
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When it first opened in 1951, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria exhibited art in the historic 1889 mansion that is now adjacent to its seven modern galleries. With almost 16,000 works of art, the Art Gallery has the largest public collection in BC and is a vibrant and active part of Victoria 's artist community.
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria offers art exhibitions ranging from Asian art to European and Canadian historical works and also highlights leading contemporary artists from across the country.
For further details, visit the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
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Emily Carr
Permanent Exhibition
This permanent exhibition, with works rotating on a regular basis, gives you a chance to see our entire Carr collection over a period of years. It integrates Carr's writings, works from the Gallery collection and images from the British Columbia Provincial archives to create a compelling portrait of this pre-eminent Victoria Artist.
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Robert Youds: beautifulbeatiful artificial field
August 17 - October 21, 2007
This is the first solo exhibition for local artist Robert Youds to be presented at the Art Gallery in over a decade. Driven by a fascination with systems of perception, space, colour, light, representation and abstraction, Youds has explored a multitude of forms of practice over the years which predominately revolve around discourses on painting, sculpture, and perception. The exhibition will present works from the past 10 years of his production, and include a new site specific installation, drawing on the explorations of recent light works.
”Recognizing that painting has been largely governed by a history of the depiction of natural light, I grew fascinated by the subject of the artificial field by which we live day-to-day,” says Youds. By the mid-1990s Youds became more and more interested in the physical space in which painting and objects within a room were surrounded. "Space, abstraction, perception, light, and the beholder, are the key ingredients to my meditations on the world.”
A full colour catalogue will be produced with the exhibition including texts by American critics Barry Schwabsky and Saul Ostrow, and interview with Canadian painter Karin Davie.
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Transporters: Contemporary Salish Art
November 2, 2007 - February 24, 2008
This Coast Salish program has been kindly supported with a generous gift from George Smyth.
This exhibition features the work of ten Coast Salish artists in a cross-section of ideas and images that express new and long-held Coast Salish visions and stories of the land, and post-colonial critiques of cultural appropriation. Some artists in the exhibition have transported classical Coast Salish design principles into the present, while others claim unexplored visual territory with their work and aspire to bring about new understandings of Coast Salish thought and visual language. The common departure point is their honour and respect for their predecessors, while engaging in innovative uses of materials, techniques and intellectual strategies that act as sites of both resistance and potential.
Artists: Charles Elliott, Susan Point, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun , Marvin Oliver, lessLIE, Shaun Peterson, Chris Paul, John Marston, Luke Marston and Maynard Johnny Jr.
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Marianne Nicolson: The Return of Abundance
November 2, 2007 to January 12, 2008
The Return of Abundance – Kwakwaka’wakw artist Marianne Nicolson’s first solo exhibition at the Gallery – includes major painting works and sculptural installations that reveal current cultural narratives and economies while incorporating traditional and contemporary formats.
Nicolson comments, “Each of the works in this exhibition considers the temporal relationship of contemporary Kwakwaka'wakw experience to our historical experience. The Kwakwaka'wakw traditionally occupied a landscape that provided abundant resources enabling a sophisticated cultural practice to flourish… My works in this exhibit examine the complexities of cultural change and adaptation on both the personal and communal level. Pervasive within each work is the idea that all works conceptually cycle back to their point of origin, thus maintaining tradition rather than breaking with it.”
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Treasures Unearthed: Chinese Archaeological Artefacts
from Shang to Tang 16thC BCE – 10th C CE
November 23, 2007 to March 2, 2008
In the past, many ancient tombs throughout China were raided or looted for their artifacts and sold to Chinese scholars, foreign collectors and museums. Art historians have come to admire the great beauty and exquisite workmanship of these tomb artifacts, which offer unrivalled material for the study of daily life and ancient technologies, while revealing the different classes of people found in China and how each prepared for the afterlife. The items come from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s extensive Chinese archaeological collections and will be enhanced by a large intended gift of early gold, silver and bronze treasures from Joey and Toby Tanenbaum of Toronto.
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