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October 11, 2020 October 18, 2020
By fusing traditional Japanese techniques with modern Canadian inspiration, Minori Takagi has developed a new style of wearable art. Her translucent glass chains are formed by linking handcrafted glass circles into one another, fashioning pieces that seem delicate but are actually resilient — solid loops that gleam radiant in the light. "With these forms, my glass art reminds me of the magic I used to watch my grandmother work—from raw substance emerges a new, poetic creation."
Minori's glass jewellery is widely acclaimed. It won Vancouver Magazine’s 2019 “Made in Vancouver” Style category, and has been featured in The Georgia Straight, the Canadian craft magazine Studio Magazine, and the book 1000 Beads by Lark Crafts. Minori lives and works in Vancouver, BC.
The Avenue Gallery
2184 Oak Bay Avenue
Monday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm, Sunday 11am - 4:30pm
See more at www.theavenuegallery.com
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September 29, 2020 06:00 PM October 18, 2020 11:00 PM
"What Emerges" by Joanna Pettit. Solo show at Gage Gallery
September 29 - October 18, 2020
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm.
Sundays, noon-4pm.
Artist in attendance to greet the public on Sunday Oct 4 and Sunday Oct 18.
View preview webpage here: http://www.artopenings.ca/joanna-pettit.html
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October 04, 2020 08:00 PM October 18, 2020 10:00 PM
How do artists continue to create during a pandemic? How do you make art it is hard to focus and there is a lack of support? As an emerging artist, how do you push forward to grow your career when everything has changed and nothing seems stable?
In this three-part program in joint collaboration between the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Legacy Art Gallery, emerging artists will come together with facilitator K.P. Denis, three mentoring artists (Kemi Craig, Estraven Lupino-Smith, and Ghinwa Yassine) and the other participants to discuss the effect the pandemic has had on their artistic practice. Together we will grieve the losses we’ve experienced, discuss methods of adapting, and share visions for a new creative future.
This free program will take place over Zoom and consist of three sessions on Sunday, October 4, 11, and 18 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Participants are expected to attend all three sessions. Register is required through Google Forms, with participation limited. Please contact either Regan Shrumm, Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, at rshrumm@aggv.ca or Amy Smith, BCAC Education and Public Programs Intern at the Legacy Art Gallery, at smithac@uvic.ca for questions or concerns.
You may be interested in this program if you:
-Are an emerging artist in Victoria who lost opportunities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic?
-Are looking for new ways to share your art and network with other artists in light of these lost opportunities?
-Are trying to find a group of individuals to find solitude in going through the same emotions of grief and uncertainty?
-Are needing some hope of moving forward with their art practice in these trying times?
Please register via Google Forms at: https://forms.gle/QncbtNMGWT5nq4658
Registration Deadline: Thursday, October 1st at 5 pm
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October 17, 2020 06:00 PM October 18, 2020 11:00 PM
This event began 2020-10-17 and repeats every 3 weeks on Sunday and Saturday until 2020-11-01
The Nature Preserve project engages with the re-naturalisation of creativity. Under
the project's extended metaphor, the preserve acts as an intermediate wild environment in
that invites interpretations, perspectives, creativities, identities and allows us to stretch their
legs a little.
Mythology, landscape, and the painted medium is used to instigate the beginnings
of a comfortable interpretation, but the specific subject within the work moves to repel any
obvious or absolute reading.
Counterpointed in small ways with several videos, the project experiments with absurdism and humor to present a landscape of playfully fluctuating possibilities, that we may explore and celebrate these unsung parts of ourselves.
Xchanges Gallery
2333 Government Street,
Suite 6E,
Victoria
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October 18, 2020 09:00 PM 11:00 PM
This event began 2020-10-18 and repeats every week on Sunday until 2020-10-25
GARDENS AS ART: AESTHETIC JOURNEYS AROUND THE WORLD The Gallery Associates' popular Sunday Art Lectures series RESUMES ONLINE in October for this year's final two lectures exploring GARDENS AS ART in Italy and Japan. Previously sold out - we now have room online. All previously sold tickets honoured & Ticket Sales have re-opened.
OCTOBER 18: David E. Young will talk about SHIBUSA AESTHETICS: SPONTANEITY IN JAPANESE GARDENS. The goal of traditional Japanese gardens is to re-create nature on a small scale and in an artistic way that improves upon nature. Keeping in mind that the word “art” comes from the same word as “artificial,” how can something be natural and artificial at the same time? This interesting challenge was met in Japan with the concept of shibusa, which can be translated as “restrained spontaneity” or “spontaneity of effect.”
OCTOBER 25: In the final lecture of the 2020 series, Betsy Tumasonis will talk about NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE'S GIARDINO DEI TAROCCHI: A FRENCH ARTIST AND HER ITALIAN SCULPTURE GARDEN. Niki de Saint Phalle (1930 – 2002) was a French artist and sculptor who associated in the early 1960s with the French Nouveaux Realistes group. She experimented with assemblages made of bizarre collections of objects, evoking a Dadaist sense of the absurd. In 1980 she began work on her “Giardino dei Tarocchi” (Tarot Garden) in Tuscany. She filled the park-like property with enormous colourful otherworldly figures based on images from the Tarot deck (fortune-telling cards). A stroll through the garden is a magical experience.
Hosted by Dan Mato and sponsored by the Gallery Associates, proceeds go to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. PLEASE JOIN US for these two fascinating webinars!
Tickets:
https://aggv.ca/sunday-art-lecture-2020/
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