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November 12, 2020 August 19, 2021
An online exhibition with Victoria-based artist Libby Oliver.
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January 20, 2021 08:00 PM March 19, 2021 12:00 AM
FLUX media gallery presents: "go on" by Jeffrey Ellom
online at https://fluxmediagallery.org
Curated by Joshua Ngenda
January 20 - March 18, 2021
‘go on’ consists of a digital video with an audio track which together can be looped or viewed beginning to end.
This exhibition will be shown in the FLUX window gallery at 1524 Pandora, in Victoria; and also online at fluxmediagallery.org
(When health orders permit, we will open the gallery at 1524 Pandora, for people to watch the videos in the gallery.)
Artist’s Statement
This piece is a meditation on the cyclicality and the linearity of the passage of time. I believe that the immensity of time can only be understood metaphorically, and it is the twin metaphors of the cycle and the line which I reproduce in this piece using poetry, music, and found reversal film stills. The found images are largely in the mode of amateur travel photography, which captures individual moments from a progression of events, but also often consists of similar images of the same scenery on a predictable annual tourism schedule. I wanted to synthesize all of these elements into a visual/auditory rhythm that would impart a sense of time similar to how my Akan ancestors conceptualized it - with its cyclical and linear aspects in cooperation rather than opposition.
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Artist Bio
Jeffrey Ellom is a settler of Ewe, Polish, and Western European ancestry who grew up on unceded Syilx Okanagan territory and has lived on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen speaking peoples since 2014. Through the media of music (released under the name ‘pesewa’), visual art, and video, he works to build upon the artistic legacies of the Ewe people.
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March 06, 2021 06:00 PM March 19, 2021 12:30 AM
Alain Bédard's passion for painting started in 1976 and led him to pursue art studies at Cégep de Ste-Foy in Quebec. He then traveled to New York to continue his studies and gain experience in illustration. Never one to res, Alain's desire to push his own boundaries led him to further his eduction at Laval University where he completed his Baccalaureate in 1984. While attending Laval University he had the privilege of studying under renowned Canadian painter Claude A. Simard, who became a great friend and mentor. Having worked as a professional painter for many years, Alain has developed a distinct style based on his travels, love of architecture and brilliant use of colour.
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What I Live...
Each painting that I paint, I have lived it and represents a place where I stopped to take the time to live and admire what surrounds me...
In this exhibition, you will find sometimes the countryside, sometimes the small villages or the big cities which all had different things to say, to see and to do. My subjects are meant to be a message of hope and freedom.
It is a pleasure for me to share these memories with you and to bring them to you in turn. Each of you has already experienced unforgettable moments and I want my paintings to make you live happy and beautiful moments.
A figurative painter with an impressionist touch, that's who I am.
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March 19, 2021 11:30 PM March 20, 2021 05:00 AM
This event began 2021-03-19 and repeats every week on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 2021-06-16
Tuesday – Saturday, 4:30pm – 10:00pm. Legacy Sidewalk Gallery.
Curated by Nicole Achtymichuk (UVic, BSc ’20, Young Canada Works Curatorial Intern)
What the Land Holds is a contemporary video art exhibition that examines the land as integral to Indigenous histories and futures, and as a site of ongoing colonization and alienation. The land holds layers of interpretation that establish places of inclusion and exclusion. The land holds what humans have created, blurring the lines between natural and artificial. The land holds stories and teachings, and returning to these is essential to our continued survival on the land.
This is the inaugural exhibition in Legacy’s new Sidewalk Gallery, a space designed to activate and inspire community collaborations and to make art more accessible to the public.
Image: Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Mia’ (still), 2015.
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