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Gardens As Art: Aesthetic Journeys around the World runs Sundays in March Popular Sunday Lecture Series returns to the AGGV The Sunday Art Lecture Series at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has the theme, Gardens as Art: Aesthetic Journeys around the World and features the approach of professors of art history to four famous gardens located in France, Italy, Egypt and Japan. The illustrated lecture series, a perennial sellout, will take place over the course of four Sunday afternoons: March 1, 8, 22 and 29, from 2:00 to 4:00 at the AGGV. In the first lecture entitled Japan in Giverny: Monet’s Impressionist Garden, Melissa Berry will explore Claude Monet’s horticultural design. When Claude Monet moved to Giverny in 1883, his objective was creation. Thus, Monet’s largest, most immersive masterwork was born, or rather cultivated. He approached his land with an artist’s eye to establish a colourful, everchanging garden. Monet’s horticultural design was determined by his aesthetic influences, especially Japan. Botanical Art: Cairo’s Matarea Garden by Marcus Milwright, is the second lecture in the series. During the Medieval period the finest balsam oil was traded for its weight in gold. The source of this precious substance was a walled garden owned by the sultan of Egypt, and located in the town of Matarea just outside of Cairo. This talk uses visual sources and texts, including European travel accounts and Coptic religious writings, to reconstruct the topography of the garden in the centuries prior to the demise of the last balsam tree in 1615. Betsy Tumasonis will lecture on 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. The final lecture by David Young. is called Shibusa Aesthetics: Spontaneity in Japanese Gardens. The goal of a traditional Japanese garden 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.” The Sunday Lecture Series is a fundraiser for the AGGV by the Gallery Associates whose role is to volunteer, promote and support the AGGV through fundraising events and programs. Proceeds from the series go toward supporting Gallery exhibitions and programs. Daniel Mato, professor emeritus of art history, University of Calgary, will moderate the sixth annual Sunday Lecture Series. Tickets for the entire series cost $100 for AGGV members/any student or $120 for non-members. Each individual lecture costs $30 for AGGV members/any student; $35 for non-members. Tickets are available online at https://aggv.ca/sunday-art-lecture-2020/ and at the AGGV, 1040 Moss Street.
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untilFocus on Four New works from four gallery artists, Terry Fenton, Greg Murdock, Brad Pasutti, and Jason Stovall February 6 - 27, 2020, at Winchester Galleries Opening reception: Saturday, February 8, 2:00 - 4:00 pm. Artists will be in attendance. Winchester Galleries is pleased to announce the new group exhibition of four Canadian artists: Terry Fenton, Greg Murdock, Brad Pasutti, and Jason Stovall. In this exhibition, a collection of new artworks from these four artists have been selected to present a variety of artistic representations. From realistic landscape to figurative narrations and abstract. TERRY FENTON a gallery director, author, workshop organizer, arts advocate... during a half-century of contribution to the arts he has always made the art of his own. Although recognized as a champion of Canadian and international abstraction, Fenton himself has devotedly painted from nature: mountains and foothills during a long sojourn in Alberta, and prairies reflecting his upbringing in Regina and more recent residence in Saskatoon. During the past decade he often painted seascapes from winter visits to the West Coast, but that practice has intensified since he and his wife moved to Victoria. GREGORY MURDOCK was born in 1954 in Saskatoon. He credits a trip to Europe following high school for kindling his passion to become an artist. When he returned from Europe, he enrolled in the faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Saskatchewan. studying ceramics, sculpture, and drawing. He then travelled to Mexico to study bronze at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel Allende. In 1979 he moved to Vancouver to study at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design. There, he expanded his architectural vision and imagery, created installations and discovered the potential of “spackle” as a medium and surface to explore in both his two- and three-dimensional works. He is known for his fresco-like mixed-media works that elegantly explore surface, space and form with references to both external and internal worlds. BRAD PASUTTI was born in 1957, Trail, British Columbia. On completion of a diploma in sculpture from the Kootenay School of Art in Nelson and a BFA from the University of Victoria, Pasutti launched his artistic career in 1984 with an exhibition at Victoria's Open Space Gallery. He has continued to show his work at commercial and public galleries including at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and Surrey Art Gallery. Pasutti's recent work suggests a sense of unfolding narrative structure. There is no clear set story being told, rather the work is open to narrative possibilities. Characters and possible situations, including the internal mental states of the characters, carry over from one piece into another, so that the series of larger works become interconnected like chapters in a non-linear narrative or are alternative parallel narratives. JASON STOVALL was born in 1989 in Edmonton, Alberta, but raised in Fort McMurray. The mixed suburban and industrial setting of Fort McMurray is a starting point for Stovall's work. Stovall’s upbringing, heavily influenced by the conservative and religious values of Alberta, and by the transient workforce constantly coming and going from the oil sands, combines to form a basis of subject matter for his work. https://www.winchestergalleriesltd.com
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Victoria Seedy Saturday Saturday February 15, 2020, 10:00am - 4:00pm Victoria Seedy Saturday is the official start to the gardening season in Victoria and the number one place to find the LOCAL seeds, plants, tools and information to make 2020 your best growing season yet. Seedy Saturday’s focus is on LOCAL, organic, sustainable gardening and food security. Presentations and workshops are presented throughout the day with topics for beginners and experts. The exhibitor gallery features over 60 vendors and exhibitors, seed and book exchanges, café, children’s area, door prizes and much more. Admission is $8 (free for under 16) Location: Victoria Conference Centre 720 Douglas Street Victoria, BC V8W 3M7 Website
