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Feb 27, 2019 - Mar 10, 2019

Casting Shadows – Group Exhibition

Coast Collective

Casting Shadows, an open-call show, includes twenty-seven artists submitted works that shine a light upon shadows – paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, mixed media, and even a lamp made from upcycled automotive parts. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

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Feb 16, 2019 - Feb 28, 2019

Alain Bédard

West End Gallery, Victoria

Inspired by his travels in the south of France this latest collection of Alain Bédard's work is a visual diary of his journey from Paris to the Côte d’Azur. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

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Feb 16, 2019 - Jun 16, 2019

Fiona Tan: Ascent

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Fiona Tan’s montage film Ascent is entirely made up of still photographic images depicting one of Japan’s most recognizable landmarks, Mount Fuji. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

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Mar 1, 2019 - Mar 17, 2019

Pete Kohut: Depth of Field

Xchanges Artists' Gallery and Studios

Pete Kohut's "Depth of Field," for the month of March. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

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Feb 15, 2019 - Mar 2, 2019

PULP + PROCESS IV: CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART ON PAPER

Madrona Gallery

This group exhibition brings together artists from around the country working in Drawing, Watercolour, Pastel, Photography, and Collage to celebrate the medium of paper and the diversity of approaches and styles it allows. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Caitlin McDonagh, "Follow the Leader," nd

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Feb 15, 2019 - Mar 10, 2019

Elyse Longair: Space Probe

The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective

Elyse Longair's collage exhibition will transport the viewer through time and space through official footage captured by a ’Space Probe’. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

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Mar 3, 2019 - Mar 31, 2019

Federation of Canadian Artists' - Juried Spring Art Exhibition & Sale 2019

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

The Federation of Canadian Artists in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, is presenting our Juried Spring Art Exhibition and Sale. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Deborah Czernecky, "Mediterranean Heat," nd

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Feb 13, 2019 - Feb 24, 2019

Island Illustrators Society – 2019 Exhibition

Coast Collective

This year, featured artists include well-loved founding members and brand new amazing talent in many fields of illustration, including botanical, digital and children’s book illustration. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Island Illustrators Society, "2019 Exhibition," 2019

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Feb 9, 2019 - Mar 16, 2019

Landscapes: Dorothy Knowles and Toni Onley

Winchester Galleries - Oak Bay

Landscapes by Dorothy Knowles and Toni Onley for the month of February. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

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Mar 9, 2019 - May 20, 2019

Quiet Nature: The Woodblock Prints of Walter J. Phillips

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Quiet Nature: The Woodblock Prints of Walter J. Phillips considers the influence of Urushibara and other Japanese printmakers on Phillips’ work and his important role in popularizing the Japanese woodcut tradition in Canada. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, "Quiet Nature: The Woodblock Prints of Walter J. Phillips," 2019

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Mar 9, 2019 - May 27, 2019

Landscapes of Edo: Ukiyo-e Prints from the AGGV Collection

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Landscapes of Edo: Ukiyo-e from the AGGV’s Collection showcases key works from the AGGV’s extensive collection of Japanese prints. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Ando Hiroshige, Yoshiwara, "Fuji to Left," Japanese, 19th Century

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Feb 6, 2019 - Mar 8, 2019

A Dance of Pen and Pencil: Illustrated Victorian Serials

Legacy Maltwood at McPherson Library

A Dance of Pen and Pencil: Illustrated Victorian Serials celebrates the critical role of pictures in Victorian serials—stories delivered in both words and images, over time, and with illustrations playing a key role. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Legacy McPherson Library, "A Dance of Pen and Pencil: Illustrated Victorian Serials," 2019

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Feb 4, 2019 - Feb 25, 2019

Deon Venter : New Snow Paintings

Venter Gallery

In his interpretations of scenes from British Colombia, Deon Venter employs a heavy impasto and contemporary mark making to bring them forward into the 21st century. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Deon Venter, "Snow Painting - Cariboo," 2019

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Mar 13, 2019 - Mar 24, 2019

Andrea England - Sail Away With Me: Paintings By A Pacific Voyager

Coast Collective

Watercolours by Andrea England. Meet the Artist Reception: Sunday, March 17, 1-3pm. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Andrea England

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Feb 2, 2019 - Mar 2, 2019

Vancouver Island Vanguard: Printmaking from 1980 - 2000

Alcheringa Gallery

To start off 2019 we will once again be featuring historic prints that helped shape the burgeoning revival of Northwest Coast Art with Vancouver Island Vanguard: Printmaking from 1980 - 2000. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Vancouver Island Vanguard - Mark Henderson.jpg

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Feb 2, 2019 - Oct 20, 2019

Throw, Slip, Spin: Studio Ceramics from the AGGV Collection

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Inspired by recent exhibitions and donations, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria will be showcasing their latest ceramics acquisitions at Throw, Slip, Spin: Studio Ceramics from the AGGV Collection. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Byron Johnstad, "Carved stoneware bowl," 1977-1982

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Jan 29, 2019 - Mar 29, 2019

Expose Yourself Exhibition 2019 - Call For ARTISTS

TAC Powell River Art Gallery

Expose Yourself is a erotically themed, boundary-pushing, body-celebrating, hilarity-making, multi-disciplinary art exhibition based in Powell River, BC. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Claire Mervyn, Expose Yourself Exhibition, 2019

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Mar 19, 2019 - Mar 24, 2019

Victoria Sketch Club 110th Annual Art Show and Sale

Glenlyon Norfolk Junior School

The Victoria Sketch Club is one of Canada's oldest fine art clubs with fifty members. The club's members have varied backgrounds thus their art covers the full spectrum of visual art subjects, techniques, and disciplines. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Victoria Sketch Club 110th Annual Art Show and Sale, 2019

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Jan 28, 2019 - Feb 26, 2019

Taryn Brown & Joanna Drummond: February Featured Artists

The Gallery at Mattick's Farm

The featured artists for February are Taryn Brown and Joanna Drummond. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Joanna Drummond, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," nd

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Jan 26, 2019 - Mar 23, 2019

Approaching Painting

Comox Valley Art Gallery

Approaching Painting, offers a spectrum of practices and perceptual responses to traditional and contemporary painting through exhibition of the artists' work and creative process, interpretive collaborations, make art projects + workshops. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Comox Valley Art Gallery, "Approaching Pianting," 2019

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Jan 25, 2019 - Mar 2, 2019

Todd Lambeth: Night Moves

Deluge Contemporary Art

Todd Lambeth's "Night Moves" is a series of paintings that investigates the abstract relationship between space and colour. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Todd Lambeth, "Fire (Johnny Storm)," 2018

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Jan 25, 2019 - Mar 31, 2019

Joi T. Arcand, Patrick Cruz, Susan Hiller: athut / Words Bounce

Nanaimo Art Gallery

In "athut / Words Bounce," Joi T. Arcand, Patrick Cruz, and Susan Hiller approach language as both a subject and a means of articulation, amplified through art. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

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Jan 19, 2019 - Oct 27, 2019

Unformable Things: Emily Carr and Some Canadian Modernists

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Unformable Things: Emily Carr and Some Canadian Modernists explores the increasingly experimental approach to art-making in Canada, an approach which Carr described as the search for “essence,” or “the unformable things one wants to paint." Read more

Art & Exhibitions

AGGV, " Unformable Things: Emily Carr and Some Canadian Modernists," 2019

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Jan 18, 2019 - Feb 22, 2019

Catherine Fraser: Spirit of Place - Isle of Iona

The Chapel Gallery

The energetic vibrations of Iona take shape and form in Catherine Fraser’s paintings. While on Iona, the artist used a variety of media and methods to describe her experiences. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Catherine Fraser, "Celtic Cross Rose Window," nd

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Jan 16, 2019 - Mar 16, 2019

shape/colour/form

Winchester Galleries - Oak Bay

please join us in january as we present the best of shape/colour/form in all its glory Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Michael Edward Miller, "Soda Popinski," nd

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Jan 15, 2019 - Feb 24, 2019

Valley to Valley

McMillan Arts Centre (The MAC)

Solo Exhibition. Emerging artist Christi York presents works of contemporary basketry. All works are made from hand harvested natural materials. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

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Apr 2, 2019 - Apr 14, 2019

Anne Meggitt: Humble Magnificence

fortune gallery (formerly Dales Gallery)

Opening Reception | Thursday April 4 | 6-9 pm Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Anne Meggitt, "Quadra's Magnificence", detail, 2018

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Jan 14, 2019 - Feb 26, 2019

Chantal Gibson: TOME

Legacy Maltwood at McPherson Library

he University of Victoria's McPherson Library is host to Chantal Gibson's mixed-media installation TOME. TOME is an imagined history book made from coffee and cotton. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

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Jan 13, 2019 - Feb 26, 2019

Chantal Gibson - How She Read: Confronting the Romance of Empire

Open Space

Chantal Gibson’s work plunges into the fraught territory of school texts and history books with a sewing needle and re-works historical Canadian texts with black thread in order to revise our ideas of history, nationhood, and how we read. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Chantal Gibson, "English History in a New Setting," 2018

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Jan 12, 2019 - Apr 6, 2019

Translations: The Art and Life Of Elizabeth Yeend Duer—Gyokushō 玉蕉

Legacy Downtown

Translations showcases the movement of ideas, aesthetics, politics, and people between England, Japan, and Victoria, Canada, by looking at the life and work of Anglo-Japanese artist Elizabeth Yeend Duer (1889–1951). Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Elizabeth Yeend Duer—Gyokushō 玉蕉, "Kamass Camassia quamash; Camas," 1941

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Apr 6, 2019 - Apr 21, 2019

Esther Parker: Mass Movement

Xchanges Artists' Gallery and Studios

Mass Movement drawings by Esther Parker Read more

Art & Exhibitions

Illustration by Esther Parker

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Jan 10, 2019 - May 31, 2019

Call for Artist Submissions - The Salt Spring National Art Prize

Mahon Hall

The community of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia and the Salt Spring Arts Council is proud to present the Salt Spring National Art Prize or SSNAP. Read more

Art & Exhibitions

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