Megan Dickie: Blue Skies

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Megan Dickie," Blue Skies," 2019

Opening on June 1, with a by-donation Public Open House, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria presents Blue Skies: Megan Dickie featuring new works from the Victoria based artist.

Exhibition Facilitator on site in Blue Skies: Megan Dickie during Public Open House on June 1st from 2:00 p.m.to 3:00 p.m.

Join celebration of Blue Skies and all summer exhibitions at Party for Our People on June 7^th from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. More information at: https://aggv.ca/events/party-for-our-people-2/

Artist talk with Megan Dickie, Christian Giroux and Daniel Young, Saturday, June 8^th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 pm. Admission by-donation as part of Public Open House.

September 5 at 7-8:30 Explore Blue Skies: Megan Dickie through the topics of adornment and embellishment with this season’s Encounter. Facilitator Regan Shrumm will be teaching some basic hand embroidery stitches while investigating the minimal versus the monumental through Dickie’s exhibition. All material supplied, just bring your sense of play!

"The video and sculpture installation in Blue Skies doesn’t allow for easy interpretations. A five-channel video depicts a lone cowgirl in a variety of breathtaking landscapes across Alberta. Dressed in her finest costumes the character supports a massive golden sculpture as an accessory, a dance partner, and her greatest obstruction. Struggling against scale and environment the cowgirl persistently tries to take action,” said Dickie. “Her motive remains unknown, but questions of power and grandeur saturate the video and accompanying sculptural installation. Utilizing glittering movement as a device to call attention, the exhibition presents us with alternative ways of claiming space.”

Megan Dickie’s practice uses extreme physicality, choreographed set-ups, and fantastic failures as a means to poke at dominant systems and structures. Dickie has had recent exhibitions at; L’OEil de Poisson (Quebec City), Open Space (Victoria), Campbell River Art Gallery, Durham Art Gallery (Durham, ON), Oxygen Art Centre (Nelson), Latitude 53 (Edmonton) Stride (Calgary) and Grunt Gallery, (Vancouver). Video works have been screened at TUFF (Toronto) BIDDU (Reykjavik) and Eastern Edge (St. John’s) She is also the recipient of projects grants from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council.

Megan Dickie received her MFA from the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, 2002) and a BFA from the University of Calgary (1997). Her works are part of the collections of the University of Saskatchewan, Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Nickel Arts Museum. Megan Dickie resides in Victoria, BC and is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the University of Victoria.

Blue Skies: Megan Dickie will be accompanied by an exhibition publication available in July 2019 with a contribution from Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, B.C.) curator Kimberly Phillips.