art galleries
Prince George: Haida exhibit opens at gallery
By Teresa Mallam, Prince George Free Press, January 18, 2011 4:00 PM Installing a new art exhibition is always exciting but Two Rivers Gallery curator George Harris is particularly proud of this one: Eagle Transforming: the Prints of Robert Davidson. The works are by one of Canada’s most respected, important contemporary artists and they span [...]
Cumberland: New art gallery in village
You are invited to the opening of the new Corre Alice Gallery in Cumberland on Dec. 3. Come and enjoy an evening of art and merrymaking. The creative spirit that has graced Frelone’s Grocery in the past with yoga, music and film continues with a new art gallery and studio space. Corre Alice, a professional [...]
Grand Forks: Art Gallery looking at funding options
Grand Forks city council’s decision to cut about $30,000 in funding to Gallery 2 has the art gallery’s board scrambling for ways to make up for the loss. However, the board had a meeting last week and no firm decisions were made on where to make up for the loss. “We don’t have any definitive [...]
Vancouver: Noise bylaws threaten Main Street’s Little Mountain Gallery
Main Street’s Little Mountain Gallery has found itself in financial dire straits after running afoul of the city’s zoning bylaws, which prevent it from hosting live music events. Ehren Salazar, one of the principals of the gallery, located at 195 East 26th Avenue, said the space had been hosting, on average, two concerts a week [...]
100 Mile House: Student gallery instant success at Parkside
Parkside Art Gallery is feeling pride in a newly designated area just for student art. It opened on Sept. 17, and Parkside director Joanne Young says it met with instant success. She was one of the main supporters of the idea to make student art visible to the public. What she hadn’t anticipated was the [...]
Vancouver Art Gallery Permanent Collection Reaches Important Milestone, Now Over 10,000 Works
The Vancouver Art Gallery has passed a major milestone, as its permanent collection now exceeds 10,000 items. As part of its recent annual review, the Gallery announced that 178 artworks were acquired through purchase and donation in the last fiscal year, bringing the total number of works held in trust for the people of British [...]
Rossland: Rouge Gallery grooves in new space
A month after moving to old Bank of Montreal building, Rossland group broadens its vision A month after renovating and moving to a new location in the old Bank of Montreal building, Louise Drescher is literally beaming with optimism about Rouge Gallery’s future. With its tall, luminous walls, natural light, honey hardwood floors, deep, airy [...]
Williams Lake: Anonymous Footwork encourages artists to try something new
The deadline is coming up Wednesday, Oct. 27 for artists to participated in the Station House Gallery’s new fundraising auction event Anonymous Footwork. The deadline was originally this Monday but has been moved ahead, says gallery manager Diane Toop. So far Toop says about 25 artists have registered to participate in the fundraiser and they [...]
Kelowna: Leading aboriginal artist coming
One of this country’s top contemporary aboriginal artists will be in town early next month after agreeing to work in one of the Alternator Gallery’s workshops. Lawrence Paul Yuxwelupten will join Meeka Morgan’s workshop for aboriginal youth, which uses collaborative art to explore how the future should look for rural and urban aboriginal communities. Yuxwelupten [...]
Vancouver’s new public gallery opens at Five Sixty Nightclub on Seymour
Satellite Gallery, Vancouver’s newest public art gallery, officially opens Saturday in Vince Alvaro’s Five Sixty nightclub on Seymour. Located on the second level, Satellite Gallery is a joint project of three institutions: the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of B.C. and Presentation House Gallery in North [...]
Courtenay: Art gallery grant bid sidelined
Comox Valley Art Gallery’s request for a $25,000 a year grant has been sidelined by regional district directors. The gallery’s curator/director, Anh Le, made the case for financial help at a meeting of the committee of the whole on Tuesday. She said there had been significant cuts in financial support from the B.C. Arts Council [...]
Courtenay: CVRD directors cool to art gallery funds appeal
Comox Valley Art Gallery staff have appealed to the regional district to open a standalone tax service that would stabilize funding for the gallery’s operations. The gallery — represented by curator Anh Le and financial officer Linda Gooding at Tuesday’s committee of the whole meeting — is requesting $25,000 per year for five years, to [...]
New Westminster: Autumn Open House featuring New Westminster Artists
Exhibition on October 16, 2010 at the Van Dop Gallery Presenting New Westminster Artists: Internationally recognized Leslie Poole draws on years of experience to create works of deeply felt emotion. Poole’s paintings, drawings, and prints question life and art through subjects as diverse as: male and female figures, still life, landscape, and self-portraits from realist to expressionist [...]
Comox: First Nations gallery celebrating milestone
The I-Hos Gallery, which celebrates its 15th anniversary in the Comox Valley this November, serves some important functions. Besides showcasing native culture to the public, it employs K’ómoks Band members and provides a vehicle for native artists to sell their creations, explains I-Hos manager Ramona Johnson. Before I-Hos existed, Johnson took the resort management course [...]
Beyond mask and totem pole: Vancouver is the hub of a thriving market in contemporary works by Northwest Coast native artists
When British artist Damien Hirst went shopping for a totem pole for his house in Mexico, he set his sights on Vancouver. Hirst, believed to be the wealthiest artist in the world and for years the enfant terrible of the British art world, found what he was looking for at the Douglas Reynolds Gallery on [...]
