Visual arts
Nanaimo: Outdoor art gallery offers unique and changing venue for Nanaimo artists
Tourists and residents alike are already leaving the beaten track to check out Nanaimo’s newest outdoor art gallery. Three of nine temporary public art pieces have already caught the attention of passersby in Maffeo-Sutton and McGregor parks. The outdoor gallery project is a collaboration between the City of Nanaimo and the Nanaimo Art Gallery to [...]
Victoria: Carr show features rarely seen early work: emi-permanent exhibit includes loans from galleries across Canada
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria celebrates the art and life of Emily Carr, with the opening of a new semi-permanent exhibition called Emily Carr: On the Edge of Nowhere (now on display). “Here, in Carr’s hometown, both visitors and residents have long expressed their desire to explore more of Carr’s life and art at [...]
Penticton: Gala continues gallery’s momentum
Artists who captured the breathtaking settings of wineries and vineyards above Okanagan Lake will have their work up for auction at the 33rd annual Penticton Starry, Starry Night gala. “Growing in popularity each year, this event is fast becoming the foremost summer event on many social calendars not only here in the Okanagan Valley but [...]
Vancouver: Like inexpensive art? You had to line up early at the Cheaper Show
“I’ve been here since around 6:30 or 7,” says one young man near the front of the line—he’s referring to 6:30 or 7 a.m. (!!) on a Saturday. He has set up camp with a foldable chair, a blanket, and a book, by the front doors of the W2 Storyeum on June 26. By around [...]
The Cheaper Show keeps to a winning formula: good art cheap: Organizers hope to expand idea globally in coming years
In its first incarnation, it was called Cheaper than a One Night Stand. It was held upstairs in the former hipster hangout The Sugar Refinery on Granville. Lucky buyers snapped up 60 works of art at $75 a piece. “It was really slapped together,” said founder Graeme Berglund. “Myself and couple of friends started it [...]
Vancouver: The Cheaper Show brings a big art show for a small price
One word to describe this Saturday’s (June 26) ninth annual Cheaper Show is big—too big for just Vancouver. The single-night event supports emerging artists and also makes art accessible for younger buyers through a flat fee for all artwork—this year $200. Over the past nine years, it has grown to more than double its original size. [...]
Campbell River: Regional art highlighted
The Campbell River Art Gallery and CR Arts Council’s Annual Members’ Exhibition celebrates the regional visual arts scene. The juried show continues until Friday so visit and cast your vote for your favourite piece in the coveted People’s Choice Award. The exhibition of 64 works represents a wide range of styles, medium, artistic discipline and [...]
Arrow Lakes Fine Arts Guild opens first show of the season
The Arrow Lakes Fine Arts (ALFA) Guild officially opened their first show of the summer featuring artist Boukje Elzinga and photographer Suzanne Schneider. Elzinga’s gallery, entitled Structure, Reflections and Patterns of Water, features oil paintings on either canvas or wood. Schneider’s photographs, entitled Diverging Reflections, features a diverse array of profile shots, trees, bodies, and [...]
They’re Just Workin’ On The Chain Gang: What once was two-wheeled trash is now an esthetic treasure
Where do old bicycles go to die? What happens to that rusty Norco after it’s popped its last wheelie and laid down its final skid mark? Sure, a few parts may get transplanted into other bikes, but, sadly, for most, it’s off to the landfill, the glue factory of the bicycle world. Or at least [...]
Coquitlam: Installation artists take aim at suburbia
Installation artists Kathy Tycholis and Carie Helm explore suburbia in their first joint exhibit, Subtopia, on display at the Evergreen Cultural Centre until July 3. The name of the exhibit is a combination of the suburb, “a monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings,” and utopia, the idyllic fairy tale for which suburbs are often mistaken. [...]
Duncan: Museum-quality Native art featured downtown
The arts council’s first exhibit of all-Native work opens Thursday in downtown Duncan. “Part of our mandate is inclusive of Native art,” said Jeffrey Birkin of the Cowichan Valley Arts Council. He’s tanked up about some three-dozen multi-media pieces being displayed under heavy security in CVAC’s storefront gallery on Station Street. The exhibit dubbed Aboriginal [...]
Vancouver:Artists talk the talk while you walk the walk
This year’s Canadian Art Gallery Hop has for the first time added free guided tours through the city’s main art gallery neighbourhoods of Gastown, Downtown, Main Street and South Granville. Jeffrey Boone, who is leading one of the tours in Gastown starting at the Marion Scott Gallery, said that after last year’s self-guided tours, organizers [...]
Lawren Harris painting fetches $2.8 million at Heffel auction
A Lawren Harris painting of the Arctic, Bylot Island I, sold for $2.8 million, leading the way in another exceptional Heffel auction of Canadian art at the Vancouver Convention Centre on Wednesday. The auction netted about $21.8 million, which made it the second highest-grossing auction in Canadian history. Several records were broken during the auction, [...]
Creamier rises to the top: Vancouver contributes to top 100 emerging artists
It’s official: Vancouver artists are among the cream of the crop. A new book on 100 emerging contemporary artists from around the world includes three artists who live and work in Vancouver, and will have its global launch here this Saturday. Geoffrey Farmer, Ron Terada and Althea Thauberger are the only artists living in Canada [...]
Castlegar: Sculpture Walk opens Saturday
With Castlegar’s Sculpture Walk just around the corner, it’s not just the artists and organizers getting excited—the sponsors are too. Alex Atamanenko, Member of Parliament for the B.C. Southern Interior is a sponsor for this year’s event. “I thought the whole idea was pretty exciting,” he said. “I would really like to see our downtown [...]
