New Kid on the block !

Founded by acclaimed Canadian photographer, Quinton Gordon, & Diana Millar, Lúz Gallery is a place for creative thought dedicated to the promotion of fine contemporary photography through exhibitions, workshops and events that include lectures, artists talks and film screenings.

Lúz Gallery exhibits photography across genres from documentary to conceptual fine art by both emerging and established Canadian and international artists, as well as hosting local juried exhibitions and feature shows.

At Lúz Gallery, we believe that photography is a powerful artistic medium that is engaging and informative and we provide education about contemporary photography as well as courses for every level of photographer from enthusiast to professional.

Opens September 8, 2009

977-A Fort St. Victoria BC,Canada -Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 4 pm

Fifth Annual James Bay Art Walk

Artists participating:
Anne Hansen,Carolyn Sadowska,Donna Eichel,Amanda Gaunt,Aurafidelite Arindam,David Ladmore,Elaine White, Ann White,Avril Nolan,Laurie Ladmore,Elsie Gopien McLeod,Eugenie Parker,Jim Gerwing,Ken Crassweller,Roberts Pyx Sutherland,Fiona Vandale,John Boehme,Marnie Miiller,Rosalinde Compton,Janice Beiles,Kathleen Daunhauer,Nicholas Demers

For Futher Information visit: www.jamesbayartwalk.ca

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Summer Small Works Show , "Meet & Greet " ( Friday 2-4 pm) at the Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria till August 30^th, 2009.

Art in Victoria Blog Interview !

Christine Clark of Art in Victoria Blog interviewed me ! You can read the whole questionnaire by strolling down on your right in this page, get to " blogs I follow" and click on the one called "Art in Victoria" Thanks a lot Christine !

Ted Harrison at Legacy Art Gallery and Cafe

Katherine Gibson, curator of the exhibit: Painting Paradise and author of a new Harrison biography Painting Paradise,talks to exhibit-v while she installs the show at the Legacy Art Gallery in Victoria,B.C., Canada

Ted Harrison at Legacy Art Gallery and Cafe

TED HARRISON RETROSPECTIVE COMES TO UVIC’S LEGACY ART GALLERY AND CAFÉ

The University of Victoria’s Legacy Art Gallery and Café presents Ted Harrison: Painting Paradise, a career retrospective of one of Canada’s most popular and beloved visual artists, from Aug. 19 to Nov. 29, 2009. The show includes dozens of works spanning five decades, including recently discovered paintings from Harrison’s 1994 Commonwealth Games series.

“This exhibit demonstrates why Ted Harrison’s work has been both critically acclaimed and popular,” says Martin Segger, director of UVic’s Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery. “It is a compelling summary of an extraordinary artistic career.”

The exhibit is curated by Katherine Gibson, the author of Ted Harrison: Painting Paradise, a biography of the artist. www.tedharrisonbiography.ca -Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the Legacy Art Gallery and Café during an official book signing on Saturday, September 12 between 1 and 3 p.m.
The Legacy Art Gallery and Café, located at 630 Yates Street in downtown Victoria, is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. For more information visit legacygallery.ca or call 250-381-7670.

Sooke Harbour House Gallery

Painter Christine Reimer & Sculptor Jan A. Johnson

INTRODUCING A BRAND NEW SECTION !

We are introducing our newest section on the blog: Book Of The Month !
In this section we will be featuring books that we have read or that have being recommended by friends or readers. August Book of the Month: "A Thing Among Things" The Art of Jasper Johns by John Yau.
Enjoy it ! and please feel free to send your suggestions and book reviews !

Efren

The 50/50 Arts Collective

" Stick "
Works by Mel Paget
August 8 to September 7, 2009
Victoria B.C. Canada

Mel Paget is a local artist, studying Visual Arts at Emily Carr University. While previously studying graphic design she became interested in creating paper collages and manipulating images. This series is a collection of noise-inspired environments. This work reflects the hunter gathering process of imaging, popularized by the internet.

Boucherat Gallery-Woodpile Collective

Opening Reception for the exhibit: "Knew" by artists Sean McLaughlin, Blythe Hailey & Shawn O'Keefe of the Woodpile Collective at Boucherat Gallery in Victoria B.C., Canada Exhibit runs from Aug.7 to Sept. 4, 2009

Mercurio Gallery New Exhibit

Iconica 5: S to W
August 4 - 29, 2009

From the Mercurio House Collection:
Paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics.
Works by Herbert Seibner, Lionel Thomas, Linny D. Vine, Jack Wilkinson, Jack Wise,
and others.

Interview with Artist Marnie Miiller

Artist Marnie Miiller talks to exhibit-v !

Ted Hiebert-August 2009- Artist of the Month!

The first photograph was a sunburn – as has been every photograph since – scars of light burning away the possibilities of shadow, the possibilities of darkness, the possibilities of the imaginary itself. It was Susan Sontag who proposed that the camera is a predatory weapon of sorts, but it was the artist Evergon who put it more aptly by suggesting that the camera is, in actual fact, a coffin of darkness, the last stand of captured night against the tortures of illuminated living.

My work explores this relationship between darkness and the imagination, mobilizing the codes of photographic representation for their material, psychological and delusional possibilities. If photography under the sign of light is mythologized as that which steals souls, my work attempts to answer the question of whether it can also give them back, not through strict representational construction but just the opposite – it is the non-representational potential of photography that I find most compelling.

Consider, for instance, that while it is common practice to refer to photography as a "writing with light" – a vision-based illumination of image – there is an equally powerful, though less commonly articulated inverse side to photography, namely a debt to darkness – both through the protective shell of the camera, and in the light-deprived experience of darkroom processing. Here, it is precisely not vision that governs, but touch – as film is developed in the night-time blind of tactile awareness. And this has an optical counterpoint too, since the blind spot of vision (where the optic nerve penetrates the retina) is equally a location of imaginative "filling in" – where there is darkness there exist the possibilities of an undiscovered, but always nevertheless present, imagination.
http://www.tedhiebert.net