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Showing posts with label Victoria Emerging Art Gallery. Show all posts
Monday, November 26, 2012
Christmas Salon at the Emerging Art Gallery
Please RSVP for our Christmas Salon by Dec 1st: info@victoriaemergingart.c
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Friday, December 9, 2011
“ coLABoration “ at Emerging Art Gallery
Sharing Creative Spaces
Cam Reid + Ben Westergreen
Samuel Jan + Pete Kohut
Tom McCabe + Liam Hanna - Lloyd
Rachel Wilmshurst + Kesley Boorman
Mandy Auger + Coral Clay
Please join us for this unique exhibition (and quite possibly the most dynamic show at VEAG!) during which pairs of artists share one canvas. Exhibition runs until Jan 1st 2012.
Opening Reception - Friday, Dec 9, 2011 - 6pm-8pm
977 A Fort St – Phone : 778 430 5585
www.victoriaemergingart.com
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Opening Reception of “A Remnant Era” at Victoria Emerging Art Gallery
Group Abstract Exhibition & Sale
by Coral Clay, Alexandra Hunter & Mandy Auger
Aug. 25 to Sept. 1, 2011
www.victoriaemergingart.com
Watch video
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Alexandra Hunter,Coral Clay and Mandy Auger at Victoria Emerging Art Gallery
Opening Night : Thursday Aug. 25 at 7pm
Monday, August 8, 2011
Dana Statham, Marilyn Peeters, Logan Ford and Curt Bilson at Victoria Emerging Art Gallery
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Zeitgeist on Fort Street by Philip Willey
In his book ‘The $12 million Stuffed Shark’ (a good read but somewhat longer than it needs to be) Don Thompson talks about how dealers and gallery owners don’t like to use words like ‘new’ or ‘unknown’ when talking about artists. They prefer the word ‘emerging’. Like butterflies from chrysalides (plural of chrysalis. I had to look it up).
With that in mind I found myself in the Victoria Emerging Artist Gallery on Fort Street on a dull February day. It’s a small gallery but what it lacks in space is made up for in enthusiasm. Ellen Manning is the driving force behind the gallery and she has put together a stable of artists with bright futures. She’s primarily a curator she says and/or dealer, she doesn’t care much for the word ‘galleryist’. She has gathered together a group of artists, some from the Avenue Gallery, in Oak Bay, and she hopes to replicate the kind of energy she found in Shanghai where she worked for 2 years.
Work on display ranges from photographic to tactile, abstract to landscape. There are some striking forest landscapes by Marilyn Peeters who uses a limited palette to achieve a spiritual quality. Dennis Shields flowers in vases against various backgrounds are decorative without being bland. More flowers by Luis Enrique Oliver (who did the Babies with Guns at Ministry of Casual Living). These are lavishly painted. Oliver is not shy about using luscious tropical colours most welcome at this time of the year. All the work on display has a vitality often missing in more established galleries. It’s an eclectic mix, perhaps with some rough edges here and there but the enjoyment of art-making is evident throughout.
Ellen Manning is also curating a show at Dale’s Gallery (currently pulsating with some exuberant paintings by Marion Evamy) and I was curious about the connection. It’s a collaboration with Allison Rogers apparently. Dale’s functions as a satellite gallery for VEAG. That show opens on February 17th.
As I was emerging from the gallery who should I meet but Emily Carr’s ghost! The last time I’d seen her she’d been wandering around with a hammer in the Empress Tea Room smashing crockery. I asked her about that. Well, she said, she’d just come back from New York at the time where she’d seen a show by Julian Schnabel. She loved the intensity of his work and thought she’d have a go. Good for you I said. We have to keep up with the times.
I asked her if she felt like getting a coffee. Starbucks? Or something different? So it was we found ourselves in SerSon, a new gallery/café/gift-shop/cabaret run by a friendly Russian lady named Sonia von Walter. Clearly Victoria is going through one of its periodic metamorphoses. Over our lattes we talked about this and that. Emily wasn’t very happy about the new Uptown Mall. It’s an abomination said Emily. Well, I said, some people seem to like it. But Emily was quite upset. Who is running the city these days? Who approved it? They must think you’re just a bunch of shopping units! Hmmm. Emily doesn’t mince words. I managed to turn the conversation back to art. Had she seen Damien Hirst’s skull I asked? Not his actual cranium of course but the diamond encrusted version? Yes indeed she had. She thought it was a rather clever piece. Wealth and death. The ultimate irony. A statement about the way we attach value to art objects. And so on. I had lots of questions for Emily but I guess our time was up because she suddenly said, ‘Later dude, gotta go’ and disappeared. Just like that.
Which left me wandering aimlessly at Fort and Quadra. Fortunately there is a new show at Polychrome. These turned out to be portraits by Ken Banner the artist formerly known as Flag. Raw is the word that describes them I think. Raw and unpolished. Banner lays the paint on fairly thick without much modeling. The subjects are nobody in particular he says, just faces he felt like painting. Some seem happy and well adjusted. Others less so. It’s not Schiele, Munch or Bacon but angst and alienation are alive and well. These people wear their personalities on the outside. There is an element of inner turmoil but it’s muted and witty. The result is edgy but playful, the sort of thing Perez Hilton might approve of.
Which reminds me. Completely by accident I happened to be watching ‘Showbiz Tonight’ (America’s most provocative entertainment news show), and Perez Hilton was on. It seems he has been indulging in some serious introspection lately and he has had a change of heart. He’s decided to be nicer and less snarky he says. Let’s hope so. He’s no Rick Gervais but if anybody knows about Zeitgeists it’s Perez.
With that in mind I found myself in the Victoria Emerging Artist Gallery on Fort Street on a dull February day. It’s a small gallery but what it lacks in space is made up for in enthusiasm. Ellen Manning is the driving force behind the gallery and she has put together a stable of artists with bright futures. She’s primarily a curator she says and/or dealer, she doesn’t care much for the word ‘galleryist’. She has gathered together a group of artists, some from the Avenue Gallery, in Oak Bay, and she hopes to replicate the kind of energy she found in Shanghai where she worked for 2 years.
Work on display ranges from photographic to tactile, abstract to landscape. There are some striking forest landscapes by Marilyn Peeters who uses a limited palette to achieve a spiritual quality. Dennis Shields flowers in vases against various backgrounds are decorative without being bland. More flowers by Luis Enrique Oliver (who did the Babies with Guns at Ministry of Casual Living). These are lavishly painted. Oliver is not shy about using luscious tropical colours most welcome at this time of the year. All the work on display has a vitality often missing in more established galleries. It’s an eclectic mix, perhaps with some rough edges here and there but the enjoyment of art-making is evident throughout.
Ellen Manning is also curating a show at Dale’s Gallery (currently pulsating with some exuberant paintings by Marion Evamy) and I was curious about the connection. It’s a collaboration with Allison Rogers apparently. Dale’s functions as a satellite gallery for VEAG. That show opens on February 17th.
As I was emerging from the gallery who should I meet but Emily Carr’s ghost! The last time I’d seen her she’d been wandering around with a hammer in the Empress Tea Room smashing crockery. I asked her about that. Well, she said, she’d just come back from New York at the time where she’d seen a show by Julian Schnabel. She loved the intensity of his work and thought she’d have a go. Good for you I said. We have to keep up with the times.
I asked her if she felt like getting a coffee. Starbucks? Or something different? So it was we found ourselves in SerSon, a new gallery/café/gift-shop/cabaret run by a friendly Russian lady named Sonia von Walter. Clearly Victoria is going through one of its periodic metamorphoses. Over our lattes we talked about this and that. Emily wasn’t very happy about the new Uptown Mall. It’s an abomination said Emily. Well, I said, some people seem to like it. But Emily was quite upset. Who is running the city these days? Who approved it? They must think you’re just a bunch of shopping units! Hmmm. Emily doesn’t mince words. I managed to turn the conversation back to art. Had she seen Damien Hirst’s skull I asked? Not his actual cranium of course but the diamond encrusted version? Yes indeed she had. She thought it was a rather clever piece. Wealth and death. The ultimate irony. A statement about the way we attach value to art objects. And so on. I had lots of questions for Emily but I guess our time was up because she suddenly said, ‘Later dude, gotta go’ and disappeared. Just like that.
Which left me wandering aimlessly at Fort and Quadra. Fortunately there is a new show at Polychrome. These turned out to be portraits by Ken Banner the artist formerly known as Flag. Raw is the word that describes them I think. Raw and unpolished. Banner lays the paint on fairly thick without much modeling. The subjects are nobody in particular he says, just faces he felt like painting. Some seem happy and well adjusted. Others less so. It’s not Schiele, Munch or Bacon but angst and alienation are alive and well. These people wear their personalities on the outside. There is an element of inner turmoil but it’s muted and witty. The result is edgy but playful, the sort of thing Perez Hilton might approve of.
Which reminds me. Completely by accident I happened to be watching ‘Showbiz Tonight’ (America’s most provocative entertainment news show), and Perez Hilton was on. It seems he has been indulging in some serious introspection lately and he has had a change of heart. He’s decided to be nicer and less snarky he says. Let’s hope so. He’s no Rick Gervais but if anybody knows about Zeitgeists it’s Perez.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Get Fresh! A Group Exhibition and Sale at The Victoria Emerging Art Gallery
Getting Fresh at VEAG 2011Join us for a dynamic evening of celebrating new beginnings:
Get Fresh! A Group Exhibition and Sale Jan 13 2011 - 977 A Fort Street 6-8 pm We are pleased to kick off 2011 with the introduction of seven talented new artists to Victoria Emerging Art Gallery - a fresh new year with fresh new talent:
Ben Westergreen, Willie Seo, Yvonne Vander Kooi,
Luis Enrique Oliver, Liam Odell, Matthew Wolferstan and Bob St Cyr.
exhibition runs until Jan 26
regular gallery hours: Tues - Sun 12-4pm
Ben Westergreen, Willie Seo, Yvonne Vander Kooi,
Luis Enrique Oliver, Liam Odell, Matthew Wolferstan and Bob St Cyr.
exhibition runs until Jan 26
regular gallery hours: Tues - Sun 12-4pm
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Victoria Emerging Art Gallery - Grand Opening !
Art of Calm - Group Exhibition and Sale
The drive to express our inner and often subconscious states and yearnings can provide us with a unique and deep sense of meaning - a connection that brings balance to our busy, complicated lives. The Art of Calm exhibition gives artists an opportunity to express their visual interpretations of finding inner peace in a complex, fast paced and often overwhelming modern world.
Dec 16, 2010 - 6 to 8pm - exhibition runs until Dec 30
977 A Fort St (across the street from Cafe Brio)
We are pleased to announce the grand opening of VEAG! Join us on this evening for some festive treats and the celebration of 10 exciting emerging local artists - many of whom are from the well attended Victoria Emerging Art Awards 2010.
Purchasing Work
Save your position in the cue! Visit the gallery to pick up a numbered ticket from 4:00 - 5:00pm on Dec 16 before the show:
We will be handing out numbered tickets starting at 4pm to secure your position in line. Please return to the gallery by 5:55 in order to resume your position in the cue. We will open the doors at 6pm to unveil this highly anticipated exhibition.
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