Xchanges Gallery and Studios, PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Xchanges
Gallery and Studios with the generous assistance of the Capital Region
District (CRD) is pleased to announce that from July 1 to August 31, 2016
the gallery will have an ‘Artist-in-Residence’ program. Victoria artist
Rick Thomas will be creating murals in the gallery he calls a
‘Dumpster- Dive’ project. He will fill four walls of the Xchanges
Gallery, 850 square feet with dumpster cardboard and produce a mural in
pastel, conte and charcoal. He does not know what subject be on the
walls as his work is done on the fly. The photo above shows what he has
done to his living room wall. He will reference material from his last
16 years ‘On-the-Road’ and current events in Victoria. He is in the
planning stage at this time with his consultants: Bill Bartlett,
consultant Xchanges; Cindy Wright, Xchanges Gallery Coordinator; Karen
Morrison, artist; model Jennifer Almeida and Ron Gilmore communications
and web. At the end of August Xchanges expects to have a piece of art
that will be returned to the dumpster or get sold off. for further
information, please consult Rick’s CV, bio and blog. The best time to
visit the site will be Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., after mid July when work is underway.
email: rthomas3@telus.net
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