Adam Curry 2015 at Polychrome Fine Art

Frances Beckow at Gage Gallery

Victoria: Past, Present and Future opens at Atelier 546 gallery

Sue Gentry and Anne Hoban at Dales Gallery

Frances Adair McKenzie at the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective

Miles Lowry Open Studio - April 2015

Nicole Clouston at the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective

Don Bergland – April 2015 – Artist of the Month

Utopians

Don Bergland is an Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of Victoria and has been an active exhibiting artist for over 50 years. He describes his current work as a version of Neosurrealism with the objective of eliciting questioning attitudes in the mind of viewers. He creates his work using both traditional and digital tools, focusing on an integration of 3D modeling software and various graphic processing programs.

Each of his artworks features a theatrical set defined by a stage with actors, props, and a backdrop. The actors in the set consist of everyday objects brought into combinations and interactions that attempt to elicit inquiry. The content of the artwork focuses on themes such as time, aging, nostalgia, the footless pursuit of Utopia, and the conditions of ideology which disable our rational minds. Each image is constructed using conventions of visual realism, but with alterations that offer dreamlike possibilities. Themes and objects appear and re-appear from image to image. Each artwork becomes a framed snapshot of a moment in theatrical space, noticed briefly, and then forgotten once more, a fraction of time when reality is breached and a frozen glimpse into the mental theatre of Eternity is experienced, an opening when the viewer can catch the faint hint of cotton candy breezing in from the sideshow midway, the pastel moment of a lost memory, a slight reminder that the past is never absent, and that the future is always in front of us.

Don maintains an active international exhibiting career and has featured his artwork in over 150 major exhibitions throughout the world. He has won over 60 creative & professional awards for his work. His work is represented in major corporate and private collections such as the Gulf Oil Corporate Collection (Alberta), the Madrona Centre Permanent Collection (B.C.), the Canadian Utilities Corporate Collection (Alberta), the Timothy Eaton Foundation Collection (Canada), the Chevron Standard Corporate Collection (Alberta), as well as in private collections in Canada, the United States, and Europe. His current focus is in using 3D modeling environments to create surrealistic imagery for international exhibitions.

 He currently lives and teaches in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Ideology

Confesional

Elysian Fields

 http://www.donbergland.com/

 

Roy Green - MixMaster - at Polychrome Fine Art

James Nesbitt at The English Inn

Art Atelier 546 gallery

Art Atelier 546 opens it's doors to the public with a grand opening gala night located at 546 Yates Street downtown Victoria.

The first opening show for Art Atelier546 is "Victoria:Past, Present and Future" an all photography show featuring Vancouver Island fine art photographers and their spectacular images of Victoria!

The grand opening is Saturday April 18th 7:00p.m. - 10:00p.m.

The show "Victoria:Past,Present and Future" starts Saturday evening April 18th until May 22, 2015.

Victoria Sketch Club 2015 Annual Art Show

45th Annual Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show - Call for Entries

Victoria Fine Art Show by the CACGV at the Atrium

The Community Arts Council of Greater Victoria announces its first Juried Fine Art exhibition in 45 years at the Atrium (800 Yates St.), May 7-10 2015. Approximately 100 works will be selected for show and sale.

Submission of works and hanging costs are free to all applicants.

First round jury selection will be online.

Members of the Jury are well-known experts with deep roots in Victoria’s creative community, highly knowledgeable and representative of the diverse Capital region’s professional art community.

Jury Members:
Fran Willis: (former Fran Willis Gallery)
Elaine Monds: (Alcheringa Gallery)
Michael Warren: (Madrona Gallery)
Shawn Shepherd: (Polychrome Gallery)
Peter Such: (President Victoria College of Art)

Look for details and submission requirements on the CACGV website

http://cacgv.ca/events/victoria-fine-art-show

David McCoy, Linda Dickson and Sid Chow Art Show

Laura Rechwan, Nathaniel Churchill and Tai Dunkley-Whelon at Open Space

Greg Klassen at Xchanges Gallery

Ministry of Casual Living First Anniversary Celebration exhibit

The 16th Annual Look Show Community Arts Exhibition

Kylee Turunen at the Gallery of the Mattick's Farm

March Featured Artist

Kylee Turunen

"Colours of the Island"

Public Reception Saturday March 7th 1-4

Kylee Turunen:

At the young age of 25, Kylee is an emerging Canadian artist, born and raised in Ontario and currently residing in Victoria, British Columbia. Growing up with the constant exposure to her artist father, she picked up an appreciation and excitement for creating art. She completed the Fine Art program at Toronto's Centennial College in 2009. Since then, she has continued to develop her skills as a fine artist working primarily in acrylic on canvas. 

Kylee’s work has primarily been focused on nature, stylistically ranging from realistic landscapes to more abstract paintings. She works with colour and form, often playing with opposites like curves and straight edges, or light and dark tones to create contrast within her work. Painting abstracted art allows her to escape from reality, creating something completely original from a place only in her mind. While she enjoys the freedom of expression involved in this process, it also brings her great joy to recreate the beauty that surrounds her using representational intricacy within her landscape paintings.  

Kylee is driven by the desire to see what she will create next as her work is continually changing and evolving.