Amber R. Morrison and Matthew Fox at arc.hive artist run centre

Jane Coombe at Victoria Arts Council

Yvonne Freigang at Gage Gallery Arts Collective

Sergio Rojas Chaves at the Fifty Fifty Arts Collective

Art Victoria Now 2015 group show - CACGV

Fired Up! at Madrona Gallery

Miles Lowry Open Studio - April 2015

Iris Nardini and Diana Brooks at Martin Batchelor Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7^th    7-9 pm

In Slipping Glance, figurative sculptor Iris Nardini and painter Diana Brooks ponder the notion of transience. Iris explores personal issues of isolation, space, relationship and identity through the human figure. Her sculptural practice is largely inspired by the passing grace of movement and the truth in line of the human form. Alluding to gardens and windows, the mylar paintings by Diana Brooks are improvisations that emerge spontaneously. With an intent to evoke diverse interpretations, any meaning that can be attached is merely ephemeral.

Guy Roy at West End Gallery in Victoria, B.C.

Guy Roy 

Feb. 14 to 26, 2015

West End Gallery 

opening reception: Sat.Feb.14, 2015 @ 2pm

Love and Happiness exhibit at the Coast Collective gallery

"Daphne's Garden" by John Janzen

LOVE & HAPPINESS EXHIBIT

February 4 - 15, 2015

opening reception: Feb. 7, 2015 @ 2pm 

Coast Collective Gallery

Arlene Nesbitt and Shelby Assenheimer at Gagge gallery ( backroom )

Evan Locke, Iris Low, Karen Santos at Deer Lake Gallery

16th Annual Look Show

Bryan Faubert at Gallery 1580

Susie Cipolla at the Avenue Gallery

Wooden Boats 18 x 24 Acrylic on canvas

Feb 14 - 28
Susie Cipolla - new westcoast paintings
The Avenue Gallery 

 2184 Oak Bay Ave.

Barbara Weaver-Bosson - February 2015 - Artist of the Month !

  A View of Mount Baker,acrylic painting by Barbara Weaver-Bosson copyright 2001

Barbara Weaver-Bosson's is well known nationally for her panoramic paintings of Victoria B.C's. seaside neighbourhoods and harbour views. After graduation from The Alberta College of Art’s four year Fine Art Painting program, Barbara and her partner, fellow ACA grad, Victor Bosson, moved from Calgary, Alberta to Victoria B.C. 

In the mid 1970’s Barbara began exhibiting her impressionistic west coast landscape paintings and by 1984 Weaver-Bosson's painting style evolved towards realism. With her deep interest in documenting Victoria residential and urban architecture and to further her artistic skills, Barbara became a member of The Island Illustrators Society in 1986 and enrolled in Camosun College's Architectural Drawing and Perspective Courses in 1986 and 1988.

In Weaver-Bosson's 1986 show at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria's Massey Gallery, her colourful detailed painting style and refreshing urban vision drew much attention. In 1989, Barbara and Victor Bosson were honoured with their first international exhibition in Victoria's Sister City of Morioka, Japan. Over the years Barbara's Neighbourhood paintings have garnered numerous awards in various juried exhibitions on Canada’s west coast. 

To meet the public demand for her architectural paintings, Weaver-Bosson, in 1993, published the first of many limited edition prints of her Neighbourhood Series paintings.

Barbara Weaver-Bosson's paintings are in corporate, public, and private collections in Canada, Japan, USA, UK, Germany, Australia and Iceland.

For more information about The Neighbourhood Series, visit www.weaver-bossonart.com

Gonzales Bay revisited, Giclee on Canvas by Barbara Weaver-Bosson copyright 2014

 

Looking South to the Blue Bridge, acrylic painting by Barbara Weaver-Bosson  copyright 2012

Neil McClelland at Xchanges Gallery

Bathers 

by 

Neil McClelland

at 

Xchanges Gallery 

opening reception:

Fri. Feb. 6, 2015 @ 7 pm 

Artist talk: Feb. 22, 2015 @ 2 pm

In “Bathers”, Neil McClelland works through ideas about how contemporary images of people at the beach, which he sources from image-sharing sites such as Instagram, have a genealogy that traces back to the art historical tradition of the bather. McClelland’s paintings take Cezanne’s bathers as a starting point for using the visual language of painting to create bathers that exist somewhere between the past and the present, between “the art in the museum” and contemporary representations. He
seeks to convey something familiar but strange, an in-between space and hybridization that provokes questioning about how we represent ourselves now and how we
look at paintings.

exhibit-v report - Jan.30, 2015

 Go to the video here :
http://youtu.be/2r6H7jXl7Ms

Michael Haisell exhibit reviewed by Sheila R. Alonzo

Nude Sculptures by Michael W. Haisell

Exhibition Jan 21-Feb 4, 2015

CACGV Gallery, Victoria BC

“You came at the best time,” she said, half jokingly and half nervously responding to my writing a review on Michael W. Haisell’s solo exhibition.  Warm sunlight filled the café when I walked through the automatic glass doors of the Cedar Hill Recreation Centre. Wrapped in white synthetic plastic, the quarantined CACGV Gallery had four signs tacked to it:

Please Note:

This exhibition explores the nude female figure in sculpture.

Please Note:

This exhibition explores the nude female figure in sculpture.

CAUTION:

Uneven Flooring

Gallery is

OPEN

My curiosity peaked. I pulled the handle and stepped inside. Thirteen fired clay figures on white table height plinths stood in front of me. My eyes scanned the small room deciding how to maneuver. On my right was an art deco oil painting titled “After Lempica”, perhaps an ode to Tamara de Lempicka (a glamorous Polish Art Deco painter of the 1920’s).  Each sculpture varied in size, the tallest roughly thirteen inches. The clay figures stood, sat or posed lying on the ground. Notes beside each sculpture read:

Lindsey

A true artist, a clothing designer, a glass artisan. She likes to wear black boots and very cool clothing. She likes to sew and model.

Fallyn

Left her foot prints on the wall from her stretch breaks (my floors are covered in clay dust), she smoked the best smelling tobacco with herbs like rosemary in it. She always wears black or green velvet. She spends a lot of time in California.

Jasmine

Was only here for the summer to work at a tourist attraction. My ad was for a fashion model type. She could stand there all day without a rest. Quiet sort of girl, probably tired from her other job.

Then it hit me. These are representations of real people. I looked more closely, admiring the details of their lips, nose, eyes and fingers; graceful, poised and human.

On the back wall hung more oil paintings, six in total at the exhibition. “Amanda on Chaise Lounge”, oil and gouache painting on canvass, is my favourite; made with a series of whimsical strokes in shades of pink. The piece I didn't like was the photograph on canvass "Rachel". The super imposed image of the skin texture revealed hair and goose bumps that somehow made me think of chicken skin.

There isn't a lot of information on Haisell that I could find prior to visiting the exhibition except that his passion is photography and that he follows Sculpting, according to his blog.

MWH's Business Card from the CACGV Gallery

On my way out, I found the guest book open with a comment:

Really don’t know why the screening material had to be put up – there is nothing here to be screened from public view – the work certainly deserves to be seen.

I am curious to know what pieces did not make the exhibition and which ones were “taken down due to controversial material,” said an informant. Stay tuned for the Artist Interview to learn more.

The CACGV Gallery is located inside the Cedar Hill Recreation Centre on 3220 Cedar Hill Road, Victoria. The exhibition runs until Wednesday Feb 4.

Sheila R. Alonzo for exhibit-v

video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOyqRJYcWpQ&list=UUV4eaoyvilFQdKShsSYMsdg

Carlos Colin of Definiciones/Definitions at the LAB in AGGV - Spanish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iiuCZP0UvI