Legacy Art Gallery: Visiting exhibition on Tseshaht artist George Clutesi | April 16 - July 26 | 630 Yates St.
University Art Collections' latest is a window into the life and legacy of artist, activist and scholar George Clutesi, who preserved and celebrated cultural traditions and customs of the Nuu-chah-nulth. Archival photographs, news, works from other artists and a documentary film about his impact on residential school survivors will accompany his art.
The exhibition is free.
Gage Gallery: Small World | April 1-20 | 19 Bastion Square
Victoria artist Dallas Segno invites the public into his visceral comic book world, created using beautiful patterned papers from many countries. These iconographic images, accompanied by his identifiable style, are hard to forget. Learn more about this artist at the Arist Talk, held Saturday, April 12 at noon and 2 p.m. Admission is free.
Deluge Contemporary Art: Icons Redux | Through April 26 | 636 Yates St.
Ho Tam is a Canadian visual artist whose practice spans video, photography, graphic design, painting and print media. This collection loops back three decades to a seminal suite of under-seen paintings by the Vancouver-based visual artist and publisher. More at https://deluge.squarespace.com/now.
The Avenue Gallery | 2184 Oak Bay Ave.
Throughout April, The Avenue Gallery highlights the works of Kimberly Kiel, Corre Alice and Lisa Samphire.
With a passion for exploration and a love for blending textures, Kimberly Kiel’s paintings evoke a sense of wonder and delight, inviting viewers to experience the world's beauty through her eyes.
Corre Alice’s paintings celebrate her gratitude for the natural world, blending intuitive marks with formal constraints. Influenced by abstract expressionists, her work dances between emotion and intellect, inviting viewers to experience the harmony of colour, form, and personal creativity.
"I'm an admirer of flowers. Humbly attempting to capture even a smidge of their amazingness in paint on canvas," says Corre Alice.
Transparent, flowing shapes unfold in brilliant colours in Lisa Samphire’s Landscape series. With a career spanning four decades, Lisa has become a luminary in the world of glass art, enchanting audiences with her distinctive creations since 1985. More at https://theavenuegallery.com/.
Madrona Gallery: Susannah Montague | April 11-26 | 606 View St.
Susannah Montague, a British-born ceramic sculptor based on Bowen Island, creates highly intricate porcelain structures that juxtapose the beautiful and the macabre. Her subject matter moves fluidly between dolls, flowers, hearts and lace, to skulls, insects and other horror elements, creating work that is striking and narrative.
Montague will attend the opening reception on April 12, from 1-3 p.m. Learn more at www.madronagallery.com/.
AGGV: From Warhol to Banksy; From Balzar to Hunt | Through April 27 | 1040 Moss St.
It's the last month to see groundbreaking pieces that defined the Pop Movement, alongside a smaller collection of pop art from B.C. artists.
Also on display is A View From Here, showcasing selections from the gallery's permanent collections and Beauty of Mending, featuring a traditional craft of repairing shattered ceramics with lacquer and gold. Visit aggv.ca for more.
Scholarship opportunities
Applications are now open for Imagination in Motion: A CG Arts Scholarship. Bardel Entertainment and Think Tank Training Centre will support five underrepresented artists in B.C. by providing $4,250 toward tuition for Think Tank’s 16-week online Computer Graphics Fundamentals Certificate Program, which begins on June 9. The program is fully online and provides hands-on training from industry professionals, along with exclusive workshops led by Bardel’s CG and 3D teams. Applications close on April 11 at 8:59 p.m. PST.
