Upcoming Exhibitions

Divergence: Insights into Studio Practices

February 29 to April 14, 2012

From the studios of 19 University of Victoria art education instructors in the Faculty of Education comes a rich and diverse exhibition of images and objects that range through traditional and newer media. Working independently in their studios, these artist/educators collaborate and exchange ideas on a daily basis while working with students, engaging them in creative problem solving, and assisting in the preparation of work for exhibitions.

What they hold in common is a commitment to both the classroom and the studio as sites of research and dissemination. Teaching informs studio practice and studio informs teaching practice in the daily ebb and flow of professional life. This exhibition invites visitors to experience that dynamic interaction.

Opal Ice
Bill Zuk

Mark Laver: Shining Examples

March 1 to 31, 2012 (in the Small Gallery)

Dark, wet, Vancouver Island nights receive a painterly treatment in Mark Laver’s intimate Night Paintings and ambitious Rural Disasters. Be it urban parks after midnight, trailer park fires, nocturnal car crashes or rural highways, the exhibit reveals a battle between the psychological and narrative power of nocturnal imagery and the allure of oil paint itself. Smeared, swirled, glazed and dripped, the luscious materiality of paint is as much the subject of these paintings as the landscape Laver calls home.

I Want to be a Shining Example
Mark Laver

On Communities and Nations

April 4 to May 26, 2012 (in the Small Gallery)

Ideas of community and nation have a complicated set of relationships. For some, communities are nations. For historian Benedict Anderson, nations are synthetic constructions that we come to imagine as communities through various systems of exchange that include: public meeting places and the reproduction of images and narratives. On Communities and Nations examines Anderson’s concept of imagined communities in relationship to emergence of First Nations printmaking practices in the late twentieth century.

Unctuous #2
Sean Nattras

MFAs, Visual Arts

April 18 to May 12, 2012

Graduate students in Fine Arts share their recent works.

Transformation: Works by Duncan Regehr

May 30 to August 18, 2012

The expansive career of UVic honourary degree recipient Duncan Regehr is represented through drawings, paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and poetry all in the theme of transformation.

Benevolence
Duncan Regehr