Voyeuristic city sights, abstracts of enjoy, and sailing polar bears are some of the pleasurable to be observed
In his fourth solo exhibition with Madrona Gallery, Toronto-dependent artist Sean Yelland aims to make the viewer search two times at urban settings.
Jogging Feb. 24 to March 8, Yelland’s show The Extended Way Dwelling finds the attractiveness in mundane settings, but also seems at them by means of a lens of voyeurism. His scenes border on the uncanny these locations must be whole of action but instead are silent and nevertheless. Without the need of the comfort and ease of the predicted, the viewer is left to confront tips of position, neighborhood and identification.
Doing the job from pictures, Yelland then paints above each and every piece. His style works by using saturated colours, intensified lighting and reflections that enable for various viewpoints in a single image.
Guests have the likelihood to meet up with Yelland at the opening reception on Feb. 24, working from 1 to 3 p.m.
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From Feb. 3-15 at West Conclusion Gallery, Grant Leier’s exhibit If You Know, You Know celebrates interactions and shared creativeness.
Leier makes use of the canvas as a dialogue concerning himself and his lover, Nixie Barton. The few share their Nanaimo kitchen as their art studio, and the house arrives to existence with their exchanged passion for art and Barton’s candid observations (“You’re screwing it up, Grant!”), producing a comedic ambiance from which equally of their talents prosper.
Leier explores a visible illustration of their like the parts display expressions of their shared language of spirited debates and loving discussions.
From Feb. 24 to March 7, West Stop Gallery will screen David Graff’s show Aspects Converge, his most recent collection of new, abstracted landscape paintings.
Graff’s inventive journey begun in the late ’80s as a singer/songwriter in Los Angeles. He expanded into visual arts in 1994, with a concentration on inside structure and faux-finishing in higher-conclude household and commercial tasks. In 2001, he won an Inside Design and style Institute Award and by 2002, he switched to paintings and 3D works.
His dramatic blended-media paintings include things like a blend of metallic leaf, transparent colour glazes and substantial-sheen resin, reflecting the normal planet that surrounds him on Bowen Island.
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Cindy Revell’s creativity and a diploma in graphic structure led her to illustrate books all across North The usa. Her oil paintings will be on display screen at The Avenue Gallery this thirty day period, showcasing bouquets, creatures and designs all coming alongside one another into vibrant worlds on the canvas.
Also at The Avenue Gallery will be the perform of Carolyn Houg, whose playful sculptures celebrate interconnectedness with mother nature and among the people.
Even though Houg has worked in oils, acrylic, water media monoprinting and concrete, this exhibition characteristics her clay animals and figures.
“My goal is to make men and women smile and really feel a caring link with the animals and birds that surround us and individuals that are endangered in other elements of the environment,” Houg explained.
Houg, who has gained Best 3D Award at the Sidney Wonderful Art Present, is not frightened to place her sculpture subjects in unlikely predicaments. Consider of birds driving when they can fly, or polar bears sailing when they can swim. In Houg’s words, the intent is to make the viewer look at “all we have in prevalent with our fellow creatures”.

Calgary-based artist Becky Holuk’s paintings typically draw inspiration from the organic, majestic magnificence of the Alberta Foothills, Canadian Rockies and the West Coast. Right after working whole-time in the field of graphic style and illustration for 10 yrs, Holuk now primarily focuses on acrylic paint on canvas.
See Holuk’s work at The Avenue Gallery this month.
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Chosen operates of photographer Kali Spitzer are on display screen in an show titled Bodies of, Bodies Within just offered at the Artwork Gallery of Bigger Victoria jogging right up until March 17.
The collection features tintype images from her collection An Exploration of Resilience and Resistance and 35mm film images from her Our Bodies collection. By means of visual storytelling, this selection embraces the stories of up to date BIPOC, queer and trans bodies in a self-established representation, meaning Spitzer operates jointly with her collaborators (she avoids contacting them topics) to create the last impression.
On her father’s facet, Spitzer is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Decrease Submit, B.C.) and on her mother’s side, she is Jewish from Transylvania, Romania. Spitzer has spoken to the fact that her ancestors, and the ancestors in lots of cultures, have experienced a difficult marriage with photography thanks to its earlier of remaining made use of as a violent colonial software for condition documentation and controlling historical narratives.
Spitzer creates a new narrative, laying bare just about every person’s story visually with rely on and vulnerability.
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