By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer Stephen Topfer is more regularly known as the AGGV’s Manager of Collections. In an article from our March issue of the emagazine, he brought us on a behind-the-scenes look at his department in The AGGV Art Vault. With his background in photography and a BA in History, Stephen is also […]
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer In our last issue of the emagazine, our article “Powerful Stories Close To Home” related how pairings and groups of artworks in the exhibition Close To Home complemented each other. By viewing these groupings of works in tandem, new ways of understanding and appreciating them were conceived. The Curator’s Tour […]
The TD Art Gallery Paint-In has been going strong for 30 years, and is a much anticipated fixture on Victoria’s summer calendar. This July was no different. Throngs of art lovers strolled in the sunshine along 10 blocks of Moss Street between Dallas Road and Fort Street. Visitors came not only for the art, but […]
The exhibition Close To Home showcases works by local artists from Victoria and the region. Indigenous artists are well represented among them, and in particular, Coast Salish artists feature prominently. Butch Dick is from the Lkwungen community, also known as the Songhees First Nations. His family roots extend into the Xw’chalth’lap community, today known as […]
“Perhaps mine is “environmental” sculpture, rather than geometric…I have never made anything not closely connected with the human being and his environment. Man and his longings, desires, his dwellings, the thresholds he passes over and his places of worship concern me; people, buildings, entrances through which people go in, come out; and the apprehension, the […]
Over three days in June, three of Canada’s most influential performance artists came together in Making the Invisible Visible: Embodied Explorations of Site and Situation. Margaret Dragu (Vancouver), Johanna Householder (Toronto), and Judith Price (Victoria), in collaboration with each other and a group of dancers and guests, each took on a municipality in the capital region […]
