By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
Through history, travel has had an immeasurable impact on visual culture.
Category: Painting
Artist In Our Collection: Myfanwy Pavelic (1916-2007)
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
Myfanwy Pavelic’s portraits go far beyond the mere representation of her sitters. Mostly self-taught in her art, Pavelic produces portraits which balance the outer with the inner, countering likeness with her subjects’ emotions, fears, strengths and vulnerabilities.
Art Quiz: Souvenirs of Travel
With travel off the table for the time being, our Art Quiz this quarter brings you on a journey to Europe to whet your appetite for when we can once again travel for leisure.
Artist In Our Collection: Maud Lewis (1903-1970)
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
Three paintings by Maud Lewis (1903-1970) were recently gifted to The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria by Frances E. Rose, a wonderful first acquisition for the Gallery of work by the renown Nova Scotian artist.
Carr and Collections: Q&A with India Rael Young, Curator of Art and Images at the Royal BC Museum
Nicole Stanbridge, Curator of Engagement, AGGV, interviews India Rael Young, Curator of Art and Images at the Royal BC Museum about the exhibition Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing – French Modernism and the West Coast.
An Inward Perspective: Celebrating the AGGV Collection
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
Celebrating the AGGV Collection brings together the highlights in the AGGV’s permanent collection of artworks, bringing into perspective the breadth and depth of the Gallery’s holdings.
How We Fit Together: A Mural for New Extreme
By Tasha Henry, Teacher at Cedar Hill Middle School.
As part of the New Extreme program, the wall of the Art Gallery building facing Moss Street gets a new mural installed every spring. This year, the group called Melanin Magic from Cedar Hill Middle School created the mural “How We Fit Together”, mentored by artist Andrea Searle.
Artist In Our Collection: Vera Weatherbie (1909-1977)
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
Vera Weatherbie’s history as an artist is often overshadowed by her relationships with men and her exceptional beauty in many narratives.
A Homage To Staying Home: The Art of Interior Spaces
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer
This past Spring, during a time when, typically, the outdoors is celebrated for the rejuvenation of life after winter, much of humanity spent it indoors, under government lockdown orders to shelter from the unseen enemy of COVID-19. Our homes became our refuge and safe place.
Views of Victoria in the AGGV Collection
The varied land and seascapes around Victoria have provided inspiration to artists for hundreds of years. Can you identify where these locales are in the paintings, drawings and photographs below from the AGGV Collection?