By Jon Tupper, AGGV Director
What’s really happening when people encounter art? How does it affect them? It’s a mystery researchers have pondered for centuries. Here at the Gallery, I think of visitors regarding Emily Carr’s towering west coast forests; or an intricate Japanese print; or the ghostly digital trees in an installation such as Kelly Richardson’s The Erudition, which appears in our current show Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest.
Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest takes the viewer into an immersive experience of the forest and its trees through […]
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer Party For Our People is a public event celebrating the artists featured in the exhibitions […]
Join us as we explore issues related to the vast and mighty topic that is WATER. Water as a resource; water as a conduit of trade, exchange, and colonization; water and climate change. The AGGV’s upcoming Water Work Space exhibition functions much like a Research and Development Department – part workshop, part exhibition space.
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer Established and emerging artists from the Greater Victoria area are featured in Close To Home, […]
Conceptual Art The term ‘concept art’ came into use in the early 1960s and became defined as an art movement […]
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer Stephen Topfer is more regularly known as the AGGV’s Manager of Collections. In an article […]
By Audrey Wang, AGGV Volunteer The AGGV’s latest exhibition Close To Home evokes many reactions, as the viewer moves from one […]