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Tuesday April 24th to Friday May 18th 2007 Opening Reception Saturday April 28th at 7pm |
Gallery#1 the work of six Vancouver Island artists |
Spectacles of Intimacy explores the role of artist as a social spectator: one who witnesses intimate spaces and moments and transports them into the public sphere for debate and dialogue. This exhibition explores the power of the artistic gaze and unravels the concept of spectacle: considering its critical inception in Guy Debord’s seminal work Society of the Spectacle and redefining it in a contemporary context Lora Carroll is an independent curator and consultant.
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Suzanne L. Mir’s Perdido is comprised of a series of painterly photographs printed onto canvas. Mir responds to a visit that she made to an island in Mexico called Isla de las Munecas (Island of the Dolls). This island was inhabited by one man, Don Julian, for 50 years and became a living shrine to the memory of a drowned child. Dolls hang from every tree, bush and building on the island. As the fame of the shrine spread, people from all over the world sent their own dolls to be displayed: to memorialize their own lost children. Mir’s images engage with communal rituals of mourning as well as referencing her own internal struggles with mortality, aging and death. |
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Suzanne l. Mir works in a variety of media including painting, collage, sculpture, and photography. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally since 1987 and is an active member of the arts community in Victoria, BC, where she resides. Mir holds degrees from the California State University, the University of Victoria and the Victoria College of Art. |
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Megan Dickie’s piece The Assistants is a series of intimate sculptures cast from the arms of artists. Each piece is designed to hold the tools of the trade (for a painter, draftsman and sculptor) and was created to assist in the art making process. Aside form the practical uses of these sculptures; the materials that Dickie chooses to work with (leather and wax) reference other subversive uses: exploring elements of control, bondage, sexuality, sensuality and touch. |
Megan Dickie relocated to Victoria in 2003 from the Prairies. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Calgary and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Saskatchewan. Dickie currently teaches at the Vancouver Island School of Art, the Victoria College of Art, and the University of Victoria. |
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d. bradley muir’s large scale cibachrome photographs challenge accepted models of idealized private and domestic space: literally relocating the private to the public realm and returning the constructed space to the natural. Muir questions the disproportionate value that Western culture assigns consumerism and breaks down the aesthetic of ready made culture. |
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| Born and raised in Vancouver, d. bradley muir attained his BFA (Honours) in Sculpture and Photography from Concordia University in Montreal. Returning to the West Coast, muir acquired his MFA from the University of Victoria in 2003. Since graduating, he has remained in Victoria and currently teaches at the Vancouver Island School of Arts and Camosun College. Muir is currently exhibiting his work across Canada and in the United States. | |
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Ingrid Mary Percy’s drawings engage with the medicalization of the body: sickness and disease, bacteria and viruses, drugs and vaccines. Percy creates imaginary worlds based on the interior spaces of the body. Her work, although seemingly playful and whimsical, ultimately expose the fragility of human life and the insidious nature of disease. |
| Ingrid Mary Percy studied Visual Art at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver (BFA) and at the University of Victoria (MFA). Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally for ten years. Percy currently teaches Painting and Drawing in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. | |
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Lance Olsen & Jamie Drouin’s multimedia installation Next Stop centers upon an overheard conversation on a bus. This private moment is appropriated by Olsen & Drouin and transformed through video and sound. In the gallery space, the viewer encounters an impromptu theatre. A narrow passageway ends with a small video monitor. Olsen reenacts two women on a bus engaging in a seemingly nonsensical discussion. The back and forth of his speech is manic and unsettling. And the fact that it is a sole male figure playing the part of two elderly women adds to the confusion. Next Stop addresses issues of personal space, privacy and the fine line which separates the artistic from the everyday. |
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Visual and multimedia artist Jamie Drouin has exhibited internationally with solo shows in Japan, Germany and Canada. Drouin’s sound and video-based work has been presented at the prestigious Mutek Festival, Montreal and at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, and his visual work has been featured in international publications such as Leica World and AVA Books. |
Visual and multimedia artist Lance Olsen holds a MA from the Camberwell School of Art, United Kingdom. Olsen has exhibited internationally since 1972: having showed his work in Italy, Poland, United Kingdom and in the United States. He has also exhibited his work regularly in both solo and group shows across Canada. |
| Vertigo Window Display: Catherine Wetmore Coming Soon....watch for it...... NOAA Member Catherine Wetmore will be presenting her Okanagan Sky paintings for your enjoyment in the window on the street. |
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Exhibition
Proposals: Please print a copy of our form and send
it off to us with the information requested. proposal form and information for exhibitions in gallery #1 and gallery #2
Previous Exhibitions: 2007: |
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