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| Admission is by donation (suggested minium $2 - $5) Wednesday afternoons at the gallery, from 3:30 to 4:30pm Starting September 9th 2009, CVAG introduces its informal lecture/forum series titled “Show N Tell at CVAG”. The Show N Tell takes place Wednesday afternoons at the gallery, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm, open to the public, admission is by donation (suggested minium $2 - $5) Why Show N Tell? Any person with an interest in the visual arts is invited to Show N Tell. Whether you’re an art student, collector or art practitioner, or supporter or culture this is an opportunity to promote your cultural involvement with arts in the valley, to get practice speaking in public, build up your CV or resume and meet others in the arts community to exchange ideas, contacts and information. Do I have to show my own artwork? No, as long as it is visual arts related, you can give a talk about art or artists that you like (or don’t like) It can be about your travels that relate to visual art (museum, gallery, architecture, etc) You can present about art movements that interest you (a talk and slideshow about Impressionism, Egypt, etc.) Maybe you collect something and would like to share it with others? (crafts, pottery, vases, paintings, 1940’s appliances) Maybe you have a thesis to share (romantic scenes from 20th century movies causes…) Maybe you have a cultural theory to share? (advertising causes us to…) And yes, you can show your own artwork too! FMI or to present a Show N Tell, contact Anh Le programs@comoxvalleyartgallery.com or 250-338-6211 top of page |
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| Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:30 to 4:30pm Ron Pogue You Can Have What You Want A project documenting the changing face of Cumberland Ron Pogue completed his Fine Arts diploma at North Island College and a BFA in Photography at Emily Carr University in Vancouver BC in 2001. He served on the Board of CVAG from 1997-99, and was the editor and production manager of the NIC student newspaper during his time there. Pogue has also worked as a Studio Tech at NIC, Digital Photo Lab Operator at Studio One in Courtenay, commercial photographer’s assistant, and Photo Lab Tech at Emily Carr University. You Can Have What You Want was originally inspired by the lofty standards of Eugène Atget, 1857 – 1927; a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris and Brassaï (Gyula Halász), 1899 – 1984, a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker who rose to fame in France. Pogue’s practice has followed a much less idealized pathway, often finding him documenting garbage on the street. The project is also intended to explore notions of Home, and the ways in which we seek our place in the world, and how we mark our territory once we have chosen it and called it our own. Pogue is also exploring concerns of public and private space, trespass and voyeurism, the latter perhaps being an undertone of any photo-documentation. top of page |
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| A Special Show N' Tell Presentation Tuesday, January 26 , 2010 1:00 to 4:30pm Ping-Cheng Lu, Tony Ong, Hsun-Ping Wang, Ya-Chu Kang, Sun-Yen Chen & Chun-Cheng Chien These six Taiwanese artists have been invited to participate in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games to create artworks. Ping-Cheng Lu is a designer and artist who uses metals, daily living objects and recycle materials, and is involved in landscape planning and design of large-scale facilities and playground equipment. Tony Ong is a ceramic & multi-material artist and director of Kiln Art Enterprise Co. Ltd. Being committed to education in ceramics, he has organized a number of national and international seminars. He has traveled extensively to research and study ceramics including Japan, China, Singapore, Nepal, USA. Hsun-Ping Wang is a fiber artist, multi-media artist and Graduate student of National Tainan Art University. Wang tells us: “The fun of anti-cute, anti-traditional, anti-symmetries anti-aesthetics is my biggest pleasure in creation. From this point, the ugly family was born.” Ya-Chu Kang is a visual artist working with installation and mix-media. Recent projects explore the relationship between the body and the external environment. The materials of this project are on paper, plastic sheets, cloth and other fiber to combine complex media and imaging, use space as the presentation device. Shu-Yen Chen is a fiber art instructor of aboriginal communities and Don-How University. Making art, for Chen, is a reconfirmation for the sense of self existence, a route to dig inside and link self to the surroundings, it is, as well, an effort and a proof of a life to work against time passing by so that there could be something or some traces left over. Chun-Cheng Chien is a mixed media sculptor and art teacher of Taipei Municipal Fuxing Senior High School. ”Corresponds to the relationship between man and nature” is the creation of long-term focus for Chien. He deeply studied the relationship between ecology, time, and space and so on into his art works. top of page |
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010 A Few Art Works I Don’t Like: Have you ever wondered what makes art work bad? Is it the subject matter? Maybe it is the materials or the brush strokes perhaps. |
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| Wednesday, February 3, 2010 3:30 to 4:30pm ROBERT MOON VISUAL ARTS - During and After the Cultural Revelation of the Sixties Robert Moon graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970 with a BFA in painting and an MFA in printmaking. He taught printmaking and drawing at the University of California at Berkeley and at San Francisco State University 1971-79. Moon actively showed in galleries and museums in New York and California from 1970-86. Arriving in Canada in 1986, he pursued a career as a Scenic Painter and Special Effects Coordinator in the film industry. Moon presently maintains a studio in Tin Town where he produces art work in a variety of materials as well as design sets for the local theater community. He most recently designed sets for the Courtenay Little Theatre pantomime, Cleopatra in De Nile. Visual Arts - During and After the Cultural Revelation of the Sixties will be an eye witness account of the sixties during the cultural revolution in San Francisco. Robert Moon began his studies in 1963 at the San Francisco Art Institute. It was about this time that many changes in attitudes swept through society and the arts. This talk is the personal viewpoint of an artist who lived through the changes and how those experiences molded his career and philosophy of art. top of page |
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 Johann Peter Wieghardt  J.P. Wieghardt, The Machine As Metaphor For The Cosmic Oil on canvas, 2008 top of page |
Art talk features portrait painter & sculptor Johann Peter Wieghardt Comox Valley Art Gallery presents exhibiting artist Johann Peter Wieghardt in an Art Talk at the gallery on Saturday January 16th at 11am. Admission to the talk is by suggested donation of $2 – $5. About the artwork In an exhibit titled BEHIND THE FACE, Johann P. Wieghardt will be exhibiting oil paintings, acrylic paintings and carved/assemblage wood sculptures which are colourful, expressive and somewhat disconcerting portraits of humans and animals. These are not portraits meant to flatter, but rather to reveal and probe into the psyche of the subject, reflecting us to ourselves. Wieghardt paints what he calls “Conceptual Realism”; “…that besides our consciousness and perception, a pure reality exists which we can experience through thinking, feeling, and awareness, this is the realism I aim to communicate with my art.” He states that often we think we know another person, but asks us to consider what is truly behind the face of another person. He aims to combine classical art processes from the tradition of art history, sociological events, and a deep spiritual dimension to tell a visual story of his surroundings and culture; one that is full of fantasy, imagination and magic. About the talk: Wieghardt will discuss his ideas and inspiration BEHIND THE FACE, namely that we think we know someone, but truly we only understand our idea of that person. He believes that can never know exactly what is behind the face of someone else and that inside each of us is a world that we cannot share with each other. He states that through intuition we each can gain a greater recognition of our essential nature and meet on common ground. He will use a number of art pieces in the exhibition to explain his artistic approach. About Johann Peter Wieghardt Johann Peter Wieghardt was born in Westfalia, Germany. He apprenticed as a wood sculptor for 3 years 1984-87 in Michelstadt and then completed a German BFS/MFA at the Academy of Fine Art, Braunschweig. Emigrating to BC, Canada in 1996, he currently resides in Vancouver, working out of studios in Vancouver BC and Berlin, Germany. His artwork has been exhibited in various cities in Germany and Spain and several Vancouver galleries. Johann Peter Wieghardt, BEHIND THE FACE CVAG Public Gallery, January 16 - February 27, 2010. |
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