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art craaaawl: off the grid
art in victoria on Sat 07 Aug 2010 at 7:18 PM
wow!  it's been so long since i last wrote anything more than the oh so obvious and obviously banal shopping list kind'a thing that i'm feeling a little shaky on the old fingertips.  thanks the chris
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scope
art in victoria on Sun 20 Jun 2010 at 9:47 AM
periscope otoscope oscilloscope ophthalmoscope nightscope polariscope radarscope urethroscope sniperscope spectrohelioscope ultramicroscope thermoscope tachistoscope synchroscope stroboscope stereoscop
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Migration @ Xchanges Gallery
art in victoria on Sat 05 Jun 2010 at 5:41 PM
                               migration by Laura DuttonIt is rare to see a video installation at Xchanges, but probably anywhere really.  I can only think of a few shows
migration, Laura Dutton, xchanges
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Making of a Ruffle: Excerpts, As Told by Gwendolyn
art in victoria on Fri 21 May 2010 at 11:50 AM
Genesis of the RuffleIt was a Tuesday morning.  I was in the middle of brushing my dog.  I've been collecting dog hair recently for a dog wool project.  There's a dog breeder down the street from me
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God Never Dies and That's Good: Art from Oaxaca
art in victoria on Fri 16 Apr 2010 at 9:07 PM
                                              sooner or later, everything is broken by Joel GomezDios Nunca Muere is a group show of artists from Oaxaca now
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A Book Review: "Inside Chinatown, Ancient Culture in a New World", by Robert Amos
art in victoria on Fri 02 Apr 2010 at 7:52 PM
                                                 Hook Sin Tong Society, photocollage by Robert AmosNormally, Art in Victoria reviews the visual arts in a
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The Idea of Containment: Daniel deRegt and Joel d. in Campbell River
art in victoria on Thu 25 Mar 2010 at 12:37 PM
The idea of containment.  How apropos.  Here I am in Campbell River, far away from home, from my doggy-woggy, and from my Stevie-weevie.  I'm visiting my parents right now.  I came by train and I d
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Brian Grison and The Statement
art in victoria on Sat 13 Mar 2010 at 11:36 AM
I was standing in the Deluge Gallery looking at Brian Grison's suite of drawings when an older than me couple also came into the gallery.  They didn't really look like art lovers or at least the bitch
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A Natural Disaster: Caleb Speller
art in victoria on Fri 22 Jan 2010 at 10:33 PM
Some people say that it is the artist's ability as a craftsperson that really matters more than anything.  The work must be perfectly, seamlessly, made.  It must appear to have been ejected from an a
Natural Disaster, Caleb Speller, Slide Room Gallery
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Developing the Open Space: Cedric and Nathan Bomford
art in victoria on Wed 20 Jan 2010 at 11:00 PM
  Oh Open Space, how do I love thee?Let me count the ways.You are open,Your ceilings are high,And your floor boards so long,You are pure,And you are light.When I am in your walls, Oh Open Space, I am
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Robert Amos: Paintings and Presumptions
art in victoria on Fri 08 Jan 2010 at 7:05 PM
Lung Kong Kung Shaw by Robert AmosA lot of the time, I feel so invisible as an artist that if someone were to write about me in the newspaper, I swear, I'd get down on my knees and....well, never mind
exhibit v, art in victoria, legacy art gallery, robert amos, inside chinatown ...all
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chaos and order: life=death=art
art in victoria on Tue 05 Jan 2010 at 11:11 PM
Ad-hoc Trajectories by Dallas V Doubaitis Just a few days before Christmas, I was in Victoria with my trusty Canon taking pictures of art shows and seeing friends and eating Christmas lunches. That wa
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The Balcony Gallery
art in victoria on Wed 09 Dec 2009 at 5:57 PM
Introducing the Balcony gallery.  The BALCONY gallery is the newest and, might I add, coolest art space in the city.  The balcony itself  belongs to Xchanges' new gallery and studio space, which is
the balcony, art in victoria, Toronto, James Carl, xchanges ...all
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Jeff Molloy and Winchester Humboldt
art in victoria on Mon 30 Nov 2009 at 10:32 PM
What I Liked:Jeff Molloy's paintings. Jeff is a very good painter and a very dedicated one too. The work in this show was "mixed media", but predominately encaustic, or so it appeared to the naked ey
art in victoria, Winchester Gallery, Blessings, Victoria BC, Jeff Molloy
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Richard Motchman. A studio visit.
art in victoria on Sat 21 Nov 2009 at 3:14 AM
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richard motchman, interactive painting, fibreglass figures, xchanges, studio visit
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Meditations on Wendy Welch's Circuitous Routes Excess/ Abundance
art in victoria on Sun 15 Nov 2009 at 9:40 PM
Arterial Routes by Wendy Welch, photographed by Donna DanylchukI. MaterialWe need only refer back to the old stories from the Depression and from the world wars to remember, or to r
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Raw @ Deluge
art in victoria on Fri 06 Nov 2009 at 5:11 PM
It's confirmed. I am a lover of art. Perhaps it seems obvious already that I love art. Why else look at art, why write about art? I know, it's a silly sort of question and yet when I stood in the D
Victoria, wax, plexiglass, Deluge Gallery, Raw ...all
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Upcoming: Wendy Welch and the Circuitous Route, November 6th at Open Space
art in victoria on Mon 26 Oct 2009 at 5:32 PM
Victoria's Mistress of Art, Wendy Welch is busy spinning her webs again. Spinning, binding, weaving, scribbling. I like to think of Wendy as a witch, a good good witch, and I felt very lucky to have
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Drawn Together: Making a Mark Collective
art in victoria on Thu 08 Oct 2009 at 10:53 PM
waiting series #8 by wren katzalayPlease, imagine for one moment that you are in the presence of a mysterious woman. Her hair is long, her lips are full, her skin pale like parchment. You do not know
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Michael Morris: Vertical Parallels and Tonality
art in victoria on Mon 05 Oct 2009 at 4:09 PM
Last Thursday I went with a friend after a pleasant morning spent life drawing and lunching to the Oak Bay Winchester Gallery to see David Blackmore, but that show was over and instead we saw Vertical
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On our Hands and Knees: crawling for art
art in victoria on Sat 12 Sep 2009 at 3:59 PM
odette larocheLast night was the Hands and Knees art crawl, which I think may have been an impromtu affair hitched onto the real happenings of the night. The Community Arts Council was holding it's Mo
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Cuts to the Arts
art in victoria on Thu 10 Sep 2009 at 9:22 AM
battered and bruised by christine clarkI'm a bit of a lone wolf in the art world. I've never been invited into the inner circle. I've never been given prizes or awards or grants. There aren't any ga
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knew by the Woodpile Collective
art in victoria on Tue 08 Sep 2009 at 8:55 AM
This weekend I was one of those boaters down in the Inner Harbour. If you were down down town I don't think you could have missed all that gleaming brightwork. Yes, in my spare time, when I'm not mak
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Victoria College of Art Alumni Show
art in victoria on Wed 02 Sep 2009 at 11:05 AM
I am a Victoria College of Art alumna. And this month from September 11th to 26th, I will be participating in our annual Alumni show. This year it's being held at University Canada West @ 950 Kings R
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Hey Christine! It's Boucherat Gallery!!
art in victoria on Wed 26 Aug 2009 at 1:21 PM
Dear Everyone,I received the following email today after arriving home from a long hour and a half in the dentist's chair having an unsuccessful root canal pulled out. Not fun. About as fun as being
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Public Art Day: Thunderbird Park
art in victoria on Fri 21 Aug 2009 at 1:08 PM
Yes, public art day. This is where, I, the intrepid blogger, find myself sorely disappointed by a locked gallery door and so, instead of wasting my bus fare, decide to walk around Victoria looking at
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Interview with a Blogger
art in victoria on Sun 16 Aug 2009 at 12:03 PM
Efren Quiroz of exhibit-v If you read Monday Magazine at all you probably saw Jason Youmans' article Making New Media a week or so ago, and you'll know that the hottest new trend in local news, is just
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Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
art in victoria on Sun 09 Aug 2009 at 12:09 PM
photo: christine clarkI haven't been to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (capital AGGV) for a very long time. Can't remember the last time. I think I thought that 12 dollars was too arduous. I k
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Polychrome Fine Arts
art in victoria on Sat 08 Aug 2009 at 1:56 PM
Hey hey! My first time at the newest (for me) gallery in Victoria! Polychrome Fine Arts.I was in Victoria, hitting the streets with a vague list of galleries to check out. I had to go to Moss Street
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Us Ones In Between
art in victoria on Mon 20 Jul 2009 at 12:43 PM
I went to this show on a day that I felt very old and heartbroken. It's not a good feeling, being old and heartbroken. It's scary. You're vulnerable. Ready to cry at any moment. Or laugh. Hyster
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Triumphant Return
art in victoria on Mon 06 Jul 2009 at 3:20 PM
Here I am, here I am. Thank you thank you all you peeps who've been emailing and wanting to know why I have been so silent. It's true I have been on hiatus. Completely unannounced of course. Unpla
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http://artinvictoria.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-just-recently-discovered.html
art in victoria on Wed 08 Apr 2009 at 4:46 PM
I discovered the CollectiveWorks Gallery when I was a very sore thumb selling ridiculously cute Xmas cards at an uber hip craft fair in Fernwood a few months back. The CW Gallery looked really cool w
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terres rouges:red earths by Martine Dolbec
art in victoria on Wed 08 Apr 2009 at 11:26 AM
Terres rouges: red earths is a mystery, a mystery, a mystery. To me.But first things first. Open Space. Open Space is probably the best gallery space in the city. Not because of the administrators
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Aurora Textualis Ted Hiebert
art in victoria on Thu 12 Mar 2009 at 3:26 PM
horizonverticalthe IN breathpreposterous hypothesisthat at one time was called a godprecarious, the fields and cropsthe surrogate boy-king who diedthe first variation of the melodynow the immortals are
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Plant Life by Caleb Speller @ The Ministry of Casual Living
art in victoria on Thu 26 Feb 2009 at 9:07 AM
Caleb Speller's show, Plant Life, is now on at the Ministry of Casual Living. I went to the gallery yesterday. I was excited to see the show because Caleb Speller is an interesting and prolific artis
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Representations of Desire @ the Slide Room Gallery
art in victoria on Wed 11 Feb 2009 at 9:19 AM
Representations of Desire is a two person show consisting of myself, Christine Clark and Vancouver based artist Sabrina Oveson. You could say that both of us created works of tableaux photography for
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February 10th, 2009
art in victoria on Tue 10 Feb 2009 at 9:04 AM
Today I start the art in victoria blog. I have recently (yesterday) made a commitment to attend and to discuss (on this blog) at least two victoria art openings every month. I came to the conclusion
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