Join us for the Opening Reception of New Directions: Contemporary Heiltsuk Paintings on Saturday, May 31st, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
New Directions: Contemporary Heiltsuk Paintings represents the continued evolution of Bradley Hunt’s artistic career. Featuring Hunt’s paintings, ink & pencil drawings, and works from members of Hunt’s family, this exhibition draws from traditional Heiltsuk box designs, crest figures, and other Heiltsuk cosmologies, as well as from contemporary and western art traditions. We hope you will join us to celebrate this exhibition and the artist at our Opening Reception!
to June 22nd. Drawing from traditional Heiltsuk box designs, crest figures, and other Heiltsuk cosmologies, as well as from contemporary and western art traditions, Bradley Hunt presents a collection that represents the continued evolution of his career as a professional artist. Beginning his artistic career in 1965, Hunt spent time as a designer making silkscreen prints, before dedicating himself to learning the craft of carving wood and metals. Known for his large sculptures and cedar wall panels, Hunt has recently transitioned to painting on wood panels. Highlighting this new phase of his work, this exhibition features paintings and a variety of pen and ink or pencil drawings; as well as works by several of Hunt’s family members.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Sat. May 31st, 2pm – 4pm!
Join us for the Opening Reception for:
‘On the Beach’
Yvonne Adalian, Tannis Hopkins, Carol Roberts, Lorna Schwenk, Joyce Ozier, Rosemary Burden, Annette Nieukerk, Nicky Evans, Mary Ungerleider
On the Beach is an exhibit about older women by older women. The history of figurative art has long been dominated by the ‘male gaze’ most often depicting women young, nubile and half clothed. The figures of elderly females are practically non-existent in galleries, museums and art history books – subject to the ageism prevalent in our culture – making many feel irrelevant and invisible.
To May 25th. Inspired by mythology, philosophy, courageous artists and small children, with an interest in politics and social consciousness, Marie Price’s work explores the human interactions that take place in all of these forums and the mindsets we employ in attempts to organize our human behaviour. In this exhibition in the Eve Smart Gallery Price presents four different bodies of work, linked by a central theme of investigating the perpetually fluctuating conditions of human existence, and the sometimes questionable means we employ to exercise control over it.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us for the Opening Receptions of two separate exhibitions by Marney-Rose Edge and Marie Price on May 3rd, 2pm – 4pm. Both artists will also be presenting an Artist Talk. All are welcome!
Marney-Rose Edge, exhibiting The Quiet of the Nest is Where Dreams Come True in the Main Gallery, uses the nest as both a motif and a metaphor representing a protected space where dreams in their earliest and most fragile forms are given room to grow. Marie Price, exhibiting On the Face of It in the Eve Smart Gallery, is inspired by mythology, philosophy, courageous artists and small children, with an interest in politics and social consciousness.
Join us for an Opening Reception on Saturday, April 5th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Carolina Franzen’s exhibition Man Made Cloud in the Main Gallery features fine, detailed, colourful line work sensually evolving into expansive landscapes which subtly engage with the beholder and their preconceptions. Carolina Franzen holds an MA in History of Art and a PhD focussing on genocide and philosophy. She has explored active and academic ways of living around the Salish Sea since 2013. In 2024 Franzen exhibited her sculptural work, slyly swift assemblages made of found objects, in GPAG’s Joe’s Lounge; now, she returns through this exhibition in the Main Gallery to works representing the forms of land.
to April 27th. Discarded coloured and textured papers are embedded within layers of paint obscuring their surfaces. Making incisions into the surface, Dorothy Doherty lifts and peels sections of the paint, revealing the layers beneath and creating a result that is often entirely unplanned and random in every way. Straddling the line between realism and abstraction, Doherty’s work examines a number of issues, particularly relating to urban decay, the beauty of the world around us, the rapid extinction of life forms on this planet, and the effect that humans have on the environment around us. This exhibition is on display in the Main Gallery Apr 3rd – 27th.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, April 5th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us for an Opening Reception on Saturday, April 5th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Discarded coloured and textured papers are embedded within layers of paint obscuring their surfaces. Making incisions into the surface, Dorothy Doherty lifts and peels sections of the paint, revealing the layers beneath and creating a result that is often entirely unplanned and random in every way. Straddling the line between realism and abstraction, Doherty’s work examines a number of issues, particularly relating to urban decay, the beauty of the world around us, the rapid extinction of life forms on this planet, and the effect that humans have on the environment around us. This exhibition is on display in the Main Gallery Apr 3rd – 27th.
Join us for the Opening Receptions of three exhibitions on Saturday, February 15th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
This Opening Reception is for three different exhibitions; Parallels by Claudia Sageele Cuesta & Bill Baker in the Main Gallery; Stories That Still Need to Be Told, an exhibition honouring Black History Month in the Eve Smart Gallery by T. Owens Union; and In the Thick of It by special invitation to Joe’s Lounge by Tzaddi Gordon. Learn more about these three exhibitions online at www.gpag.ca; and check out upcoming Artist Talks & Workshops by these artists throughout February!
An exhibition honouring Black History Month in the Eve Smart Gallery, describing aspects of African American culture and history. The lack of a fully realized historical portrait of this community in American society has regularly resulted in invisibility and suppression. T. Owens Union uses the past to inform a present voice for ancestors who too often were silenced.
T. Owens Union is a career scientist who also holds a degree in Fashion Marketing from Parsons School of Design based in rural south-central Pennsylvania. To learn more about the artist and her exhibition, join us for an Artist Talk on Friday, Feb 14th, 2pm – 3pm; and for the Opening Reception of her exhibition on Saturday, Feb 15th, 2pm – 4pm. These events are free to attend and all are welcome!
to Mar 9 – Joe’s Lounge. After spending many years constrained by the demands of caregiving for her husband with early-onset dementia, Tzaddi Gordon sought ways to make art in the cracks; to wedge a few moments of creativity into days that felt less and less like her own. One of these ways is working in the genre of found poetry. Using vintage books as her source Gordon creates new meaning from outmoded or dogmatic text and imagery through a process of redacting, cutting, or rearranging text, the act of removing and rewriting pages echoing the memory changes she has witnessed in her husband. An exhibition in Joe’s Lounge running Feb 13th – Mar 9th.
Join us for the Opening Reception of this exhibition on Saturday, Feb 15th, 2pm – 4pm; and for a FREE Intro to Blackout Poetry Workshop on Tues. Feb 18th, 2pm – 4pm.
to Mar 9th. A selection of artwork from the past 10 years that represents the artists’ journeys. Although different in materiality, Cuesta and Baker share in their art practice a passion for that which cannot be seen. Bill Baker looks at architectural structures and forms, creating works on paper with charcoals and oil pastels. Claudia Sageele Cuesta’s work is fluid and contemplative, based in three dimensional installation and performance art. Cuesta & Baker’s exhibition Parallels is on display in the Main Gallery Feb 13th – Mar 9th.
Join us on Sat. Feb 15th, 2pm – 4pm, for the Opening Reception of this exhibition; and for an Artist Talk on Saturday Feb 22nd, 2pm – 3pm. Both events are free to attend and all are welcome!
Musician and artist Richard Charter uses thread and ink to translate musical scores into visual artworks, creating symbolic representations of music notations. Charter’s works, without the production of any actual decibels of sound, allow the viewer to engage with and intuit their own narrative from musical scores, fulfilling an act that is entirely musical in nature whether the viewer is a trained or untrained musician or a hearing or non-hearing person. The abundance of straight layered lines and the contrast of the vertical and horizontal in Charter’s work provides reflection on both the significance of the line in musical notation and on our sense of self in relation to our landscapes.
Join us for the Opening Reception Saturday, Jan. 18th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us at our Opening Reception on Sat. Jan 18th, 2pm – 4pm, to meet the artists behind our newest exhibitions; Vertical Human Horizontal World (Richard Charter), and Unshuttered: From Lens to Print (troch, Brian Baxter, Alan Sirulnikoff, & Alanna Wood).
In Unshuttered: From Lens to Print, four local Sunshine Coast photographers with diverse approaches and individual philosophies unite to explore photography as an art form. In Vertical Human Horizontal World, Vancouver based artist and musician Richard Charter uses thread and ink to translate musical scores into visual artworks, creating symbolic representations of music notations.
to Dec 22. Rivers of Connection/Pools of Separation explores the state of the human spirit on earth, entwined in community, yet searching for singularity. The shifting perspectives invite curiosity about when community connection might be essential and when self is most essential. Through complex, kinetic narratives, Jensen evokes a landscape of energy flowing in layers, transforming the unseen into vibrant visual metaphors. In both painting and sculpture her work reflects a sphere where forms are continuously reconfigured, inviting engagement with the world and self in a tactile, ever-changing landscape.
Join us for the Opening Reception of this exhibition on Saturday, Nov 30th, 2pm – 4pm; and for an Artist Talk with Jan Jensen on Saturday, Dec. 7th, 2pm – 3pm. All are welcome!
Plus Virtual Artist Talk Aug 13, 2-3pm on FB.
3 textile artists from 3 different corners of the world explore what “this place” means to them. They explore the unique characteristics of where they live and work and their connection to these distinctive settings. @hedges.madeleine from Australia @edwinamackinnon from the UK, and Catherine Nicolls @ravensthread from Gibsons, Canada, each look at what connects them to their individual places, how they perceive and experience their environment and the emotional attachments of belonging to “this place”.
