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Counterpoint and VIU Interior Design Grad Show

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Looking for some inspiration?  The Nanaimo Art Gallery downtown has two impressive shows on right now that you will be interested in seeing.

Counterpoint is a show featuring 3 Vancouver Island abstract artists, Carmen Mongeau, Barbara Ann Scott and Helen Webster. The show runs until May 25, 2011.  The art works are colourful and vibrant and subtle and blended.  A mixture of mediums have been used to achieve rich layers of interesting compositions.

VIU School of Interior Design Grad Show displays the final projects the students submitted for their thesis and portfolios of previous projects completed.  An impressive collection of work that showcases all their talents.  Any future students considering the program this gives a good idea of what can be accomplished. Congratulations!

For more information visit The Nanaimo Art Gallery on the blogroll.

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VIU Visual Art Grads invite Nanaimo to Art Show

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Come and see a feast for the eyes! The fourth year students in VIU’s BA visual arts program have put together, “Explorations” a show featuring the students finest works.        

For many of these visual art students this exhibition has been years in the making. Typically, this accomplishment assists their chosen concentration and usually takes four years to complete.  Come visit the show and support the students. Everyone is welcome at the opening reception between 7-9 pm on Friday, April 1, 2011, so come and meet the artists.

The art show runs from March 30th, 2011 to April 23th, 2011 at the Downtown Nanaimo Art Gallery on Commercial Street.

John Poirier’s Exhibit

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johnpoirier 300x225 John Poiriers ExhibitCome to the Nanaimo Art Gallery this Saturday, January 22nd (1-3pm) for the opening reception for John Poirier’s new photography exhibit which will run until February 5th.  Mr. Poirier is a renowned photographer originally from Yellowknife who now makes his home on Gabriola Island.

For more of John Poirier’s breathtaking photos, visit his website http://www.johnpoirier.ca

Gung Haggis Fat Choi Celebration

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 Xin Nian Haggis – Gung Haggis Fat Choi - Are you looking for an interesting cross cultural experience? Then you will want to take in the blending celebration of Chinese New Year with the celebration of Robbie Burns Day. Where else can you get Haggis Won Tons and Neaps and Tatties Spring Rolls!
 
The event this year will take place on:
Saturday, January 29 from 4:00 to 7:00 at the Nanaimo Yacht Club.
 
Tickets are $20 (children 6 to 11 are half price and under 6 are free) and are on sale at the Downtown Nanaimo Art Gallery (150 Commercial) and McLean’s Specialty Foods (426 Fitzwilliam).  For more information visit: http://www.cicblog.com/

Hint: Get them soon because we expect this event to sell out.

New art show at Nanaimo Art Gallery Downtown

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Are you looking for colourful inspiration? There is a new art show starting tomorrow at the downtown location of the Nanaimo Art Gallery on Commericial Street.

The exhibit features works by Rob Elphinstone who is an award winning artist whose works are very organic and Monet in style. His “actualism” oil paintings and “reverse perspective” 3D works convey an emotional state like expressionist art.  ”Actualism” art is an attempt to paint that portion of nature a photograph cannot capture. Flow and movement is essential to the realization of this idea and can be seen in his paintings of forests and seascapes. 

Rob Elphinstone’s show runs from December 16th, 2010 to January 8th, 2011.

New Art Show Downtown and at VIU Gallery

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Two new art shows are on at Nanaimo’s Art Gallery downtown and VIU campus locations.

At the VIU gallery, the show is called, “Mappings: Departure Points” featuring artists Bettina Matzkuhn and Robert Naish: This exhibition explores the work of these two distinguished artists who both work in visual cartography. Elements such as gridlines, land marks, are a vehicle for communication, interaction, and self reflection.

Mappings is on now until January 8, 2011 at the VIU Art Gallery .

While you are downtown take in “Turning the Tide…one Ripple at a Time” at the downtown art gallery, 150 Commercial Street.  Featuring Artists: North Island Quilters for Community Awareness and Nanaimo Go Grannies.  On until November 30, 2010.

This textile art show is about hope and commitment. The title,”Turning the Tide”, is taken from the Stephen Lewis Foundation campaign that is committed to turning the tide of the AIDS pandemic in Africa. Each piece depicts an aspect of the many projects that are being funded, hence the subtitle: “One Ripple at a Time.”