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Chrystal Phan at the Chapel Gallery

Chrystal Phan is a story teller. The tales she tells in her debut solo exhibition are monumental and multi-hued. They feature stories she’s heard from family and friends, embellished by her own imagination. All her paintings document some aspect of the

Heather Midori Yamada at the Gage Gallery

Heather Midori Yamada presents “Found” October 29 - November 16, 2019 at the Gage Gallery Arts Collective Opening Reception is Oct 31 5-7pm. The Gage Gallery is located at 2031 Oak Bay Avenue, Victoria, V8R 1E5 250-592-2760. Tuesd...

Artist Dennis Shields

Victoria artist Dennis Shields is a prolific artist with a painting career spanning four decades. He has exhibited widely on Vancouver Island and the Mainland.

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Rande Cook at Leaf Modern Gallery

On April 1, 2022, Pope Francis apologized to First Nations, Inuit and Métis gathered at the Vatican in Rome.

Roberta Pyx Sutherland presents: As Above So Below II

As Above So Below ll is a continuation of Sutherland’s quest for spiritual development through artmaking. While on an artist residency at the BAU institute in Italy, she began her contemplative inquiry into dots and circles. Other artist residencies in

Regan Rasmussen at Xchanges Gallery

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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at Madrona Gallery

http://www.artopenings.ca/yahgulanaas.html Summary: Over the past two decades, his artworks have toured the world in solo shows, and been collected by major international museums and galleries.

Things Are Getting Hairy: Bison BC prepares for Dark Ages

“We weren’t necessarily going for an animal name,” Bison BC co-guitarist/ co-vocalist James Farwell tells me when I ask about the name Bison. “We’d tossed around these Godawful made up words - ‘what looks good in a good metal fo...

Philip Mix at Fortune Gallery Oct 3-29, 2023

In Handwritten, Philip Mix shares his latest series of paintings and returns to the figural work that first launched his career. http://www.artopenings.ca/philip-mix.html

Samantha Dickie & Louisa Elkin at Fortune Gallery

Samantha Dickie’s conceptual ceramic sculptures and Louisa Elkin’s contemplative oil paintings together at Fortune Gallery Feb 17-March 24, 2022. Preview: http://www.artopenings.ca/dickie-elkin.html

Get Lucky with Tom Holliston!

I’ve always thought that someone should rhyme “Erik Estrada” with “vagina dentata” in a song, and it occurred to me, when I came late and awestruck to the solo output of songwriter and Nomeansno/Hanson Brothers guitarist Tom Holli...

Testing Metal with Grant Truesdell of Unleash the Archers

On the evening of the band’s record release party at The Red Room, Factory Worker Media met with Unleash the Archers guitarist Grant Truesdell in the building’s old vault to discuss challenges to songwriting, community-building, and navigating the roi

Trish Shwart's Factory and Fetishes

This is the Sleep Factory, Trish Shwart’s exhibition at Martin Batchelor Gallery that opened on November 7th, with a persuasive performance by the artist as a marketeer, and continues with a visual smorgasbord of parodies that explore the commodificatio