[BCMA] Art Exhibit Opening: 'Eyes Of Society - A Regionalist Perspective'

Thu Sep 5 08:01:30 PDT 2019

News Release  
For Immediate Release  
5 September 2019 

Art Exhibit Opening: 'Eyes Of Society - A Regionalist Perspective'  

The Maritime Museum of BC is pleased to announce the opening
of a new art show titled 'Eyes Of Society
- A Regionalist Perspective' by a series of Canadian artists, on from
September 5 th to November 30 th , 2019.  

Paintings by the Eyes of Society  

  About the Exhibit  

This exhibition presents a series of new 'perspectives'
in an on-going, cross-cultural collaboration.  

The 2016 Regional art project 'ReEncounter', a fourteen-day
kayak expedition in Gwaii Haanas, spun off a series of related endeavours
inspired by the Watchmen of Haida Gwaii. The journey itself was documented in
Braid Film's 2017 short film 'Eyes of Society', and its basic tenets, outlined
in a series of interviews, now live on in the form of a Social Commentary Award
at Canada's largest outdoor art festival, the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair.  

In 2018, the project evolved into a summer exhibition at
the Robert Bateman Centre, exploring the relationship between art and
traditional knowledge, and the belief 'that nature and culture are
intrinsically connected', to quote the Coastal Guardian Watchmen. These ideas
of interconnectedness and co-dependence, on all levels, are reoccurring themes
in the works of this collective of realist painters from across Canada.  

Born of the Age of Reason and Enlightenment, and following
the spirit of the Romantic painters of the nineteenth century, Regionalism in
art is an age-old tradition that embodies the highest ideals and aspirations of
Western society. These ideas, paradoxically, find their origins in direct
observation of the natural world, and a parallel in the response by the
Romantics to a newly industrialized world. Regional art, therefore, strives to
understand the nature of perception and the nature of objective reality
('culture' itself, that is); resisting the postmodern perspective of the day.
Perhaps no one (in this world) can claim to have a closer relationship to what
is real than those who live closest to the earth and ocean.  

‘Tluu Jaad – Canoe
Woman’ by April SGaana Jaad White  

Our goal here is to bring together the views of very
different cultures, remember our respective histories, and find the common
ground that will enable us to move forward together, successfully, into an
uncertain future  

Participating
artists: April S G aana Jaad White, Anja Karisik, Andrew Cheddie Sookrah,
Sophie Lavoie, Gary Landon and W. David Ward  

Information for the Public  

Exhibit Dates:    September 5 th to November 30 th ,
2019   
Location: 634
Humboldt Street, Victoria BC  
Hours of
Operation:  
·   Thursdays and Fridays, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM  
·    Saturdays, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM  
Cost: regular
Museum admission applies  

The majority of artwork is for sale.  

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For further information, please contact: 

Brittany Vis, Associate Director 
Maritime Museum of BC 
250-385-4222 ext.106 
  mailto:bvis at mmbc.bc.ca?subject= bvis at mmbc.bc.ca       

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