Current exhibits

Allan W. Edwards, Education Arts (Maclaurin) Building

The Emergence of Architectural Modernism II: UVic and the Victoria Regional Aesthetic in the Late 1950s and 60s

November 30, 2011, to February 26, 2012
Legacy Art Gallery, 630 Yates Street
Image: Bay Parkade Entry 1960 by Hubert Norbury

During the late 50s and 60s, a small number of legacy architectural firms changed Victoria's built environment with forward-looking planning and bold new architectural forms. Using plans, drawings, photographs and architectural models from the period, this exhibit explores a number of planning initiatives, design projects and building programs that defined this important phase in the development of the Capital Region.

This is the second in a series of exhibitions and publications exploring the relationships, personalities and projects contributing to the development of a regional modernist aesthetic in the postwar Victoria urban landscape. This exhibition develops themes of the earlier exhibition Town and Gown: Centennial Square and the Gordon Head Campus: Seminal Projects (1962–1972) March 10–May 2, 2011. View the exhibition website at uvac.uvic.ca/Architecture_Exhibits.

The Silent Observer

February 8, 2012, to April 2, 2012
Maltwood Prints and Drawings Gallery at the McPherson Library
Image: Photographyby Ted Grant

He is known as the “father of Canadian photojournalism,” quietly clicking with the "eye of an artist, the concentration of a surgeon, and the reflexes of a cat." From Trudeau’s mischievous slide down the banister on Parliament Hill, to Ben Johnson’s momentary thrill of triumph at winning the 100 meter dash, to the accusing glance of a child of the Chernobyl disaster, Ted Grant has created thousands of iconic images over the past six decades, distilling our world into single, expanding moments.  

The Silent Observer features Grant's latest work, a continued exploration of healers, this time from the point of view of medical interns. Grant captures these young men and women in classrooms, operating rooms and rural clinics, from moments of intense concentration to playful laughter, as they journey from student to physician.

This free exhibit runs from February 9 to April 2, 2012, at the Maltwood Prints and Drawings Gallery at the McPherson Library at UVic. Hours are Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. A lecture on Dr.Grant’s work will be held in March.

For more information, visit uvac.uvic.ca.

HEALTH, ART & COMMUNITY

Opening late January
Cool Aid Community Health Centre, 713 Johnson St
Image: A Dove within the Hawk Is Flying by Roy Tomlinson

Twenty works of art from the University of Victoria Art Collection is scheduled for installation at the Cool Aid Community Health Clinic in late January. The project was originated with University of Victoria’s Williams Legacy Chair, Dr. Carolyn Butler Palmer.

This past semester, she worked with her students to design a permanent exhibit within the Cool Aid Community Health clinic. Dr. Butler Palmer’s exhibition class met between September and December 2010, and discussing issues related to the creation, promotion, and exhibition of art as a means of community making. The idea was set forth for the class to promote these relationships between cultural activity and well-being. Visit www.coolaid.org for more information about the Victoria Cool Aid Society.

Images from Access Health