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Now showing- Upper Gallery

Jewels of Perception
Art of Richard Roblin.
May 1 to October 10

Cowichan Public Art Gallery
(Upper gallery)

Thursday to Saturday: 10am – 4pm

email: info@cowichangallery.ca

Richard Roblin’s meditations on form and color, shape and texture reveal a keen understanding of the natural world and our relationship to it as stewards of the Earth. Through careful layering of paint and an almost archaeological precision in the revelation of things hidden, Roblin crafts works of quiet beauty and power.

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Now showing- lower gallery

Days of Plenty: An Archive of Abundance

“Speaking through historical reinterpretation, a counter history, this project compiles appropriated photographs into statements reflecting on human relationship with the more than human. With vast populations already extinct by 1970 – including the passenger pigeon, great auk, aurochs, and very nearly the plains bison – it is difficult to imagine how the wild world may have looked before humanity’s Great Acceleration. But we do have history’s photographs to remind us…frozen moments granting us glimmers of now almost unimaginable natural abundance, artifacts recalling forgotten responsibilities.”

The Cowichan Public Art Gallery Society acknowledges that we are in the unceded territory of the Cowichans, of the Coast Salish Hulquminum speaking peoples.

a bold vision for cowichan valley

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Our purpose is to advance the public’s appreciation of the arts by producing public art exhibitions, presentations, and art(s) events, and by providing a forum for qualified artists to exhibit, present, or perform their artistic works through participation in such events.

We intend to advance education by providing classes related to art history and artistic process to the public and to do all such things as are incidental or ancillary to the attainment of the above purposes.

The Cowichan Public Art Gallery Society’s intention is to be a public art institution committed to developing connections between art and our communities. Its exhibits are intended to provoke intellectual inquiry, capture visitors’ imaginations, and encourage debate and discussion. We are also committed to fostering dialogue between
artists, both local and international.

Our vision is to do this by mounting a broad and dynamic range of exhibitions, primarily modern and occasionally historical, based on universal issues that affect our lives, recognizing, respecting and engaging with the different perspectives of our audience.

We will aim for programs that reflect the vast variety of contemporary art practice and mediums by a range of artists, both established and emerging. We will balance thematic group shows with solo exhibitions. We also will build and periodically exhibit works from a permanent collection.

The Gallery intends to ensure that the exhibitions have a high degree of curatorial integrity, guaranteeing excellence and contributing to the cultural climate of the region. The exhibition program will build and maintain the Gallery’s reputation as a vital cultural institution within the overall network of Canadian public art galleries.

126 Ingram Street, Duncan, B.C.

email: info@cowichangallery.ca

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