September 11, Legacy Art Gallery

What a night!

EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS

EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION

When: Saturday, Sept 11, 7:30 pm - 11 pm
Where: Legacy Art Gallery and Café, 630 Yates Street, Victoria BC

SPOKEN-WORD PERFORMANCES

by WW3 artists Seth Tobocman, Rebecca Migdal and Kevin Pyle
When: Friday, Sept. 10, 7pm
Where: Open Space Gallery, 510 Fort Street, Victoria BC

VICTORIA ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR

When: Saturday, Sept 11, 1 pm - 6 pm and Sept. 12, 12 am - 6 pm
Where: 680 Courtney Street, Victoria BC

GRAPHIC RADICALS PANEL DISCUSSION

with WW3 artists Rebecca Migdal, Seth Tobocman, Kevin Pyle and Indigenous artist Gord Hill
When: Saturday, Sept 11, 3 pm - 4pm
Where: Victoria Anarchist Bookfair, 680 Courtney Street, Victoria BC

Install - Day 1

This was one of the galleries most challenging and rewarding installations. Thanks to the help of a creative guest curator, skilled technicians, curatorial assistants and a few frazzled installation co-ordinators the show went up without a hitch - and looks fantastic! 

Tuesday night - 15 hours to opening.

The mixed media exhibit was made up largely of works on paper - process drawings and original comics. To assist the guest curator, Allan Antliff, our newest curatorial assistant, Katie Lemmon, helped slip all the works into acid free sheets. This made the works easier to handle (as we could forgo the cotton gloves while they are protected under plastic) and became a means to adhere them to the wall.

Katie Lemmon organizing the materials. 

The 4 summer curatorial assistants worked on prepping the gallery space for the installation, patching walls and painting plinths.

- Julia, Installation Co-ordinator

NOW OPEN: GRAPHIC RADICALS

The much anticipated exhibit is now open to the public. Free admission. Wednesday through Sunday, 10 am  to 5 pm.

Exhibit Poster

 

Poster design by Julia Hulbert. 

Image credit to MATS?!, 2009.

GRAPHIC RADICALS:

THE ART OF SUBVERSION COMES TO

UVIC’S LEGACY ART GALLERY AND CAFÉ

The University of Victoria’s Legacy Art Gallery and Café presents Graphic Radicals, a collection of works from the New York artist collective World War 3 Illustrated, from Aug. 11 to Oct. 31, 2010.

Graphic Radicals is a “themed” presentation of the work of World War 3 Illustrated from the 1980s to the present day. The art confronts issues such as anti-war protests, squatting in New York, the tragedies of 9-11, racism, prisons and anarchism.

“This is some of the most hard-hitting, socially-engaged art of the last thirty years,” said Allan Antliff, Canada Research Chair in Modern Art at UVic. “Simply put, this artists’ collective took illustration to a new level by confronting the important issues of our time in uncompromising terms.”

Graphic Radicals includes dozens of works in the form of posters, graphic illustrations, paintings, banners and other media.

World War 3 Illustrated is a New York-based artist collective. It was founded in 1980 by Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper to provide a creative venue for political comics, graphics and stories.

The Legacy Art Gallery and Café, located at 630 Yates Street in downtown Victoria, is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It operates on a non-profit basis. Admission is free. For more information visit uvac.uvic.ca or call 250-381-7670.