Xchanges is excited to present Legroom for Daydreaming by artist Levi Glass. The show opens on Friday, February 19th at 7pm (non social) and on weekends until March 7th from 11am-4pm. This solo-exhibition of sculptural work and photo documentation explores the alternative form and function of common objects as pseudo-technological devices. Inspired by the blurring... Continue Reading →
Xchanges Gallery and Studios is excited to present Gina Luke's new installation, Laughing in the Dark. The show opens on Friday, January 29th at 7pm (non social) and on weekends until February 14th from 11am-4pm. Many of you will recall that Gina worked in the Gallery last summer where she was developing new video installation... Continue Reading →
Xchanges is excited to announce that we are now accepting proposals for our 2021-22 gallery season which runs September 2021-June 2022. Artists and curators from Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are invited to submit proposals. Xchanges programming supports a range of visual arts mediums with a particular interest in exhibiting the diverse practices of... Continue Reading →
Xchanges presents our first artist of the new year, Cornelia van Voorst - The Persistence of Love (In A Time of Disaster) January 8-24, 2020. A non social opening with Covid safety protocols is on Friday starting at 7pm. Narratives emphasizing success through victory have become inadequate in the face of a world shut down... Continue Reading →
Xchanges is thrilled to announce our first virtual opening, celebrating the work of over 40 artists in two online exhibitions simultaneously! The recent Provincial Health Orders and strong signals from Dr. Bonnie Henry for people to limit social contact gave us a pause - but we decided to make lemonade and get the work of... Continue Reading →
Xchanges is pleased to announce the non-social opening on Friday, November 13th at 7pm of Dream City - a multimedia installation featuring F. Long, M. Babineau, and C. Thomas. Please check out the Artists' page on our website for more information about this exhibition and also our Gallery page for important information about Covid protocols... Continue Reading →
Nature Preserve: A dog park for empathy Join us online Sunday, Nov 1st from 2pm-3pm when Liam O'Sullivan will discuss his latest show from concept to creativity and all the stages in between from theoretical to emotional to the final work. This is a a perfect way to creatively energize your brain and perk up... Continue Reading →
Our final presentation for Culture Days 2020 wraps up with a Self- Guided tour of Liam O'Sullivan's Exhibition The Nature Preserve, a dog park for empathy at Xchanges on weekends starting on Friday, Oct 16 7-9 pm with a non-social opening to Sunday November 1st. Counterpointed in small ways with several videos, the project experiments... Continue Reading →
Vancouver Island based artist Gina Luke opens up her studio space and provides details on how she is reinterpreting her recent and archived media works within the changing outlook of Covid-19. While considering her catalogued pieces through a new frame of view, she also considers how she will be adapting her future work to the... Continue Reading →
We are thrilled to finally be able to open the doors to the Gallery (carefully), with Covid-19 protocols in place to present our first exhibition featuring Randall McGinnis, Phototextrinum: Weaving Light, Coaxing Death. This series of lightboxes and printed colour photographs explore the minute details of spider webs and the play of light and colours... Continue Reading →
