Featured image: No Hunting Or Trespassing, Edward Peck, 2022
Exhibition Schedule
September 2023 to June 2024
Xchanges Gallery exhibition season reopens in September 2023 and runs until June 2024 with an exciting schedule. Our gallery exhibition program is made up of diverse artists who have been recommended by an independent panel of professional artists, who have been recognized for their contributions to local culture and their expertise in contemporary art.
Exhibitions also include member solo and group shows in the Art Passage, the main gallery, or online. Exhibitions may include additional activities, such as Zoom openings, artist talks, and tours. Read each brief description and check out the artist or exhibition page link for full details.
Gallery hours
Opening night Fridays: 7 to 9 p.m.
Saturdays & Sundays: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Contact us for other times or check out the Events Calendar.
On Now
In On Photography, Susan Sontag claims that “today everything exists to end in a photograph.” A statement that rings true in our image-saturated digital world, but where does an image end and where does it start? Is there room for challenging that boundary?
Through Super Superficial, Movahedi interrogates the surface and bounds of images, unbinding them from static meanings that ignore the contexts they exist in. Movahedi begins with their own photography of architectural spaces that examine the tension between the flat picture plane and the spatial perception that can exist inside of it. In layers of printing, folding, rescaling, drawing and rephotographing, they then superimpose the photographs with the ignored elements of the flawed environment in which they exist—power outlets, light switches, masking tape, scribbled notes, shadows of the nails holding the paper—the result is again flattened and printed one-to-one in scale, causing a trompe l’oeil effect between what is real and what is illusion, reframing the very context in which these photos exist.
Opening Friday March 8, 2024, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and continues every weekend from Saturday, March 9 until Sunday, March 24 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out Kosar’s artist page.
Upcoming Shows
April 6 to 21, 2024
Kathi Thompson
Charting Change
The ocean embodies the essence of force, surrender and adaptation. Through abstracted images and sculpture, Charting Change explores the nature of shoreline intertidal zones; forces in a constant transient state. Below the surface, Thompson finds the edges where memory and experience overlap and closely examine the interplay between them.
Opening Friday April 5, 2024, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. and continues every weekend from Saturday, April 6 until Sunday, April 21 from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
An Artist Talk will take place on Sunday, April 14 starting at 2 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out Kathi’s artist page .
May 3 to 19, 2024
Zoë Joyall, Erin Mugford, jamie oosterhuis and lune grose
woven
Bringing together the works of Zoë Joyall, Erin Mugford, jamie oosterhuis and lune grose, woven explores the ways textiles can engage with memory, place, connection and emotion. Utilizing a range of textile mediums, these works engage with traditional techniques and formal applications while exploring new interpretations and experimentations.
woven challenges the division of art and craft to discover what lies in their intersection. By doing so, these works demonstrate that conceptual and artistic expression are intrinsically woven into the practice of textile arts.
Opening night: Friday, May 3, 2024, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Gallery hours: Continues every weekend from Saturday, May 4 until Sunday, May 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out their artists page.
June 8 to June 23
Zaida Gerritsen
Dwellings
Dwellings, a place of residence; a space stuck in thought.
Using oil paint, a predominantly male centred medium, this body of work explores the historically permanent nature of women in relation to the home and the spaces that hold that history.
Opening Friday June 7, 2024, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and continues every weekend from Saturday, June 8 until Sunday, June 23 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out their artist page.
Past shows
March 8 to 24, 2024
Kosar Movahedi
Super Superficial
February 2 to 18, 2024
Jasper Pettman
ᒫᒪᐃᐧ ᒣᐢᑯᒋᐸᔨᐃᐧᐣ / shapeshifting together
Pettman draws upon their personal experience of transness and Indigeneity for their work, which is marked by physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental transition/rediscovery. Pettman wishes to bring the paintings into the gallery space, and in turn the viewer into the paintings in order to illustrate the transitory nature of identity.
Opening night is Friday, February 2, 2024 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and continues every weekend from Saturday, February 3 until Sunday, February 18 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out Jasper Pettman’s artist page.
January 5 to 21, 2024
Isabel Carolina González Quiroz
Identidad
December 1 to 17, 2023
Identidad is an exhibition that contemplates two moments that González Quiroz identified in the process of adaptation in her experience as a Latin American immigrant. It is a series of mixed media works that share the same gesture: the fingerprint.
Opening night is Friday, January 5, 2024 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The exhibition continues every weekend from Saturday, January 6 until Sunday, January 21. Gallery hours are on the weekends from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out Isabel Carolina González Quiroz’s artist page
XPRESSIONS – Xchanges Members Show 2023
This is an opportunity to see the creative works of Xchanges’ diverse membership. Visit the gallery in person or shop online.
Opening night is Friday, December 1, 2023, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
November 4 to 19, 2023
Rebecca Fux
You Can Cry in Front of Me
You Can Cry in Front of Me serves as an ode to the strength of emotional bonds that develop between young women as they deal with trauma, misogyny, sexual harassment and sexual assault.
Opening night is Friday, November 3, 2023 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and exhibition continues every weekend from Saturday, November 4 until Sunday, November 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out Rebecca Fux’s artist page.
October 6 to 22, 2023
Dylan Cram
The Filmic Eye
The Filmic Eye examines visual culture in two specific ways. First, it borrows the tradition of portraiture as a means to examine the ongoing pageant of personhood unfolding in contemporary culture. The presentation of a person, or type of person can be endlessly fascinating and overtly boring; the genre alternates between tired and reinvigorated. Second, the work analyzes how narrative and film guide our cultural obsession through the surrogate of acted roles. The transference of personal ideals onto fictional characters and the cultural or stylistic echoes of stardom back onto the individual, provide a lens through which personhood can be laid bare. The figures exist in a liminal space between dialogue, in a nondescript setting, isolated from any supporting actors. Even though details have been removed, something like a narrative artifact remains.
Opening night is Friday, October 6, 2023 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The show continues every weekend from Saturday, October 7 until Sunday, October 22 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. An artist talk will take place on Saturday, October 21 at 12 p.m.
For more information about the show, check out Dylan Cram’s artist page.
September 8 to 24, 2023
Phyllis Schwartz and Edward Peck
Apeiron
Apeiron is a photo-based exhibition depicting life in a small, prairie agricultural community set on a vast landscape. Two artists engage in a visual dialogue about their perceptions of geography, history, economic hardship, and multifaceted culture. This exhibition invites viewers to immerse themselves in the environment and emotions that these images of prairie life evoke.
Opening night is Friday, September 8, 2023 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The show continues every weekend from Saturday, September 9 until Sunday, September 24, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. An artist talk will take place on Sunday, September 17 at 2 p.m. at Xchanges.
For more information, check out their artist page.
Xchanges gratefully acknowledges the support of the Province of British Columbia and the Capital Regional District for our gallery programs.
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