Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC Videos

Our many and varied good wishes for the coming year.

Come visit us at Deluge Contemporary Art this weekend to see Barry Doupé's Folded Paintbrush: Digital Works & Sculpture. 12-5 Wednesday through Saturday at 636 Yates Street in Victoria, Canada. Below: excerpt from Bubble Boing, Barry Doupé, 2017

This is the last week to experience an uncanny world of covert possibilities via Staring Into Fog, new photo and moving image works by Laura Dutton at Deluge Contemporary Art. 12-5, Wed-Sat at 636 Yates St in Victoria, Canada.

Just 2 more weeks to visit Split Screen at Deluge Contemporary Art, featuring international moving image work and painting by Leslie Bauer, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Todd Lambeth and Kate Shults. (clip below from "Irma" by Kate Shults) Split Screen is an experiment in encouraging language and conversation between 2D (in this case painting) and media artworks while expanding experiential possibilities for viewers. Less a situation of work coexisting alongside other work in aid of a specific set of ideas, appositions or overarching theme, the exhibition loosely harnesses syncopations—visual, audial, kinetic—to imagine a larger composition within which infinite possibilities for comprehension exist and from which infinite numbers of questions arise, much like abstraction itself. In Leslie Bauer’s Fahren 7 velocity deforms our understanding of static objects, effecting surfaces into recondite dynamic shapes. “Traffic, as something very essential and characteristic of a particular time, is presented as a pattern of order and a perceptible form of structuring space and time. Locomotion makes a holistic view impossible. In the state of movement, speed and distance determine the perception of the landscape traversed. The road network itself is a pattern, a space-rastering construct, which in turn offers a reservoir of patterns, images and narratives." Gwendolyn Audrey Foster’s film Dada Ship wrests itself away from the homogeneity of the historical movement to set sail for other, queerer shores employing disrupted stereoscopy and collaged détournement of archival imagery. In his paintings, Todd Lambeth has long been interested in optically challenging unfixed areas of interest by flipping figure and ground. Like the moving image artists in Split Screen, Lambeth understands the actions of fracturing, splicing and splitting in order to animate lacunae between seeing and recognition, between “this” and “that.” Kate Shults has created a video portra