Images of event and more…

We’ve been so busy with the start of the Fall semester and have been remiss about posting photographs of Art Incognito 2011. Stay tuned for pictures of the event, information about our sponsors as well as images of purchased art in their new location (collector’s homes!)

A great success!

Photo credit: Tanta Pennington

Thank you to everybody who made Art Incognito 2011 such a great success. The artists, the art buyers, the volunteers, our hardworking office staff and everybody else who helped promote the event. We had about 300 people in attendance throughout the evening and we sold almost all of the 130 pieces up for bid including five pieces sold in the silent auction. It was a hot night but everybody had a great time and the general feeling was that it was our best Art Incognito ever! This is our sixth year running this gala fundraiser and we have come to rely on the money raised to help support programming and equipment needs.

Over the next few weeks I am going to post information about some of the people and businesses that helped make this event such a success. In addition I will post photographs of the art purchased and in installed in the buyer’s home. These photographs will be posted throughout the year so everybody will have the opportunity to see what it looks like to live with art.

Free preview today!

Come and see the beautiful range of artwork we have on sale for our Art Incognito event. Preview is until 3pm today. Tickets are still available for tonight’s event and can be purchased at the door. $30 includes complimentary sparkling wine, food, a chance to win one of our many exciting door prizes and best of all an opportunity to bring some great art to your home or office. Call 250-380-3500 for more information.

Grant Leier at Art Incognito

An acrylic on canvas painting by Grant Leier will be discovered amongst the wide array of work for sale at Art Incognito 2011 (the image is above is a sample of Leier’s work and not the one at our event in order to preserve the ‘incognito’ aspect of the silent auction). Leier is well known on Vancouver Island and beyond for his intensely colourful and playful mixed media and acrylic paintings that often combine pop culture imagery with text and intense decorative details. For more information on Grant Leier: Barton & Leier Gallery.

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Only two more days

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The slideshow might take 5-10 seconds to load. Please be patient. Its worth the wait. The work is this post only represents a small fraction of the work for sale via silent auction.

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New work has arrived

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The slideshow might take 5-10 seconds to load. Please be patient. Its worth the wait. This is just a small sampling of artwork available for purchase. Stay tuned for future slideshow updates!
We have received many new artworks over the last week and the school is looking fantastic. There is a wonderful variety of work including landscape, figurative, representational and abstract. There are paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolour as well as some drawings and prints. There are also some excellent photographs. Almost every piece is ready-to-hang so you can bring it straight from the event to your living room or office walls. To reserve tickets to the Art Incognito Gala, call the office at 250-380-3500. Event is Friday, Sept 9, 6-9pm. Evening begins with a complimentary glass of sparkling wine, a casual curatorial tour of the works followed by a cocktail reception with a delicious array of savoury and sweet items. There is a wine & beer bar as well as a martini bar serving our special VISA signature cocktails. A live auction by Alison Ross from Kilshaw’s begins at 8 pm. Participants can place bids on work as soon as they arrive at event as part of the silent auction component which goes from 6-8 pm with each of the three art-filled rooms closing for bids at a different time. Music is by DJ Rowan Sentesy and our emcee for the evening is poet Carla Funk who will honour us with some poetry and reflections on some of her favourite pieces on display. There will also be an array of products and services from local business available through the silent auction. And some fun door prizes as well! And best of all you will be able to purchase some original art by local artists.

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Beautiful work

We are overwhelmed by the generousity of artists in our community and their support of the Vancouver Island School of Art. Over the last week we have received a wonderful range of very exciting work that artists are donating to our Art Incognito fundraiser on September 9. Check here to see updated gallery page with some of the new images (and more images to come still!). Slideshow takes about 5-10 seconds to upload… please be patient. Its worth the wait.

Joe Coffey

Joe Coffey, represented by Winchester Galleries, has generously donated a beautiful animal painting. The image above an example of Coffey’s work and is not the one for sale at Art Incognito. The one we have is even more fabulous! Coffey is a Victoria-based artist who is renown for this wonderful paintings of farm animals. You can find out more Coffey’s work by clicking here: Winchester Galleries.

Norman Yates

When I moved to Victoria in the mid-1990′s I was introduced to a Norman Yates’ painting at the home of UVic professor Stephen Scobie. I remember this painting very clearly. It was yellow. Not just yellow, but really really yellow. From what I remember, the painting was an abstraction of a wheat field in Saskatchewan. Although I have never lived in the Prairies, I have traveled across the country by train several times and I have always loved going through the golden prairies. I do remember that the painting resonated with me in a very powerful way and I spent most of the evening starting in its direction. Norman Yates is contributing a piece to this year’s Art Incognito. For those of you who aren’t familiar with his work, please click here for background information on Norman Yates.

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Ted Harrison

We are delighted to have a work from Ted Harrison at this year’s Art Incognito. His brightly coloured paintings and prints elicit immediate responses from so many viewers. Ted Harrison’s paintings can be found in private and public collections throughout Canada, and in New Zealand, Japan, Germany and the United States. In 1987 he received the Order of Canada for his contribution to Canadian culture. He was awarded a honourary doctorate from The University of Athabasca in 1991, a honourary doctorate in Fine Arts from The University of Victoria in 1998 and a distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Alberta in 2002. He also holds an honorary doctorate of Law. In 1993 he moved to Victoria, British Columbia to continue his painting and writing. He was inducted into the Royal Conservatory of the Arts in 2005. In 2009, the first ever biography of the artist, “Ted Harrison: Painting Paradise”, was written by author, Katherine Gibson. And in the same year Ted donated a large mural entitled “Vast Yukon” measure 19.5 ft wide by 6 ft tall to the University of Victoria. The mural is currently on display in the Faculty of Social Science.