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ART OPENING CELEBRATION (WITH ARTIST TALK BY TRICIA WASNEY)Save the date! There's a new show opening at the Comox Valley Art Gallery later next month.
The program will kick off on Saturday, September 19, with a full day of free activities:
• Doors open at 10am for the public to view Tricia Wasney’s solo exhibition, 'The things that hold us', for the first time.
• From 11am - 12:30pm, the artist will be hosting an on-site workshop with registered participants (visit our website for details).
• From 12:30 - 1pm, everyone is invited to mingle over coffee/tea and light nibbles, while waiting for the main event to begin — the artist talk!
• At 1pm, Tricia Wasney and CVAG representatives will speak about the exhibition, lending insights into the inspiration and origin behind the featured artworks.
• Reception and hospitality will follow, with the artist present to chat with the community.
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CVAG admission is barrier-free (no cost). Donations are appreciated and contribute to ongoing community interactive programming.
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THE THINGS THAT HOLD US
The exhibition 'The things that hold us' by Tricia Wasney will be on view at the Comox Valley Art Gallery from September 19 - November 21.
Tricia Wasney’s work celebrates the ordinary and is informed by forgotten or hidden histories, the specificity of place and the materials she discovers. Local, organic, pre-owned and waste materials are incorporated into her work as they arrive with their own layers of embedded meaning. She is especially interested in how relationships between people and the land act as both anchors and buoys, holding us in place while also casting us adrift. 'The things that hold us' reflects Wasney’s experiences over the past four years, beginning with the first CVAG curated residency at the McLoughlin Gardens in 2023. The exhibition includes previous work made about Manitoba landscapes, some work made entirely during the residencies, some re-worked in her studio in Winnipeg and others made in 2026, a result of looking back and reflecting on how the landscape in the Comox Valley impacted her and how her own Prairie landscape affects her. Additionally, the four years have included unexpected and destabilizing loss in her personal life that has infiltrated the work; as a whole the exhibition reflects on the impossibility of permanence, about finding, losing, and finally celebrating that which has been found and commemorating that which has been lost.
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Learn more: https://www.comoxvalleyartgallery.com/exhibitions/the-things-that-hold-us/.
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Image: courtesy of the artist.
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