Artist Talk by Doug Jarvis

SOCA Gallery, Armouries, 37 University Ave. E.

Free and open to the public

 

 

Doug Jarvis is an artist and curator based in Victoria, BC. He is a founding member of the avatar performance art group Second Front (www.secondfront.org) and the Noxious Sector Art Collective (www.noxioussector.net). He also participates in Open Actions, an action-based performance art group that performs monthly in public spaces in Victoria.

 

His individual and collective work explores absurdity, care, the paranormal, non-material entities and technology as a human attribute. His projects have been presented at artist-run centres, galleries, museums and festivals across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.

 

Jarvis is an active member of the Victoria arts community and participates through a variety of municipal committees, non-profit, and artist-run centre boards. He is the Administrator for the ProArt Alliance of Greater Victoria, as well as a Guest Curator at Open Space Arts Society and the Board Chair of the Ministry of Casual Living.

 

Jarvis received an MFA in studio art from the University of Guelph, ON and is currently a sessional instructor in the UVic Visual Arts Department.

Visit www.dougjarvis.ca for a portfolio of his work.