Architecture of Memory

Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 11 | 2:00–4:00 PM

Exhibition:
January 11 – April 19, 2025

About the Exhibition

Architecture of Memory is a solo exhibition of recent works by Valerie Pugh. Utilizing the interdisciplinary mediums of painting, sculpture, collage, and installation, Pugh explores themes of memory, home, imagination and dreams. Inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s book, The Poetics of Space, Pugh negotiates the distortion and formation of memory and explores how a lived experience is pieced back together during the act of recollection. Memories, which are often abstract in form, are represented as gestural swaths of vivid colour and generous layers of mark making. These abstractions are then constructed into recognizable architectural forms.

About the Artist

Valerie Pugh is a lower mainland artist and arts educator. She has exhibited paintings, ceramics and multi-media sculpture in group and solo exhibitions at The Vancouver Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and POMO Arts Centre.