2021 is MediaNet's 40th Anniversary!

We are celebrating with a series of films by past and current members, culminating with a birthday party on December 16 (the anniversary of MediaNet's incorporation) to be held at FLUX Gallery from 4-6pm.

The first exhibition in the series will be works by Richard and Susy Raxlen, presented in FLUX Gallery from October 21 to November 5. There will be a reception with the artists from 4 -6pm on November 21.

We will be showing Regardo by Susy Raxlen, and several works by Richard Raxlen, including We Mammals Pushy, Geometry of Beware and more.

Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, noon to 5pm

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Artist's Statement by Richard Raxlen

"I make experimental films– a form of artists’ filmmaking that, although it’s been around for as long as there has been film, nonetheless is not well known. I have been attracted to film because of its inherent relation to life: light, time, motion, rhythm, illusion, reality.  My films consider how we perceive reality, layers of reality, how we experience time as it is passing and cyclical, how we grapple with the contradictions and complexities and the ephemerality of life. Just as images come out of and disappear into the emulsion of a film, so you and I appear on and disappear from the stage."

Bio for Susy Raxlen

Susy Raxlen is visual artist who’s practice is confined mostly to mixed media works on paper. She has worked with authors using intaglio prints for the children's book A Child's Enchanted Garden, and for a book of poetry, The Arithmetic of Surrender. Susy has taught intaglio printmaking at the Vancouver Island School of Art and given workshops at Camosun College, the University of Victoria, Vancouver Island University, Opus Art Supplies, and to numerous Victoria artists in her home studio.