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November 18 - December 14, 2000
//Annual Members' Exhibition
Art Under Foot
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The annual members' show allows local artists to exhibit their work in a professional space, creating a dialogue about current artistic production in the community. The exhibition, held in conjunction with the annual membership drive, is a fundraising event for the gallery. This year's call was for small-scale work, literally art measuring less than one foot by one foot by one foot. The exhibition included more than 130 pieces by 52 artists.
October 6 - November 2, 2000
//Murray Johnson
Curator: Portia Priegert
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A retrospective exploring the painting and printwork of the late Murray Johnson, a former professor at Okanagan University College and a founding member of the Alternator Gallery. Johnson maintained a lifelong interest in the province's landforms and strove to combine the intensity of his emotional reaction with a more appraising contemplation.
October 6 - November 2, 2000
//Evolution of Pitiful and Meaningless
Kathleen O'Neill
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The Evolution of Pitiful and Meaningless Every Day Life. Alberta artist Kathleen O'Neill creates a whimsical motorized installation that combines found objects such as children's plastic figurines, horse-hair pony tails and clanking bells. O'Neill is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design.
August 11 - September 21, 2000
//Inside Out - L'Etoffe Meme du Corps
Curator: Jennifer Macklem
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This exhibition concludes a cultural exchange with Galerie Verticale in Laval, Que., by reprising an exhibition by three artists – Christiane Patenaude, Claire-Marie Gosselin and Juan Schneider - originally curated in Québec by Jennifer Macklem, an instructor at Okanagan University College. Five Okanagan artists - Debbie Elliott, Anna Coghlan, Heather Hawkshaw, Christian Nicolay and Daniel Anhorn – were selected for the partner exhibition in Québec by Marcel Saint-Pierre, a Québec artist and curator who teaches at the University of Montréal in Québec.
Christiane Patenaude, a graduate of the University of Québec in Montréal, has exhibited extensively in Québec. Her spacious installations are composed of objects suspended from the ceiling, attached to the wall or placed on the floor. The objects suggest words in a poem and together elicit an emotion or idea. The work is playful and whimsical, but also offers a deeper current of rigorous formalism.
Claire-Marie Gosselin is a multi-disciplinary artist and a graduate of the University of Québec in Montréal. Her work deals with the iconography of the sacred.
Juan Schneider, originally from Chile, immigrated to Québec in 1986. His work concerns the perception of pictorial space in relation to physical and biological structures of the body.
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August 11 - September 21, 2000
//Purest of Form
Mairoula Dimopoulos
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Mairoula Dimopoulos is a recent graduate of Okanagan University College. She explores issues of religion and gender in relation to her Greek Orthodox faith, informing her photographic imagery through the texts of feminist thinkers.
June 16 - July 27, 2000
//Bearings
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Daniel Anhorn, a graduate of Okanagan University College, creates large-scale kinetic sculptures that can be operated by viewers. Anhorn, an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, envisions parallels between his work and the human body as systems to survey and navigate the environment.
Renee Burgess creates metaphorical structures with multi-layered meanings. Her work uses mythological and psychoanalytical symbols to build meaning, creating a surreal and dreamlike environment removed from reality. Burgess is a recent graduate of Okanagan University College.
Okanagan resident Hamish Tucker explores sculptural realms in the mixed-media installation, Coffee Talk, a cage-like construction that structurally resembles a coffee bean. Viewers entering the structure find written musings about contemporary society.
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June 16 - July 27, 2000
//Ki-Low-Na Friendship Centre
Curators: Sandra Whattam, Dolan Badger
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Young aboriginal artists display drawings, carvings and paintings in combination with traditional cultural items such as animal hides and hand drums. Sandra Whattam is the head of the arts program at the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Centre and Dolan Badger, a Cree from Northern Alberta, is a fine arts student at Okanagan University College.
April 28 - June 1, 2000
//Memory of the Earth - Bulbs
Mika Ebata
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Mika Ebata is a rapidly emerging Japanese artist whose sculptural installations have been exhibited in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the United States. Wood sculptures completed at a recent residency at the Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, explore contrasting worlds of surface and underground, providing commentary on the relationship between humans and the natural world.
April 28 - June 1, 2000
//Passage
Tom McKinnon
Vancouver artist Tom McKinnon is intrigued with the pattern of ideas and the flux of mental perceptions. He uses a stop-action video of a flock of pigeons, a metronome and a large-scale model of a human ear to engage spectators and raise awareness of their role as active participants in the production of meaning. McKinnon is a former instructor at Okanagan University College.
March 10 - April 13, 2000
//Flow
Evelyn Armstrong
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Evelyn Armstrong, of Merritt, B.C., looks at the objectification of desire and the thin line between knowledge and experience. Her sculptural installations, which involve contraptions that hold melting ice, act on a symbolic level. Yet they also explore feelings related to objectivity, sterility and detachment. She examines how longing moves back and forth between knowledge and experience and how the body contains certain experiences that can reveal or conceal erotic yearning.
March 10 - April 13, 2000
//The Proximity of Pink
Robin Arseneault
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Calgary artist Robin Arseneault works in sculptural forms that play on the ideas of internal body, fabricated objects and articles of clothing. These ideas become entwined into an artwork that borders on the unsettling and the fantastic. Her sculptural forms - which combine fabric and castor wheels into evocative tubular-shaped works at once humorous and sadly futile - suggest layers of past experiences and misplaced emotions.
March 10 - April 13, 2000
//Small Myths
Michele Lucas
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Michele Lucas, a graduate of Okanagan University College, is an emerging Kelowna artist whose abstract paintings contain structural elements. Lucas often paints on hand-made objects such as tables or wooden boxes that hang on the wall. Her abstract paintings display a sophisticated understanding of color and pattern.
January 21 - February 24, 2000
//Representation, Presentation...
Diana Thorneycroft
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Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable. Winnipeg artist Diana Thorneycroft's work deals with memory and identity. Her photographic self-portraits and installations expose the self through the mirrors of sexuality, family, gender and power. They also deal with being bound both physically and psychologically. Her work is strongly seductive and plays with the boundaries between empowerment and enslavement.
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January 21 - February 24, 2000
//Emerging
OUC Third-Year Fine Arts Students
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This annual exhibition, a partnership with Okanagan University College, allows third-year students to assume curatorial responsibilities for the project gallery. Students are responsible for every aspect of the show, giving them practical experience in a professional setting to complement their formal education. This year's exhibition is built around the theme of emerging.
