//2001
November 16 - December 13, 2001
//Annual Members' Exhibition
Artocracy
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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.
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September 21 - October 25, 2001
//Private Parts 1 & 2
my name is scot
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my name is scot, a Vancouver-based artist, offers an installation that represents spatial and text-based situations that examine external structures and internal systems that define the body. His work consists of a number of aged, wooden chests and small trunks placed on white museum shelves. Each chest has a hinged lid that opens to reveal a text label set into its base. These works seek to initiate an examination of the ways in which our ideas and feelings about the body are constructed. The interplay between the two parts of the installation is intended to promote a range of emotional and conceptual responses. my name is scot has a diploma from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.
September 21 - October 25, 2001
//Landscape of Change
France Guérin
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Vancouver painter France Guérin comments on the notions of space and time in conjunction with culture, identity and history. Photographs of British Columbia landscapes and cityscapes have provided the inspiration for developing an understanding of the differences between individual culture and personal identity. Landscape is associated with story, myth and memory; and consequently embodies a powerful awareness of history in which past, present and future are entwined. She holds a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and has exhibited extensively in British Columbia.
September 21 - October 25, 2001
//New Works
Leah Decter
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Vancouver artist Leah Decter explores personal and cultural constructions of identity. Her work brings together two areas of interest - how personal and cultural histories inform identity and the consequence of our biases as individuals and societies. Her previous work considers inherent and constructed meaning through the use of images of teeth and uses concepts of forensic science to examine issues of categorization and containment.
September 21 - October 25, 2001
//Dress Up
Mail Art Exhibition
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Participants:
EUROPE
Steen Krarup
Copenhagen, Denmark
Michael Leigh
UK
Peter Ritz
peterritz@t-online.de
Raunq Salminen
Finland
Miche-Art Van Den Broeck
BRAZIL
Olivia Niemeyer
Dorian Ribas Marinho
Brazil
Jose Roberto Sechi
Rio Claro SP
CANADA
Scott August
Kelowna, BC
Stephanie Banszky
Calgary, AB
Gabriel Bardwell
Calgary, AB
Shelly T Bishop
Calgary, AB
Louise Brud
Calgary, AB
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N. Burisch
Calgary, AB
Daniel Cristini
Calgary, AB
Cleo Dawn
Calgary, AB
Ryan Fairweather
Calgary, AB
Crissy Giesbrecht
Vancouver, BC
Nadia Graham
Calgary, AB
Angela Grey
Calgary, AB
Sarah Head
Airdrie, AB
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Lisa Hemmingway
Vancouver, BC
Shima Iuchi
Kamloops, BC
Natlie Kang
Calgary, AB
Stacey Lardry
Ft.McMurray, AB
Darryl A. Lee
Vancouver, BC
Claudia McCaskill
Calgary, AB
Shane McClellan
Calgary, AB
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Tran Migule
Calgary, AB
Tess Maciag
Calgary, AB
Paul Murray aka DiKotomi
Burnaby, BC
Candice Nicot
Calgary, AB
Tiiu Norwegian
Fort Simpson, NT
Shauna Oddleifson
Kelowna, BC
Heather Passmore
Vancouver, BC
Amanda Pawson
Calgary, AB
Olivia Postie
Calgary, AB
Portia Priegert
Kelowna, BC
Jordan Ratzlaff
Calgary, AB
Brandon Reimchen
Kelowna, BC
Sydney Scott
Calgary, AB
Melanie Smit
Calgary, AB
Chuck Stake aka Don Mabie
Calgary, AB
Sarah Towler
Calgary, AB
Jane Trash
Calgary, AB
Aiden Urquhart
London, Ontario
David VanDenBerg
Calgary, AB
Eva Waldauf
Vancouver, BC
Julie Wong
Strathmore, AB
Margo Yacheshyn
Kelowna, BC
Naomi Yamamoto
Calgary, AB
Cahina Yontz
Calgary, AB
USA
Gema Alava-Crisostomo
Forest Hills, New York
Catherine Angel
Henderson, NV
Patricia Block/Richard Kline
Mt.Pleasant, MI
Amy Bouse
Los Angeles
A. Buchanan
Provo, Utah
Christine Buckton
Iowa City, Iowa
Natalie Campbell
Ithaca, New York
Marilyn Dammann
Baraga, Michigan
ex posto facto
Garland, Texas
Nora Herting
Chicago, IL
Bridget Lewis
Columbus, Ohio
Sean Miller
Gainsville, Florida
Steve Morrison
Provo, Utah
Laura Stoland
Brooklyn, NY
Stoland Art Department
Selden, New York
Alan Wilson
Provo, Utah
A.R Young
Oreai, UT
EMAIL
Literaturium Dr. Klaus Groh
Klaus-Groh@nwn.de
Charles F. Gustina
www.twistedknickers.com
Rene Joseph
www.renejospeh.com
Karen Schwartz
kswirtz@inreach.com
Janice Taylor
Janny10175@aol.com
Amber Loveless
harlequinxiii@hotmail.com
Peter Baader
placeofdelight@surfeu.de
Linda Plaisted ~ Manymuses Studio
Amuse@manymuses.com
Janine Brown
opps@studionotes.org
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August 3 - September 6, 2001
//Homebody
Nicole Sanches, Rhonda Weppler
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Nicole Sanches, a Canadian artist living in San Francisco, uses small-scale objects to comment on our perceived realities. Her installations consist of sucked-down jawbreakers with embedded objects as well as samples of popular prescription drugs and gel caps. The objects Sanches uses are made of physical and metaphorical layers of information. Jawbreakers can signify planets, pills can question how we perceive reality and other objects can refer to time, space and surface. Sanches is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design and has exhibited her work in Calgary and Sackville, N.B.
Vancouver artist Rhonda Weppler creates sculptural work constructed entirely out of fragile surfaces. Some pieces are so-called skins of furniture - paper-thin wood veneer held together with various adhesive tapes. Other sculptural pieces are made by wrapping domestic objects with kitchen-grade aluminum foil. Although the work appears to have a humorous edge, it also reveals domesticity as a site of tragedy and loss. Home becomes unhomely. It changes and mutates - what seems to be stable unravels as the viewer examines it. Weppler holds a MFA from the University of British Columbia and has exhibited her work in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
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August 3 - September 6, 2001
//Internal Affairs
Dawn Widell
Okanagan artist Dawn Widell, a recent graduate of Okanagan University College, turns from her exploration of urban back alleys to consider domestic spaces in large-scale mixed-media works. Widell combines drawing, painting and collage techniques to create multilayered and texturally rich compositions.
June 15 - July 19, 2001
//A Pictographic Diary
Jacques Clement
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Montréal artist Jacques Clement creates what he calls a photographic diary of life studies. His ink drawings on long, narrow strips of brown paper are often elaborated with the addition of collage, stencil and monotype. Each strip is folded and refolded upon itself, in accordion-like style, to mimic road maps. The research is an investigation into the physical aspect of our being. These immediate and fleeting images are a pictographic alphabet that makes up the visual text of an intimate journal. Clement is a graduate of the University of Québec in Montréal and has participated in many exhibitions in Québec and Ontario.
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June 15 - July 19, 2001
//En'owkin Visual Arts Exhibition
Curator: Lee Claremont
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Graduating students of the En'owkin Centre's visual arts program present a variety of work that pays tribute to traditions and the land. Curator Lee Claremont is an instructor at the centre.
April 27 - May 31, 2001
//Flesh
Donna Szoke
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Donna Szoke's work explores life casting and the notion of the monument while integrating video, digital images and text. The works explore desire, compassion and suffering through issues related to embodiment. Szoke, who is based in Vancouver, centers her work on touch, which poses both the objectivity of embodiment and the subjectivity of feeling. Szoke has a BFA from Simon Fraser University and has exhibited her work in Vancouver.
April 27 - May 31, 2001
//Self: Exiled
Ben Nielsen
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Nielsen, who lives in Penticton, B.C., uses an unusual medium on a unique surface to create paintings rich in texture and innovative in style. Experimentation with metal led to his development of an original method of art making - combining galvanized iron and roofing tar. Starting with a large galvanized iron panel, he layers paper, acrylic medium, tar, pastel and images to develop a dense and textured piece. The image is then scraped, reworked and distressed until a multi-textured surface is achieved. The quality of the surface is as important as the symbolic and figurative-based subject of the painting.
April 27 - May 31, 2001
//Sacred Vernacular
Sara Lige
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Kelowna artist Sara Lige, a recent graduate of Okanagan University College, offers work on paper that is developed using different print processes such as etching, monoprint and collograph. She uses non-traditional methods of printmaking to develop multiple series of unique prints that use common resource material. The prints reflect on the underlying theme of what it is to be human.
March 9 - April 12, 2001
//Sanctuary
Margo Yacheshyn
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Margo Yacheshyn paints melted wax onto cheesecloth that is suspended over a womb-like structure created from willow branches. Through the use of tunnels and open areas, along with sound and lighting, Yacheshyn creates a serene and contemplative atmosphere that accesses primal, collective memories while remaining visually entrancing. Yacheshyn, who is based in Kelowna, is a recent graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design.
March 9 - April 12, 2001
//Fallen
Lisa MacLean
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Lisa MacLean, who is based on Saltspring Island, took initial inspiration for her recent photo-based work from a rotting pumpkin. The forms and colors she found in vegetables suggested the human body. She then began thinking about historical connections between the Western imagination and form and lack of form, especially as manifested in ideas about gender. This led to her exploration of classical human bodies and structures. Combining images drawn from Western cultural history, British Columbia nature photography, body building magazines and still-life iconography, her works are a visual meditation on our fantasies of human subjectivity. MacLean is an instructor at Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo, B.C.
March 9 - April 12, 2001
//Third Eye
Brian Gotro
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Kelowna artist Brian Gotro, a recent graduate of Okanagan University College, is planning a video presentation and related installation. His interest lies in creating an experience that confronts and challenges the notion of the television as a common household object and encourages the viewer to pass beyond the passive act of watching toward an active and participatory role in interpretation. The installation will engage all five senses - encouraging viewers to smell, taste, touch, hear and see what exists around them.
January 19 - February 22, 2001
//Valley 2000
Curator: Fern Helfand
Valley 2000, organized by Okanagan University College professor Fern Helfand, a member of the Alternator's board of directors, in partnership with the Kelowna Art Gallery, captures photographic images from the Okanagan region as it exists at the turn of the millennium. The exhibition highlights the work of four emerging photographers and also includes a selection of snapshots by students at Okanagan University College.
The Kelowna Art Gallery is exhibiting work by nine other emerging artists as well as a large display of snapshots submitted from the general public. The final component of the project is an exhibition of documentary photographs by four commissioned artists - Fern Helfand, Kevin Dunn, Greg Young-Ing and Henri Robideau.
Selected photographs are a permanent part of the Royal B.C. Museum's web site, Living Landscapes.
January 19 - February 22, 2001
//Monochromy
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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 the monochrome with all works in all pieces are in black, white and one other color.
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