2005

//Temporal Transmissions

DVD catalogue

Jayce Salloum, Dana Claxton, Randy Grskovic, Portia Priegert, Patrick Connelly, Karen Tam, Christian Nicolay
Essay by Portia Priegert
Coordinated by David Ross and Portia Priegert
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 0-9682197-8-0
 
Video artists explore various aspects of local history from different aesthethic and cultural perspectives to mark Kelowna's centennial in 2005. Includes 'terra incognita' by Jayce Salloum and Anwolek Regatta City by Dana Claxton.


2003

//A Shifting Terrain

Folio with six exhibition brochures

A Shifting Terrain: Contemporary Landscapes
Essay by Portia Priegert
ISBN: 0-9682197-7-2
 
The artists who participated in the Alternator's 2003 exhibition program, A Shifting Terrain: Contemporary Landscapes, intercepted the environment at a time of transition, whether responding to specific sites in the Okanagan or reflecting on broader economic, political, cultural or technological relationships to the land. Artists include Scott August, Chris Gillespie, Clare Charnley, Penny McCarthy, Alexa Wright, Tim van Wijk, Sara Graham, Christine Shaw, Brian White, Keith Langergräber, Atefeh Shojaie, Eric Lamontagne and Luce Pelletier.


2000

//An Interrupted Journey

12 pages with 8 color images

Murray Johnson (1937-1999)
Curated by Portia Priegert
Essay by Carolyn MacHardy
ISBN: 0-9682197-5-6
 
Murray Johnson's paintings, drawings and prints bear witness to his lifelong interest in the landforms of British Columbia. His response to the landscape was deeply felt and he strove to combine the intensity of this emotional encounter with a cooler and more appraising contemplation. Murray Johnson was a founding member of the Alternator Gallery.


2000

//Memory of the Earth: Bulbs

2 pages with four color images

Mika Ebata
Edited by Portia Priegert
ISBN: 0-9682197-4-8
 
Japanese artist Mika Ebata exhibits carved wood sculptures that trace her conceptions about nature, particularly the contrasts between surface structure and hidden substrates.


1999

//Minori: Fulfillment in Life

10 pages with 8 colour images

Miyuki Shinkai
Essay by Jennifer Macklem
Edited by Portia Priegert
Photographer: Kevin Dunn
ISBN: 0-9682197-3-X
 
Minori: Fulfillment in Life documents an exhibition by Miyuki Shinkai, a Japanese-born Vancouver-based glass artist, at the Alternator Gallery in 1999. Her installation, comprised of some 500 glass apples suspended above the heads of viewers as well as glass leaves scattered across the floor and eight translucent vessels, made oblique references to the past and the tangible presence of the fruits of labor.


1998

//Entomology

16 pages with four color images

Shelley Ouellet
1998
Curated by Diane Dickert
Photography by Hutch Hutchinson
Design by Bruce Livingstone, Shelley Ouellet
ISBN: 0-9682197
 
Shelley Ouellet's installation, Entomology III, is the most recent version of a series that spans five years, six cities, seven galleries and hundreds of volunteers. Intrinsic to Ouellet's work is a philosophy of inclusiveness and non-hierarchical actions. Her artwork combines movement and stillness, heaviness and lightness, and individual and community involvement.


1998

//Interior Motives (part two)

12 pages with 10 B&W images

Barbara Marchand, Mari Elin Chamney, Ruby Truly
Written by Alison Sivak and Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Designed by Amy Greenbaum
Edited by Jennifer Macklem, Allison Sivak, Anne-Marie Thorslund
ISBN: 0-9682197-1-3
 
Interior Motives (part two) attempts to locate the work of Ruby Truly, Barbara Marchand and Mari Elin Chamney in terms of geography, context and aesthetics. Through exploration of the histories of rural experience or materials found locally, these artists explore ideas of communal history, universal life force and the personal ritual made public.


1998

//Interior Motives (part one)

4 pages with 3 B&W images

Essay by Allison Sivak
Introduction by Victoria Moulder
Price: $2.00
 
Interior Motives (part one) introduces the artists and conditions that effect cultural production specific to this region. It examines the site and connections in which five exhibitions from the Alternator's 1995-1996 programming converge to represent a city in transition.


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