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Current
Exhibitions: Wednesday September 7th to Saturday October 22nd 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday September 10th 7 to 9pm Join us for complimentary refreshments, live music and good company. Vocals and guitar by musician John Pulfer will be featured. Meet the artists, mingle and enjoy goodies and a glass of wine. Entrance is by donation. Everyone is welcome. |
Gallery #1: Marilyn Raymond and Lois Huey-Heck |
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The Void: Empty & Open features recent poetry by Marilyn Raymond and recent images by Lois Huey-Heck. Word and image both consider the positive and negative aspects of “the great nothingness”. A dozen poems are paired (layered over) ink and brush paintings interspersed throughout the gallery with canvasses large and small, small works on paper, and a large sight-specific painting on glass. The creators elected not to have the words describe the images nor have the images illustrate the poetry but rather to have the two art forms compliment, stretch and even perhaps contradict each other. (More like musician’s jamming than it is like an illustrated book.) Marilyn will be reading some of her poems at the opening September 10 (they have also been printed as chap books – available at Gallery Vertigo) and Lois will talk about the paintings which are largely brush and ink with acrylic paint on canvas and mixed media/watercolour on paper – in a wide range of sizes. About the Artists: Lois Huey-Heck is a visual artist living in Lake Country She studied in the Fine Arts Program at Okanagan College, graduating in 1988. Since then, Huey-Heck has exhibited extensively throughout BC, most recently being part of an exhibition of abstract works at the Lake Country Gallery. Huey-Heck has published numerous books, including The Spirituality of Art, co-authored with Jim Kalnin, which is available in Gallery Vertigo’s gift shop.(cv) Artist Statements: Marilyn Raymond: I have been writing poetry all of my life. I write for myself as a spiritual practice and a way to deepen my self-awareness. I write for my family and friends, and for my church community to celebrate our connections and to commemorate rites of passage. I use two primary processes in my writing. The first is variously called free writing, flow writing, quick writing. I sit with my journal and let ideas flow, sometimes with a focus, sometimes not, but always with my mind as open as I can manage. I just write. Often, my writing begins with walking meditation. I walk in the woods or along the country road near my home and I let words and ideas rise up in me. I talk to myself. I look at the world. Then I go home and write. Later that day, or the next, or months later, I re-read and look for phrases and images that resonate. I work with these, generally pairing images from nature with what seem to me to be spiritual and or psychological insights, to bring as clear a message as I can. I write and re-write, changing sequence, moving words around, crafting. I love this part, it feels deeply grounding and it is important to me that the message of the poem be as clean and vivid as possible. I often feel my separation from the human family. I feel the emptiness of the void pulling me into isolation and silence. With poetry, that emptiness can become a spacious expanse of belonging ~ the creative centre. Lois Huey-Heck: Visual art has been one of my best friends for as long as I can remember. I’ve not always been such a loyal friend in return. I have been fickle – chasing new interests and flirting with multiple distractions. I’ve had a lengthy affair with the busy-ness of “too much work” which has taken me away for extended periods. Sometimes I have been seduced away and sometimes I have run – avoiding the intensity of relationship the visual both offers and demands. Sometimes I have not wanted to see so clearly, examine so scrupulously, feel so deeply… But – sooner or later – I am drawn back to engage the world of line and colour, texture, tone and form. I am never more alive, never more whole; never more receptive to new epiphanies than I am when I’m deeply engaged with art-making. It’s a primary spiritual practice of receptivity, prayer and communion. The Void is of particular significance to the wonderful tangle that is my creative-spiritual self. Alternately known to me as the great Silence, or as “Nothing” surrendering into “It” is surrendering into a wisdom that is both beyond me and intimately within me. With trepidation I approached making more images on this theme because the images are not only about the Mystery but also issue forth from it – depending on how well I can get my egoic self out of the way! Marilyn Raymond and I have been soul friends for almost 20 years. We have a ritual of early morning walks when we camp along the Kettle River each August. For several kilometers each day we plumb the depths of our own journeys and ask (mostly rhetorical) questions of meaning. We do not have a homogenous set of beliefs or practices. What we do have is respect for the integrity of each others’ “walk.” We wrestle together with language and image and we notice where the threads of our beliefs weave together and where they diverge. We don’t expect to agree with each other about everything and we are both enriched by the dialogue. More than two decades of this ongoing and fertile conversation have shaped my art – sometimes in overt and sometimes in covert ways. As time passes I get more comfortable with mystery. This and paradoxes such as Empty/Fertile, Nothing/Everything and End/Beginning are some of the areas I/we have engaged. And a surprise while creating the Void images is the interplay between fast and slow – or spontaneous and planned – or intuitive and calculated. The art is explorative, non-objective and is much more about question than answer, communion than comprehension. –Lois Huey-Heck Oyama BC August 2011 |
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| Gallery #2: Harold Coego: Sound Memories |
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Vancouver artist, Harold Coego is featured in Gallery Two this month. His mixed media drawings are executed on sheets of music, creating an interesting juxtaposition of lively and expressive marks laid over an underlying structure of geometric, hard-edged lines and symbols. My grandmother’s old music pentagrams come to me in three languages: Spanish, English and French. They unfold hidden meanings/messages among the bars. They act as a graph where thoughts and old melodies converge, a perfect and an abstract, ‘thought-measuring-sheets’. The old chords staple the pentagram with a visible rusty sound that stains the paper. My tongue also gets tangled and stapled by three different languages that struggle with each other to communicate. And only come together in this odd looking opera, overlapping their grammatical boundaries by making poetry out of their own phonetic upheaval. The universality of the languages along with the universal sound of the music itself permits to gather these two abstract concepts and display them in a visual formula. The memories become the voice of the music and with its waves, ripple the colors giving them forms while printing hidden messages. (Harold Coego) |
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| NOAA Members Feature Wall: Angelika Jaeger - Recent Work |
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Art is an expression of the world as seen through my eyes” I have discovered by working in mixed media and collage that the layering process is synonymous with our human condition: life experiences, learning, evolving, adding and subtracting, lost and found. These are the layers of my life and my art. When I feel my artwork is complete I love to share it with the audience, so they can start their own relationship with each piece. (Angelika Jaeger) About the Artist: Visual artist, Angelika Jaeger, originally from Germany, now lives in Vernon. The artist is currently a student at UBC Okanagan where she is currently finishing Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. Jaeger is active in the arts community and regularly conducts workshops in her chosen mediums of collage and mixed media. The artist has had solo exhibitions in Germany and British Columbia. Her work can be found in private collections in Europe and Canada. |
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The Window Gallery: It's a Sign! Deadline for entries is September 30th. |
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Kalamalka Vertigo at Okanagan College: Sindri Hans Guðmundsson: Selected Works |
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Selected works from local artist, Sindri Hans Guðmundsson will be on exhibit at Kalamalka Vertigo until May 6th. These colourful paintings reflect the artist’s exuberant graffiti and mural work. Originally from Iceland, the artist currently has a studio outside Vernon. He is also a popular instructor at Gallery Vertigo’s SMARTIES, a family art-making program that runs from 2 to 4 pm every Sunday at the gallery. Sindri’s work can also be viewed at “Kush Organics” where a large wall mural is in progress. Since the crazy 80´s so many things have happened. I was one of those hyperactive kids, but instead of being medicated, my Grandma had other solutions. She would just keep me busy with all kinds of different things. So, as child, I took piano lessons, practiced soccer, basketball, badminton, chess and track and field, along with writing and acting in school plays and other cultural events. In my late teen years I started a crew with some of my friends and made hip hop mix tapes and graffiti. It was called T. M. C. or Twisted Minds Crew. By then I had started working in a coffee shop in Iceland called “Prikid”. In English that means “The Stick”. This coffee shop is the oldest coffee shop in Iceland, established in 1951. It is very dear to me, as it has been a second home for Icelandic artists since the 50´s. There, you can come at eight o´clock in the morning and have breakfast and join in on the city gossip or philosophical discussions. At night, it changes into a bar and on weekends it is a really popular popular hip hop/indy/electro club with the occasional live performance. It was a great place and still is. I started working there when I was 18 and continued until I moved away from Iceland at 23 years old. In those five years along with my job I would organize small concerts, do all kinds of different art projects, started a nightlife guide, and founded the first free newspaper just for girls called “Ordlaust” with four friends. I always knew I needed to travel a lot, which is hard when you live in Iceland because, as you probably know, it´s an island in the middle of the Atlantic! And the plane tickets are not that cheap. So, I finally figured it out. I found a job in Norway on a cruise ship which sailed between Norway and Denmark. It was great! I worked for two weeks a month on board and then I used my other 2 weeks for travelling. I had a little place on board the ship where I could paint (by then I had already started selling my work in Iceland). Most of the work made in Norway is still in Norway on the walls of my co-workers houses. I always had a new order when I came on board again and some extra pocket money. After 2 years of sailing and travelling, I had kind of fallen for Copenhagen. It´s such a beautiful city! But, I moved back to Iceland and started working at my little coffee shop again. But, after two years of travelling, I kind of felt that Reykjavik was a little small for me. My girlfriend at that time was an exchange student from Paris, France. After her year was finished in Iceland, I went with her to Paris and spent almost a year there. I was so lucky to be able to get this wonderful apartment on the hill just under the Sacred Heart (that is one of the most beautiful places in Paris). I started painting graffiti again in Paris, as well enjoying the city of arts on my long board looking for wood panels from houses under construction to paint on and sell outside in the “area of the masters”, where the painters lived in Paris during its many years of being the home of geniuses. After Paris I just really felt that I needed to live in Copenhagen. So that’s where I went. I started working as a backstage vegan and vegetarian cook in a concert house that hosted 70 % of all foreign bands that visit Copenhagen. I got to meet all kinds of different artists like Ac/Dc, Depeche, Mode, Moby, Air, The Mars Volta , and Hank Williams the III. I had two exhibitions while in Copenhagen. I came to Vernon in August 2010. My mom and my little brother had lived in the Okanagan for four years. I had visited a couple of times before and I found it to be a warm and welcoming place. I have never had time to start my education, and I have been alone and away from my family for so long. I figured I could hit two flies in one punch and so I chose a school here, close to my family. I have had one show here at Gallery Vertigo last November. I have also been having fun guiding the Vertigo art group for kids on Sundays called “Smarties”, as well as painting a big mural in a local store called “The Kush Organics”. So, if you like what you see here you can go there and see a giant-sized wall mural. This show is dedicated to my Grandmother, Ebba, who was the rock in my life. She moved to the next life last Christmas. She loved all animals, and inspired me to always paint beautiful things. She taught me how to love life and nature. Inspirations: Nature, spiritual guides, role models, forms, shapes, happiness, colours,music, psychedelic, beauty, feelings, imagination, love, vanity, molecules, space, infinity and galaxies…(Guðmundsson) |
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