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Current
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Gallery #1 and Gallery #2 |
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We are excited to announce the new exhibition at Gallery Vertigo of UBC Okanagan third year Bachelor of Fine Arts photography. With support from the BC Spirit Festival, Arts Council of the North Okanagan and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus.
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 Nicole Ensing - Place Carnot |
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 Kathryn Newman-Renwick - Black Light Legends |
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 Emily Geen - Milk Splash Project |
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Whether the photographic images is mediated via a screen or seen through a viewfinder, almost everyone in contemporary Western society finds themselves behind the lens at least every so often, capturing memories and making sense of the world around them. This is an exceptional time for photography. Not only has it taken its rightful place amongst the upper echelons of the art world, but also, as accessible digital photography has grown in popularity with lighting speed, it has filled our lives with more images than ever before. The challenge I put to my students is how do they as artists, behind the lens, rise above the flood of images that make up our daily life? As so aptly noted in Hanss Lujan’s remarks, the interdisciplinary educational background afforded by a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC’s Okanagan Campus provides the students the starting point with not only a sound technical grounding but a conceptual basis for thinking about and creating meaningful conceptual content within their photographic art work. It has been my great pleasure to be able to facilitate this catalogue and exhibition at Gallery Vertigo and I hope that the experience will prove to be for many, one of the first in a long list of artistic achievements. Fern Helfand – Faculty |
The visual arts program at UBC Okanagan is a great learning adventure. Because of the department is small, the students have grown fond of each other and have become a strong-knit family. Together we have seen each other’s work develop and our individual aesthetics flourish. We are each other’s biggest fans. Since the program is interdisciplinary, it does not focus on a specific major. As a result we are allowed to dabble in all the other visual art media, performance, creative writing, as well as art history and general electives, choosing the subjects which best reflect the individual’s personal interests. All of these experiences influence and inform our photography. The faculty is constantly growing and providing us with the new, up-to-date equipment to explore: lights, digital cameras, tripods, computers and software to create professional work. The 24 hour access to the building provides us with unlimited time to spend editing in the Macintosh computer laboratories or countless nights developing film in the darkroom. The four years that we spend at UBC Okanagan are a great little nest where ware incubating our ides, our artistic lifestyle and our future. These are our current works, our current ideas behind the lens. Hanss Lujan – student |
NOAA Members Wall Gallery: |
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Button Blanket: Beverley Mitchell |
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Beverly Mitchell is an Ojibway artist from North Bay Ontario, now residing in Vernon. Her piece, “Button Blanket” is her own interpretation of a traditional West Coast design. Artist Statement: I have been sewing with leather for 30 years, as a clothing designer, making regalia, biking leather, and western wear. Most recently I have been working on coastal designs, sweet grass hat designs. I have taught in the school system teaching beadwork, leather crafts, tipi making, medicine bags, and rug braiding. I enjoy working with many different mediums. (Mitchell) |
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| Kalamalka Vertigo at Okanagan College: Destanne Norris: Selected Works from the Embodied Pool Series |
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Selected works from artist, Destanne Norris’, Embodied Pool Series will be on exhibit at Kalamalka Vertigo from January 11 to February 25th. These paintings were completed as part of the phase she refers to as, Inscape, during her Master of Fine Art research project. A passion for natural environments and the elements, especially mountains and water, are the source of my artistic inspiration. Landscape and place, metaphor and symbol, embodiment and Romanticism are my research interests. An overarching theme in my landscape painting is the mirroring of ‘inscape’ and ‘landscape’.
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KALAMALKA VERTIGO |
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Proposals: Please print a copy of our form and send
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