Gallery #1 and Gallery #2
Architecture Digress: UBC Okanagan students

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. (Philip Johnson)

Curatorial Statement:
This show is dedicated to everything permanent, linear, repetitive and solid.
Architecture is the greatest example of how art can be influenced by the linear, how seemingly restrictive mathematics can actually expand our imaginations three dimensionally. As humans we have the capacity to build our dreams in a literal way, everything from roads to robots. By constructing permanent forms, we claim possession over them, the land on which they are built, and the miscellaneous kept inside; we find comfort in creation and ownership.
Where does our longing for ownership come from?
Perhaps we find peace knowing that our rooms, our homes, our streets, our cities will remain once we have died... Or perhaps we’re just greedy.
Nevertheless, it is time to honor the roofs that keep us dry and the spaces that keep us sane (or insane). This show is an ode to permanent expression- our architecture and our design.(Britney Bachmann)

UBC Okanagan Fine Arts student curator, Britney Bachman, presents Architectural Digress. The exhibition presents a collection of work by UBC Okanagan students Cory Dixon, Nicole Dowhaniuk, Teryn Danforth, Catherine de Montreuil, Stephen Scott, Samuel Smith, Lizzy June and Karin Kraemer.

NOAA Members Wall Gallery

Artist Biography:
Born 1969 on the Island of Fehmarn/Germany, Barbara Harder-Lutz did not immediately become an artist. As is traditional in rural German communities she started her professional life with an apprenticeship as a pastry chef.
It was rather her move to the U.S.A in 1993 that enabled her to establish her career as an artist. She was encouraged to do so by the people she met and by other artists she encountered in Princeton, NJ and New York City.
Unable to afford the tuition at the art schools, Barbara attended classes as a guest student and honed her skills as a painter in that manner.
Receiving scholarship awards at the Chicago Art Institute and at the Moore School Philadelphia gave further evidence of the artist's talent and motivation in the visual arts. With luck and determination she was able to open a studio in the garment district of New York City.
During the years in the megalopolis of New York Barbara has had various exhibitions in her studio, in galleries and showrooms as well as smaller venues.
New York City offered the artist a wide selection of opportunities as an emerging artist. Manhatten offered the artist a creative challenge. 
Upon her return to Hamburg, the artist continued to dip into different experiences, now meeting Germany as a confident artist. Returning to Europe after living in the U.S for almost ten years proved quite an experience, positive and negative.
After a time-out on the Island of Fehmarn, which lasted more than a year, she decided to leave Europe behind for good and move to the Okanagan Valley to make a home for herself.
I am making my debut in the Vernon Art Community by exhibiting a few sketches of bathers on the beaches of the Baltic Sea, Fehmarn, most of them done in 2008 and 2009.
Incidently this theme, „The Bathers“ (die Badenden) is quite established with some of the biggest names in the modernist art world from the turn of the century.
At the turn of the century and shortly after the human body in the arts was a challenge to the audience and not necessarily taken with benevolence by it.
As is common in Germany when going to the beach, people are much more at ease with their bodies than in contemporary North America. So, if any of the visitors should feel somewhat uncomfortable around these sketches, I
may remind the audience that different cultures do have different sensibilties in that matter. And especially in Scandinavia and Germany the human body is something natural and not
seen as offending.
Barbara Harder-Lutz

Vertigo Window Gallery:
Recent Work: Helen Valk

Artist Statement:

I enjoy the randomness of painting. I admire disciplined abstract works like the paintings of Wilhem de Kooning. Someday maybe I will be more serene and produce more art. Meanwhile it’s fun and sometimes my kids or grandkids will ask for one - now that’s sweet.

The Okanagan is beautiful and inspiring. I am an untrained artist and love to just let my paintings evolve with no planning. Having worked most of my life in the clerical field it is now great to be free and express myself this way. Colour and shapes in an unstructured whimsical and composition reflect my personality and sense of freedom.

I find it is better for me not to get too much advice or direction or to try to copy another artist’s style and just be myself.

About the Artist:

Helen Valk has lived in Toronto, Montreal and in many other cities across the country as well as overseas. Vernon is the artist’s home now and she has been a resident for the past 8 years. Valk enjoys the climate and scenery of the Okanagan Valley and participates in skiing and other outdoor activities. She is an active volunteer at Gallery Vertigo and exhibits her work regularly at the gallery. Her vivid and lively abstract oils on canvas are remarkably fearless and fresh.

Contact the Artist:
helenvalk@shaw.ca

Corporeal Fancies - mixed media drawings by Tia McLennan

Kalamalka Vertigo presents these sensitively-executed,  biomorphically-inspired drawings produced while the artist was completing her BFA at the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design. 

About Tia McLennan
Originally from Vancouver and Vancouver Island, Tia McLennan has been studying and producing art for the past 15 years. From 1998-2000 she attended Capilano College University, where she completed a diploma in fine arts as well as attending the Art Institute program in printmaking in 2002-03. She completed her BFA in interdisciplinary studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in 2005. She is currently attending UBC Okanagan, working on an interdisciplinary MFA in the areas of creative writing, visual arts and multi media.

KALAMALKA VERTIGO
All are invited to view the works at Kalamalka Vertigo, located at Vernon's Kalamalka Campus of Okanagan College. The gallery is located just past the college lecture theatre in the main building adjacent to the college office.
"Kalamalka Vertigo" , located at the Kalamalka campus of Okanagan College, represents a joint venture between Gallery Vertigo and Okanagan College. This is the newest incarnation of the ongoing partnership between the two institutions. 

Exhibition Proposals: Please print a copy of our form and send it off to us with the information requested.
A selection committee reviews proposals once a year, usually in the spring.
Contact us for more information.
info@galleryvertigo.com
proposal form and information for exhibitions in gallery #1 and gallery #2
members wall application
window display

Previous Exhibitions:
2010:
School District 22: Incognito - Jan.12 to Feb.5
2009:
Headshots, Wheeltown: Noel Bullock - Oct.15 to Nov.7
Philomena Caroll, Margarita Alejandre, Sookinshoot - Sep.10 to Oct.3
Almost Famous Auction - August 22
Microbial Tales - Arthur Desmarteax and Allison Moore - July 2 to July 25th
Pfannschmidt, Newell and Mace - May 26 to June 23
Heidi Thompson and Stephan Bircher - Apr.21 to May 15
Lucky Number 7: NOAA juried exhibition - Mar.17 to Apr. 9
Social Spectrum: A Group Exhibition by UBC Okanagan Photograpy Students - Feb.10 to Mar.7
Fusion: Fourth Annual High School Exhibition - Jan 13 to Feb 17
2008:
Picasso's Cupboard/ Book Fair - Nov.25 to Dec.13th
not with a Bang, but with and SUV - The 7th Annual NOAA Members Open Exhibition - Oct.7 to Nov.1
the coming night - Jorden and David Doody / Typoportraits - kevin mcpherson eckhoff
Almost Famous Auction - August 17
Ten - Studio Artists - Current Work - July 29 to August 9 / Joanne Sale-Hook:Introduced Species - July 29 to August 17
Katie Brennan - Stasis Strategy / Floribunda - June 23 to July 19
Space (re)Constructed - Miranda Aschenbrenner / Memory/Recall - Suzanne Phillips - May 27 to June 21
March to May - Faith Moosang/Candies - Sabrina Ovesen
Sixth Annual NOAA Members Juried Exhibition - March 18 to April 12
Drawing Conclusions - UBC Okanagan Student Exhibition - Feb.12 to March8
The Wheel: School District #22 High School Students - Jan.15 to Feb.2
2007:
Picasso's Cupboard and Even Dozen
Mellow Yellow - The 6th Annual NOAA Members Open Exhibition - Oct.16 to Nov.10
Look What we Have Done.. Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante / Mutation - Howard Brown - September 11 to October 5
Almost Famous - Ken Jeanotte - August 7 to August 24
Zotz Collective - Kurt Hutterli - July 3 to July 28
Flesh nor Meat - Ila Crawford /All our Ancestors - Tanya Dubick - May 29 to June 23
Spectacles of Intimacy - curated by Lora Carroll - April 24 to May 18
Green - The Fifth Annual NOAA members juried exhibition - March 20 to April 14
Pressing Engagements - UBC Okanagan Printmaking Students - Feb.13 to March 16
Bugs - School District #22 High School Students - Jan.16 to Feb.3
2006:
Picasso's Cupboard, Studio Artists - Nov.21 to Dec.9
Fall Forward - Oct.21 to Nov.10
Helm, Seward, Began - Sept.8 to Oct.6