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Vertigo Chronicle January 15, 2007

Dear Friends and Artists;

BUGS
School District 22
High School Student Art Exhibition
Tuesday, January 16 to Saturday, February 3
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 20th at 7pm to 9pm
Join us for refreshments and entertainment by the students.
BUGS, presents a selection of pieces from the fine arts students of Vernon’s secondary schools. Gallery Vertigo is extremely pleased to host this exhibition, the second annual exhibit of up and coming artists. Not only is this a show of student work, it will be installed by the students themselves and many of the decisions and duties related to the exhibition will be carried out by the students with the guidance of their teachers. The result is a very professional presentation combined with a great learning opportunity. This exhibition is sure to brighten up your Winter.
The exhibition features work created by students of Clarence Bloom Secondary, Fulton Secondary, Kalamalka Secondary School, Seaton Secondary, and Vernon Secondary Schools. Many different approaches and techniques are represented and submissions include 2-D, 3-D and mixed media works of art as well as musical and literary performances on opening night. The result is a glimpse of the issues, passions, and talents that are budding and burning in local youth culture.
A huge thank you is due to our local high school art teachers for their cheerful participation. A considerable effort is required to plan and organize an exhibition involving this many artists and pieces and the teachers do a splendid job of pulling it all together. Ultimately, however, it is the artists whose enthusiasm makes this exhibition both a successful and an inspirational one each year. As evidenced by the excellent work in this show, the future looks bright for the arts here in Vernon!

Also Happening in January at Gallery Vertigo:
Open Mike Night                                                                                                                                   
Presented by The Pine Beetle Review

Saturday,27th January                                                                                                          
This is your chance to shine...Doors open at 7pm, starts at 7:30pm
Admission by donation. Suggested donation is $5.00
Coffee and goodies.

Vertigo Voices
Vertigo Voices Concert
Presented by Okanagan College
Ken Hamm
Wednesday January 31, 2007
Doors open at 7pm
Starts at 7:30pm
Tickets are $20 at the Bean Scene or at the door
Gallery Vertigo, #1 upstairs, 3001 – 31 St. Vernon BC

  

Have you looked at us lately?
Go to www.galleryvertigo.com . We've come a long way thanks to webmaster Colleen Couves. Several artists are currently featured. Find out how you and your art can be added to our website. Full details on the site.
We are thrilled to welcome three writers to our midst: Howard Brown, Devon Muhlert, and Lorna Tureski. The New Year promises to be filled with creative energy as we expand to accommodate more and more artists.

Studio for Rent:
Thanks to some reshuffling of our available space, we have managed to open up one more studio for rent. Please call Judith @ 503-2297 if you are interested in joining our team.

The Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre
The Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre is thrilled to announce they are the winners of Best Live Theatre Venue for the Thompson Okanagan Region by the Off-Centre 4th Annual Readers’ Choice Awards.

The Vernon Public Art Gallery

New Exhibitions: January 11 to March 3, 2007

A Survey of BC Printmaking
Andrea Toth: Memories of Place
Katie Brennan: Persuasive Lining

A Survey of BC Printmaking is a traveling exhibition organized by the Burnaby Art Gallery from its permanent collection. It brings together works of 25 artists working in British Columbia. The exhibition features a cross-section of printmaking media that ranges from traditional to experimental, and the artwork includes linocut, woodcut, wood engraving, lithography, intaglio (etching) and serigraphy prints. This exhibition is sponsored by Vernon Toyota.

This exhibition features artwork by following artists: Sybil Andrews, Gillian Armitage, Patricia Martin Bates, Alistair Bell, Samuel Black, Doug Biden, Robert Davidson, Wayne Eastcott, Ron Eckert, Robert Evermon, Jamie Evrard, Paul Goranson, Susan Gransby, Torrie Groening, Robyn Hughes, Joan Martin, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Toni Onley, Ken Pattern, Marianna Schmidt, Arnold Shives, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, Bob Steele, and Robert Young.

Memories of Place is a body of paintings from Andrea Toth’s inaugural MFA exhibition that addresses the issues of landscape representation. While the images were conceived from the study of the physicality of the natural environment and its elements, the resulting execution becomes abstracted and the surface manipulation employs controlled delivery of paint of varying viscosities. Andrea Toth has recently finished her MFA studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. This exhibit is proudly sponsored by Pinnacle Landscaping.

Katie Brennan’s paintings in Persuasive Lining address the relationship between pictorial forms and their capacity to transmit meaning. The images are based on the exploration of the visual and sensory relationships of formal pictorial elements. Brennan is Vernon-born artist based in Vancouver. After receiving a Diploma in Fine Arts from Okanagan University College, Brennan completed her BFA at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design where she currently works.  This exhibition is sponsored by off-centre magazine.

Beginning January 23, there will be a series of talks looking at the changing role of artists and secular subject matter from the Renaissance to Contemporary Art during the weekly Art Break Sessions on Tuesday at 12:10 pm. For more information phone 545-3173.

UBC-Okanagan
Art On the Line
 
Who will be among the lucky 110 people to purchase tickets to this year's Art On the Line gala fund-raiser for UBC Okanagan's visual arts programs?
 
Each $150 ticket to the February 3 gala evening admits up to two people and entitles the ticket holder to take home one original, juried art piece, and enjoy appetizers and live entertainment. For those who would like to attend the event without a ticket, there will be a $5 charge at the door (starting at 6 p.m.).

Organized by UBC Okanagan's Visual Arts Course Union and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, proceeds benefit both the year-end Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduating Exhibition and the field trip to New York during reading break in February. Ten per cent of the funds raised this year will be given to a local charity.
Art On the Line features juried works by students, works by noted local artists and Creative Studies professors, and alumni of the Visual Arts program.
 
This year, Art On the Line will be held at Habitat, 248 Leon Ave., Kelowna, on Saturday, February 3. Artwork viewing will take place at 5 p.m. and the selection will begin at 7 p.m. sharp. Live entertainment, door prizes, appetizers and refreshments served.
 
Only 110 tickets will be sold, however, some tickets are still available. For more info, call Linda Falkingham at 250-807-9761.

FINA Gallery - UBC-Okanagan
Gender Identity Art Exhibited at Fina Gallery Jan. 8 to 17

The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan presents an art exhibition by UBC Okanagan Interdisciplinary Master of Fine Arts degree candidate Susan Brandoli. The exhibition is open to the public, and will take place at the Fina Gallery in the Fine Arts and Health Building from January 8 to 17, 2007. The gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday.
 
In this multidisciplinary exhibition, symbolic references to the body are shown in relation to various aspects of gender identity. By collapsing concepts of identity into a fusion of textual productions and readings, the artist points to the complex and ambiguous connection between the salience of physical sensation, and the formative inflections of language, in the production of meaning.
 
For further information please contact Associate Professor Gary Pearson at 250.807.9775, or Susan Brandoli at 250.308.1906.

SAGA Public Art Gallery

SAGA Public Art Gallery is pleased to present "Shuswap Artists," a showing of the newest work by our local artists. Over fifty artists will be participating in this exhibition, which opens Friday, January 19 at 7pm. Opening night will feature live music by the Solsquas, excellent local food and wine and an opportunity to meet many of the artists in the exhibition. There is no admission fee for opening nights, just an invitation to come and enjoy the many talents of artists who reside in the Shuswap.

Admission to the gallery is free, and SAGA is wheelchair accessible. For tours please call Tracey at 832-1170. SAGA is located in downtown Salmon Arm at 70 Hudson Avenue NE.

The Kelowna Art Gallery
The Department of Canadian Heritage has approved the designation Category "A" institution status for Canadian public museums and galleries for the Kelowna Art Gallery.
The Kelowna Art Gallery is now formally recognized for its ability to exhibit, collect, store and preserve all works of art entrusted to its care due to the designation of Category "A" status. "A" status enables the Gallery to apply on behalf of donors to the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board throughout the year to acquire new works of art for the Gallery's permanent collection.
The Gallery's application for "A" status has been an in-depth process over six years, which included site visits and inspections by the Canadian Conservation Institute. The Gallery achieved this status because of its high standard of museum practices, the preparation of an emergency preparedness manual, as well as addressing upgrades to the building and storage of the permanent collection.  

Greenboathouse Books

Greenboathouse Books is pleased to announce our latest release:
residual, a brief gathering of poems by Souvankham Thammavongsa.

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Residual follows Souvankham Thamavongsa's award-winning debut, Small Arguments (Pedlar, 2003). Thamavongsa's poems explore their subjects in startlingly meticulous ways: light, turtles, and ostriches are all described in finely chosen lines — originally composed on graph paper — that float across the page. Each object, each thing, described with a forensic precision. Hers is a poetry that approaches the world with the focus of an autopsy. There is both care and indifference here that few other poets have the ability to sense. The result is a quiet, seemingly unassuming, suite of haunted poems. Ordering details avalable on the Greenboathouse website.

Arnica Open Studio & Gallery

Shannon Byrnes ~ Entrapment/Escape
Opens January 13 @ 7pm and continues through February 10th

Through a multiplicity of methods and mediums - textiles, paintings, sculptures and hand-made dolls - TRU graduate and now Victoria based artist Shannon Byrnes looks to “Bluebird”, a folk tale with European origins, as a vehicle by which to explore contemporary feminist issues and concerns.  Entrapment/Escape marks the artist’s 1st solo show. 

Arnica Open Studio is a not-for-profit artist-run centre that supports emerging contemporary artists
Winter Hours: Fridays 12:00 to 2pm; Saturdays 10am to 4pm
232 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC (250)372-2444

Xchanges Gallery - Victoria
February 10 to February 25th
Carie Helm

Hello!
I wanted to let you know about my upcoming exhibition at Xchanges Gallery                                                                                                                                    in Victoria, February 10 - 25th. 
I hope that any of you that are in the area will be able to make it to the
opening.  Please send this on to anyone you know who lives in Victoria, it
would be great to see some friendly faces at the opening.
Thanks!!
Carie

"Colour is the fruit of life." (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Gallery Vertigo is a non-profit Artist Run Centre founded in 2002. The centre operates under the auspices of the North Okanagan Artists Alternative, a registered non-profit society. We are located upstairs at Suite #1, 3001 31st Street, downtown Vernon, in the historical Winnipeg Union Bank building across from Nolan's Drugs. Please use the side entrance under Krause Jeweller's awning. Hours of business are from 11:00am-4:00pm, Tuesday through Saturday. For information call Gallery Vertigo @ (250)503-2297 or email: info@galleryvertigo.com.

Vertigo Chronicle Editor:
Judith Jurica
(250)503-2297
judithjurica@shaw.ca

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