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Newsletter
Archives
March 19/07
February 22/07
January 15/07
October 18/06
September 6/06
April 23/06
June 4 /2007
Dear Friends and Artists:
Hello! I'm glad to be back from a long vacation and I am gradually finding my way back into a routine at Gallery Vertigo. Please bear with me if anything gets overlooked as I'm finding it to be a difficult transition. I want to take this opportunity to thank the many volunteers who carried the torch while I was away. I must tell you that they did a wonderful job and even enjoyed taking a more active role in the day to day running of the gallery. If you would be interested in getting more involved (and we could really use your help), please give me a call on Tuesdays or Fridays at 503-2297 or, better yet, drop in to talk to me about the many volunteer opportunties that are available.
Judith
New Exhibitions at Gallery Vertigo
Exhibition Run: May 29 to June 23
Closing Reception: Saturday, June 23, 7pm
Artist Talk - Ila Crawford - Thursday, June 14th @ 7pm
Gallery One - Ila Crawford - Flesh nor Meat
Ila Crawford is currently pursuing her Masters Degree at UBC Okanagan. In this series of ultra violet screen prints she is expanding
on ideas that have intrigued her for a number of years.
The artist describes her work as being a continuous dialogue between opposing ideas such as the oppressor and the oppressed, the victim and
the perpetrator, the male and the female, and the victim versus the willing participant. Crawford expands the idea of dialogue between images and ideas to include
the notion that different pieces within the exhibition actually inform each other through interaction of meanings in a sort of 'conversation'.
Inherited meanings implicit in the imagery serve to illuminate characterizations of women in Medieval times. Contemporary issues concerning women also play a role in Crawford's investigation as do unintentional meanings as they surface in Crawford's work to create an interplay that will further intrigue the viewer.
Join Ila Crawford on Thursday, June 14th @ 7pm for an artist talk.
Gallery Two - Tanya Dubick - All Our Ancestors
In the exhibition of stitched paper and collaged garments, Tanya Dubick employs items of clothing to signify her memories and her ancestors. The intricate and delicate coats resonate with the suggestions of those who have gone before. Black and white photographs stitched into the clothing further suggest this invisible presence. A visual history is subtly unfolds as the artist investigates her own past while at the same time inviting the viewer to consider his or her own personal connections to the past and the ways in which these memories inform our lives.
The North Okanagan Artist's Alternative
Featured Members Wall - Kevin Michael Witzke
This month features a large mixed media work on canvas created by North Okanagan Artists Alternative Member Kevin Witzke. Witzke is a recent graduate of UBC Okanagan and this piece is part of a series called Prophet Dream.
The Window Gallery - Catherine Wetmore
Coming Soon....watch for it......
NOAA Member Catherine Wetmore will be presenting her Okanagan Sky paintings for your enjoyment in the window on the street.
Studios Available
We have a couple of studios available at Gallery Vertigo immediately. Twenty-four hour access. These rent for just $75.00 per month. The exposure for your work and the friends that you make are priceless! Come in for complete details. Art Students are welcome!
Checked us out lately? New artists continue to be featured on our site. You can do it too. (Writers and musicians included) Just $20.00 per year. Go look!
Coming to Gallery Vertigo:
Ghost Tours of Vernon
Monday, June 18 @ 8pm
Slide Show and Talk
Hosted by Gabriel Newman
with Presenter Michael Newman
Ghost Tours of Vernon has chosen World Neighbours Canada Society as the recipient for its annual fundraising tour on June 18th.
Every year the first tour of the new season (both in fall and summer) is held as a fundraiser for a charity. In the past money has been raised for Mara House, Vernon Museum, Caetani House, Vernon Food Bank and the NONA Treehouse Project. For anyone who wants more information on World Neighbours Canada there will be a 20 minute slide show and talk at 8:00pm at Gallery Vertigo on June 18th. “Anyone who attends the talk will be given a free ticket to that evening’s performance at 9:00pm.
The talk will be presented by Mr. Michael Newman. Mr. Newman has been a director of World Neighbours Canada since its founding. His area of interest is the Honduran programs which he has visited on numerous occasions. He will be presenting a short slide show on the most recent project begun a year ago in six remote villages in the mountains near the Nicaraguan border. Many of these villagers are dependent on coffee growing and live in a continual debt cycle to the regional coffee buyers. Interest in the program is very high with 344 of 369 families agreeing to participate in the health, coffee growing and co-op/credit groups.
Contact:
Mr. Gabriel David Sumegi Newman the 2nd,
Paranormal Expert, Entrepreneur, and Purveyor of Medicinal Remedies
250-260-8757 or ghosttours@shaw.ca
Armstrong Spallumcheen Art Gallery
The Armstrong Spallumcheen Art Gallery presents
Painting with Friends: Works by our Paint with Friends group
&
The Right Hat, the Wrong Size: A little man and a myth: photographs by Keith Richards.
Exhibitions run from May 31 to June 23
Visit the Art Gallery Monday through Saturday, 10am to 4pm.
3415 Pleasant Valley Road or phone 546-8318 for more information.
Vernon Performing Arts Centre - THE COATCHECK GALLERY
The current exhibition now through May features Awakening the Spiritpresented by Mental Illness Family Support and Information Centre and Canadian Mental Health Association. This non-juried exhibition celebrates the creativity of individuals living with mental health issues.
North Okanagan Artists Alternative Recently Featured at the VPAC - Visual artists from the North Okanagan Artists Alternative presented their works on May 19th at the Piano Extravaganza concert. Artists Angelika Jaeger, Colleen Couves, and Margarita Alejandre displayed their work in the foyer of the Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre on the evening of the show.
Vernon Public Art Gallery
Tuesday, June 5, Art Break Curator's Talk, 12:10 pm.
Lubos Culen discusses the current exhibition in relation to tendencies in contemporary art.
Regular Gallery Hours are Monday - Friday 10 am - 5 pm and Saturday 11 am - 4 pm
Phone 545-3173 for more information.
Rental Accomodation Required for Artist
Local artist Vicki Joy Bailey (currently residing in Cherryville) is looking for reasonable accomodation in or close to Vernon starting in September 2007. One bedroom apartment or spacious bachelor suite would be suitable. Would also be open to sharing accomodation.
Please reply to: Vicki Joy Bailey bailey.vicki@gmail.com
Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art and Quebec City Gallery
In-Division, a cultural exchange exhibition featuring four Quebec City artists, opens Saturday, May 12, 2007 at the Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art.
The artists – Laurent Gagnon, Stéphanie Pelletier, Yannick Pouliot and Mathieu Valade – are members of L’‘il de Poisson, an artist-run centre in Quebec City.
That gallery recently exhibited the work of four members of the Alternator Gallery – Renay Egami, an Assistant Professor at UBC Okanagan, and recent Bachelor of Fine Arts graduates Danielle Dickson, Randy Grskovic and Becky Parisotto.
This is the Alternator’s fifth exhibition exchange with a Quebec gallery since it was established in 1989 as a non-profit artist-run centre that offers an alternative to public and commercial galleries in the Okanagan.
“This exchange project is an important opportunity for Okanagan artists to expose their work to a broader national audience,” says Portia Priegert, director of the Alternator. “But it is also a good chance for our community to learn more about contemporary art practices in another part of the country and to consider the dialogues that emerge.”
The Quebec artists, all graduates of Laval University, are united thematically by a concern with multiples and optical divisions in installations that picture institutional, social and cultural spaces. Their work situates variations within systems of advertisement, architecture and conventional thought as powerful disruptions within otherwise rigid patterns.
Gagnon recycles fragments of forsaken objects as a testimony to bygone functionality, while Pelletier uses humor to question the usefulness of ordinary things.
Pouliot routes nostalgic styles in architecture and design away from their usual interpretations and Valade refers to daily life with a range of geometric volumes integrated into specific environments.
The exhibition continues to June 23. The Alternator, located in the Rotary Centre for the Arts at 421 Cawston Ave., is open from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Admission is by donation.
For information, contact the Alternator at (250) 868-2298 or e-mail info@alternatorgallery.com.
Rotary Centre for the Arts
Thursday Art Crawl Presented by the Rotary Center for the Arts Resident Artists
First Thursday Themed Art Crawl
June 7th 6 pm until 8pm
For fun and to find gifts of art, attend on the evening of June 7th when the artists will be dressed as their true selves. Come and tour the studios to see new work and demonstrations. Each First Thursday Artists @ Work will host a new theme
June 7, The Real You... each artist/studio resident presents a vision of self to intrigue the public
July 5, Countries of the World...each artist/studio resident creates an ambiance of a particular country.
Okanagan Heritage Museum
We Are Métis
Public Gand Opening - Saturday, June 13th - 11am to 2pm
Kelowna, BC- The Okanagan Heritage Museum is pleased to present We Are Métis, a new exhibition opening on June 21. We Are Métis presents the story of the Métis nation through the visual arts, fine crafts, and music of the Métis people and features the work of local Métis artist Dennis Weber. Explore the rich history of one of Canada’s aboriginal people and discover the origins and history of this distinct nation. The Public Grand Opening is on Saturday, June 23 from 11:00am to 2:00pm at the Okanagan Heritage Museum, 470 Queensway Ave. There will be an Artist’s Talk with Dennis Weber on the art of the Métis and what it means to be Métis, as well as hands-on children’s activities. All are welcome to attend and admission is by donation. Please call (250) 763-2417 for more information.
Opening on National Aboriginal Day, June 21, We Are Métis looks at the fascinating stories of Métis figures, such as Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont, and focuses on Métis culture in both a national and local context. The first Métis were the direct descendants of Aboriginal people and European immigrants - many were of French ancestry from French immigrants who arrived in North America in the 1700s to participate in the fur trade. The Métis Nation's homeland is based on the traditional territory upon which the Métis people have historically lived and relied upon. This territory roughly includes parts of British Columbia, Ontario, and the Northwest Territories, as well as the prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
“The Métis came to the Thompson/Okanagan region around 1810-1811 and established families in the area. They were indispensable members of the fur trade,” comments Gayle Liman, curator of the exhibition, “but by the 1860s they became largely invisible with the demise of the fur trade in Canada. However, they continued as a community in and around Kamloops.” There are just over 44,000 Métis in BC according to the Métis Nation BC, and almost 400,000 Métis in Canada.
We Are Métis runs from June 21 through to December 6, 2007. Guided group visits are available on request by calling (250) 868-4836.
The Okanagan Heritage Museum is a facility of the Kelowna Museums, a non-profit and charitable society dedicated to a greater awareness of the agricultural, wine-producing, military, and cultural heritages of the Okanagan. The Okanagan Heritage Museum is located at 470 Queensway Avenue, corner of Ellis and Queensway in Kelowna’s Cultural District. Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday 10am-4pm. Admission is by donation.
Kelowna Museums - 763-2417 events@kelownamuseums.ca
Call for Artist Projects for 30th Anniversary of FUSE MAgazine
FUSE magazine is pleased to announce an open call for artist projects to be included in our 30th anniversary issue, on newsstands Fall 2007.
Our 30th anniversary issue is devoted to assessing the state of our present, those intersections that we feel are critically in need of
address at this moment in history--indigeneity, occupation and settler states; security and war; status and migration; the politics of identity;
the workings of institutions; and social and economic precarity. The issue will consist of a series of conversations about these themes amongst
artists, activists, community organizers and academics internationally and from across the country.
We are soliciting artists to create work in any medium that would be suitable for reproduction as a poster and that speaks to one or multiple
themes listed above. Artist projects will be printed and displayed at the launch event in October, 2007. Limited edition posters will be printed of
each artist project to be sold by FUSE as part of our fundraising drive, with 50 copies delivered to the artist along with an artist fee of $150.
Technical information: Each poster will be printed at 11 inches wide x 17 inches high. Artists whose submissions are approved will be asked to
supply files as press-ready pdf files for a 4/0 colour printing process.100 lb paper stock will be used with matte text and a varnish finish.
Submissions Guidelines: Poster submissions should be completed or nearly completed and address one of key areas mentioned above.
By Canada Post:
please send a full-scale colour print of your poster and your curriculum vitae to:
FUSE Posters
454 - 401 Richmond St West
Toronto ON M5V 3A8 Canada
By Email:
please send a 72 dpi jpeg of your design scaled no larger than 398
x 612 pixels and your curriculum vitae to <info@fusemagazine.org>
NOTE: More Calls to Artists are posted on the NOAA Bulletin Board at Gallery Vertigo. Many opportunties for artists and writers to read about.
SNAP Gallery
‘Sacra Privata: Works on Paper by Blair Brennan’
Exhibition Duration: June 7 – July 21, 2007
“‘Sacra Privata’ was the term given by the Romans to the private religious rites of a household, family or tribe”. - Robin Skelton, The Practice of Witchcraft
SNAP artist, Blair Brennan’s ‘Sacra Privata’ is a body of drawings started in 1998 and continuing to the present. This body of drawings form a sort of diary of a difficult time in Brennan’s life - “a memoir of disintegration” to use the words of American artist David Wojnarowicz - but they are also a record of recovery and reconstruction after disintegration. Much of Brennan’s ‘Sacra Privata’ is motivated by secret thoughts and private experience, some trite and banal, some complex and glorious, but all of it obsessively (at time desperately) recorded. The secret things are the most difficult for both the diarist/artist and the reader/viewer. Perhaps, for this reason, the investigation according to Brennan, is more rewarding.
The implicit secrecy of diary-type projects brings an additional complication to the question “What is this work about?”. Both literary and visual diaries are the result of a kind of compulsion. The artist’s urge to record (in some form) is so overpowering and the desperation to “get it on paper” so conspicuous, that one may justifiably ask if the work is even intended for a viewer to decipher. Like much autobiographical work, a visual diary can transform private experience in a manner that is relevant for both author and viewer.” (Blair Brennan)
‘RAGE SALE’
Saturday July 21, 2007 (times to be announced)
‘Rage Sale’ is a unique SNAP fundraising project in conjunction with artist Blair Brennan’s solo exhibition ‘Sacra Privata’. The artist Blair Brennan has generously offered that 100% of the money raised from sales of the art work from ‘Sacra Privata’ will go to SNAP to enhance future exhibition and education programming etc. SNAP would like to thank Blair for his generous actions.
SNAP(Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists)
10309-97 St.
Edmonton, AB T5J 0M1
Ph. 780-423-1492
F: 780-426-1177
E: snap@snapartists.com
In 1883, Vincent van Gogh wrote:
"I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir."
Gallery Vertigo is a non-profit artist-run centre founded in 2002. The centre operates under the auspices of the North Okanagan Artist's 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.
Media Contact:
Judith Jurica
(250) 503-2297
judithjurica@galleryvertigo.com
Gallery Vertigo
#1-3001-31st Street
Vernon, BC V1T 5H8
(250)503-2297
info@galleryvertigo.com
www.galleryvertigo.com
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday - 11am to 4pm
