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The Vertigo Chronicle - Friday, November 23, 2007.
Dear Friends and Artists:
Gallery Vertigo is pleased to present these great new exhibitions! On December 15th we will conclude our fifth year of exhibitions and events. The gallery will close for the season and will reopen with an exciting slate of exhibitions in January of 2008. The North Okanagan Artists Alternative thanks you for your continued support. You make Gallery Vertigo the success that it is! Please come down and enjoy the fruits of our success.
Attention all Volunteers and Donors! Today, (Friday, November 23rd) we celebrate our wonderful volunteers from 2 to 4pm. If you have helped the gallery in some way, this invitation includes you. Come down and enjoy an afternoon in your honour....for all you do!
Please note that I have included all Vernon submissions in the vertigo Chronicle this month. The Chronicle is normally a cross section of what is happening at various non-profit/artist-run institutions throughout the area. Due to the large volume of submissions, I do not usually include submissions from commercial venues. In the spirit of the season, however, I have tried to acommodate everyone this time. So many great artists, so many great venues in our region!
Exhibitions run from November 20 to December 15th - Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 4pm daily.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 24th at 7pm - Meet the artists. Enjoy hot mulled cider and wine, holiday goodies. Live music by Gary Badke.
Downtown Light-Up: Friday, November 30th - 5 to 9pm - Come in from the cold and have a hot drink!
Open House - Saturday, December 8th from 11am to 4pm - Join us for all manner of holiday treats and fun. Bring the whole family. Surprise entertainment!
Silent Auction Ends: December 15th @ 1pm
Gallery Reopens - Tuesday. January 8th @ 11am
In Gallery One: Picasso's Cupboard
Picasso's Cupboard, a silent auction and exhibition, is a month long event starting Tuesday, November 20th at Gallery Vertigo.This event raises funds in support of exhibitions and programming at the gallery. gallery One is filled with all kinds of unique treasures, both precious and funky. Once again an array of quirky, beautiful and useful objects have transformed Gallery Vertigo into a virtual grandmother’s attic.This will mark the North Okanagan Artists Alternative’s second annual Picasso’s Cupboard. It is an event the gallery hopes to repeat every year. The exhibition and silent auction has something for everyone and it happens just in time for holiday gift-giving. Even Pablo would approve!
Some of the items which have been donated this year include silver and silver plate dishes, brass fireplace tools, art deco glass, African carved animals, a microscope, a complete porcelain coffee service from Germany, Persian prints, a Hummel figure, Dutch petit point hanging, a musical clock, original art works, wedgewood trinket box, handknits, a silk kimono, antique kid gloves, vintage hats, handwoven Greek tablecloth, framed watercolours and etching, Mexican mosaic mirror, hand thrown pots, silver flat ware, and numerous pieces of jewellery including a filgree brooch, 40's rhinestone set, silver ring and earrings. This is just a sampling of the many fine pieces and interesting finds that have landed in Picasso's Cupboard...you won't believe the loot!
Toonie Shelf
Check out our toonie shelf as well. You'll find many useful, beautiful and affordable items. Treat yourself or find a gift for that hard to suit person on your gift list. Cash and carry. Raid your piggy bank!
Join the Festivities
The gallery will be dressed up for the holidays and hot mulled cider, cookies and holiday music will be on every day during this event. In addition, an evening Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, November 24th @ 7pm to unveil this year's trove of treasures and to officially open this year's bidding. In addition, a special Open House with holiday goodies will be held on Saturday, December 8th from 11am to 4pm. We'll also be on hand for the downtown light-up from 5pm to 9pm on Friday, November 30th. Come on in and warm up with some hot mulled cider or hot chocolate. The whole family is welcome to attend all of these events as Gallery Vertigo puts on its festive best. It's a great place to enjoy a break from your holiday errands and offers a unique, stress free shopping experience.
How to Bid?
Bidding is easy. Just write your name, phone number and bid on the sheet provided next to the object(s) of your desire. Bid on as many items as you like and bid often. Bidding will conclude on December 15th at 1pm. Highest bidder wins!
Silent Auction and Closing Reception
Join us on Saturday, December 15th from 11am to 1pm to put in your last minute bids. Our closing reception will be a gala affair with live entertainmment at 12 noon. Refreshments and goodies will be served of course! The bidding gets fast and furious near the conclusion, so be sure to be there to make sure you win the pieces you want. At precisely 1pm the silent auction event will conclude and the winners may purchase and take home their treasures and gifts immediately.
In Gallery Two: An Even Dozen
Gallery Vertigo now boasts twelve artists in residence. View works by these hardworking and talented artists in Gallery Two this month. Works by Michael Anderson, Margarita Alejandre, Joan Levitt Badke, Howard Brown, Deborah Coughlin, Colleen Couves, Robyn Heenan, Judith Jurica, Susan MacRae, Justin Pasieka, Amber Powell and Joanne Pringle are featured. The meduims represented are as diverse as the artists themselves and include acrylic and oil painting, drawing, mixed media, digital prints, photographs and papier mache. The artists will be on hand at the opening reception to talk to visitors and to give guided tours of their studios.
The North Okanagan Artists Alternative Featured Members Wall:
New Member, Elizabeth Marshall of Kelowna will share her oils on canvas this month.
The Window Gallery:
This month features a beautiful display of handmade items made by the Women's Hospital Auxilliary as they gear up for their Annual Craft Fair at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital, Saturday, November 24th. These hardworking women raise money to buy all kinds of necessary and much-needed medical equipment for our local hospital. Please support them.
Vivian Merchant of Vernon is one of four authors of a chapter on “Laser Beam Welding, Cutting, and Associated Processes” in a just issued volume of the “Welding Handbook” published by the American Welding Society. The handbook describes laser beam welding, cutting, and drilling equipment and techniques. The new edition was released at the American Welding Show in Chicago on November 11th to the 14th. The other three authors are from an equipment supplier in the eastern United States and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories in New Mexico. The Welding Handbook is the oldest and best known source of technical information for the fabrication industry, and is found in many technical libraries. Dr. Merchant has also been a contributor to and on the Editorial Advisory Board of the “Handbook of Laser Materials Processing”, published by The Laser Institute of America. He was educated at the Clarence Fulton Secondary School in Vernon, received his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, and now resides in Vernon.
Current Exhibitions:
November 1 – December 22, 2007
The Vernon Public Art Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition of abstract mixed-media paintings produced by Jude Clarke. The exhibition There’s Something in the Air concludes the project that this Vernon-based artist started to develop in 1999. The project consisting of literary non-fiction and a visual art exhibition started with writing and consequent publication titled The Language of Water in 2002. The narrative(s) in the book give the readers a glimpse of Clarke’s life experiences living with a chronic condition that often dictated the course of her activities and, inevitably, her life. The Language of Water has received critical attention in Canada, England and the USA.
The annual Members’ Exhibition, smallMATTERS, expresses the Gallery’s commitment to its members providing them with an opportunity to produce and exhibit artwork with other artists in the community. In spite of the limited scale of the work, all participants create an intimate artwork enjoyed and appreciated by visitors. smallMATTERS is a popular annual tradition at the Gallery and, along with the expanded Giftshop selections, should not be missed.
Power Comes in a Form of a Circle is an exhibition of painted deer hide ceremonial drums. The Okanagan Nation artist David Wilson explores the mythical narratives of the Okanagan First Nation’s people. Based on the pictographs found on several sites in the Okanagan, the artist creates a re-interpretation of traditional stories.
The public can view the exhibition during the Gallery’s regular hours, Monday to Friday from 10 AM to 5 PM, and on Saturdays from 11 AM to 4 PM. For more information about the exhibition and the exhibition programming, contact the Vernon Public Art Gallery at 250.545.3173.
The winter selection of Art Rental artwork is now available to view at the Gallery. Artwork in all media, sizes and colours is available for a modest monthly fee of 4% of the artwork’s price.
Artists featured include: Louise Adams, Cindy Downey, Margaret Foster, Bev Gordon, Terri Heinrichs, Angelika Jaeger, Helen Kilsby, Lillian Krush, Evelyne MacMillan. Maria Maryniak, Ev McDougall, Marlene McPherson, Shirley Mikaelsen, Hanny Muggeridge, Destanne Norris, Tatianna O’Donnell, Mae Roberts, Eileen Sawracki, Gail Short, Catherine Wetmore, and Gary Whitley.
Vernon Public Art Gallery
3228-31st Avenue in Vernon
The Vernon Performing Arts Centre
The Coat Check Gallery: Now through December, 2007
The Coatcheck Gallery is open one hour before each show, and at intermission. Admission is limited to the patrons of thatevening's performance.
The show, Mélange, at the Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre, is a collection of some of the drawings and paintings done by artists over the past year by artists of the Okanagan Artists League.
The Okanagan Artists’ League is a group of artists residing in and around the city of Vernon, located in the beautiful Okanagan valley in central British Columbia, Canada. The area is devoted primarily to fruit growing, market gardens, ranching and tourism. Several large lakes, including Kalamalka Lake (which means "lake of many colours" in the Okanagan First Nation language) and the ninety mile long Okanagan Lake, provide marvelous scenery for tourists and artists alike. The Artists’ League, which began as the Vernon Art Association, established and ran the Topham-Brown Gallery before it became the Vernon Public Art Gallery. The Artists’ League is one of the oldest art associations in British Columbia and many of its alumni have become well known Canadian artists.
Old-Time Christmas displays and demonstrations will once again be featured in our Gallery. This year’s festivities will be during the weekend of the Christmas Light-Up; the dates and times are as follows: November 29, 5-9pm; November 30, 6-8pm; December 1, 6-8pm; December 2, 6-8pm. Admission is free (donations welcome). Also be on the lookout for our table display at the Chamber's Community Christmas event at the fairgrounds.
Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art's 5th Annual Wearable Art Gala
Call for Submissions
The Alternator Gallery’s 5th Annual Wearable Art Gala is happening again this coming spring 2008. This fun and funky adult event is not a fashion show in the traditional sense - it's an artistic exploration of all types of body adornment.
Last year’s event was an overwhelming success with 50 participating artists presenting their creative works to the event's largest audience to date. At the Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Arts, we know successful events are dependent on community participation, and the Wearable Arty Gala is no different.
We are currently accepting submissions for our 2008 show. If you have an interesting idea of design art you can wear, simply download an entry form for the gallery web site: www.alternatorgallery.com. Simply follow the instructions on the entry form making sure entries include drawings and/or photos or your submission along with a brief description of your project.
There are no entry fees, however you must be a gallery member. If you are interested in participating in this year’s event and are not a gallery member, don’t worry. A $25.00 membership fee (or $15.00 for students/seniors) can be enclosed with your entry form. Wearable art submissions can be returned, just include an SASE with your entry form.
Accepted submissions will be showcased at the Alternator Gallery’s 2008 Wearable Art Gala.
Deadline for submissions: Saturday Dec. 8, 2007.
For more information contact: Jennifer Pickering , Director,
The Kelowna Art Gallery
The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to present Nexus: Histories and Communities, an exhibition of works from the permanent collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery in celebration of the gallery’s thirtieth anniversary.
This show will draw on the depth and variety of the art collection that began in Kelowna in 1977, and was the kernel and initial essence of the future gallery. The shared history that has unfolded since then has involved many players and enthusiasts over the years, and the collection has been shaped by various engaged individuals.
Conceived as several clusters of works of art that have been grouped under loosely defined themes, the exhibition will also underscore the various developments and changes in artistic attitude and practice over the decades within each working area. Some of these themes will be: depictions of and around the orchard industry, developments in abstraction, work in the graphic media of drawing and printmaking, and shifts in art-making in the areas of sculpture and installation. Both historical and contemporary pieces will be included.
Judith Jurica
(250)503-2297
Exhibition announcements from member artists, arts info or opportunities may be emailed to: judithjurica@shaw.ca for possible inclusion in the Vertigo Chronicle.
— Maya Angelou
