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The Vertigo Chronicle
Thursday February 21, 2008
Dear Friends and Artists:
Come and see the new exhibitions at Gallery Vertigo this month!
Drawing Conclusions:
UBC Okanagan Student Exhibition
Exhibition Run: February 12th to March 8, 2008.
Closing Reception: March 8th from 7pm to 9pm
Everyone is welcome to join the artists for an evening of live music and complimentary refreshments.
In Galleries One and Two
Gallery Vertigo is pleased to present this selection of drawings which were produced by students enrolled in the Creative Studies Program at UBC Okanagan. We wish to thank the Creative Studies Faculty for encouraging their students in this endeavour, in particular, Jim Tanner and Johann Feught, Associate Professors. Thank you for allowing us this rare glimpse into the creative process in its many variations. We applaud the involvement of the students in presenting this exhibition. Their enthusiasm is as inspiring as the work itself. Gallery Vertigo, the North Okanagan Artists Alternative and the North Okanagan community welcome the opportunity to view this diverse and compelling exhibition. (Judith Jurica)
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan, Love Minus Zero/No Limit, 1965
Since the earliest artists traced impressions in the sand or outlined animals and figures on cave walls, drawing has been used to capture experience and to formulate imaginary worlds. There have been advances in the technology of drawing, and contemporary artists have at their disposal a wide selection of tools and media, but drawing still provides a sense of tactility and immediacy that prehistoric artists would recognize. The artists of this exhibition continue to enjoy and exploit the sensual appeal, the directness, and the communicative power of this ancient art form.
The drawings in this exhibition are very diverse, ranging from figure study, expressionistic portraiture, investigation of human relationships, exploration of the natural world, celebration of pop culture, photorealistic representation, surrealistic fantasy, and experimentation with pure form. Some drawings feature text. Others test the boundary between drawing and painting. Still others incorporate three-dimensional elements. Surely the capacity of this art form to accommodate so many different modes of expression must be a factor in its remarkable endurance.
Despite the title of the exhibition, one has the feeling that the conclusions reached in these drawings are tentative and will be subject to change as these artists grow and develop their artistic voice. The advantage of drawing is that the means are near at hand, little preparation is necessary, and artists can quickly launch into new pieces to continue their search for new conclusions.
(Jim Tanner)
Also enjoy these continuing exhibitions @ Gallery Vertigo:
Featured Members Wall - prints by Deborah Coughlin
Window Gallery - drawings by Michael Anderson
We welcome proposals for these two spaces on an ongoing basis.
NOAA Meeting Sunday Afternoon, February 24th - 2pm
At the top of the agenda is to begin planning for the fall open members show. We are considering a positive environmental theme for the show and in conjunction with it possibly two evenings of music and readings in keeping with the theme. This is a timely topic and a great way to involve Vertigo in the community. Looking forward to lots of great ideas on the 24th.
Howard Brown, President, NOAA
Gallery Vertigo
Call For Exhibition Proposals:
Gallery Vertigo is now accepting Exhibition Proposals for the 2009 exhibition season. Full details available at the gallery. Local artists and artist groups are encouraged to apply.
Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2008.
Call to Artists:
The Sixth Annual NOAA Members Juried Exhibition
(For NOAA Members Only, But New Members are Always Welcome!)
Deadline for Submissions:
Saturday, March 15, 4pm
Gallery Vertigo announces this year's NOAA Members' Juried Exhibition.
This exhibition is designed to celebrate the exciting and varied artistic richness of the Okanagan community and as such is not a themed exhibition. We simply want to see what artists, writers and performers consider to be their best and most recent work. Full Details available at Gallery Vertigo.
"Every artist should be an exhibitionist."
(Egbert Oudendag, 1914-1998)
Please call the gallery for info:
(250)503-2297
Vertigo Voices Continues...
Thanks to Sean Johnson and Alix Hawley who delivered a really exciting evening of readings last night at Gallery Vertigo....the best yet!
UP NEXT:
Kal Press Launches Book of Short Stories by Virginia Dansereau
Monday, February 25 - 7:30pm - Okanagan College Lecture Theatre
On Monday, Feb. 25, Okanagan College's Kalamalka Press will release "Undertow", a book of short stories by Virginia Dansereau. She and the Vernon Speech and Drama students will present excerpts from the stories at 7:30 PM in the lecture theatre at Okanagan College.
Dansereau is an award-winning author who has captured firsts, thirds and honourary mentions in Canadian and English competitions. She has published poetry and fiction in "Grain," "Other Voices," "Fireweed," "Room of One's Own," and "Harvest." "Undertow" is her first collection of short stories.
The stories take place in local cities and towns, the prairies, and exotic locales Dansereau has visited. They delve into topics of the human condition, such as friendship put to the test, death and grief, alcoholism, illness and the relationships of adult and child. Her characters hit depths which provide new perceptions that are often mystical.
Dansereau has been working in the field of writing for twenty years, attending creative writing courses conducted by John Lent, Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane and Edna Alford. She managed Kalamalka Press for ten years overseeing the publication and marketing of five Kalamalka New Writers Series poetry books. She is currently co-ordinating the "Roving Reader" program which provides oral readers to senior citizens in group homes.
More Vertigo Voices to come...
Wednesday, March 5, 7:30pm
Susan Lent and John Lent (re=prising their 1965 folk-duo performances) and new poems by John Lent (gee...who the hell IS this guy and what the hell does he WANT???)
Wednesday, March 26th, 7:30pm
Gary Geddes reading from his new, stunning long poem, FALSEWORK.
Those are the Vertigo evenings. More up at the College...we are having a public reading of The Ecstasy Of Rita Joe, having Shane Koyczan do one of his pub nights, and having Winnipeg songwriter Ben Sures perform a concert---all up at the Kal Centre of Okanagan College. More details to follow on those.
Come Share a Story...
Storytelling Circle at Gallery Vertigo
Wednesday - March 12
Doors open @ 7pm. Storytelling starts @ 7:30pm
Coffee and goodies provided.
Admission by donation.
To commemorate World Storytelling Day the public is invited to attend a storytelling circle at Gallery Vertigo on March 12th at 7:30pm.
Started in Sweden in 1991 World Storytelling Day has grown into a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling.
“A storytelling circle is such a great way to share and enjoy stories,” says Gabriel Newman, the organizer of the event. Creator of Ghost Tours of Vernon Newman has also told stories with Christine Pilgrim in “A Pilgrim and a Pirate” as well as told comedic personal stories however he states that this event is not just for professional storytellers. “It is for anyone who has a story to tell or simply enjoys a good story.”
“The storytelling circle is incredibly simple,” says Newman, “Whoever shows up is welcome to tell a story, or to just listen, or both. There is no stage or podium. Storytellers can stay in their seat unless they prefer to stand. The only rules are that you can not read anything, stories have to be told from memory and that you should be respectful as far as length and content goes. Otherwise anything goes.”
In a way Newman is trying to replicate the kitchen table when friends and family would get together and share stories, whether they be legends or about family history.
“There are similar events, sometimes called story swaps or exchanges, going on all around the country. It is a great way to hear stories and share stories and I thought it was long overdue in the Okanagan,” states Newman
Admission to the Storytelling Circle is by donation. For more information contact Gabriel Newman at 260-8757.
The Caravan Farm Theatre First Annual Spring Fair
CALL TO ARTISTS:
Juried Artist and Craftsperson Show andSale
May 10th 2008, from 10am-5pm
A day of simple pleasures in the pastoral landscape of Armstrong. The central events for the day will be the Horse Drawn Ploughs and Seeders that will work the fields and the Art Fair & Sale, a selection of the areas finest artists, some offering demonstrations and on-site work. At least three scheduled Musical Performers through the day, Horse & Wagon Rides, good food, games and other activities are still in the planning.
The venue will be in a covered area, and power is available.
Please contact Sean at Caravan Farm Theatre 250-546-8533.
Vernon Community Arts Council
First Annual Anonymous Art Show and Sale
Deadline for Submissions is November 21, 2008.
For details please contact the Vernon Arts Centre at 542-6243
or Cassandra Bardell at 549-2164
Vernon Performing Arts Centre
WHOSE GRANDMA ARE YOU?
Repeat screening @ Vernon Performing Arts Centre
- Wednesday February 27th. Sharon MacKenzie's grade 6 class go to
Coldstream Meadows retirement complex for two entire months, with
astonishing results. Heart warming film by Jim Elderton (recent winner of
the Okanagan Arts Award for Media Arts, director of "Sveva, Prisoner of
Vernon"). Show starts with "Journey to Casa Guatemala": 20 Charles Bloom students
volunteer at an orphanage. Tickets from Ticket Seller, 549-7469.
Vernon Public Art Gallery
February 27th is the last day to view Ted Hiebert: Incidental Self-Portraits. February 29th is the last day to view Ila Crawford: Matrixial Encounters.
The giftshop renovation is complete. Come and check out our new look!
Mark your calendar on March 6, 5 - 8 pm for the opening reception of Shawn Serfas: Borderlands - Imagining the Immaterial, danielle helen ray dickson: generational censorship, and David and Jorden Doody: Tales Untold. Music at the opening will be provided by Daryl O'Neil. To read more about Daryl and hear his gritty and soulful sound go to his website at http://www.darylectones.com/home.html.
New Exhibit at the Gallery Beginning Saturday, February 23, visit the new exhibit in the Community Gallery called In Traümen by Teagan Campbell and Alexa Reardon, grade 12 students from Seaton.
New Videoscape Films Available The Vernon Film Society recently added 60 new films to the Videoscape collection and they are now available to rent. Video rentals are $2 per video for seven days or $5 for three videos for 7 days. Go to http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pNu3GNUvilnvmaqjsFa98NQ&gid=0 to view a list of all the Videoscape films.
Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art
Call for Submissions for 2009/10 Exhibition Year
Deadline: April 15, 2008.
Send to:
Alternator c/o Programming Committee - 103 - 421 Cawston Avenue - Kelowna, BC V1Y 6Z1
Call the Gallery for Details:
(250)868-2298
*Tickets on Sale Now for Alternator Gallery’s
5th Annual Wearable Art Gala on March 29, 2008 *
The Wearable Art Gala
The WEARABLE ART GALA presented by the Alternator Gallery is back at the
Rotary Centre for the Arts this year with the fifth edition of a growing
phenomenon. Each year the audience is bigger and the party is better.
Join us March 29, 2008 at 7 PM. Tickets are $45 ($32 for students with
valid ID) available at the Rotary Centre for the Arts Ticketmaster box
office or by calling 717-5304.
Exhibition by NOAA Member Hanny Kooyman in Salmon Arm
The art of Hanny Kooyman is coming back to Salmon Arm from February 21 - March 1st.
It will be as exciting and reflective as her last show two years ago, "Community of Music" which exhibited in the Salmon Arm Art Gallery. Her new series of oils and pastel entitled,
"Playing with Myth", will hang in First United Church, Okanagan Avenue across from Fletcher Park.
Hanny has a lifetime of experience in the art world. When she emigrated to Canada with her husband, Cees, and two children, she hung her paintings in their coffee shop in Armstrong and sold every piece she painted. Patrons responded enthusiastically to Hanny's drawings and paintings of the area's familiar countryside. She laughingly wishes she had some of her earlier works and commissions but each painting bought new shoes or winter coats in this new homeland.
Art tells us what is deeply among us. Hanny's latest series enables each viewer and culture to find the interconnectedness among us all. "The purpose of myth is to rise above the elements set by science and reasoning." (Joseph Campbell) When we connect with nature, we begin to understand what the quality of life means and what effect a world of respect, love and caring could have on all humanity.
You are invited to come, to view, to discuss, and to respond in the writing folder at the exhibit. It will be definitely worth your while. (excerpt from the Salmon Arm Observer)
Church open: Mon.-Fri, Sunday 9-12AM
Saturday with the artist: March 1st, 10 AM - 4 PM
Classes Offered by NOAA Member Cherie Hanson
The following classes are limited enrollment at the Rotary Centre for the Arts in Kelowna. Contact phone Cherie Hanson 763-4269
March 13th 6 to 8 pm room 205
How to take and select images: Photographic Arts. $45 a person. Class size limited to 6 ( five places left)
March 20th 6 to 8 pm room 205
Starting with You: How to get the best out of your jpg digital images. $45 a person. Class size limited to 4.
Bring a CD with one or two of your jpg digital photographs 8 by 10 inches at 200 dpi.
March 27th 6 to 8 pm room 205
From Dull to Delightful: bringing your jpg digital images to a new level. Class size limited to 4.
Bring a CD with one or two of your jpg digital photographs 8 by 10 inches at 200 dpi.
Arnica Artist Run Centre (Kamloops)
Come Draw On Our Walls
Comic and manga drawings on Arnica’s Walls!
Curated by Craig Willms
Continues through Tuesday March 4.
Arnica Artist Run Centre
232 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC
View comic and manga drawings by local artists interested in this
form of representation. Artists range from students of Juniper
teacher Susan Hallett’s grade 5 class to a Vancouver Film school
animation graduate.
Viewers are also encouraged to add a few panels to a continuing
collaborative narrative for the duration of the exhibition.
Arnica Artist Run Centre
Supporting emerging contemporary art
Hours:
Thursdays 12:00 – 9:00 PM
Fridays 12:00 -2:00 PM
Saturdays 10:00 – 4:00 PM
Tuesday March 4, 3:00 – 8:00 PM
REEL ROOTz Indigenous Media Art Exhibition 2008
February 8 to April 13, 2008
PENTICTON, BC – The Ullus Collective is pleased to announce ‘REEL ROOTz Indigenous Media Arts Exhibition 2008 ’, an exhibition and series of artist talks highlighting the strength and diversity of film and video works by Indigenous filmmakers across Canada.
REEL ROOTz: Indigenous Media Arts Exhibition 2008 has been brought together by the Indigenous Arts Service Organization in partnership with the Okanagan Producers Collective, known as the Ullus Collective. The Ullus Collective supports the training and development of Aboriginal video and visual artists and provides a forum for voicing stories, issues and concerns that are not addressed by current mainstream media.
To complement this year’s film series, the Rotary Centre for the Arts Courtyard features Shaping of a Place, a site-specific group installation by En’owkin Center students from the National Aboriginal Professional Artist Training Program (NAPAT). Curated by Geraldine Manossa M.A, this dynamic ensemble brings together cultural philosophies of Syilx (Okanagan) artists. Students were given the task to observe how a community shapes a geographical environment, and now are challenged by the reverse concept to explore how art objects are affected by a defined space. In this case, physical and environmental conditions including wind, snow, rain, and sunlight all play important social and physiological roles.
REEL ROOTz 2008 will continue with Venues and a line-up showcasing the innovative talent of first nations films in the works of Lisa Jackson,( Anishinaabe), Chris Bose, (N’laka’pamux), Lorne Olson, (Cree), Jordan Wheeler, (Cree), Mariel Belanger,(Syilx) Aimee Lezard, (Syilx), Chief Judy Wilson, (Secwepemc) Burton Amos, Hailsa, Jeff Bear, (Maliseet), Tracey Jack, (Syilx), Terrene Derek, (Gitxsan).
FOR Film LINE-UP contact Festival Coordinator, Tracey Jack tjack@vip.net (250)770-0124
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.
Check out our fabulous website : www.galleryvertigo.com
Vertigo Chronicle Editor:
Judith Jurica
(250)503-2297
judithjurica@shaw.ca
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