Publications
David Alexander, Moving Targets: In Flux
David Alexander, currently a Lake Country Okanagan-based landscape artist, has earned national and international acclaim for his work. His exhibition titled Moving Targets: In Flux consists of four distinct bodies of paintings produced between 1994 and 2010. This selection of his works offers the viewer an insight into the process of his image development. The exhibition features several large-scale paintings and drawings that exemplify Alexander’s iconic, painterly approach to landscape painting. Included in the exhibition are a number of small-scale drawings and paintings produced directly at various sites in Canada that include the High Arctic, Newfoundland, the Canadian Rockies, and British Columbia.
David Alexander: Moving Targets: In Flux - $20.00
Scott Bertram: Unfixed
Scott Bertram is an Okanagan-born artist, and a former graduate from the BFA program at the UBC Okanagan. He is a recent graduate with a master’s degree in visual arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. Bertram’s exhibition of abstract paintings consists of selections from two bodies of work that are concerned with the questions of representation and abstraction. His approach to painting is reciprocal and combines strategies of a controlled process in the paint delivery while allowing the ‘chance and accident’ to occur. The finished painting compositions are open-ended for interpretation by the viewers and their meaning is inherently ‘unfixed’.
Scott Bertram: Unfixed - $1.00
Glenn Clark: In Search of the Picturesque
Glenn Clark, a Penticton-based artist, will present a selection of paintings from an ongoing investigation of the BC landscape in the exhibition titled In the Search of the Picturesque. The main concept of this exhibition is focused on Clark’s two distinct approaches to landscape representation. He will present highly realistic landscape renderings realized in four large paintings produced in his studio. These large paintings in the exhibition will be complemented by a display of numerous small-scale paintings produced alla prima directly on various sites throughout BC. Glenn Clark: In Search of the Picturesque Price: $2
Jim Kalnin: One Planet
Jim Kalnin’s exhibition of paintings on paper and canvas in the Vernon Public Art Gallery documents several themes underlying his art production which are reflected in most of his artistic practice. Kalnin’s work has been focused on concepts that address the issues of coexistence of people and natural environments. Yet, in addition to the physical environmental concerns on both local and global levels, the works in the exhibition also capture many of Kalnin’s philosophical, ontological and spiritual concepts, convictions, beliefs and attitudes. The exhibition, with all the references to nature, planet, and humanity together with the non-linear, multi-levelled and open-ended possiblw narratives, is an expression of Kalnin’s contemplation of humanity’s responsibilities arising in the age of globalization.
Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens: Horse & Sparrow
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, currently Montreal and Vancouver-based Canadian artists, have been producing collaborative works since 2002. Their practice is focused on synthesising modes of expression that combine linguistic, scientific and visual forms of representation. The analysis of various models and theories allows them to bring together seemingly non-related variables that result in propositions and commentaries on the human condition. Ibghy and Lemmens’ current research maps out the possibilities for a better understanding of economic discourse, theories, and systems and their impact on human behaviour. The central point of their recent collaborative work is to comment on recent geo-political and economic changes in Canada and worldwide. Publication: Horse and Sparrow: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens Price $18.50
Scott Bertram is an Okanagan-born artist, and a former graduate from the BFA program at the UBC Okanagan. He is a recent graduate with a master’s degree in visual arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. Bertram’s exhibition of abstract paintings consists of selections from two bodies of work that are concerned with the questions of representation and abstraction. His approach to painting is reciprocal and combines strategies of a controlled process in the paint delivery while allowing the ‘chance and accident’ to occur. The finished painting compositions are open-ended for interpretation by the viewers and their meaning is inherently ‘unfixed’.
Scott Bertram: Unfixed - $1.00
Glenn Clark: In Search of the Picturesque
Glenn Clark, a Penticton-based artist, will present a selection of paintings from an ongoing investigation of the BC landscape in the exhibition titled In the Search of the Picturesque. The main concept of this exhibition is focused on Clark’s two distinct approaches to landscape representation. He will present highly realistic landscape renderings realized in four large paintings produced in his studio. These large paintings in the exhibition will be complemented by a display of numerous small-scale paintings produced alla prima directly on various sites throughout BC. Glenn Clark: In Search of the Picturesque Price: $2
Jim Kalnin: One Planet
Jim Kalnin’s exhibition of paintings on paper and canvas in the Vernon Public Art Gallery documents several themes underlying his art production which are reflected in most of his artistic practice. Kalnin’s work has been focused on concepts that address the issues of coexistence of people and natural environments. Yet, in addition to the physical environmental concerns on both local and global levels, the works in the exhibition also capture many of Kalnin’s philosophical, ontological and spiritual concepts, convictions, beliefs and attitudes. The exhibition, with all the references to nature, planet, and humanity together with the non-linear, multi-levelled and open-ended possiblw narratives, is an expression of Kalnin’s contemplation of humanity’s responsibilities arising in the age of globalization.
Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens: Horse & Sparrow
Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens, currently Montreal and Vancouver-based Canadian artists, have been producing collaborative works since 2002. Their practice is focused on synthesising modes of expression that combine linguistic, scientific and visual forms of representation. The analysis of various models and theories allows them to bring together seemingly non-related variables that result in propositions and commentaries on the human condition. Ibghy and Lemmens’ current research maps out the possibilities for a better understanding of economic discourse, theories, and systems and their impact on human behaviour. The central point of their recent collaborative work is to comment on recent geo-political and economic changes in Canada and worldwide. Publication: Horse and Sparrow: Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens Price $18.50
Jim Kalnin’s exhibition of paintings on paper and canvas in the Vernon Public Art Gallery documents several themes underlying his art production which are reflected in most of his artistic practice. Kalnin’s work has been focused on concepts that address the issues of coexistence of people and natural environments. Yet, in addition to the physical environmental concerns on both local and global levels, the works in the exhibition also capture many of Kalnin’s philosophical, ontological and spiritual concepts, convictions, beliefs and attitudes. The exhibition, with all the references to nature, planet, and humanity together with the non-linear, multi-levelled and open-ended possiblw narratives, is an expression of Kalnin’s contemplation of humanity’s responsibilities arising in the age of globalization.
Dick Averns: Ambivalence Blvd
Dick Averns’ publication documents his exhibition in the Vernon Public Art Gallery consisting of several video works and a suite of photo-based diptychs. Sites at which Averns promenaded with the manufactured street sign, Ambivalence Blvd, include Parliament Square, Downing Street, Buckingham Palace, the US Embassy and the National Gallery in the United Kingdom. In Canada, Averns’ performances have included venues such as the Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive, the Houses of Parliament, the National Gallery of Canada, the US Embassy, World Exchange Plaza, and the new Canadian War Museum.Contributors to the book includeLubos Culen, Curator of the Vernon Public Art Gallery and Dorothy Barenscott, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History and Theory, Trent University. Publication: Dick Averns: Ambivalence Blvd Price: $18.50
Wanda Lock: Pitching Tents
The exhibition of the Kelowna-based artist Wanda Lock, in the Vernon Public Art Gallery, consisted of paintings and large-scale mixed-media works on paper. As readers can glean from Lock’s artist statement, the meaning encapsulated in her work is ambiguous and in constant flux. Despite the ambiguity, there are some visual implications of human presence/absence, - the artist references landscape and ‘tenting’ – perhaps an allusion to the favourite activity of many Canadian families. Most of the work in the exhibition features some text, although sometimes there is only a graphic notation that can be interpreted as text-like, but without any particular articulation in a language structure. Publication: Wanda Lock: Pitching Tents Price: N/A
Okanagan Print Triennial: National Exhibition of Prints
The production of the exhibition began in the spring of 2008, with a call for submissions to artists residing in Canada. Original works in all traditional printmaking media (intaglio, relief, screen print, and lithography) were eligible. Digital and three-dimensional works were also eligible but had to incorporate at least one traditional hand-pulled process. The intent of collaboration between the Vernon Public Art Gallery, the Kelowna Art Gallery, and the UBC-O, is to establish a new tradition in the Okanagan realised in the triennial exhibitions of prints with national and later, international, participation.The publication includescontributions from Vernon Public Art Gallery's curator, Lubos Culen, Kelowna Art Gallery's curator, Liz Wylie, UBC Okanagan's Associate Professor and Visual Arts Coordinator, Briar Craig and UBC Okanagan's Associate Professor Department of Critical Studies, Carolyn MacHardy. Publication: Okanagan Print Triennial: National Exhibition of Prints Price: $25.00
This publication documents the exhibitionof the first Okanagan Print Triennial - a national exhibition of printmaking. Produced by the Vernon Public Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Department of Creative Studies, FCCS at the UBC Okanagan, the first Okanagan Print Triennial is an exhibition featuring the best and most innovative prints being made by artists working across Canada.
OPTBrochure: National Exhibition of Prints
A smaller documentation of the first Okanagan Print Triennial which includes essays from Vernon Public Art Gallery's curator, Lubos Culen, Kelowna Art Gallery's curator, Liz Wylie, UBC Okanagan's Associate Professor and Visual Arts Coordinator, Briar Craig and UBC Okanagan's Associate Professor Department of Critical Studies, Carolyn MacHardy. Publication: Okanagan Print Triennial Brochure: National Exhibition of Prints Price: N/A
Ian Johnston
Refuse Culture: Archaelogy of Consumption
Ian Johnston'sexhibitionfocuses on addressing the issues of global culture and its challenges, specifically the degradation of the environment and the detritus left behind from consumer culture. Johnston examines what he calls “distorted relationships” that people of different cultures maintain towards the environment. His artwork is also an exploration of traditional and contemporary concepts of industrial and artistic production focused on combining industrial processes in actual ceramics factories and hand-building techniques in the artist’s studio. The individual components in the exhibition were developed and produced during Johnston’s residencies in Jingdezhen, China, and Philadelphia, USA, in 2007, followed by residency in Guldagergaard, Denmark, and the artist’s studio in Nelson BC, in 2008. Publication: Ian Johnston: Refuse Culture Price: N/A
Barbara Marchand: SYILX
Barbara Marchand: SYILXcatalogues a sculptural installation consisting of several shallow bas-relief wall hangings and a free-standing sculpture, complemented by a documentary video on her artistic profile, produced by CHBC in 2007. Marchand’s intent in this body of artwork is, as she points out, “…to portray visually how traditional stories and language connect, overlap, and remind us of our responsibility to take care of the land.” Publication: Barbara Marchand: SYILX Price: $18.00
Leonhard Epp: Gotta Have It
The publication titled Gotta Have It by Leonhard Epp reviews the installation of expressionistic figurative ceramic sculpture.In his artwork, Epp explores notions and dichotomies of physicality of attraction, repulsion, beauty and ugliness. The artist presents conceptually the contradictory tendencies of human behaviour framed within the scope of mass-media appeal of what is considered desirable. Epp works in an expressionistic mode of delivery marked by a distortion of accepted forms, and he knowingly creates scenarios that enhance the ‘here and now’ aspect of an individual’s experience. Publication: Leonhard Epp: Gotta Have It Price: $18.00
Maria Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante: Quiet Anger
This short catalogueaddresses concerns dealing with the environmental, social and political issues. In her artwork, the artist questions the inequality and dominance of the underprivileged in contemporary societies. De Bustamante notonly ‘documents’ the desire of ordinary people for social justice, but she also questions the political practices of governing bodies. Born in Argentina, De Bustamante is a Vernon-based artist with extensive studio practice advancing fibre-based art and ceramic sculpture in which she combines traditional elements with contemporary sculptural sensibility. Publication: Maria Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante: Quiet Anger Price: N/A
Shawn Serfas: Borderlands
This publication comments on the artist's abstract paintings inspired by the artist’s experience of landscape combined with an understanding of immediate and remote earth environments. Publication: Shawn Serfas: Borderlands Price: $20.00
Bryan Ryley: Saltus
This is a documentation of Bryan Ryley and his focus on contemporary painting theory and practice with emphasis on systemic abstraction, creative processes and the examination of autonomous language in painting. In Saltus, Bryan Ryley addresses issues of representation and contemporary approaches to abstraction in painting.
Publication:Bryan Ryley: SaltusPrice: $18.50
Publication:Bryan Ryley: SaltusPrice: $18.50
Jude Clark: There's Something in the Air
Thisis a catalogue of abstract mixed-media paintings produced by Jude Clarke. There's Something in the Air concludes the project that this Vernon-based artist started to develop in 1999, consisting of literary non-fiction and a visual art exhibition. The project started with writing and consequent publication titled "The Language of Water" in 2002. "The Language of Water" has received critical attention in Canada, England and the USA. This is a beautifully written story about how a young artist learns to live with the chronic disease, Lupus. It is also an incredible love story, a moving study of the way one family learns to support itself in new ways, and a story about how some struggles bring you into a joy that you might never have found otherwise.
Briar Craig: That Way and This
That Way and This documents a multi-media text-based installation in which Briar Craig addresses the issues of representation, the possibilities of transmission of multiple meaning, and the creation of new content by setting the stage for the viewers to interact. The subject matter is based within the context of popularculture and overwhelming presence of mass media. Craig’s process of creating images is anchored in contemporary printmaking. He further incorporates sculptural elements, digital video projection, interactive text-based tableau,and large-scale screen prints. Publication:Briar Craig: That Way and This Price: $19.95
Ann Kipling: Recent Landscape DrawingsThe exhibition in the Vernon Public Art Gallery titled Recent Landscape Drawings consisted of a selection of work produced by Ann Kipling in the last four years, with an inclusion of four works from 1997 that were seminal in setting the direction of her recent landscape exploration. Kipling’s use of different drawing media – ink, graphite, coloured and charcoal pencil, and aquarelle pencil on paper – naturally result in different visual codification of images, and yet there is a compelling similarity in all these works. Despite the dense deposits of drawing materials, the works retain a sense of openness and often communicate the mood of an environment on a particular day. Kipling emphasises the specificity of site and time in her on-going landscape exploration, and even after numerous drawing of the same subject, her landscape ‘forms’ are not generalised, but are always carefully observed. Consequently, the number of drawings accumulated over a period of time has a diary-like quality, and this fact is captured in titles that are limited to stating the dates on which the particular pieces were created.
Publication: Ann Kipling: Recent Landscape Drawings Price: $18.50
