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JOURNAL 53 MAY-AUG 2017 1315 Water Street, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9R3 t: 250-762-2226 f: 250-762-9875 www.kelownaartgallery.com HOURS: Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 5 pm Thursday 10 am to 9 pm FREE Sunday 1 to 4 pm Closed Monday & Holidays (see website for details) SUMMER HOURS: From the Director Open Mondays (July and August) 1-4 pm (excluding August 1). As we celebrate Canada’s 150 birthday this summer, along with the Kelowna Art Gallery’s fortieth anniversary, we look forward to ADMISSION: presenting a diverse range of exhibitions and educational programs Members: FREE to celebrate these important occasions. Just as our vast country is Individual (18-64): $5 redefining itself in relation to its diverse peoples, the Gallery has been Student (13-17 or with student ID): $4 Senior (65+): $4 busy exploring new ways to work with and engage our communities. Family: $10 Group of 10 people or more: $40 With the support of sponsors, Pushor Mitchell, and the City of Kelowna, Children under 12: FREE we are pleased to present A Legacy of Canadian Art, from July 1 to October 15, 2017. With the trust of eight prominent art collectors we have been able to secure loans of over 75 significant Canadian works of art for all to enjoy. The exhibition is guest curated by Roger Boulet and the Gallery will be publishing an accompanying catalogue illustrating the works in the exhibition. Behind the scenes we have been busy increasing the Gallery’s digital Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter! presence, and we are delighted to share the Gallery’s permanent kelownaartgallery.com collection online via our website. Check it out on Follow us on http://kelownaartgallery.pastperfectonline.com Finally, our curator Liz Wylie has retired after ten years of inspired creativity and service. On behalf of our Board of Directors (past and present), staff, and the wider community, I extend thanks and best Official wine and brewery partners wishes to her. For members who are regular attendees to the Gallery’s exhibition and events, we look forward to seeing you this summer/fall. Please tell family and friends who may not know about us to come for a visit and participate in art, and make 2017 the year they try something new! Cover image: Cornelius David Krieghoff (1815-1872) (attributed to), [Waterfall], 1846, oil on canvas, Wishing you all our best, 91.2 x 67.2 cm. Private collection. Nataley Nagy, Executive Director 1 David Alexander, Contrasted Day Drawing, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 57 x 80 in. Gift of the artist, 2016. Bryan Ryley, Circus Train, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 84 in. Gift of the artist, 2008. The Big Picture through to June 25, 2017 The Big Picture features a selection of large-scale works drawn from the permanent collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery. One hallmark aspect of modernist painting in the post-World War II era of the last century was its increasing size, sometimes referred to as heroic. The Kelowna Art Gallery owns several works of art by living artists that have been executed in large scale, and has pulled them out of the vaults for this exhibition. We thereby offer visitors the opportunity to consider scale, and what aspects change when an artist works in a large format. Fifteen pieces, some of which have never yet been exhibited, have been selected for inclusion. Other examples are old favourites, having entered the collection several years ago, and been shown previously. About half the artists with works in the exhibition are from the Okanagan and the remainder are from other regions of Canada. A folder-style, black-and-white catalogue has been produced to accompany the show, with each work reproduced, and a text by the Gallery’s Curator. Gary Pearson, The Toast, 2000-2, oil and etching ink on paper, adhered to canvas, 89 x 89 in. Gift of the artist, 2009. 2 3 Installation photo of Inheritance: Amy Malbeuf, curated by Cathy Mattes. Dylan Ranney, maquette and research renderings, 2017. Amy Malbeuf: Inheritance The Artist’s Garden Project Curated by Cathy Mattes Dylan Ranney: Refuge through to July 9, 2017 through to Spring 2018 The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting works by Amy Each spring when it is warm enough for planting, the Kelowna Art Malbeuf, who is a Métis visual artist from Rich Lake, Alberta. The Gallery launches our annual Artist’s Garden Project. This year we are exhibition, Inheritance, has been organized by independent curator working with local artist Dylan Ranney. Think back to your childhood Cathy Mattes, who is based in Sprucewoods, Manitoba. She is a Michif and if you were fortunate enough to grow up with any amount of curator, writer, and art history professor at Brandon University, in contact with the natural world – even if it was only an empty lot near Brandon, Manitoba. your home – you may have had the idea of creating a hide-out there. You perhaps used found materials to make yourself a secret refuge Mattes writes: “Amy Malbeuf incorporates passed-down ancestral from the world, where you could rest and dream, feeling a connection items such as trapping equipment and china to expose the cultural to nature, like a bear in its den. It is this sort of memory that is continuums that can be found within Michif (Metis) families. Ranney’s starting point for his garden installation titled Refuge. He Referencing beading and moose hair tufting, and using tarp as a plans to construct raised beds, with plants that grow low to the ground symbolic material of resistance and being on the land, Malbeuf further gradually giving way to those that are taller, as the visitor navigates navigates and resists constricting colonial dressings. Presented the space. Finally, people will reach a sort of pod structure, built from together in the context of this exhibition, her art is both gentle natural materials harvested locally, where they may wish to sit for a encouragement and reminder that nurturing revolution can be traced while. and located in family, community, and the artistic actions taking place in the larger Indigenous art world.” The show is accompanied by a web-based publication, which features Opening Reception a curatorial text, the curator’s and artist’s biographies, and installation Friday, June 23, 7 to 9 pm images. This is a free event, open to members and guests by invitation. 4 5 Myron Campbell, details of two of his six panels being produced. Nikki Middlemiss, Scaffolding for Minutiae, 2015, acrylic ink on tracing paper, 47½ x 17½ in. Satellite space at the Kelowna International Airport Nikki Middlemiss: Myron Campbell: Ghosts of Robert Lake Scaffolding for Minutiae May 8 to November 6, 2017 July 15 to September 24, 2017 Kelowna-based artist Myron Campbell has created six large-format This Montreal-based artist will be exhibiting labour-intensive works renderings of species – both real and imagined – of creatures that visit on paper that will float from the walls out into the viewers’ space. the Robert Lake site located near the UBCO campus where he teaches. They are subtle and tactile, and create an effect that is ethereal Each of these works has been created digitally and then output onto yet embodied. Middlemiss creates these works by carefully pouring recycled board for the installation of his commission. An eerie but and maneuvering wet media onto her sheets of tracing paper. She beautiful variegated green background in each one unites the works. continues this, using paint or ink thinned with water, which creates Some backgrounds have ghostings of high-rise buildings in place – a tracks and ridges along the surface of the sheet. This process is threat facing this area in the future? Some of the birds are the ruddy tricky and challenging, but one that she finds rewarding in its effects, duck (shown like a target in a midway, stuck onto a post), the avocet, despite its challenges. Her work can be seen in the context of labour- the red-winged blackbird, and a gryphon. A coyote lamenting his loss intensive, process-oriented art, which has its roots in the modern of habitat by a real estate sign also makes as appearance, as well as period in Minimalist art of the 1970s. There is no imagery in her work; one rendering of a human being: a white man in a suit, maybe meant the marks are generated directly from the process used to create as a “suit” surveying the landscape as if thinking of developing it. them. Yet, there is a calm and meditative mood produced in the exhibition. The works are titled Scaffolding for Minutiae, due to the Campbell was born in Calgary, and grew up in Weyburn, structure of a grid that gradually emerges from her process. This is an Saskatchewan. He has a diploma from the Medicine Hat College in exhibition that must be encountered in the real – reproductions cannot Alberta, and an MAA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design capture its surface and subtleties. in Vancouver. Since arriving in Kelowna to teach at the UBCO in 2014, Campbell has been active in organizing an ongoing series of Opening Reception community events called Draw by Night. Saturday, July 15, 1 to 3 pm This is a free event and open to the public. 6 7 Marmaduke Matthews (1837-1913), [panoramic scene], (detail), n.d., oil on canvas, 55.2 x 106.7 cm. James Edward Hervey MacDonald (1873-1932), Autumn Larch, 1926, oil on panel, 21.4 x 26.8 cm. Private collection.

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