JOURNAL 45 SEPT-DEC 2014 1315 Water Street, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9R3 t: 250.762.2226 f: 250.762.9875 www.kelownaartgallery.com

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Left to right: Lindsey Farr, Liz Wylie, Joshua Desnoyers, Brenda Feist, Renée Burgess, Clea Haugo, Nataley Nagy, Tanya Nahachewsky, Kyle L. Poirier.

ADMISSION: Members: FREE Executive Director’s Message Individual (18-64): $5 Student (13-17 or with student ID): $4 Senior (65+): $4 The Kelowna Art Gallery’s Board of Directors and staff are working Family: $10 diligently to realize the Gallery’s mission. As you can see from the Group of 10 people or more: $40 Children under 12: FREE upcoming exhibitions, public programs, art classes, workshops and events, we are hard at work looking to present as many opportunities as possible for people to engage in the visual arts. Engaging people, Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter! inspiring them and enriching their lives through art is the focus of kelownaartgallery.com everything we do. We believe in creating an experience at the Gallery Follow us on that includes more than looking at works of art, reading labels and catalogues or watching artists’ videos. We hope to create a lively space that connects people and provides an exciting exchange of new ideas and different perspectives. You–our visitors, members and supporters–make that magic happen, as much as the art itself.

Official wine and brewery partners We hope to inspire you to drop in (admission is free all day on Thursday) and see great art, participate in a Quick Talk, bake a pie, take a class, or dance at our GO party. We plan to reach out to you in the coming months to learn more about what we can do to increase attendance and membership at the Gallery. I hope we can count on you to provide your opinions. In the meantime, come for a visit, bring family and friends and get to know your public art gallery. I am sure you will not be disappointed.

Cover image: , Thunderbird of Courage (detail), 1977, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 50.8 cm. Sincerely, Private Collection. © Daphne Odjig. Photo credit: Don Hall Nataley Nagy ([email protected]) 1 Christos Dikeakos, Apple Spill, Dumped Culls, (detail), 2012, still video projection. Collection of the artist. Lynden Beesley, installation view, July, 2014. The Artist’s Garden Project Christos Dikeakos: Nature Morte Lynden Beesley: Hortus Conclusus Through to October 5, 2014 Through to Spring 2015

Christos Dikeakos is a senior Canadian artist based in Vancouver. The second in our series of commissioned artist’s gardens was created Along with his wife Sophie, he happens to own an apple orchard in this spring in our outdoor courtyard space by Kelowna-based artist Naramata, which has led him to take photographs in the Okanagan, Lynden Beesley. She decided to pay a tribute to the medieval herb/ and ruminate over various issues: water, land use, and the history physic garden, using raised beds arranged symmetrically around the and viability of apples as a crop. The artist’s photographs form the centre of the space in which a sculptural water feature is positioned. backbone of this exhibition, but various objects, texts, and materials Beesley made seating benches under arbors custom-constructed from are also included, making for a rich and multi-layered reading. willow branches and grape vines by local artist Annabel Stanley. Ultimately, the project is a consideration of place, seen and considered through the lens of contemporary art. The accompanying catalogue The project is accompanied and documented by a web-based includes texts by the Kelowna Art Gallery’s curator, Liz Wylie, as well publication available on the Gallery’s website. as by Vancouver’s independent writer Claudia Beck, artist Jeff Wall, and the Vernon, BC-based poet Harold Rhenisch. Beesley received her BFA in printmaking from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 2001. That same year she relocated to Kelowna The Kelowna Art Gallery would like to gratefully acknowledge the to pursue her art. Beesley has been active as an artist in the region, generous support of the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts in the exhibiting her prints and sculptures regularly in both solo and group preparation of this exhibition and catalogue. exhibitions.

Quick Talks Artist’s Talk and Celebration Thursday, September 18, 7 to 9 pm Thursday, September 11, 6:30 to 9:00 pm Join artist Christos Dikeakos and others for a series of ten-minute-long Join us for a talk by artist Lynden Beesley entitled Hortus Conclusus: talks on land use in the Okanagan. Visit website for details. Symbolism and Practicality. Hear about the enclosed garden she has created from medieval and art historical perspectives. Stay for the celebratory event from 7:30 to 9:00 pm. 2 3 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. October 11, 2014 to January 4, 2015

In the early 1970s seven professional First Nations artists decided to join together and create a new Group of Seven for – sometimes called the Indian Group of Seven. They wanted to win an audience for their work and challenge stereotypes about First Nations people working as contemporary artists. Now the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina has organized a touring exhibition of their works, and the Kelowna Art Gallery is most honoured and pleased to be one venue for the show.

The seven artists are: (1944-1984) Daphne Odjig (b. 1919) (1933-1996) (1942-1978) (b. 1935) Joseph Sanchez (b. 1948) (1932-2007)

The artist among the seven most familiar to Okanagan audiences will be the award-winning Canadian painter Daphne Odjig, who has lived and worked in Penticton for a number of years, and has achieved a national reputation for her work.

The show will contain about sixty works of art in total. Most date from the 1970s and 80s, which is the time the group was functioning. It is curated by Michelle LaVallee, Associate Curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, who is of Ojibway descent. The show will be accompanied by a major publication.

The exhibition was organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery with support from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage.

Opening Reception Friday, October 17, 7 to 9 pm Opening remarks at 7 pm.

Conversation with the Artists Saturday, October 18, 1 to 3 pm Join exhibition curator Michelle LaVallee from the MacKenzie Art The Kelowna Art Gallery would like to acknowledge the generous support of: Gallery, and artists Alex Janvier and Joseph Sanchez, in conversation about 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.

Workshop with artist Joseph Sanchez, see details on page 14.

4 5 Gary Spearin: iNifiNiTi October 4, 2014 to January 11, 2015

Ontario-based artist Gary Spearin began his iNifiNiTi project in 2007, and it continues to grow. iNifiNiTi is a large series of twenty-four-by- twenty-inch-sized oil-on-canvas paintings. Each one is more-or-less abstract in nature, but may contain shapes, repeated lines or patterns, which create images that appear close to recognizable things, brains, bird nests, intestines, and such. Each time the artist installs the work in its grid format he changes the arrangement and number of the components.

Simply put, the paintings are meditations on time: our experience and perception of time. Each painting is titled with a date, but not the date on which it was painted, confounding a straightforward reading. Spearin also marshalls the tropes of expressionism – strong colour, paint-laden brushstrokes, etc. – but cuts them loose from service to emotional or psychological meaning, so they become free agents. Thus, for the most part, Spearin’s paintings resist specific interpretation and categorization.

Long-time visitors to the Kelowna Art Gallery might recall that Gary Spearin showed his NAME PAINTINGS here in 2004, an exhibition produced in collaboration with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, and the Art Gallery of the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, in Medicine Hat, Alberta. His iNifiNiTi paintings evolved from the NAME PAINTINGS, extending some of the artist’s desire to involve the viewer in the process of meaning making, rather than presenting them with a fait accompli.

Spearin holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, from 1981, and an MFA from the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, from 1997.

Opening Reception Friday, October 3, 7 to 9 pm Opening remarks at 7 pm. Artist will be in attendance.

Gary Spearin, installation view of iNifiNiTi, 2013.

6 7 Crystal Przybille, Wish, 2014, mixed media. Photography: Clea Haugo Johann Wessels, Fragments (detail), 2013, acrylic on panel, 84 x 44 in. (213.3 x 111.7 cm)

Satellite space at the Kelowna International Airport Satellite space at the Kelowna International Airport Crystal Przybille: Wish Johann Wessels: Side Show Through Nov 3, 2014 November 3, 2014 to May 11, 2015

Kelowna-based artist Crystal Przybille has created a work reminiscent For his commission at the Kelowna International Airport, Penticton- of two giant bird wings, made from wood and metal. Entitled Wish, based artist Johann Wessels has conceived of a caravan of wheeled the piece is intended to make reference to the human longing for and carts or wagons, reminiscent of a travelling carnival. He calls his efforts toward flight, based on our age-old observation of the freedom installation Side Show, and thinks of his piece as a parallel to touring of air-borne birds. Wish makes visual reference to ornithopters, that exhibitions of art. The production rolls into town, and people turn out is, the early mechanical inventions based on bird wings that were to look. intended to enable people to fly. The artist drew upon her experience attending a First Nations’ brushing ceremony that included the use of The artist’s range of images is impressive – from a ripple in a pool of eagle wings. She would like Wish to convey the transformative power water, to a cluster of grotesque faces in front of an elongated, striped of intention, belief, and will. circus tent; Wessels is a master of mimesis and verisimilitude, but also of distortion and the surreal. Whether consciously on his part or not, The wings are connected by a central trailing red ribbon that looks like his work appears to embody a dark vision of life, and viewers might a thin river of blood. The wooden feather-shaped elements have been find themselves thinking of artists such as Goya or Ensor. stained with earth, iron dust, and other natural substances. Wessels holds a BFA from the University of the Free State, in Crystal Przybille is a painter and sculptor who received her BFA from Bloemfontein, South Africa. He moved in Canada in 2000, and to the the University of Victoria via Okanagan University College in Kelowna Okanagan in 2011, where he has been actively exhibiting his work. in 1997. She has several successful public art commissions to her credit, including a large bronze statue of Father Pandosy (located at the Pandosy Mission historical site in Kelowna), and an outdoor, multi- site, multi-piece work titled The Hands of Time, commemorating the sesquicentennial of the City of Victoria.

8 9 Past to Present: Members’ Exhibition, 2013.

Bring out your Best: Members’ Exhibition Family Sundays December 13, 2014 to January 25, 2015 Join us every Sunday between 1 and 4 pm each week for an exciting art-making experience. This is YOUR show! Don’t miss the opportunity to take part in the Gallery’s 2014 members’ exhibition. Through hands-on activities, helpful instructions, and age-appropriate information and questions, Family Sundays opens up the world of The Kelowna Art Gallery is looking forward to hosting our annual art and artists for children and adults by providing opportunities to members’ show this December. Our members play a very important engage, discover, and create. role in the gallery’s continued success, and this is our opportunity to recognize and celebrate the talented artists in our community. Cost: $4.00 per participant

This year we are simply asking members to bring out their Visit our website for a schedule of upcoming Family Sundays activities. best works of art for the show. Do you have a great idea for a new project, or have something in the works? Or maybe you have a work The Kelowna Art Gallery acknowledges the generous support of Source Office Furnishings. of art that has never been shown. If so, we would love to see it in this year’s exhibition.

For a registration form and exhibition details, visit our website. Starlight Lantern-Making Event Not yet a member or need to renew? See page 19. Saturday, December 6 | Time: 10 am to 4 pm Cost $5.00 per person Opening Reception and Holiday Open House Friday, December 12, 6 to 9 pm Create a beautiful painted paper lantern to light up the winter nights. You can bring your lantern to the Downtown Light Up on the evening This is a free event, open to members and guests by invitation. of December 6. Drop in any time between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm to create your lantern. Contact the Downtown Kelowna Association at 250-862-3515 for more information about the Light Up.

10 11 Drawing for the Absolute Beginner Instructor: Rena Warren Sept 24 to Oct 29 Wednesdays: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm This course will teach the absolute beginner the basic principles of observational drawing through a series of concentrated exercises, and guided practice, using a variety of drawing materials and subjects.

Acrylic Painting for the Absolute Beginner Instructor: Rena Warren Nov 5 to Dec 10 Wednesdays: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm This course will teach the absolute beginner the basic principles of acrylic painting using colour theory, a variety of application exercises, and guided practice. Students will create a completed painting by session end.

EVENING CLASSES Cost: $160.00 ($130.00 for members)

Watercolours Made Easy: Basic Techniques for First Timers Register by September 14 and receive a 10% discount! Instructor: Kendra Dixson Sept 18 to Oct 23 Thursdays: 6 to 9 pm This workshop is perfect for someone who has never tried watercolour DAY CLASSES painting, even if they have never picked up a brush. Emphasis will be Cost: $160.00 ($130.00 for members) placed on the techniques and skills needed to develop a foundation of watercolour basics. Mixed Media: Anything Goes! Instructor: Carney Oudendag An Introduction to the Painting Experience Sept 22 to Nov 3 Mondays: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm Instructor: Harry Tonn Experiment, investigate and explore! This course will include: collage, Sept 22 to Nov 3 Mondays: 6 to 9 pm acrylic paint, stamping and stencilling, texture, altering and decorating Students will be led through a creative process that will enable them to paper, incorporating found objects, transfers, and more. If you like the find a medium that fits them each personally, and brings together their quirky, whimsical, and unpredictable, then come out to play! goals and interests with techniques, for a fulfilling, creative experience.

An Introduction to the Painting Experience Instructor: Harry Tonn Drawing for Everyone: Level One Sept 23 to Nov 4 Tuesdays: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm Instructor: Jim Elwood Sept 25 to Oct 30 Thursdays: 6 to 9 pm Students will be led through a creative process that will enable them to find a medium that fits them each personally, and brings together their Students will work through a variety of creative exercises and technical goals and interests with techniques, for a fulfilling, creative experience. drawing systems to increase the ability to ‘see’ what they want to draw and then have the skills to draw it. If you have always wanted to draw, or just want to improve on the drawing skills you have, this is your opportunity.

12 13 Make Your Watercolours Dance: Intermediate Knitting Metal Jewelry Instructor: Kendra Dixson Instructor: Brenda Dureault Oct 30 to Dec 4 Thursdays: 6 to 9 pm Saturday, Nov 22, 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday Nov 23, 1 to 4 pm This workshop is perfect for those who have dabbled in watercolour In this workshop you will create an elegant, hand-knit-wire cuff and would like to work on their technique and learn some more tricks bracelet! Choose from several different semi-precious gemstone and tips. colours and meanings to personalize your bracelet for yourself or for someone special! No prior knitting experience required. Drawing for Everyone: Level Two Instructor: Jim Elwood Coloured Water Nov 6 to Dec 11 Thursdays: 6 to 9 pm Instructor: Alex Fong This class is open to students continuing on from Level One, or Saturday, Nov 29, 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday, Nov 30, 1 to 4 pm students who have had some drawing experience. Discover how to capture the power of watercolour in your work! Kelowna-based Alex Fong is well known for translucent, impressionistic Advancing the Painting Experience paintings that capture the power of light and colour. In this workshop Instructor: Harry Tonn Fong will share his thirty-five years of watercolour secrets, conduct Nov 10 to Dec 15 Mondays: 6 to 9 pm demonstrations on numerous watercolour techniques, and give This course will focus on four important aspects to the painting participants guidance on developing their own personal painting style! experience: establishing the intentions and goals of each student, learning a basic understanding of how each medium works, finding the most effective medium to reach each student’s goal, and employing the elements and principles of design as they relate to the content or For more class information or schedule, interests of each student. visit us online at www.kelownaaartgallery.com

WEEKEND WORKSHOPS Cost: $105.00 ($90.00 for members) (supplies included)

Freeing the Creative Mind Instructor: Joseph Sanchez Engaging with Art! Saturday, Oct 25, 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday, Oct 26, 1 to 4 pm Instructor: Brenda Feist New Mexico-based Joseph Sanchez is one of the artists in the 7: Oct 22 to Nov 26 Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporated exhibition. We are Wednesdays: 2:30 to 4:00 pm fortunate to have him here to lead this special workshop. It will be a drawing and painting experience that frees the creative spirit and This series aims at developing tools encourages a new aesthetic, one that is currently visible in much and practices for looking at and talking contemporary Native Art. about Western visual art. Each week begins with a half-hour-long multi- media presentation on a theme, Visual Storytelling followed by a short complementary Instructor: Lee Claremont exhibition tour and discussion over Saturday, Nov 15, 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday, Nov 16, 1 to 4 pm coffee. Kelowna-based Lee Claremont is a visual storyteller of Mohawk and Irish descent. She is well known for her incredible use of colour and Free and open to the public. the sense of playfulness in her paintings. In this workshop you will Call 250-762-2226 to register. examine the use of the spoken word and how it can be transformed Class size is limited. into a visual language using paint and brush.

14 15 Treasures from the Attic Saturday, September 13, 2014 10 am to 5 pm

Join local art and antiques appraiser Peter Blundell, and learn the value of your treasures! Fifteen-minute-long appointments will be held throughout the day. Each session allows for viewing of up to three items, subject to the time constraint.

Cost per fifteen-minute session: $40 for members, and $50 for non-members. To make an appointment, please call the Kelowna Art Gallery at 250-762-2226.

The Village Artist Facilitator: Rawle James Every other Saturday from Oct 4, 2014 to April 4, 2015 10 am to 12 pm

The Village Artist is a twelve-part workshop-based series based on a new paradigm about the way we value and distribute art, and how artists seek to get paid for their work. Each month will consist of one Saturday of presentations, and a second Saturday on which Celebrate the arts and cultural life of our community along with the participants will workshop the material introduced in the presentations. rest of Canada! All Culture Days events are FREE and open to the public. Cost: Pre-register and pay only $7 per workshop, or pay $12 at the door. Friday, September 26 | Downtown Culture Crawl 6 to 10 pm Artists’ studios, galleries, and businesses open their doors and invite you to view, experience, and relish in the creative culture downtown. Enjoy hands-on activities, exhibitions, performances, and more! The Lunchbox Series Wednesdays, October 2014 to April 2015 Saturday September 27 | Country Fair-Style Block Party 12 to 1 pm 10 am to 5 pm Join us for a country fair-style party including an apple pie baking contest inspired by our exhibition Christos Dikeakos: Nature Morte. Tired of eating lunch at your desk? The Kelowna Art Gallery, in Enjoy indoor and outdoor art activities, tours, live music, games, collaboration with the Kelowna Museums, the Okanagan Regional exhibitions, and more! Library, and the Rotary Centre for the Arts, is once again proud to be a part of this noon-hour program. Enjoy a variety of weekly Apple Pie Baking Contest presenters and topics who will rotate through the four locations. Join Do you or someone you know have a blue-ribbon apple us and connect with art, culture, and your community! Visit website for pie recipe? Visit kelownaartgallery.com to enter! details. Registration Deadline: September 15 Free and open to the public. Sunday, September 28 | Family Sundays 1 to 4 pm Join us to draw, paint, collage, and create your own mixed-media panel. 16 17 Members enjoying an opening reception at the gallery. Photography by Yuri Akuney, Digital Perfections.

Exhibition Catalogues A variety of our exhibition catalogues are available for purchase at the Gallery.

Not yet a member of the Kelowna Art Gallery? Christos Dikeakos: Nature Morte Then it’s about time you joined! Your support plays an essential role in 76-page catalogue with colour reproductions of many of the works in providing access to a wide variety of visual arts in our community. the exhibition. It includes texts by the Kelowna Art Gallery’s curator, Liz Wylie, as well as by Vancouver’s independent writer Claudia Beck, Along with free admission to all exhibitions and discounts on a Vernon, BC-based poet Harold Rhenisch, and a foreword by Vancouver- variety of classes, workshops, merchandise and special events, based artist Jeff Wall. membership grants you access to our reciprocal membership $15 ($12 for members) agreements with twenty-five other museums and galleries across Canada. Your membership may entitle you to free admission and/or Ann Kipling: The Falkland Drawings discounts at these locations. 68-page catalogue with full-colour reproductions of work from the exhibition as well as a text by Robin Laurence and introduction by Annual Membership Costs: (includes tax) Kelowna Art Gallery curator, Liz Wylie. Student $26.25 $15 ($12 for members) Senior $36.75 Individual $42.00 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. Family $63.00 The beautiful hardcover exhibition catalogue 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. features texts by eight writers, including the curator Become a member today! of the show, Michelle LaVallee. It is 460 pages long and contains Memberships are available at the gallery, by calling 250-762-2226, or numerous large, colour reproductions of works in the exhibition. online at kelownaartgallery.com. Published by the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, the book contains additional images of works and period photographs. $55 ($49.50 for members)

18 19 Nataley Nagy, Executive Director and the Honourable Ron Cannan, Member of Parliment for Kelowna-Lake Country, at the opening reception for Christos Dikeakos: Nature Morte. Photography by Yuri Akuney, Digital Perfections.

Board of Directors Dylana Bloor Derek Sanders Clayton Gall Stan Somerville Fern Helfand Joanna Wrzesniewski Joanne McKechnie Amy Zurrer Paul Mitchell Sandra Kochan, City Liaison Marla O’Brien

Staff

Nataley Nagy, Executive Director Gallery Assistants Renée Burgess, Head of Public Kelsie Balehowsky Programming Susan Cosmann Joshua Desnoyers, Marketing and Events Alyssa Doll Coordinator Lindsey Farr Brenda Feist, Education Coordinator Hanss Lujan Clea Haugo, Registrar Victoria Moore Tanya Nahachewsky, Administrative Connie Quaedvlieg Assistant & Membership Coordinator Mike O’Doherty, Preparator Family Sundays Assistants Kyle L. Poirier, Graphic Designer Marion Krahn Liz Wylie, Curator Jolene Mackie

The Kelowna Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the City of Kelowna, The Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, Central Okanagan School District #23, Regional District of Central Okanagan, Central Okanagan Foundation, and our members, donors and sponsors.

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