ART OPENING: Affectation // Fur Persons and Structural Parodies in Clay
Big Garden City // From Local Colours
Opening Night:
Friday July 17 from 7pm - 9pm -
Everyone welcome artists in attendance, light refreshments served
Show runs from July 18 - August 29, 2009
PUBLIC GALLERY:
AFFECTATION - staged photography
Susan Bozic (Vancouver BC)
Susan Bozic is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver. She received her BFA, with distinction from Concordia University in Montreal, majoring in photography and minoring in cinema. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and in the US in non-profit and commercial galleries. Working primarily in black and white, her subjects have included the male body, nature and taxidermy animals. She is interested in producing work that quesions viewers perceptions by creating articial constructs within familiar settings. The cycles of life, death and rebirth are also prevalent themes in her images. She is a recipient of both Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council grants.
ART & CRAFTS GALLERY:
FUR PERSONS & STRUCTURAL PARODIES IN CLAY - Paintings of dogs by
Jessica Titley (Courtenay BC) and ceramics by
Martha and Gordon James (Quadra Island BC)
Jessica Titley obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the University of Lethbridge under the guidance of international artists Janet Cardiff and Susan Schuppli in 1999. Now living in Courtenay, she has picked up the brushes again, and as a pianist, ceramicist, conceptual, and new media artist, she pushes pigments hoping to have found her new home. Her vivid & colourful portraits of dogs are striking, contemporary & interesting.
Martha James (Quadra Island) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Calgary in 1976. After moving to Quadra Island with her husband, Gordon James, they established James Pottery. The studio and gallery allow her to work and display the functional and sculptural ceramics, drawings and photographs that she creates. She has also exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Martha creates whimsical vessels.
Gordon James (Quadra Island) started playing with clay and melting bottles during his early teens in his mom’s “ceramics” studio in our Calgary basement. He later studied at the Alberta College of Art, where he became interested in painting and printmaking as well as pottery. After he and his wife graduated in 1976, they moved to Quadra Island and set up the first studio. Gordon's work are playful structures based on the human body.
WINDOW GALLERY:
BIG GARDEN CITY - Installation by
Shawn Shepherd (Victoria BC)
Shawn Shepherd was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Photography, skateboarding and fresh air propelled Shawn to move to Victoria, BC in 1990. He is primarily self-taught with an informal education sourced from local artists, books and travels to art museums in France, Italy, Mexico, USA and Canada. Shawn is a multimedia artist whose work investigates aspects of popular culture such as human identity and information trends. Shawn currently works and resides in Victoria.
GEORGE SAWCHUK GALLERY
FROM
LOCAL COLOURS - Exhibiting the work of 20 Comox Valley artists which has been created during the CVC Arts Council event "Local Colours", usually taking place every year in July - this year it opens on the same day as the Local Colours Festival! The artists are:
Diane Knight, Peter Jackson,
Randy Frank, Channing Holland, Kevin Lewis,
Grace Wolff,
Bill Kerr,
Brian Buckrell, Margaret Burns,
Teresa Knight,
Leonard Barrett,
Jenna Carter,
Teresa L'Hirondelle,
Tracy Kobus,
Benjamin Dunstan,
Arlene McLeod,
Sofie Skapsi,
Jennifer Pickford,
Dystopia Comics, &
Sarah Kerr. A variety of media will be shown.
| Heure de début : | 17 juillet 2009 à 19:00 |
| Heure de fin : | 28 août 2009 à 17:00 |
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| Adresse : | 580 Duncan Avenue |
| Ville : | Courtenay, BC |
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| Téléphone : | 2503386211 |
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