[Bcma-l] On exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery: Martin Pearce: This Was a Place

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Subject: 	On exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery: Martin Pearce: This 
Was a Place
Date: 	Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:49:20 -0700
From: 	Shauna Oddleifson <shauna@kelownaartgallery.com>
To: 	<bcma-l-admin@museumsassn.bc.ca>



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*Media Release*

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*On exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery*

*Martin Pearce: This Was a Place*

*September 5 to November 1, 2009*

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The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to present the work of Ontario-based 
artist Martin Pearce with his exhibition entitled */This Was a Place/*,* 
*from September 5 to November 1, 2009.

Pearce is a painter who also has a practice in drawing, which will be 
the focus of this installation of recent works. A grid of twenty 
drawings based on the industrial suburbs of Montreal will be included, 
as well as a ten-foot-long fanciful drawing of invented cities. The 
Quebec works all began with a photo-transfer of a found photograph of 
the selected scene, then the artist worked into this armature with both 
ink and conté, as well as erasure, and created free-form works, some of 
which are barely recognizable as representational images. The imagery in 
the ten-foot long cities-themed work exists more in the realm of 
invented fantasy, in which a world of small installations or towns 
occupy a shifting and disjointed landscape, so that our eye cannot 
journey across the long sheet of paper without encountering a rupture of 
one kind or another.

Martin Pearce received his MA in painting from the Royal College of Art 
in London, England in 1985, and is currently an Assistant Professor in 
Painting at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario. Pearce has an 
extensive solo and group exhibition history in galleries across Canada.

This exhibition runs from Sept 5 to Nov 1, 2009. The Kelowna Art 
Gallery, located at 1315 Water Street is open Tuesday to Saturday from 
10 am to 5 pm, Thursday until 9 pm, Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm, closed 
Mondays.

Admission to the gallery is $5 for individuals, $4 for students and 
seniors and $10 for a family. *FREE* admission on Thursdays from 3 – 9 pm.

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/For more information, to arrange an interview or for images of the 
artist’s work contact Shauna Oddleifson, Marketing and Fundraising 
Coordinator, at 250-762-2226, ext 305. /



/From the desk of:/
*Shauna Oddleifson*
*Marketing and Fundraising Coordinator*
KELOWNA ART GALLERY
1315 Water Street, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9R3
Tel: 250.762.2226 ext. 305 Fax: 250.762.9875
_www.kelownaartgallery.com <http://www.kelownaartgallery.com/>_
*art*/exposed!/**