[BCMA] MEDIA RELEASE: Works of Doug Biden featured in new exhibition at Kelowna Art Gallery

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Dear Media Partners, 

 

The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased an honoured to brings the works of
late Kelowna-based artist Doug Biden to the city. Doug Biden: Visceral
Allegories opens to the public on Saturday December 18, 2010 in Kelowna
with the kind assistance of the Burnaby Art Gallery. This exhibition may
be of particular interest to your audience as Biden has quite a
following and was an instructor at UBCO in Kelowna. He passed away in
2007 mid-career from cancer. 

 

Darrin Martens, curator with the Burnaby Art Gallery, is available for
interviews by phone between Monday December 13 and Friday December 17.
Mr. Martens is most qualified to speak about this show so please get in
touch with me if you'd like to book him for an interview. 

 

Please see the media release below and attached to this message. I will
be following up with local media in the coming days to determine
interest in assisting us promote this show. 

 

With thanks, 

Kris Johnson
Marketing & Events Coordinator
KELOWNA ART GALLERY 
1315 Water Street, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9R3 
T: 250.762.2226 x 305
M: 250.212.6508
F: 250.762.9875
www.kelownaartgallery.com <blocked::http://www.kelownaartgallery.com/>  
art exposed!
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December 17, 2010
Opening Reception and Holiday Open House
Please join us, everyone welcome! 
Doug Biden: Visceral Allegories | Ian Johnston: Bag Suite in 4/4 Time |
Jasmine Reimer: 1000 lbs. 3 days
Artist Talks: 6 pm and 6:30 pm, Reception: 7-9 pm
Talks and reception open to the public ~ See you at the Gallery!
Support the Kelowna Community Food Bank by bringing a non-perishable
food item.

 

  
Media Release


For Immediate Release 

 

Doug Biden: Visceral Allegories

Opening reception Dec 17; on view Dec 18, 2010 to Jan 30, 2011

 

December 8, 2010 - Kelowna, BC: The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to
announce the opening of a new exhibition featuring the works of a late
Kelowna artist. Doug Biden: Visceral Allegories is a posthumous survey
show of the artist's works, on view from December 18, 2010 to January
30, 2011. Doug Biden was a highly talented and creative printmaker who
died from cancer in mid-career in 2007. He was an instructor at the
University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, and was well loved
by his students and artist peers. 

 

Organized and circulated by the Burnaby Art Gallery, Doug Biden:
Visceral Allegories comprises seventy-seven works and is curated by
Darrin Martens at the Burnaby Art Gallery, with the help of Biden's
widow, Ingrid. The show is accompanied by a full-colour catalogue with
an essay by Martens that explains the artist's thinking in connection
with each of his distinct series of works. Augmenting the show will be
an additional loan from Ingrid Biden of a long, accordion-style bookwork
on its own custom-made table. The Gallery is also showing works by
several of Biden's former students from UBCO in our Scotiabank Studio
space. 

 

"The Kelowna Art Gallery is honoured to be bringing this show to the
city", says Liz Wylie, Curator at the Kelowna Art Gallery. "Biden's work
has a substantial following. We are most grateful to the Burnaby Art
Gallery, curator Darrin Martens, and Ingrid Biden, for their
contribution to this exhibition."

 

An opening reception to celebrate the exhibition will be held on Friday,
December 17 from 7-9 pm at the Kelowna Art Gallery. The reception is
free and open to the public, and is also being held to celebrate two
other exhibitions which open at the Gallery on the same date. 

 

Doug Biden: Visceral Allegories opens to the public on December 18, 2010
and is on view through January 30, 2011. The Kelowna Art Gallery is
located at 1315 Water Street in the heart of the Cultural District in
Downtown Kelowna. For hours of operation or more information about
current exhibitions, visit the Gallery online at 
www.kelownaartgallery.com <http://www.kelownaartgallery.com/> . 

 

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For more information, to arrange an interview, or for images of the
artist's work, please contact: 

 

Kris Johnson, Marketing and Events Coordinator

Kelowna Art Gallery

W 250.762.2226 ext. 305 

C 250.212.6508

kris at kelownaartgallery.com

 

 

 

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