[BCMA] Kelowna Art Gallery: CORRECTION + INTERVIEW SUBJECTS

Tue Mar 27 09:41:26 PDT 2012

Dear Media Partners,

Please see the media release, below, to replace the one sent yesterday. Our apologies for the mix-up.

Also - if anyone is interested in interviewing those involved in our upcoming exhibition, the Okanagan Print Triennial 2012, I am able to put you in touch with the exhibition organizers (Lubos Culen, Briar Craig, and Liz Wylie), along with one of the artists (Pudy Tong) and a local artist/writer who will be on our roundtable panel this Saturday (Tegan Forbes).

Cheers! Revised release below. Images attached.

Kris Johnson
Marketing and Events Coordinator
KELOWNA ART GALLERY
1315 Water Street, Kelowna, BC  V1Y 9R3
t: 250-762-2226 ext: 305
f: 250-762-9875
www.kelownaartgallery.com<http://www.kelownaartgallery.com/>

Media Release

For Immediate Release

Artist Mitch Mitchell announced as winner of Okanagan Print Triennial 2012

Okanagan Print Triennial 2012
On view from March 31 to June 17, 2012, at the Kelowna Art Gallery

March 26, 2012 - Kelowna, BC: The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to announce that Halifax-based artist Mitch Mitchell has been selected as the winner of the Okanagan Print Triennial 2012. The three jurors were all impressed by the mysterious and enigmatic quality of his images. Notions of scale, verisimilitude, and iconography are all confounded in his dream-like tableaux that seem steeped in other-worldly light and spooky-looking mists.

"We liked the noir-ish, sophisticated ambiguities the artist achieved in his works," say the three organizers of this show. The organizers are Lubos Culen, Curator at the Vernon Art Gallery, Briar Craig, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus, and Liz Wylie, Curator at the Kelowna Art Gallery.

Mitch Mitchell will be given a solo show in the Mardell G. Reynolds gallery space at the Kelowna Art Gallery in the spring of 2015 to coincide with that year's incarnation of the Okanagan Print Triennial at the Vernon Public Art Gallery.

Launched in 2009 at the Vernon Public Art Gallery, the Okanagan Print Triennial is a collaborative effort of the Kelowna Art Gallery, the University of British Columbia Okanagan, and the Vernon Public Art Gallery. The works of twenty remarkable printmakers will be featured in this year's exhibition, including those by Derek Michael Besant, Mark Bovey, Liz Ingram, and this year's winner, Mitch Mitchell. The Okanagan Print Triennial 2012 opens to the public on March 31 and will be on view to June 17, 2012.

An opening reception to celebrate the exhibition will be held on Friday March 30, 2012, from 7 to 9 pm, at the Kelowna Art Gallery. This is a free event, open to members and guests, by invitation. Just prior to the opening reception, a free tour of the exhibition will be offered, beginning at 6:30 pm, led by the three exhibition organizers. The Gallery will also host a roundtable discussion on Saturday, March 31, 2012, from 1 to 3 pm at the Gallery, which is free to attend and open to the public. For more information, contact the Gallery or visit www.kelownaartgallery.com<http://www.kelownaartgallery.com/>.

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For more information, to arrange an interview, or for high resolution images of the artists' work please contact:

Kris Johnson, Marketing and Events Coordinator

Kelowna Art Gallery

W 250.762.2226 ext. 305

kris at kelownaartgallery.com

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