[BCMA] Media Release- VPAG will launch 2 new exhibitions

Thu Oct 9 13:27:33 PDT 2014

Hello Everyone 

Please attached the media release for our next 2 upcoming exhibitions, and
opening reception.

MEDIA RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Contact: Laura Ashton

laura at vernonpublicartgallery.com <mailto:vpag.ambassador at gmail.com> 

October 8, 2014

VPAG Opens Two New Exhibitions!

The Vernon Public Art Gallery

Thursday October 8th, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

“We are delighted to be holding our next exhibition Opening Reception on
Thursday October 16th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.  I invite the public to come to
the gallery to see these two diverse shows while enjoying music, appies and
wine.”

–Dauna Kennedy-Grant, VPAG Executive Director

The Board of Directors and Executive Director Dauna Kennedy Grant invite you
and guests to the opening reception for Twyla Exner: Systems and Things, and
Lazuline: Sky Blue Waters.  Join us on Thursday October 16th from 6:00pm to
8:00pm at the gallery and enjoy an evening of art, music, food, and
refreshments (wine, beer, and punch). Admission is by donation. This event
is open to the public.

Twyla Exner:  Systems and Things

Twyla Exner is a multi-media artist based in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
The Gallery will host her exhibition titled System and Things, comprised of
drawings and sculptures that use discarded telephone wires as both material
and conceptual underpinning. Exner’s work is a criticism of consumer culture
based on her exploration of emotional and material impact of electronic
technology on individual awareness and experience. 

 Thing 4, 2012, telephone wire, 15.75 x 15 x 13 inches

Lazuline: Lisa Figueroa, Linda Franklin, and Tracey Kutschker: Sky Blue
Waters

For the past five years, the three artists of Lazuline have collaborated to
explore their love of nature and the familiar landscapes of home. Throughout
the process, they’ve each discovered that the landscape embraces them,
whether it be the vision of Mt. Ida revealing herself after a turn on the
Trans-Canada Highway, or the smell of Fir trees upon arriving home from work
in the downtown core. They define themselves by what is familiar, what is
community. These artists have begun to define themselves by their
surrounding landscape.

The concept of exploring the same scene through three diverse styles has
evolved from a desire to share creative processes, to searching for their
visceral purpose, their “raison d’être.” Abandoning the safety and isolation
of individual studios, they were challenged to coalesce their artistic
visions by using a triptych format, and have maintained their specific style
while communicating their own version of “place.”

Lazuline’s canvases combine to depict landscapes untouched by urbanization,
destruction and neglect. Memory and idealism subtly enter into a
composition, telling the viewer that what we remember is sometimes more
important than what is real.

Sky Blue Waters by Lazuline: Tracey Kutschker, Lisa Figueroa, Linda Franklin

Laura Ashton
Marketing and Programming Coordinator

3228-31st Avenue, Vernon BC V1T 2H3 

vernonpublicartgallery.com (250) 545-3173

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Current Exhibitions:

Traveling Aboriginal Arts Group:
<http://www.vernonpublicartgallery.com/project/decolonize/> Decolonize Me,
July 31-October 8, 2014

Kama? Creative Aboriginal Arts Collective:
<http://www.vernonpublicartgallery.com/project/kama-aboriginal-arts-collecti
ve/> PUTI KwALA Okanagan, We Are Still Here, July 31-October 8, 2014

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