[BCMA] Media Release: Four New Exhibitions Create A Dialogue Around Mortality

Wed Jan 6 11:19:03 PST 2016

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MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release

January 5, 2016

A Dialogue Around Mortality at the Gallery

Who: The Vernon Public Art Gallery
What: Exhibition Opening Reception
Where: 3228 31st Ave, Vernon B.C.
When: Thursday January 14th, 2016, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The Board of Directors and Executive Director, Dauna Kennedy Grant, invite you and a guest to the opening reception of four new exhibitions, The Body, Stranger; Urbicus Topia; conscious | unconsciousness; and Extracurricular. Enjoy an evening of contemporary art, locally crafted beer and wine, and appetizers at the Vernon Public Art Gallery.

Heather Huston: The Body, Stranger

Calgary-based print artist will exhibit a body of work focused on the imagery derived from her personal experiences. The exhibition titled The Body, Stranger, explores Huston’s interest in social constructions of illness and the greater narratives employed to understand and define these experiences. The work also questions the assumptions about the identity of a patient who presumes and fears certain limitations and qualities that are associated with a chronic autoimmune condition.

“This series of exhibitions all provide a unique perspective on mortality opening the door to dialogue on our environment, varying personal challenges and social view points.  Please join us as we open the doors to these exhibitions on January 14, at 6:00 p.m."

–Dauna Kennedy Grant, VPAG Executive Director

Heather Huston: Interior Distance, 2015, screen print on plexi-glass, 22 x 15 inches

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Brad McMurray: Urbicus Topia

Vancouver-based artist Brad McMurray has produced large-scale photographs for the exhibition titled Urbicus Topia. Despite the exhibition title which might suggest utopian urban settings, McMurray’s images reveal the dystopian quality of his urban subjects. His sensibility is focused on urban environments that no longer function as their original intended purpose and his images often conjure up the narratives of neglect, decay, and abandonment sometimes juxtaposed with new urban development. McMurray’s images are carefully composed in-situ and printed uncropped with a minimal digital manipulation.
Brad McMurray: Las Vegas, 2013, digital print on Kodak paper, 60 x 40 inches

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Kelsie Balehowsky: conscious | unconsciousness

Kelsie Balehowsky is a Kelowna-based artist whose artwork is focused on the lens-based studio practice and digital assembly. The body of images in her exhibition titled conscious |unconsciousness is an inquiry into the states of being and the human condition mapped through Freudian investigation into subject of aesthetics and its propensity of invoking feelings. Balehowsky focuses on the quality of images which can be considered both Surreal and uncanny as a proposition – and contrary to Freud’s thoughts – that the strange combination of visual elements can in turn reveal the true state of our existence.

 Kelsie Balehowsky: Meat, Bathtub, Nude, 2015, digital print, 22 x 30 inches

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Five Fathoms Tattoo: Extracurricular

Extracurricular features the work of four tattoo artists from Vernon’s Five Fathoms Tattoo shop. For Nick Matovich, Andrew McDonald, Jessie Beans (Miss Beans), and Jeremy Mathieson, getting creative is their nine to five. Clients come into the shop and commission the artists to create an image that is symbolic of their personal stories and experiences. The client’s bodies become a walking art gallery exhibiting a collaboration of both the artist and the client. Extracurricular is an exhibition that provides viewers the opportunity to see what the artists at Five Fathoms create when not bound by the client’s desires and wishes. The exhibition space will feature a variety of artwork done beyond their regular duties as tattoo artists while also providing a small contrasting glimpse of their work lives at Five Fathoms Tattoo.

Nick Matovich: Untitled, 2015, acrylic on paper

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Media Contacts:

Dauna Kennedy Grant
Executive Director, Vernon Public Art Gallery, 250.545.3173, dauna at vernonpublicartgallery.com
Laura Ashton
Marketing & Programming Coordinator, Vernon Public Art Gallery, 250.545.3173, laura at vernonpublicartgallery.com
Lubos Culen
Curator, Vernon Public Art Gallery, 250.545.3173, curator at vernonpublicartgallery.com

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