[BCMA] Media Release- VPAG Permanent Collection Large Scale Painting Unveiled!

Tue May 17 13:22:28 PDT 2016

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MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release

May 17, 2016

VPAG Unveils Large Scale Painting from the Permanent Collection for the First Time!

Who: Presented by Vernon Public Art Gallery
What: Opening Reception: Joyce Devlin: Along the Way, UBCO BFA Graduates: Stranger in Your Pocket, and Mackie House Artist in Residence: Luis Fuentes
Where: The Vernon Public Art Gallery
When: Thursday May 26, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The Board of Directors and Executive Director, Dauna Kennedy Grant, invite you and a guest to the opening reception of Along the Way by Joyce Devlin, Stranger in Your Pocket, by UBCO BFA Graduates, and Mackie House Artist in Residence, Luis Fuentes at the Vernon Public Art Gallery. Enjoy an evening of music, contemporary art, punch, and appetizers.

Along the Way
Joyce Devlin
May 26 - July 20, 2016

"It is with great pleasure that we present a body of work by senior Canadian artist Joyce Devlin.  Some of you may remember her from her time here in Vernon early on in her career.  Learning from the likes of Jack Shadbolt (Vancouver School of Arts, now Emily Carr) and Jesse Topham Brown, Devlin has had a long and successful career as an artist and currently resides in Ontario."

- Dauna Kennedy Grant
VPAG Executive Director

The exhibition titled Along the Way consists of a selection of paintings from 1970 to 2011 produced by Joyce Devlin, currently Ottawa-based artist who grew up in Vernon.

Despite her experimental paintings, Devlin devoted herself to a wide variety of subjects and developed interest in portraiture, figurative painting, landscape, and symbolic imagery. The selection of her work in this exhibition contains portraits of people whom Devlin interacted with while living in Vernon, examples of landscape paintings, and semi-abstract works.

Some of the paintings in the exhibition are from the gallery’s permanent collection, with a  few additional works borrowed from the Mackie Lake House collection and one large-scale work borrowed from the artist.

"The Vernon Public Art Gallery is fortunate to hold some of Joyce Devlin's pieces in our permanent collection, one which is of such significant size. We will be unveiling this painting to residents of the North Okanagan for the first time on May 26. At 6’x36’, Inside the Garden will make it's highly anticipated first public appearance within this exhibition for our visitors to enjoy!  Accompanying this piece is a selection of works from throughout Devlin’s long career depicting her journey as an artist, specifically here in the North Okanagan. I highly encourage you to take in this exhibition along with Mackie Lake House’s artist in residence, Luis Fuentes from Peru and the UBCO’s BFA graduation exhibition, Stranger in Your Pocket."

- Dauna Kennedy Grant
VPAG Executive Director

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Joyce Devlin, Inside the Garden, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 36' x 6' ( 6 panels, 6'8 x 6' each)

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Stranger in Your Pocket
UBCO BFA Graduates
May 26 - July 20, 2016

The Gallery annually hosts the UBC Okanagan BFA Graduation Exhibition, creating exhibition opportunities for a group of emerging artists. The artwork in the exhibition Stranger in Your Pocket, reference tendencies, concepts, and strategies in contemporary art making.
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Mackie Lake House | Artist in Residence
Luis Fuentes
May 26 - June 22, 2016

The Artist-in-Residence Program began in 2010 and over the years participating artists have been Angie Francis, Edie McIntyre, Joyce Devlin, James Postill, Michael Markowsky and Jan Poynter. This year the Artist in Residence is Luis Fuentes, a Peruvian-born artist with an international exhibition record. Fuentes’ work include still lifes, urban architecture and landscapes. Fuentes’ focus in his painting is the quality of light and rich shadows in his Realism-inspired painting methodology. After his artistic residency at the historic lake house, Fuentes’ work will be exhibited at the Vernon Public Art Gallery in partnership with the Mackie Lake House Foundation.
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Media Contacts:

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

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