[BCMA] Kelowna Artist Turns Paintings into 3-D Sculptures at VPAG

Fri Jan 6 14:42:56 PST 2017

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MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release

Who: Vernon Public Art Gallery
What: Opening Reception: Katherine Pickering, Nicole Young, Amber Powell, and Kama? Creative Aboriginal Arts Collective
When: Thursday January 12, 6 p.m - 8 p.m
Where: Vernon Public Art Gallery

Kelowna Artist Turns Paintings into 3-D Sculptures!
The Board of Directors and Executive Director, Dauna Kennedy Grant, invite you and a guest to the opening reception of lean, stumble, spill, sway, fold by Katherine Pickering, Rivers and Roads to Find You by Nicole Young, Third Drawer Down by Amber Powell, and WATER: The Sacred Relationship by Kama? Creative Aboriginal Arts Collective at the Vernon Public Art Gallery. Enjoy an evening of art, music, appies, beer, wine, and punch.

Katherine Pickering’s exhibition titled lean, stumble, spill, sway, fold at the Vernon Public Art Gallery consists of shaped paintings and three-dimensional structures built entirely from canvas. Despite the fact that at the beginning the works start as two-dimensional paintings, the finished paintings are cut and shaped into three-dimensional sculptures. One can argue that these paintings / sculptures transcend both disciplines; the paintings are liberated from its rectangular format, and the sculptures are not defined solely by the physicality of media, but carry an additional meaning encapsulated in the painting on canvas from which it was created. Pickering will also be giving an Artist Talk at the gallery on Saturday February 4, at 1 p.m.

"The presentation style of Katherine Pickering’s acrylic on canvas paintings is truly something to see and experience in person as she liberates her paintings into 3 dimensional sculptures.  You will find some humor hidden in the work of Amber Powell and will visualize Iceland through the lens of Kelowna based artist, Nicole Young.  Also joining these solo artists is Kama? Creative Aboriginal Arts Collective  who together will be reflecting on Siwɬkʷ , the Syilx word for Water and the role it plays in our lives locally and globally.  Please join us to celebrate and explore with these artists!"

- Dauna Kennedy Grant
VPAG Executive Director

Nicole Young’s exhibition Rivers and Roads to Find You consists of paintings and sketches that she produced during her artistic residency in Iceland together with larger paintings produced after her return to Kelowna. These paintings produced in her studio are based on photographs, en plain air sketches, and Young’s memories of geomorphology of places, rock formations or ice floes and icebergs. This exhibition documents a personalized narrative of the artist and the new landscape together with her memories of places and the people who inhabit them. The installation of the artworks has a diaristic quality which is also referenced by the display of Young’s sketchbook which contains an itinerary of her time spend in artistic residence.

The exhibition Third Drawer Down, is produced by Amber Powell, a Vernon, B.C., based artist. Her exhibition includes a body of mixed media and collage works on paper addressing existential aspects of the human condition in  contemporary society both on global and individual levels. The context of Powell’s work is conceptually married to the tenets of the Dada movement, specifically of its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes. Powell’s images create narratives that often contain serious messages which are in turn subverted by a gentle humor and general sense of lightness. The objects and characters in Powell’s narratives are often suspended mid-air and liberated from the predictable influence of the Earth’s gravity. This leaves an implied narrative in flux and is interpretable according to the viewers’ associations based on visual clues contained in the work of art.

Within the exhibition WATER: The Sacred Relationship, Kama? Creative Aboriginal Arts Collective artists reflect on the sacredness of Siwɬkʷ (water), and acknowledge and honour their relationship with Siwɬkʷ. Artists delve into the deep relationship with that which gives us all life. Sharing traditional conversations with you in hopes of awakening the rivers within.

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Katherine Pickering, Untitled (surface- blue), Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 20 x 10 in.

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Nicole Young, Mission, mixed media on canvas,

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