[BCMA] Press Release

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 5th, 2017 Lake Country*


*‘Furbish: Remnant Themes of Post-Amusement’*

*Scott August*

*July 14th to August 26th*

*Opening reception: *Friday July 14th, 6-8pm


You wont find much about Peter Soehn on the Internet, aside from the
occasional credit on a roadside attractions website, or as the creator of
some bizarre “world’s largest sculpture“ in Western Canada. In a time
before digital posts occupied our lives, we spent time outside, visiting
petting zoos, waterslides, theme parks and fruit stands. *In Furbish:
Remnant Themes of Post-Amusement*, artist Scott August explores what little
remains of Peter’s unrecognized legacy, from unearthing a buried 1970’s
Billboard, to posthumously documenting the artist’s mind-boggling studio.
All that remains of Peter’s efforts are fading family photographs,
unfinished sculptures, and dust covered memories.


Born in Saskatchewan in 1933, Peter Soehn not only created characters of
rural life, he himself was exactly that. Soehn worked as a television prop
builder and on-camera painting Instructor in Alberta and in Kelowna British
Columbia at C.H.B.C. T.V. during the 1960’s and 1970’s. In the 1980’s his
family created ambitious folk-art sculptures and theme-parks for the
amusement of others, from the demolished Kelowna Zoo to the re-developed
Old MacDonald’s Farm, very little remains of his work in the Okanagan.


Scott August is a Kelowna born artist working between the Okanagan and
Vancouver, he has been actively photographing and collecting what remains
of the Soehn’s Attractions. Furbish: Remnant Themes of Post-Amusement will
resurrect forgotten feelings and memories, while enveloping the viewer in
it’s overwhelming scale and decaying state. Like Peter Soehn, Scott
August’s art focuses around creating fantastical large-scale installations:
25 Foot Cowboy (2005), Bear Peaking Over Mountain Gets New Cowboy Friend
(2008), and Artist Changes Sign (2015). He has exhibited at the Kelowna Art
Gallery, the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria’s 50/50
Gallery, Vancouver’s Interurban Gallery, and abroad at Pop Montreal Arts
Festival and Chicago’s Three Walls Gallery.


Plan your summer vacation around visiting FURBISH at the Lake Country Art
Gallery, then continue with your Soehn travel-homage by visiting his
legendary Penticton Peach, his Cultus Lake water squirting frogs, or by
trying on his Clem T. Gopher Mascot Head at the World Famous Gopher Hole
Museum in Torrington, Alberta.





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Media Contact: Wanda Lock - curator

tel: 250 864 5597 or 250 766 4873 email: wandalock at shaw.ca
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*Lake Country Art Gallery:*10356A Bottom Wood Lake Rd
Lake Country, British Columbia
V4V 1T9


*Gallery Hours:*Wed,Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun 10am-4pm
(closed Mon-Tue)

*Contact:*
(250) 766 -1299
lakecountryartgallery at shaw.ca
*www.lakecountryartgallery.ca <http://www.lakecountryartgallery.ca>*
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