[BCMA] [MEDIA RELEASE] I Must Be Streaming opens at Kelowna Art Gallery

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For Immediate Release

‘I Must Be Streaming’ opens at Kelowna Art Gallery

Jorden Doody: I Must Be Streaming
July 25 to November 1, 2020

July 27, 2020 – Kelowna, BC: Artist Jorden Doody unveils her new installation I Must Be Streaming this week at the Kelowna Art Gallery. In it, visitors are invited to enter a disorienting world of larger than life icons constructed from unexpected materials that aims to have them question their notions of ‘reality’.

Doody produces her creations by blending new media technologies with digital printing, and contemporary materials like faux fur and vinyl, while incorporating traditional modes of craft like quilting, felting, and painting. The result is an environment that blurs the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the tactile and the imaginary.

Wrapping the gallery’s walls is a hand-painted mural called Networth (2020) that features organic web-like blue lines that envelope the viewer in the room. Suspended within this are a number of objects that have been dramatically enlarged and re-imagined. Saturated (2020) is a giant person-sized toilet roll that is made of quilted fabric with hand-painted symbols on each sheet. Heartfelt (2019) is a six-foot tall blood-red felted heart that is suspended from the ceiling by a thick gold chain.  Fool’s Gold (2020) is a titan twelve-foot tall lightning bolt that is hard to ignore, mounted high on a wall in punchy green AstroTurf.

The combined visual impact of the installation is powerful and a little unsettling. The artist hopes that the work will challenge visitors to be critical of the worlds in which they live—that they might reflect on their own concepts of connectivity and consider the effects these have on their relationships and in their daily lives.

I Must Be Streaming runs until November 1, 2020.

Jorden Doody is an interdisciplinary artist who examines the transitional spaces between tangible material and digital media. She is based in Kelowna and is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

The Kelowna Art Gallery is located at 1315 Water Street in the heart of the downtown Cultural District. For more information, please visit them online at www.kelownaartgallery.com<http://www.kelownaartgallery.com> or call 250-762-2226.

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Installation photograph of Jorden Doody’s I Must Be Streaming at the Kelowna Art Gallery, 2020.

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Jorden Doody, Fool’s Gold, 2020, synthetic lawn, wood, 12 x 4 ft.
Jorden Doody, Saturated, 2020, digital print on textile, polyester batting, wood, cardboard, 4 x 4 x 4 ft.

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Jorden Doody, i feel u, 2019, black faux fur, wood, 4 x 12 ft.

[online resources]
Webpage: https://kelownaartgallery.com/i-must-be-streaming
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelownaartgallery<https://www.instagram.com/kelownaartgallery/>

Artist’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordenblue<https://www.instagram.com/jordenblue/>
Artist’s Website: https://twoartists.net


To arrange for an interview with the artist, additional high-res images, or for other media enquiries, please contact:

Joshua Desnoyers | Marketing and Events Coordinator

Kelowna Art Gallery
1315 Water Street | Kelowna, BC | V1Y 9R3
250-762-2226 ext. 305 | 250-762-9875 fax
josh at kelownaartgallery.com<mailto:josh at kelownaartgallery.com>  |  www.kelownaartgallery.com<http://www.kelownaartgallery.com>



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