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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt">Artist puts together sculptural paintings like puzzles<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Wally Dion: Mapping Me In …<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-CA">July 4 to September 20, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>July 9, 2015 – Kelowna, BC:</b> Visitors to a new show at the Kelowna Art Gallery by artist Wally Dion will no doubt be intrigued by the works hanging on the wall – these aren’t your typical paintings. Colourful,
repeated geometric forms are rendered in relief, and bridge the gap between sculpture and painting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Wally Dion <span style="background:white">
likes to work with small units that he fits together like puzzle pieces to create his final images. He incorporates hand-made concentric wooden structures and makes use of</span> “tracks” within the structures that he fills with layer upon layer of paint. The
results may remind visitors of the way the rings of a tree look when cut in a cross section.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The exhibition, entitled<i> Mapping Me In …</i> is guest curated by Felicia Gay and is one in the Kelowna Art Gallery’s
<i>One on One</i> series. This series is curated each year by an emerging Canadian First Nations curator who selects an emerging Canadian First Nations artist to work with. This year Saskatoon-based freelance curator Felicia Gay selected Wally Dion.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Wally Dion holds a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited extensively throughout Canada and has had numerous solo exhibitions. His work can be found
in prominent collections, including the Canada Council Art Bank, MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina), and the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Wally Dion: Mapping Me In …
</span></i><span lang="EN-CA">will be on view at the Kelowna Art Gallery through September 20, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The Kelowna Art Gallery is located at 1315 Water Street in downtown Kelowna. For more information about current exhibitions, public programming or special events, please visit the Kelowna Art Gallery online at
www.kelownaartgallery.com or call 250-762-2226.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">- 30 -<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">[Image Credits]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Wally Dion,<i> steppes,</i> 2014, acrylic and acrylic medium on plywood, 27 ½ x 27½ in. (69.8 x 69.8 cm)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Wally Dion, <i>bisected concentric, </i>2014<i>,</i>coloured paper on wood, 17½ x 10 in. (44.4 x 25.4 cm)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Wally Dion, <i>concentric, </i>2014, acrylic and acrylic medium on plywood, 23 ½ x 23½ in. (59.7 x 59.7 cm)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Wally Dion, <i>ziggurat, </i>2014, acrylic and acrylic medium on plywood, 4 ¼ x 22 ¼ x 22 ¼ in. (11.4 x 56.5 x 56.5 cm)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Kelowna Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">1315 Water Street | Kelowna, BC | V1Y 9R3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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