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<p class="MsoNormal">For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Immersive installations on view at Kelowna Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>Fabrications<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i>Installation works by Gisele Amantea, Yael Brotman,
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Libby Hague, and Laura Vickerson<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">February 4 to April 16, 2017<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>February 24, 2017 – Kelowna, BC:</b><em><span style="color:black">
</span></em><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">A new exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery entitled</span></em><em><span style="color:black"> Fabrications</span></em><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal"> features work by four women artists
who are from different regions of Canada, but all of whom work in installation. A
</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black">common thread among them is the physically demanding and
</span></span><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">labour-intensive processes each artist undertakes to construct their pieces.</span></em><em><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">Viewers will no doubt feel immersed in the enveloping quality of these installations, each one of which reflects a completely different sensibility. For example,
Laura Vickerson’s installation entitled </span></em><em><span style="color:black">Air,
</span></em><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">invites visitors to remove their footwear and lie below a sea of cream-coloured semi-transparent articles of used clothing that have been sewn together and suspended nearly 10 feet above the Gallery’s
floor. </span></em><span style="color:black">Libby Hague’s installation entitled
<i>Habitat</i> may give viewers the impression of a wall-sized graphic novel. One portion of Hague’s installation appears to offer a glimpse at the messy lives, thoughts, and feelings of the inhabitants of an apartment complex.
</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black">Gisele Amantea’s work entitled
<i>Remember the Ladies</i> uses the medium of flocking, which</span></span><i><span style="color:black">
</span></i><span style="color:black">results in a rich velvety surface for her enormous text piece that wraps around three 14-feet-high walls.
<em><span style="font-style:normal">Yael Brotman’s installation entitled </span></em><em>Mountains dance like rams</em><em><span style="font-style:normal"> includes intriguing geometrically-shaped sculptures, some of which stand on tall spindly-looking tables
that were custom made, while others are clustered together to form a mountain in one corner.<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">These four senior artists have created distinctive spaces for visitors to explore and discover.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal">A </span></em>fully illustrated, 48-page catalogue, which includes an essay by curator, Liz Wylie, and a text by guest essayist, independent curator and writer Diana Sherlock, from Calgary,
has been produced to coincide with the exhibition.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Fabrications</i> is on view until April 16, 2017.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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"><b>- 30 –<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Photos: Guests explore the <i>Fabrications</i> exhibition on opening night<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Glenna Turnbull Photography<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more information, to schedule an interview, or for additional high-res images please contact:<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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