<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 5, 2018</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Pulp Fiction Paper Jam</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Carin Covin</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Without Giving Way</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Heather Leier</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">July 11th - August 26th</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Opening Reception:</b> Wednesday, July 11th 6-8pm</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Existential Cafe: </b>Sunday, July 15th 2pm</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Lake Country Art Gallery is pleased to bring two exhibitions to the gallery this summer. Carin Covin and Heather Leier use drawing, printmaking, and installation to create two individual exhibitions.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(53,64,64)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Carin Covin received her BFA from Okanagan University College in 2003, and her MFA from UBC Okanagan in 2010. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(53,64,64)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">As a drawer and a painter, her current research interests are in the intersection of creative writing and visual language. She is interested in the diary form and the lyric essay and how these writing genres interweave into a contemporary painting and drawing practice.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(41,41,41)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Heather Leier is an artist and Professor soon to be based in Calgary, Alberta as she is currently on the move from Corner Brook, Newfoundland. She completed her BFA from the University of British Columbia in 2012 and received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(41,41,41)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta in 2016. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(41,41,41)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leier's work has been exhibited in many international exhibitions including The International Biennial Print Exhibit: ROC at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art and 2015 Guanlan International Print Biennial in Guanlan China. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented by Martha Street Studio (Winnipeg), The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (Kelowna), and the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning (Duluth). </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Upcoming Events:</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Pulp Fiction Paper Jam/ Carin Covin: </b>July 11-Aug 26</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Without Giving Way/Heather Leier: </b>July 11-Aug 26</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Opening Reception: </b>Wednesday, July 11th, 6-8pm</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Existential Cafe:</b> Sunday, July 15th, 2pm</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>CALL TO ARMS: </b>Sign of the Times: the Art of Protest application deadline, August 1st. Details on the gallery website.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 16.6px;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Summer Monster Camp: </b>Register now for Summer Monster Camp, July 9th-13th at the LC Art House. Details on the gallery website.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Media Contact</b>: Wanda Lock - curator tel: 250 864 5597 or 250 766 4873 email: <a href="mailto:wandalock@shaw.ca"><span style="font-size:11px;line-height:normal">wandalock@shaw.ca</span></a></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">____________________________<br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><p><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:windowtext"><font face="Arial Narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Lake Country Art Gallery:</span></font><font face="Helvetica Neue, serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></span></u></b><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">10356A Bottom Wood Lake Rd<br></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">Lake Country, British Columbia<br></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">V4V 1T9</span></p><p><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;color:windowtext"><span style="font-size:11pt">Gallery Hours:</span><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></span></u></b><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">Wed,</span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun 10am-4pm<br></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">(closed Mon-Tue)</span></p><p><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;color:windowtext">Contact:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:2pt;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;color:windowtext"> <br></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif">(250) 766 -1299<br></span><span style="color:windowtext;font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif"><a href="mailto:lakecountryartgallery@shaw.ca">lakecountryartgallery@shaw.ca</a><br></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.lakecountryartgallery.ca">www.lakecountryartgallery.ca</a></span></b></p><p><b> <br></b></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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