<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div>Happy New Year!</div><div><br></div>-- <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:17px;text-align:center"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 3, 2019, </b></span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';text-align:center;font-size:15px;line-height:normal"><b>Lake Country</b></span>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:26px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>What’s Still Here, What Came Before Us</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Liz Ranney Nicole Young</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i>Featuring</i> Leila Neverland</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">January 12th to February 24th</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Opening Reception: Saturday, January 12th, 2-4pm</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;min-height:18px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></p>Liz Ranney and Nicole Young’s exhibition <i>What’s Still Here, What Came Before Us </i>is a visual response to the work of poet and musician <span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px">Leila Neverland. It explores themes of femininity, the environment and </span>the collaboration<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px"> itself. Surfaces were passed back and forth between Liz and Nicole and built up in painted layers to create a reflection on Leila’s lyrics. The environment and femininity are topics that both artists explore in their works </span><div dir="ltr">
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">separately, and the inspiration to create works in the context of Neverland’s writing came from an interest in the collaborative process itself. Would it be hard to relinquish control over these paintings, would each artist’s experience of these lyrics be </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:15px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">similar or disparate? This exhibition calls for consideration of how painting and music come together as tools for storytelling, both </span>narratively and of the process of painting itself. </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:14px;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</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">email: <a href="mailto:wandalock@shaw.ca"><span style="line-height:normal">wandalock@shaw.ca</span></a></span></p><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><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">Tue, 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)</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></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>