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Who: Vernon Public Art Gallery<br>
What: Exhibition Opening Reception | <i>Children of Icarus</i></span></p>
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Thursday, March 14, 2019 | 6:00 – 8:00 pm<br>
Where: Vernon Public Art Gallery<br>
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Features Contemporary Aviation Exhibition</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
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The Board of Directors and Executive Director, Dauna Kennedy, invite you and a guest to the opening reception of <i>Children of Icarus </i>by Keith Harder at the Vernon Public Art Gallery, on the evening of March 14<sup>th</sup>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
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EN-US">Harder’s
photorealistic work of cloud formations and aviation are stunning to look at, but this exhibition challenges you to look deeper into the context in which the individual pieces were created. We are excited to bring this work to Vernon and hope you make a point
of stopping in to see <i>Children of Icarus.</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
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Kennedy, VPAG Executive Director</span></p>
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Harder’s exhibition <i>Children of Icarus</i>, featured in the Topham Brown Memorial Gallery from March 14 – May 11,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.5pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;
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The most recent large-scale paintings in the series titled</span><i> ILL Winds</i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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while the small-scale, intimate paintings from the series titled <i>Anamnesis</i> highlight the details of decrepit fuselages of vintage airplanes. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">The opening reception takes place from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at the Vernon Public Art Gallery located at 3228 31<sup>st</sup> Ave
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<i>ILL Winds: East</i>, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 108” x 78”</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
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