<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 27, 2019 </b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Lake Country</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Cloth Culture</b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Beth Howe  Zoe Kreye  Tiziana La Melia  Holly Ward  </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Cloth Tone: Larissa Beringer  Lindsay Lorraine</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Opening Reception:</b> Thursday Oct. 3rd, 6-8pm</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">This exhibition brings together five artists from British Columbia to </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">explore the tacit emotional and </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">experiential resonance that is </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">uncovered through the active labor of material production and bodily </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">awareness. Through the </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">manipulation and engagement with varying soft mediums, these works create a visual </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">language that challenges a pervasive, passive relationship to contemporary material culture. By revealing a sensitivity to the inherent value of bodily experience, tactility, and form - a certain vibrancy calls attention to these artists’ </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">relationship to process and labor, well-being, the </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">environment and body.</span></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>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="http://www.lakecountryartgallery.ca" target="_blank">www.lakecountryartgallery.ca</a></font><br><br><font size="4">Summer Hours:</font><br><font size="4">10am-4pm daily</font><br><br>10356A Bottom Wood Lake Rd<br>Lake Country, British Columbia<br>V4V 1T9<br><br>(250) 766 -1299<br><a href="mailto:lakecountryartgallery@shaw.ca" target="_blank">lakecountryartgallery@shaw.ca</a></font></div></div></div></div>