<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 24, 2020 </b></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Let’s Eat Cake from 12 to 2pm!</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Lake Country artists Alison Beaumont and Lynette Schlichting come together with Vancouver based artists Katherine Coe and Eve Leader for the exhibition<i> Significance Stares at Me from Everywhere</i>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Alison Beaumont is a photography/digital artist and her video installation, <i>Left Behind</i>, occupies the front portion of the gallery while Lynette Schlichting’s assemblage sculptures meander throughout the gallery. Lynette Schlichting has a diverse background in film, set and costume design and combines this knowledge with her visual art practice. Eve Leader’s paintings and drawings are displayed on the walls and Katherine Coe’s installation fills the back of the gallery. Eve Leader’s abstract paintings are haunting and speak to the human condition. Katherine Coe is a multidisciplinary artist bringing drawing, printmaking, sculpture into her installation work.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Through drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and video, Beaumont, Coe, Leader, and Schlichting discuss contemporary subjects, the mystery of life, darkness, and beauty. <i>Significance Stares at Me from Everywhere</i> is up at the LC Art Gallery until August 16th.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">July 1st: <span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>LAWN SALE in the ArtHouse Gardens from 12pm to 8pm.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lots of time to safely browse supplies for artists at this huge clearcut of frames, </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>matboard, art supplies and curiosities. PLUS, a Trouble-shooting Frame Workshop: bring your art/photos, pick out a frame and get help putting it all together.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">July 4th:<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>OPEN HOUSE for <i>Significance Stares at Me from Everywhere</i>, 9am to 3pm. <span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> Cake will be served from 12pm to 2pm.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Submission </b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Call: </b><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Me, Looking at you, Looking at Me: Contemplating the Female Gaze Juried Members’ Exhibition. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> Open to all members of the LCAG. Artwork can be any size and medium. All submissions accepted by email only. Contact curator for more <span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>details. DEADLINE August 12th.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b>Media Contact:</b> Wanda Lock - curator tel: 250 864 5597 email: <a href="mailto:wandalock@shaw.ca"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">wandalock@shaw.ca</span></a></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><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">NEW 2020 Summer Open Hours:</font><br><font size="4">9am-3pm Monday to Saturday</font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><i style="font-size:x-small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">*except for exhibition change-overs (see website for dates)</i><br></div><div dir="ltr"><i style="font-size:x-small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></i></div><div><i style="font-size:x-small;font-family:verdana,sans-serif">closed on Sunday</i></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><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></div></div></div></div>