States of Unrest: Emerging Artist Group Show November 26 – December 18, 2010 Curated by Anita Levesque Brian Cullen – CAMOUFLAGE: Artist Statement and Project Description […] architecture, fashion — yes, even the weather — are, in the interior of the collective, what the sensoria of the organs, the feeling of sickness and health, are inside the individual. — Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project Materials and Form: 4 series of pattern representations — paintings — using wooden strips painted with industrial house pigments, and stacked in frames leaned
Read More »Between the Lines May 28 to June 26, 2010 Artist Talk on Friday, June 18 at 7:30 pm Portraits by Fire Between the Lines: A Cross-Section of the Canadian Canon consists of seventeen salvaged, door skin panels: fifteen black and white (29 ½ “ x 17”) and two coloured panels (48” x 48”). The portraits are done with large and small-scale pyrography, or fire drawing. One could also say they burn with wise passion. Arin Fay’s cross-section includes literary stars such as Atwood, Gallant, Munro, and Shields as well
Read More »Heartlab: Noticed Growth Residency August 1 to 30, 2009 Exhibition September 1-30, 2009 This work represents a new chapter in our ongoing exploration of the relationship between text and image. We like to think of our work as installation narratives, with ourselves, the artists, as main characters. As our setting changes, so does our focus. Resonance has been created in response and in relation to the surrounding simplicity of the foothills and prairies. This simplicity has inspired us to playfully represent the essence of words as sound, and image
Read More »travelfreetravel July 1-31, 2009 What is a tourist and how accurate are their experiences? “travelfreetravel” is a new transatlantic collaboration between artists Bernardine Carroll in Ireland and Maggie Shirley in Canada. The two artists will take up dual residence in art galleries in their native countries during June and July to develop collaborative work that examines the notion of prescribed experiences of tourists in real tourist locales. Through their unconventional travel agency they intend to pilot their participants on fanciful adventures via the Internet and its wondrous facilities. This multi-disciplinary
Read More »Imprisonment For Removal May 30 to June 27, 2009 Imprisonment for Removal, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Nakusp artist Betty Fahlman. The exhibition title is inspired by the text on a British Columbia Survey stake that Fahlman found during walks among tree stumps and their exposed massive root systems at the old Arrow Park town site. These documentary portraits depict how the stumps’ root systems have become more exposed with every lowering and rising of the Arrow Lakes Reservoir. Fahlman invites the viewer to see the destructive impact
Read More »2009 Judy Wapp was born in Minneapolis, U.S.A., has a fine arts degree from the University of Minnesota and attended the Art Students League of New York. She has shown extensively in Canada and the U.S. and lives in the interior of British Columbia. As part of a mail art network since the 1980s, she has had work exhibited in eastern and western Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. “I use images from the mass media to give a second look at what surrounds us every day.&#
Read More »Chuck Stake at Oxygen November 28 to December 20, 2008 DON MABIE/CHUCK STAKE – ARTIST STATEMENT “It is clear that ethics cannot be put into words. Ethics is transcendental. (Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.)” Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein; Page: 71. I have written many Artist Statements in the past thirty-five years or so. For many years these statements usually approached my work in terms of its formal structure, and, only subsequently, moved on to issues of content. In time issues of content became more important and
Read More »Project for Paper July 2008 Working with local forestry, history and land use issues and the very real stumps they leave in their wake, PROJECT FOR PAPER is an emerging public art installation that will culminate in an exhibition of David’s work at Oxygen on July 25th. Weekly Open Studio, Wednesdays, July 9 – 23, 7pm: Oxygen invites the public to drop by the Arts Centre, and talk with the artist about the project’s objectives and process, as well as get a look into the workings of the project itself. artist
Read More »Tracking Time May 30 to June 21, 2008 Rachel Yoder, abstract painter, and Julie Castonguay, photographer, collaborate in investigating the effect on the individual of time passing in the context of exploring the differences and similarities between painting and photography in an installation titled Tracking Time. Rachel Yoder is a carpenter, and Julie Castonguay is a forester, which brings a rich field of related imagery into play. Each individual has a unique experience of time, and of the events that shape her memory and her personality. Life deposits memories like
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