We Meet Again

an exhibition of works by Jim Kalnin, alongside works by these twenty one artists and former students of Jim's:

Roseanne Bennett; Lee Claremont; Glenn Clark; Carin Covin; Rob Fee; Caitlin Ffrench; Bev Gordon; Natasha Harvey; Lois Huey-Heck; Judith Jurica; Kerry MacLeod; Christian Nicolay; Shauna Oddleifson; Amber Powell; Crystal Przybille; Sarah Ronald; Joanne Sale; Charles Scholl; Tia-Maria Soroskie; Rena Warren; Ingrid Mann-Willis

Roots & Gardens
Black Liquorice Studio Pop-Up Exhibition

September 10th to 24th

Featuring the work of eight Okanagan-based artists:

Cassandra Adjetey, Moozhan Ahmadzadegan, Hana Hamaguchi, Maura Tamez, Xiaoxuan Huang, Lady Dia, Trophy Ewila and Meg Yamamoto.

While diverse in subject and medium, their work investigates the way an exploration of our roots and intersections of identity informs and creates our sense of home—home as a material reality: soil, stone, tree, flowers budding into fruit and life—a garden of relations that is placed in the imagination.

Roots&Gardens invites viewers to consider the ways we make home for ourselves—while occupying Syilx Land and the ways we invite or exclude others from doing the same.

ABOUT BLACK LIQUORICE STUDIO
Black Liquorice Studio is the growing BIPOC artist collective. With this inaugural exhibit, as with future activities, Black Liquorice Studio aims to provide a platform for underrepresented artists in the Okanagan; create opportunities for those artists to build professional relationships with other artists and arts organizations; to foster the development of new ideas and approaches in art and artists' working lives.

PRINCIPLES OF ENCLOSURE

July 24rd to September 3rd

Gambletron, Johnny Forever Nawracaj, Zev Tiefenbach

Principles of Enclosure is an exhibition that brings together three artists whose works converge around the precarity of the contemporary built environment.

Functional obsolescence increasingly defines much of the current architectural landscape in so-called Canada, with new builds arising at mushrooming speeds and lightweight materials enabling easy teardown. The real estate boom has seen whole hillsides spring suburban developments while postwar stone bungalows in denser urban areas are torn down and replaced with large, boxy drywall structures decoratively clad in stone veneer barely belying the newbuild's susceptibility to fast decay.

Through this exhibition, Tiefenbach, Nawracaj and Gambletron are leaning into the vacillating sense of alienation and familiarly brought on by the residential build environment. Teifenbach's photographs of local dwelling spaces, construction sites, and material decay dialogue with Forever Nawracaj's digital collage pairing ubiquitous construction materials with equally cheaply-made objects, such as wigs, made to  construct and signify gendered identity. Meanwhile, Gambletron's sound installation acts as a sonic and material counterpart to the hung work.
Each artist's work invites audiences to consider the social and environmental implications of constructed space. With the current massive inflation of the housing market and the rash of new developments springing up throughout the Okanagan valley, this collaborative exhibition is pertinent to the local social context.
 
Johnny Forever Nawracaj is a nonbinary Polish-born artist exploring themes of loss, labour, and identity through video, performance, installation, and digital collage. Experimental narrative given through text, image, and the manipulation of objects drives the artist's work toward interrogations of social norms, the creation of myth, and the ubiquity of technologies taken for granted in late-capitalist urban environments. Foregrounding the liminal, Johnny Forever settles in flux between concepts, between technologies, and between identities.
Forever's work is characterized by bold physicality and a demeanor that vacillates between playfulness and frustration. A former drag-queen who now supports their artistic practice doing home renovation work, the artist often makes use of queer femme tropes in surrealist combination with contemporary construction materials. Their work draws attention to the construction of identity as well as the precarity of the built environment. Forever's strange combinations of wigs and stilettos with steel wall studs and drywall or classical collanges become metaphors for vulnerability of structures both physical and theoretical.
 
Gambletron is a nonbinary sound artist and performer who has been working with radio for the past decade. They don't simply make sound works for radio, but rather use the radio medium itself to build installations for performance as well as stand-alone sculptural pieces. Using short-range FM radio transmitters, the artist transmits their original soundscapes through various installations built from radios and situated in environments selected for their acoustic qualities. Gambletron views the radio medium as a vast expanse of potential for building modular sound systems that can be stacked, hung, swung or moved in and out of interesting acoustic space to augment live performance. As well as providing aesthetic interest, antique and vintage radios produce uniquely coloured sound- a haunting sound, pierced through with that characteristic crackling evocative of radio's powerful history. Gambletron is fascinated with the history of the radio platform as a tool for community building and political resistance. It is a technology that resonates in the collective memory of many communities, shaping time and transforming shared space.
 
zev tiefenbach is a social realist photographer whose practice explores the relationship between the physicality of place and the narratives that construct and are formed by the spaces we inhabit. tiefenbach is particularly interested in exploring the landscape as a site of a trauma, looking for clues that speak to the impacts of colonialism, genocide, capitalism, gender trauma and environmental crisis in our topography. tiefenbach’s photos are also inextricably linked to his own personal narrative and trajectory through the world. their bodies of work, become a documentation of their performance of being a photographer interested in exploring the beauty and sadness imbued in our public spaces. tiefenbach’s grandparents are all holocaust survivors. this family history roots the artist's work in a post-holocaust ethos. For tiefenbach landscape is understood as ephemeral, ever-shifting, and imbued with social values. tiefenbach’s archive of photographic performance seeks to create a subjective social record of a collective life that is ever vanishing.

Fundraising Exhibition & Sale of Original Art
by members of the Lake Country Art Gallery
 
Hundreds of original artworks under $100, plus NEW feature offering additional works at up to $500
 
Over 60 participating artists

Feature wall designed by Kelowna Lake Country MLA Norm Letnick
 
Friday Dec 3rd from 6pm First Night Event:

FRONT OF THE LINE
- exclusive entry by ticket - MORE INFORMATION HERE

Public Opening Saturday Dec 4 from 9am-3pm
Open 6 days per week Tue-Sun, 9am-3pm
December 4 to December 21

Fun events for all the family throughout the exhibition including ...

• Saturday Dec 11th Family Button Making by donation in the ArtHouse 10am-2pm
• Friday Dec 18th Night Market of specially selected Artisans 4pm - 8pm
• Saturday Dec 18th OPEN-MIC all day

2021 Member Artists participating in this year's Over/ Under 100 exhibition - look for your favourites, discover new artists to add to your collection,

Amanda Dagg; Anne Gidluck; Angela Hansen; Audrey Peat; Anke Sabo; Adrianna Singleton; Ann Willsie; Bev Gordon; Carney Oudendag; Cecile Derkatch; Charlotte Ford; Cheryl Turner; Carol Zuckerman; Darrel Giesbrecht; Dianne Postman; Denise Patrick; Danielle Erickson; Denise Wandt; Elizabeth Christie; Frieda Martin; Geoffrey Nagel; Izabela Bogdanovic; Jaine Buse; Jax Dolman; Jamie Frazer; Judy Hamilton; Jolene Mackie; Kristi Clarke; Kathy Hale; Kayleigh Mace; Kathryn Ross; Liz Earl; Earl; Leanne Spanza; Lynette Stebner; Moozhan Ahmadzadegan; Michaela Bridgemohan; Maud Besson; Michelle Droettboom; Michael Griffin; Minnie Klashinsky; Margaret Kyle; Maureen Lejbak; Marlene G McPherson; Nancy Dearborn; Nancy Archer; Paulette Deyholos; Paul Lewendon; Robert; Guenette; Susan Collinge; Shauna Oddleifson; Suzanne Dansereau; Shirley MacMahon; Sharlene E McNeill; Susan Moore; Susan Neilson; Sheila Tansey; Shannon Wylie; Susan Yost; Tina Siddiqui; Valerie Thompson.

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The sea, once it casts its spell,
holds one in its net of wonder forever…
- Jacques Yves Cousteau

Sea of Love: to have passionate desire, longing and feelings for something or
someone: to like or desire very much
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Sea of Love is a homage to nature, ecosystems, connections, and discoveries.
Artists Shannon Lester and Endrene Shepherd are immersed in an artistic practice that offers commentary, anecdotes and observations of the natural world.

Shannon Lester
...is a visual artist and teacher based in the Okanagan since 1999. He works primarily in acrylic on canvas and has explored topics related to gender identity and sexuality in the past. His current work has moved more into the realms of fantasy, mysticism, surrealism and nature spirituality with a strong focus on underwater/ocean art.
Lester grew up in Newfoundland and spent six years living and teaching in Osaka, Japan where he started the drag-based performance art collective Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2009. He is also a local drag personality known as Sasha Zamolodchikova in Kelowna and entertains regularly at different venues in BC and beyond.

Endrene Shepherd
Born in Vancouver and raised in the rural setting of Kaleden, BC, Endrené displayed an aptitude for art-making from an early age. She learned how to handle watercolours from her grandfather, and has made art the focal point of her life for as long as she has existed. She graduated from the Capilano College Film Studies program in 1999, and went on to get a BFA degree from UBCO in 2004. Her work has been exhibited in exhibitions locally and internationally.

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