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In A Different Light - the Landscape in Art

7/20/2014

 
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We live in a beautiful place. And at this time of year, many would say, the Okanagan is at its best: beautiful, clear, blue skies; deep, refreshing bodies of water; wonderful food and wine, and art sprinkled throughout. It is likely that somewhere in your travels this summer, you will see a landscape painting of a vineyard, orchard or expansive vista in the warm glow of early evening light rendered in a realistic, yet painterly style.

While there is value in the conventions of contemporary landscape painting, where everything looks especially serene and lovely, what about looking at the landscape in a slightly different way?

In it’s upcoming exhibition “In a Different LIght - the Landscape in Art”, the Lake Country Art Gallery, will present the work of two artists who look at the landscape and depict it a slightly different way. There will be an opening reception held on Wednesday, July 23rd from 6 - 8pm.

The exhibition will consist of work by Powell River based artist Rick Cepella and Toronto based artist Stephen Fisher, who each present the landscape in a much different light.

Like many BC-based artists, Cepella is drawn to the land, physically - decades of outdoor activities, twelve years of work as a biological surveyor and countless hours of field drawing and painting in the rugged backcountry of western Canada continue to shape his work. His work is marked by a free and gestural quality that threatens to break loose from representation totally. Marks, that seem like vast and stormy peaks, upon closer inspection, break down into drips and slips of paint.

Fisher on the other hand, takes a more scientific looking approach. Drawing on the idea of terraforming, Fisher attempts to explore our desire to shape the world through constructions, and manipulations of the landscape. Much of his work deals with expressing landforms and landscape in non-traditional manners with preference given to exploring the imagined, digital, and fabricated rather than the natural, such as diagrammatic drawings and paintings.

The pairing of the work of Cepella and Fisher presents landscape in a totally different light. “In A Different Light - the Landscape in Art” featuring the work of Rich Cepella and Stephen Fisher opens on Wednesday, July 23rd with an opening reception from 6 - 8pm. It is free and open to the public. The exhibition runs from July 23rd to August 29th. Admission to the gallery is free and open to the public.

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