JOURNAL 47
MAY-AUG 2015
1315 Water Street,
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Left to right: Clea Haugo, Joshua Desnoyers, Kyle L. Poirier, Renée Burgess, Nataley Nagy, Liz Wylie,
Kelsie Balehowsky, Brenda Feist, Hanss Lujan.
Executive Director’s Message
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Family: $10
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The challenge of strengthening and deepening the relevance of the
Kelowna Art Gallery to our region and beyond continues to be an
exciting task for those of us who work and volunteer on the Gallery’s
behalf. An important part of this effort is exploring ways to better
serve you, our members, and to reach out to new audiences who will
increase our attendance, profile, and benefit to the community. I
believe that the upcoming lineup of nationally recognized exhibitions,
publications, educational programs, and community-based projects is
an excellent demonstration of the strides we are making in fostering a
deeper appreciation for the visual arts and providing opportunities for
people to be inspired, to learn, to create, and sometimes, to debate.
Of course, we could not fulfill our mission without you.
All of us, the Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers of the Kelowna
Art Gallery, would like to thank you, our donors, members and friends,
for your continued support of the Gallery.
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Cover image:
Edwin Holgate, Fire Ranger, 1926.
Oil on canvas, 73 x 64 cm. Hart House Art
Collection, University of Toronto, Purchased by
the Hart House Art Committee, 1925/26.
We hope you will visit us often, as there is always something to see
and do at the Kelowna Art Gallery. And as always, let me know
about anything we can do to make your experience richer and more
enjoyable. Your feedback is important to us.
All the best,
Nataley Nagy ([email protected])
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Yvonne Houser, South Shore, Quebec, (detail), 1933. Oil on canvas, 82 x 97.5 cm.
Hart House Art Collection, University of Toronto, Donated by the graduating year of 1934.
Charles Comfort, Young Canadian (detail), 1932. Watercolour on paper, 92 x 107.3 cm.
Hart House Art Collection, University of Toronto, Purchased by the Hart House Sketch Committee, 1934/35.
A Story of Canadian Art:
As Told by the Hart House Art Collection
Opening Reception
Friday, May 8, 7 to 9 pm
This is a free event, open to members and guests by invitation.
May 9 to July 19, 2015
The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased and honoured to be a venue this
summer for this important touring exhibition of historical Canadian art.
The forty paintings in this show are all in the collection of the Justina
M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House, University of Toronto. Independent
curator Dr. Christine Boyanoski has structured the exhibition and has
written the text in the beautiful catalogue that accompanies the show.
Kelowna audiences will have the rare opportunity to see paintings
by nine members of the Group of Seven (who actually numbered
ten artists before they expanded to form the Canadian Group of
Painters in 1932), as well as by Tom Thomson, David Milne, and other
artists active in the early to mid twentieth century. These include an
impressive number of women artists, including Prudence Heward,
Lilias Torrance Newton, Paraskeva Clark, Kathleen Morris, and Bess
and Yvonne Housser. Works by these women painters have never
previously been exhibited in Kelowna.
A Story of Canadian Art is organized and circulated by the Justina M.
Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto, Canada). The
exhibition is financially supported by the Museums Assistance Program
of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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Curator’s Talk
Friday, May 8, 7 pm
Dr. Christine Boyanoski, curator of A Story of
Canadian Art, will give a talk about the history and
importance of the Hart House art collection. Boyanoski
is an independent curator, lecturer and writer based
in Toronto and is currently working on a book
about modern Canadian art in the context of British
imperialism.
Lunch and Talk with David Silcox
Saturday, May 9, 1 pm
In celebration of A Story of Canadian Art, please join
us for a talk called Behind the Podium at Sotheby’s,
accompanied by a buffet lunch. Silcox recently stepped
down as President of Sotheby’s Canada after managing
twelve of Sotheby’s best years. Previously he held
posts in government, education, and the arts. He will
deliver an engaging and amusing lecture about the
adventures and peculiarities of the art auction world.
Cost: $25.00 ($20.00 for members). Call in advance to register.
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Jeroen Witvliet, The Tower (Wayfarer series) (detail), 2014, oil on canvas, 70 x 79 in. (180 x 200 cm).
Jeroen Witvliet, Day to Night to Day, number 21 (detail), 2014, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 cm.
Wayfarer
July 25 to October 18, 2015
The title of Victoria, BC-based artist Jeroen Witvliet’s solo exhibition
at the Kelowna Art Gallery is taken from a painting he knows well,
created in c. 1500 by Hieronymus Bosch that hangs in the Boijmans
van Beuingen Museum in Witvliet’s “home town” of Rotterdam in the
Netherlands. Wayfarer is also the title given by the artist to his recent
series of large, dark paintings that will be in the exhibition, along
with his Day/Night/Day Stadium paintings, and small works depicting
human hands at an enlarged scale.
The exhibition has been considered as a complete experience, an
installation, rather than a gathering of discrete works. Witvliet is
interested in activating the entire gallery space, and in visitors’
interactions once they are in this space. He is fascinated by the
dynamic nature of political and social situations, and with ambiguity
and memory. The Wayfarer paintings are dense and puzzling works,
fascinating in their seemingly random detail – mounds of discarded
stuff along with branches, as though the entire contents of each
composition has been readied for a bonfire.
Opening Reception
Friday, July 24, 7 to 9 pm
Artist’s talk at 7 pm.
This is a free event, open to members and guests by invitation.
Quick Talks in Fall 2015
Watch for details in our e-newsletter, and on our website and Facebook
page about our upcoming Quick Talks in September, featuring Jeroen
Witvliet.
Did you know?
We have a monthly e-newsletter. Keep up to date on the latest news,
events and exhibitions at the Kelowna Art Gallery. You can sign up to
receive it at www.kelownaartgallery.com.
Witvliet completed his MFA from the University of Victoria in painting in
2014. He is currently living and working on Vancouver Island, outside
of Victoria.
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Wally Dion, Steppes (detail), 2014, acrylic and medium on plywood, 27½ x 27½ in. (69.8 x 69.8 cm).
Over the winter the artists have been amassing materials and planning their installation.
Mapping Me In …
The Artist’s Garden Project
July 4 to September 20, 2015
The Kelowna Art Gallery’s One on One series is curated every spring by
an emerging Canadian First Nations curator who selects an emerging
Canadian First Nations artist to work with. Each exhibition will be
accompanied by a web-based publication. This year the Kelowna
Art Gallery is pleased to be working with Saskatoon-based curator
Felicia Gay, who has selected artist Wally Dion for the exhibition.
He is also from Saskatoon but has recently been dividing his time
between there and Binghamton, New York. Dion will be showing recent
works, produced in 2013 and 2014, that are made up from a massing
together of smaller, identical components and involve “tracks” that
have been filled with paint. Dion likes to work with small units that he
fits together like puzzle pieces to create his final works.
The One-on-One series is conceived of as an open-ended, collaborative
project. It is intended that both the curator and artist be on hand for
the opening of the exhibition.
Opening Reception
Friday, July 3, 7 to 9 pm
The artist and curator will give a talk at 7 pm.
This is a free event, open to members and guests by invitation.
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Pieces of What
May 2015 to April 2016
Vernon-based artists Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante and her son
Maxwell Sterry teamed up to create this year’s installation in our
Artist’s Garden Project. Their piece will have an environmental theme
and will feature translucent columns strung with spherical objects
made from clean trash. Along the sides of the space will be vegetables
and herbs growing in self-watering bins. The produce will be harvested
in the fall by gallery visitors. Whether the columns are references
to past civilizations or those of the future is up to one’s personal
interpretation. Complete with seating and lighting, this installation
promises to be an intriguing gallery experience.
Opening Reception
Friday, July 3, 7 to 9 pm
The artists will give a talk at 7 pm.
This is a free event, open to members and guests by invitation.
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Detail of one portion of the installation of paintings being completed by artist Valerie Rogers for the Gallery’s
satellite space at the Kelowna International Airport.
Satellite space at the Kelowna International Airport
The Front project space
Lift Off and Soar
P O P: Pride of Place
May 11 to November 9, 2015
July 31 to September 13, 2015
Valerie Rogers is a highly-skilled wildlife artist who lives and works
in Salmon Arm, BC. She has trained with several professional artists
and has won numerous awards for her work. Her installation at the
Kelowna International Airport will consist of seven panels painted with
acrylic on canvas. They will depict a small flock of Canada Geese flying
up from the water into the sky. The panels will be staggered in height
to greater emphasize the notion of lift off. Rogers’ subject is one that
is not exclusive to the Okanagan and is bound to find resonance with
many people from other places in North America who are coming
through the airport.
Ever wanted to have your art shown at the Kelowna Art Gallery? This
is your opportunity! The POP exhibition will be open to all Kelowna and
area residents.
What fills you with pride about the Okanagan? What’s your favourite
spot? How would you capture that in art?
Help us to fill the walls of The Front project space of the Gallery with
your art this summer. You can create your work of art at home, or in
our Art Lab when you visit the Gallery. Submit a drawing or painting of
lush vineyards, local beaches, your favorite part of the Okanagan, or
even the view from your kitchen window.
The medium is up to you – pencil crayon, collage, paint, etc. Works of
art must be no larger than 9 x 12 inches in size, and can be created on
the support of your choice: paper, canvas, metal etc.
Submit your registration form by July 1. This form can be picked up at
the Gallery, or online at www.kelownaartgallery.com
Mail or drop off your masterpiece between July 1 and 24 during regular
gallery hours.
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TOURS
The first Thursday of each
month, 2:30 and 7:00 pm.
Children and parents creating their masterpieces in the Art Lab.
The Art Lab!
FIRSTthursdays!
FREE, FUN and OPEN to the public. Materials and activity suggestions
are provided—just add your imagination! Come on in and MAKE
something. Take it home or hang it in the Art Lab gallery for others to
enjoy.
On the first Thursday of each month participating galleries, theatres,
cultural facilities, and businesses, along with artists and performers,
will throw open their doors with special offerings for explorers,
shoppers, and tasters in Kelowna’s Cultural District. The Kelowna Art
Gallery will offer free tours of our current exhibitions at 2:30 and 7:00 pm.
Discussions will focus on ideas and questions arising from the works of
art on view.
Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 1-5 pm
Saturday, 10 am-4 pm
Sunday, 1-4 pm
TOURS! TOURS! TOURS!
Thursday, May 7, 2015: Mitch Mitchell: For Whom you Build. How
does our experience as viewers shift when printmaking moves off the
wall and into our space as a three-dimensional object? Mitchell is the
winner of the 2012 Okanagan Print Triennial.
FREE with the cost of admission! Group rates! Specialized Seniors
tours! Hands-on activities!
Thursday, June 4, 2015: A Story of Canadian Art: As Told by the
Hart House Art Collection. Does the work of the Group of Seven still
have something to say about the Canadian identity?
Admission for Individuals is $5.00, Seniors & Students, $4.00.
Complementary hands-on activities are available for an additional $1.00.
Group of 10 people or more $40.00.
To book your tour, call Brenda Feist, Education Coordinator,
762-2226 x 312, or email [email protected]
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Thursday, July 2, 2015: Pieces of What? Another in the series of
year-long Artist’s Garden Projects in the Gallery’s Rotary Courtyard
by artists Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante and Maxwell Sterry. Is
the overall statement of this installation a positive, hopeful one, or a
concerned warning?
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Apple Bin Paint-In 2014
Family Sundays
Apple Bin Paint-In
Join us every Sunday between 1 and 4 pm for an exciting
art-making experience.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015, between 10 am and 12 pm
Through hands-on activities, helpful instructions, and age-appropriate
information and questions, Family Sundays opens up the world of
art and artists for children and adults by providing opportunities to
engage, discover, and create.
Cost: $4.00 per participant
May 3 Asian Heritage Month
May 10The Painting Zone
May 17Asian Heritage Month
May 24Asian Heritage Month
May 31Keeping it Real
Jun 7 Paper Boxes
Jun 14 Still Life Oil Pastel
Drawings
Jun 21 Ecosystem Printmaking
Jun 28 Landscape painting
Jul 5 Wet Wash Watercolour
Paintings
Jul 12 Painting the Landscape
Jul 19 Subtractive Printmaking
Jul 26 All About Drawing
Aug 2 Chalk Drawings
Aug 9 Encaustic Paintings
Aug 16 Printing Collographs
Aug 23 Mixed-Media Madness
Aug 30 Moody Charcoal Drawings
Wednesday, July 1 between 10 am and noon, the Canada Day tradition
continues. Join us at the Kelowna Art Gallery for the popular Apple Bin
Paint-In.
Twenty-five apple bins will be delivered to the Gallery by B.C. Tree
Fruits, and then aspiring artists of all ages will be invited to paint their
artistic visions on a side of a bin. These colourful apple bins will be
kept on display until the end of August, when they will be picked up
and delivered to the orchards to be filled with this year’s apple crop.
This event is free to the public, but pre-booking is required.
The Apple Bin Paint-In is always a popular event, so be sure to reserve
your spot early by calling the Kelowna Art Gallery at 250-762-2226.
Weeks highlighted in red will include family-friendly tours.
Visit our website for more info on upcoming Family Sundays activities.
The Kelowna Art Gallery acknowledges the
generous support of Source Office Furnishings.
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During the months of July and August, the Kelowna Art Gallery will be
offering a variety of half-day and full-day art camps for children ages
5 to 12. Camps will be taught by local artists, and classes will include
trips to local studios within the cultural district, as well as special visits
by guest artists. Each week will be different and will incorporate unique
drawing, painting, and sculpture projects. Programs emphasize self
expression, and allow young artists to discover and create in a lively
studio environment complemented by outdoor fun with trips to places
such as Waterfront Park and Kasugai Gardens.
Class size is limited so that children receive one-on-one instruction in a
friendly, non-competitive environment. Call 250-762-2226 to register!
Join us for a creative adventure this summer!
Make unique art, new friends, and create
memories that will last a lifetime.
Preschool Camps
Ages 3-5 | 9-11 am
Preschool Camp Costs: $90.00 ($75.00 for members)
July 6-10 Circus Circus
Come one, come all and enter our Big Top! Explore the fantastical
elements of the circus. From clowns, to elephants, cotton candy,
trapeze artists, circus trains and more! Children will get a chance to
be their own circus ringmaster using mixed media to create bright and
colourful projects. Each day brings something new!
August 4–7 Art Around the World
Pack your suitcase! We’re heading on an artistic journey around the
world. Young artists will engage in the creation of works inspired by
traditional practices from various countries. What multicultural fun!
Mini and Day Camps | Ages 6-8
July 20–24
Day Camp
9 am-3 pm
July 27–31
Mini Camp
9 am-12 pm
August 4–7
Mini Camp
9 am-12 pm
4-day mini camp $100.00 ($90.00 Members)
August 10–14 Day Camp
9 am-3 pm
Mini Camps | Ages 9-11
July 13–17
Mini Camp
August 17–21 Mini Camp
9 am-12 pm
9 am-12 pm
Mini Camp Costs: $125.00 ($110.00 for members)
Day Camp Costs: $160.00 ($145.00 for members)
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FRIDAY FOR TEENS ART SERIES
Instructor: Jim Elwood | Time: 9 am to 2 pm
Cost per class: $70.00 ($55.00 for members)
Cost for the series: $350.00 ($275.00 for members)
This summer the gallery is offering a series of six art workshops for
teens each Friday from July 24 to August 28. Every week there will be
a different theme and participants will have the opportunity to explore
a wide variety of subjects and materials. Sign up for one class, or the
whole series!
July 24 | Everything in Ink
Learn drawing and wash techniques in ink to add tone and expressive
line to whatever you choose to draw: cartoons, portraits, wildlife, etc.
Develop a full vocabulary of lines to create light and dark, patterns and
textures.
July 31 | Block Printing
Learn the techniques and styles needed to carve blocks for printing.
Use a variety of printing techniques to create beautiful and creative
limited-edition prints.
August 7 | Wildlife Drawing
Learn how to work from illustrations and photographs to create
beautiful wildlife portraits. Whether it’s birds, wolves, dolphins or any
other animal, learn how to draw them and add colour with watercolour
or pencil crayon.
Treasures from the Attic
Friday, May 29, 2015, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Join local art and antiques appraiser Peter Blundell, and learn the value
of your treasures!
August 14 | It’s all About Paint
Fifteen-minute-long appointments will be held throughout the day
during which Blundell will be giving opinions on values of antiques,
collectibles, original art, and prints or reproductions. Each session
allows for him to view up to three items, subject to the time
constraint.
August 21 | More than Watercolour
Cost per fifteen-minute session: $40 for members, and $50 for
non-members. To make an appointment, please call the Kelowna Art
Gallery at 250-762-2226.
In this class we will be pushing paint with brushes, palette knives, and
rollers. We will explore various acrylic painting techniques, as well as
media that can be added to paint, such as gels and pastes.
Learn basic and more advanced watercolour techniques. There will
be plenty of time for practice, and participant will get to choose their
own individual subject to work on with the instructor. We will also
explore combining watercolour with graphite and ink to create a mix of
drawing and painting.
August 28 | People Skills
Learn the proportions for drawing people, tricks for handling various
poses, and then apply that knowledge to whatever type of people
drawing that you want to pursue, whether it is realistic, abstracted, or
in animation.
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Art and antiques appraiser Peter Blundell.
Hold your event at the Kelowna Art Gallery
The Kelowna Art Gallery offers a variety of terrific spaces for you to
hold your next company reception, AGM, lecture, presentation or
meeting. Plus, facility rentals at the gallery help to support continued
access to the visual arts in our community.
For more information enquire today at 250-762-2226 ext. 305.
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Members enjoying the opening reception for Christos Dikeakos: Nature Morte at the Gallery last summer.
Photograph by Yuri Akuney, Digital Perfections.
Chalk wall drawing by visitors to the Art Lab in the Kelowna Art Gallery’s Scotiabank studio, February 2015.
Board of Directors
Not yet a member of the Kelowna Art Gallery?
Then it’s about time you joined! Your support plays an essential role in
providing access to a wide variety of visual arts in our community.
Along with free admission to all exhibitions and discounts on a
variety of classes, workshops, merchandise and special events,
membership grants you access to our reciprocal membership
agreements with twenty-five other museums and galleries across
Canada. Your membership may entitle you to free admission and/or
discounts at these locations.
Annual Membership Costs: (includes tax)
Student $26.25
Senior $36.75
Individual $42.00
Family $63.00
Become a member today!
Memberships are available at the gallery, by calling 250-762-2226, or
online at kelownaartgallery.com.
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Dylana Bloor
Clayton Gall
Fern Helfand
Joanne McKechnie
Paul Mitchell
Marla O’Brien
Derek Sanders
Stan Somerville
Joanna Wrzesniewski
Amy Zurrer
Sandra Kochan, City Liaison
Staff
Nataley Nagy, Executive Director
Kelsie Balehowsky, Public Programming
Assistant
Renée Burgess, Head of Public
Programming
Joshua Desnoyers, Marketing and Events
Coordinator
Brenda Feist, Education Coordinator
Clea Haugo, Registrar
Hanss Lujan, Membership Coordinator
Mike O’Doherty, Preparator
Kyle L. Poirier, Graphic Designer
Liz Wylie, Curator
Gallery Assistants
Kelsie Balehowsky
Sue Cosmann
Alyssa Doll
Lindsey Farr
Hanss Lujan
Victoria Moore
Connie Quaedvlieg
Toby Wesenberg
Family Sundays Assistants
Kelsie Balehowsky
Emerald Holden
The Kelowna Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the City of
Kelowna, The Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, the Province
of British Columbia, Central Okanagan School District #23, Regional District of Central
Okanagan, Central Okanagan Foundation, and our members, donors and sponsors.
© Kelowna Art Gallery 2015 | Design by Kyle L. Poirier | Printed by
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