FCCS ART – UBCO Creative Studies Virtual Gallery

June 18, 2025

Matter of Time – VISA 382: Advanced Practice in Media Arts

Matter of Time: Memory | Motion | Machine is a group exhibition that investigates the impact of time on relationships and being. Through digitally manipulated stills and moving images, the works explore the passage of time, blurring the boundaries between past and present, presence and absence. With layers of distortion, repetition, and transformation, these pieces invite viewers to reflect on...

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June 18, 2025

Form and Substance – MFA

Drawing on different media and approaches the Masters of Fine Arts students in first and second year combine their works with an emphasis on saturation, media, form and substance. The conceptual approaches in the artwork on display, include the value of visiting over a cup of tea, diasporic identities, trans rights, a consideration of different abilities and the freedom to...

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June 13, 2025

Augmented Reality Banners

Alongside the banners installed on the lampposts along the Artwalk, larger banners using augmented reality (AR) are installed along the opposite side of the walkway. The AR allows three-dimensional animations to appear on top of the printed image. In 2025, visual arts professor Myron Campbell worked with two students from the media studies program, Owen Clark and Jessica Williams, to...

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June 13, 2025

2025 Outdoor Banner Exhibition

This project originally launched in 2020, with the first banners erected in the spring of 2021, as a means of creating new opportunities for local artists amidst pandemic-related facility closures. The banner project continues as a unique and engaging way to expand access to exhibition space in the city. Each year, the Outdoor Banner Exhibition Program showcases 13 original works...

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March 17, 2025

13 Lenses – Advanced Practice in Photography

13 Lenses, an exhibition showcasing photography by the Advanced Practice in Photography class at UBCO, pays homage to 13 Cameras, Vancouver, a photobook published by the National Film Board in 1979. This collection featured renowned artists like Roy Kiyooka, Paul Wong, IAN BAXTER&, and Barrie Jones, among others. 13 Cameras, Vancouver always resonated with me as a symbol of a...

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March 13, 2025

Be in My Chador- Tara Yadollahi

In the past few years, my projects have been engaged with themes of feminism, societal norms, and freedoms of expression; “Be in My Chador” is a video installation to explore themes of self- censorship and imposed identity. The installation consists of two videos, each projected onto opposite sides of a room through painted fabrics installed in the gallery’s center. The...

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February 19, 2025

Solace: Healing Through Art

Solace: Healing Through Art Exhibition from members of the UBC Okanagan Black Student Association in the FINA Gallery, CCS Building. February 10 to 20, 2025 Artists Names and Blurbs Jordan Hermanus Given that weather is often linked to emotions I wanted to capture the way seasonal depression can feel like it is creeping up on you as one tries to...

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February 19, 2025

VISA 300 – Advanced Drawing

A collection of works showcasing the VISA 300 advanced drawing class taught by Dr Aleksandra Dulic.

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February 7, 2025

Playing With Guns – Rylan Broadbent

It’s a subject that raises eyebrows the moment it’s broached – Guns. A highly divisive symbol, a gun is a nudge towards fear, a barrier to intrusion or a means to a meal. Rylan Broadbent has taken ‘the gun’ on and in Playing With Guns presents new layers of significance and even though he has peeled the onion with eyes wide open,...

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February 3, 2025

Computational Poetics – MDST 310

The Computational Poetics exhibition explores the impact of computer technology on systems of representation and the question of meaning in the interdisciplinary field of fine and performing arts. The artists engage with digital technologies to answer questions as to what kind of images we create using these creative means? What form do these images take? What are their philosophical influences,...

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