Category Archives: Creative Works Off Campus

zev tiefenbach // salmon arm, bc. december 25, 2021

The Alternator Centre, Kelowna, is showcasing zev teifenbach’s collection of 30 lightboxes that document a cold evening in Salmon Arm almost 3 years ago.
‘A polar vortex was incoming and I photographed the empty streets and brightly lit houses as I pushed through the wind and driving snow.
The images have text superimposed on them that tells a story. A story of displacement. A story of loss. A story of a world changing through climate crisis and the eminent brain surgery of my son.
There’s something very vivid about the lightboxes that brings you into the present of when and where the photos were taken. In this way, I invite you to walk with me through Salmon Arm on this cold blustering evening to share a very internal monologue as we survey the town. To me, this is landscape, where thoughts merge with the topography. Landscape is the place where our stories are told.’
More information about the exhibition can be found on the alternator website


Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art421 Cawston Avenue (unit 103)Kelowna, BC, V1Y 6Z1Canada (map)

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All, Most

All, Most brings together a selection of UBCO BFA and MFA students working rigorously in their independent studies. The selection places particular emphasis on students working in painting whose practices are shaped by their sensuous exploration of colour and material. The exhibition highlights a diversity in perspective and mimics the experience of wandering through the studios on campus.

The exhibition includes work from Negar Baghlani, Faith Bye, Ella Cottier, Nadia Fracy, Hailey Gleboff, Elly Hajdu, Pegah Khor, Connor McCleary, Jack Prendas, Roland Samuel, Anna Semenoff, and Freddie Thacker. The exhibition was facilitated by instructors and Alternator board members Connor Charlesworth and Patrick Lundeen.

ALL, MOST will be on view at the Alternator from November 2nd – 15th, 2024.

 

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What Is Fragile?

Victoria Verge and zev teifenbach are MFA candidates at UBCO. The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies would like to thank Kelowna Art Gallery for hosting the exhibition What is Fragile? from April 20th to July 12th 2024.

What is Fragile? is an exploration into the delicate interplay of memory, movement, and resilience through the lens of Kelowna-based artist Victoria Verge and Salmon Arm-based artist zev tiefenbach. Through their distinct yet complementary artistic inquiries, Verge and tiefenbach illuminate the fragility of our passage through the internal and external architecture of our lives.

tiefenbach’s sprawling archival installation, these are fragile days, invites viewers to immerse themselves in the intricacies of the artist’s personal archive, fostering new connections and narratives within the labyrinthine corridors of memory. This introspective journey includes a meticulous assembly of photographs, videos, and textual reflections, as tiefenbach constructs a poignant narrative of survival and witness while navigating the precarious landscape of post-genocidal trauma and environmental decline.

Verge’s sculptural meditations on movement and stillness in her series Chasing the Echoes of Home beckon viewers to contemplate the ephemeral nature of home and belonging. Rooted in her nomadic military upbringing and Newfoundland heritage, Verge’s static house sculptures pulsate with the latent energy of potential movement, echoing the eternal quest for stability amidst displacement. With each auditory activation, audiences are drawn into a visceral dialogue between stasis and motion, prompting introspection on the fluid boundaries of domesticity and community.

 

Victoria Verge

Victoria Verge is a multi-medium artist of settler and Mi’kmaw ancestry, currently residing on the unceded and traditional territory of the Syilx Okanagan people. In 2016, she obtained a BFA from Memorial University of Newfoundland, specializing in visual arts with a minor in art history. Currently in her second year as an MFA candidate at UBC Okanagan, Verge’s creative pursuits are deeply rooted in her personal history. The recurring theme of relocation, influenced by her father’s military service, guides her work as she actively navigates the multifaceted construct of ‘home’. Verge’s art has been showcased in national and international group and solo exhibitions and has garnered support and recognition from various arts institutions, awards, and scholarships.

zev tiefenbach

Born in Toronto as a second-generation Canadian, zev tiefenbach is a settler artist living on unceded secwépemc territory. He has a BFA from Concordia University (Photography/Creative Writing) and is an MFA Candidate at UBCO (Visual Arts).

tiefenbach’s grandparents are holocaust survivors and tiefenbach was raised within a post-traumatic ethos where imminent catastrophe was superimposed over the quotidian. His childhood was spent in a city where the dissonance between his middle-class surroundings and his own internalized sense of victimhood instilled a curiosity to explore the intersection between landscape, trauma and narrative.

 

More information can be found on Kelowna Art Galleries website: https://kelownaartgallery.com/what-is-fragile/

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Intimate performances on small stages about big issues.

Director Annie Furman
Mentor Denise Kenney

Toolbox Theatre invites you to step into a series of intimate performances about big issues on small stages. This week, we’re taking out our tools to construct stories about our relationship to climate change.

Featuring short plays written by: Nicolas Billon, Annie Furman, Mark Rigney
With performances by: Miriam Cummings, Ronan Fraser, and Amy Wang
And set design by: Annie Furman and Shauna Oddleifson

Performances:
Thursday, March 28, 1:00-3:00 pm
Admin Building foyer, UBC Okanagan

Saturday, March 30, 1:00-3:00 pm
Rotary Centre for the Arts (outside), 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna

A Climate Change Theatre Action Project

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UBCO Painting II – Before The Stones Were Broken

Before the Stones Were Broken is a series of oil paintings completed by 2nd year painting students at UBC Okanagan under the instruction of Connor Charlesworth.

Participating artists include Connor Charlesworth, Rain Doody, Mackenzie Fleetwood-Anderson, Meg Furlot, Talia Gagnon, Dawn Haywood, Neha Iyer, Sheilina John, Hailey Johnson, Madi May, Emily Mills, Phil Patrick, Sarah Prentice, Maya Taki, Amelia Vegt, Wenjing Wang, Peony Wong, and Bernice Yam.

Before the Stones Were Broken will be on view in the Members’ Gallery of the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art from March 15 – April 6 2024.

 

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Michaela Bridgemohan // Embalmed Funks

Michaela Bridgemohan is an interdisciplinary artist of Jamaican and Australian descent. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of British Columbia—Okanagan and received her BFA in Drawing (with Distinction) from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2017.

Bridgemohan’s exhibition embalmed funks will be on view in the Main Gallery of the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art from March 15 – April 27 2024.

 

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Hummingbird Spirits: Strength and Resilience

Based on the Hummingbird Spirits printmaking initiative originated by UBC Okanagan Gallery Director and Assistant Professor in Visual Arts Tania Willard, Hummingbird Spirits: Strength and Resilience explores a vast catalog of linocut prints all featuring a hummingbird motif. Each original linocut print was produced during the previous two year annual run of the ongoing Hummingbird Spirits project.

This exhibition is organized by the UBC Okanagan Gallery  and is on display in the Galleria at the Rotary Centre for the Arts, Feb. 29 to Apr. 22, 2024.

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Erin Scott // 9/3

This three channel exhibition by Erin Scott is being shown at the Alternator Gallery.

Erin Scott is a poet, performer, and UBCO PhD candidate living on the unceded territory of the syil’x/Okanagan Peoples (Kelowna, BC).

9/3 consists of nine videopoems across three projectors. These poems represent an exchange between the artist’s life and art, playing on voyeurism, spectacle, intimacy, and feminism. Through an interactive, old-school overhead projector, the visiting guests are invited to add their own words, drawings, ideas, and languages to the exhibition.

In addition to being a student at UBC Okanagan, Erin also works as Co-Executive Director of Inspired Word Café, a community literary-arts nonprofit organization. Her research and artistic work focus on community art practice, humour, motherhood, and identity.

 

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In Search of Lost Memories by Ziv Wei

Ziv Wei is a fourth year BFA student. In this exhibition, In Search of Lost Memories In Search of Lost Memories, Ziv deconstructs and reimagines nostalgia by providing new contexts for found vernacular family photos and frames.

This exhibition is on view in the Members’ Gallery of the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art until February 10, 2024.

For more information please visit the show in person or at the Alternator’s page.

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