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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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December 20, 2024

The Gay Agenda

The Gay Agenda is a pejorative phrase and idealogy coined by conservative religious groups targetting the advocacy of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. The idea being that queer people have created an elaborate scheme to recruit people to the queer lifestyle, encourage deviant behaviour, and dismantle institutions such as “traditional family and marriage”. While the queer community definitely has an agenda, this...

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December 20, 2024

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...

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May 27, 2024

Departures: Bridging the Gap by Troy Teichrib

Departures: Bridging the Gap by Troy Teichrib: Boldly painted urban graphic abstraction that bridges artistic boundaries. Featuring new work by artist Troy Teichrib that highlights the spontaneous and raw nature of graffiti art, this body of work includes small to large mixed-media paintings, each a testament to Teichrib’s efforts in translating graffiti’s fleeting beauty and raw energy within the gallery’s...

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May 27, 2024

Spiritual Growth: The Unapologetic Nude by Jessie Emilie

Spiritual Growth: The Unapologetic Nude by Jessie Emilie: A compelling exploration of introspection through large-scale portraiture. Exploring the impact of religious teachings on women’s bodies, embarking on a journey towards empowerment through painting. This exhibition challenges conventional perceptions of the female nude, reimagining it through a feminist perspective influenced by the healing essence of nature (Biophilia) and the acceptance of...

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May 27, 2024

CGish – Connor MacKinnon

Connor MacKinnon’s artistic practice operates through a framework of imagination, potential, and questioning. Examining the unique qualities in objects as specific markers of material culture, his work explores the physical and conceptual reconstruction of objects using generative algorithmic 3D modeling. Linking these algorithms and speculative framework is the desire and ability to create variability and multiplicity within a defined system...

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April 3, 2024

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...

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Category: Seen About

Solace: Healing Through Art

VISA 300 – Advanced Drawing

Playing With Guns – Rylan Broadbent

Computational Poetics – MDST 310

The Gay Agenda

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

Departures: Bridging the Gap by Troy Teichrib

Spiritual Growth: The Unapologetic Nude by Jessie Emilie

CGish – Connor MacKinnon

Intimate performances on small stages about big issues.