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March 14, 2022

Homescape – VISA 215 Introduction to Painting

Homescape UBCO BFA Students Under the instruction of David Doody, this group of Introduction to Painting (VISA 215) students present these paintings that explore the interior landscapes of one’s “own space”. Homescapes consists of portraits of physical and psychological residuals left in the wake life lived indoors, during a year of global pandemic and self-isolation. These works were created during...

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June 23, 2021

Grounding, In Touch / Inland Waters II

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Grounding, In Touch / Inland Waters II by Brittany Reitzel and Sam Neal Brittany Reitzel is currently an MFA candidate at UBCO whose primary interests are grounding practices, forest bathing and site-specific expanded painting practices. She graduated from Brock University in 2016 with a BFA (Honours). In her current practice she works at the intersection of painting,...

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April 27, 2021

Seen | Unseen by Jacen Dennis

Seen|Unseen by Jacen Dennis Artist Statement: Seen|Unseen Jacen Dennis’ digitally animated and projected artwork links the creative process of animating to creating a meaningful relationship between his gender transition to his sister’s death, of connecting a new body to the past, and a past body to the future. He positions himself as a transmasculine artist who started transitioning shortly...

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March 5, 2021

Light Up Kelowna – UBCO Graduate student works exhibit

As part of Light Up Kelowna’s art-dedicated urban screen projection in the Rotary Centre for the Arts window, UBCO graduate students are showcasing their work in this fabulous venue. The exhibit was developed in the context of Graduate Studio in Visual Arts course that involves the critical analysis and production of independent artwork in various disciplines. Scott Lebaron Moore’s sisymbrium altissimum, 2021, is...

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February 3, 2021

Relief, Push, Woe (RYB) by Connor Charlesworth

Relief, Push, Woe (RYB) is a site specific assemblage of various materials including paintings, a wall drawing, astroturf, recycled cutouts of paintings, and text. The phenomenological nature of this work relies on language as a point of entry. During the Covid-19 isolation periods I kept a log of words to describe how I felt during this time. This associative word play...

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January 21, 2021

Inland Waters – Sam Neal

Inland Waters is an exploration of time, place and process. I grew up in an urban city in Northern England. Wandering, getting lost, and seeing beauty in the banal was where I found my escape from the congested everyday life. Since coming to the Okanagan in 2019, I have found more of a connection to the ground and what is immediately...

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November 3, 2020

Lip Sync performances from THTR 101

For this performance class assignment students were asked to choose a recording of someone that they admire, saying something they agree with and make a lipsync video performing this person’s text. Students were asked to learn the movements, dress the part. This is a study in imitation. Check out the highlight reel: and this student’s work:

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October 7, 2020

Creative Work – an Arts Council of the Central Okanagan exhibition of UBCO faculty members

The Arts Council of the Central Okanagan is delighted to present UBCO faculty members, Katherine Pickering, Briar Craig, Patrick Lundeen, and Conner Charlesworth.

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October 5, 2020

Under The Skin – a Laundry Room Collective pop up exhibition at the Lake Country Gallery

The Laundry Room Collective Presents a pop-up exhibition celebrating queer artists of the Okanagan. Many of the artists are UBC Okanagan students and alumni.

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September 22, 2020

FIFTEEN

FIFTEEN features the works of 15 UBC Okanagan alumni from both the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts programs, in celebration of the campus’ 15-year anniversary. These artists are featured in a catalogue, produced in partnership by alumniUBC and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, as well as part of an exhibition at the Kelowna Art...

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Category: Seen About

Homescape – VISA 215 Introduction to Painting

Grounding, In Touch / Inland Waters II

Seen | Unseen by Jacen Dennis

Light Up Kelowna – UBCO Graduate student works exhibit

Relief, Push, Woe (RYB) by Connor Charlesworth

Inland Waters – Sam Neal

Lip Sync performances from THTR 101

Creative Work – an Arts Council of the Central Okanagan exhibition of UBCO faculty members

Under The Skin – a Laundry Room Collective pop up exhibition at the Lake Country Gallery

FIFTEEN