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Processing… Work by UBC Alumni, Christina Knittel Christina is an artist living in Kelowna BC, who creates abstract paintings using mixed media. She graduated in 2006 from UBC Okanagan with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, where she studied drawing and digital media. Her work has been on display at many local venues and has participated in art shows for over...

Lindsay Kirker is a recent graduate of the MFA program at The University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus.   This is Water I’ve been thinking a lot about water.   To float down the river effortlessly And break away from thought, form and distraction. To play in tune with the vibrating strings of You. Continuously I tell myself, be water....

Sea Dreams An exhibition by alumni Joanne Gervais (BFA ’06, MFA ’10) and Shauna Oddleifson (BFA ’98) This animated tale that tells a story of a little girl character wearing an octopus mask and her interactions with sea-creatures, underwater plant life and the impact of human negligence. With increasing temperatures brought about by climate change, and the accumulation of plastics,...

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...

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...