FCCS ART – Page 12 – UBCO Creative Studies Virtual Gallery

April 27, 2021

Digital Documentary Production

Documentary films by students in FILM 371 This third year course in Digital Documentary Production introduces students to the theory and practice from the point of view of producer, writer, and director of documentary filmmaking. Students build a foundation of directing, shooting, and editing to create a short-form documentary as their final project for the course. Normally, students in this...

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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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April 20, 2021

Black Harbinger of Spring (2021) by Michaela Bridgemohan

Black Harbinger of Spring (2021) 1 person(s): Make a promise to yourself 2 person(s): Make a promise to each other Black Harbinger of Spring invites the spectator to the potential of playful encounters with the objects. As visitors share the same space as the work, they will come across moments where they can decide to activate them by bodily stepping...

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March 12, 2021

“HOMEBODIES”- VISA 312 Advanced Painting Exhibition

We all have had to deal with such a strange year. Nobody could have guessed that we would have to work primarily from home form the end of the last semester in 2020 up until now. Today marks the near exact year anniversary of when the university first closed. There is no clear line that connects these works – all...

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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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March 5, 2021

Skin Hunger

Skin Hunger features works from UBCO’s Bachelor of Fine Arts students, Masters students, and faculty members, displaying works focusing on the theme of our need for touch and the impact that social distancing is having on our “Skin Hunger”. This exhibition is a project for a curating course by Stacey Koosel, instructor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. It...

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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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January 14, 2021

SPECULATIVE EXHIBITION

In a typical year, the Advanced Practice in Photography course (VISA 362) culminates with an exhibition in the FINA Gallery, exploring concepts of site-specific art photography. The realm of contemporary art has seen many adaptations to conventional exhibitions since the COVID-19 pandemic, with many exhibitions switching to online formats. These formats offer the possibility of reaching a broader audience and...

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January 14, 2021

Graduate Student Work (VISA 582/583)

VISA 582/583 is a studio course for graduate students in Visual Arts. The course focusses on the production of independent artwork and the critical analysis of that work. Natasha Harvey Post-colonialism. Bond with the land. Developement and progress pushes humans further from our connection to the land. As the Anthropocene expands, it is crucial for us to mend this broken...

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