FCCS ART – Page 14 – UBCO Creative Studies Virtual Gallery

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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January 6, 2021

Projects From Introduction to Digital Media I

VISA 106 (3) Introduction to Digital Media I – This course introduces digital media in contemporary art practice through photography, computer imaging, video, and other emerging digital technologies. In this particular class, instructed by Morgan Rauscher, students learned how to use design thinking and were asked to produce ‘real-world’ design solutions in response to COVID-19 problems. Students were asked to...

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December 22, 2020

Chloe Chang – 4th Year Bachelor of Media Studies Student

The Distance in Heart is a video installation in Chloe’s apartment. It is formed by 4 cubes of furniture and an external speaker. Videos, animation and text are projected onto the cubes in a controlled order. The duration of the whole performance is less than 4 minutes, but designed to be played as a loop. Chloe Chang

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December 22, 2020

Intro to Video Production

The course is an Intro to Video Production class. Students learned various fundamentals of aesthetics (composition, shot types, lighting, etc), as well as technical and editing skills this term through several exercises and one large project. These videos were their large/final projects, and were fairly open-ended in that they could explore any topic or theme they wanted. The requirements were...

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December 17, 2020

Botanical Colour by AJ Salter

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has seen many adaptations of conventional exhibitions toward online formats. Students in VISA 362, a third year photography class taught by Andreas Rutkauskas, were asked to consider what online dissemination of their photography can offer an audience. Branding and marketing as an artist are important skills in this time especially, therefore they were asked...

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December 8, 2020

YOKE

YOKE is a multi-disciplinary show gathering recent works by fourfirst-year MFA students at UBC-Okanagan: Michaela Bridge-Mohan, Natasha Harvey, Xiaoxuan / Sherry Huang, and Scott Moore. Art is a practice of yoking as much as it is the very material by which things come together and continues to hold us together.Gathering under the exhibit’s name, these works collectivelycontemplate the apparatuses and affects...

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