FCCS ART – Page 15 – UBCO Creative Studies Virtual Gallery

November 20, 2020

Action and Object Drawings from VISA 300 001, Advanced Practice in Drawing

“This selection of drawings is intended to function as a conversation between two opposing but interrelated definitions of drawing as both verb and noun that the students considered this semester. When considered as a verb drawing can be understood as a temporal, process-based action, something that we do. When considered as a noun, we focus more on its role as...

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November 12, 2020

Art Apart – celebrating what our disability arts community can create together from a (social) distance

Although many of us have had to be separated during this time — which has been especially hard on those of us with disabilities and health issues — we at Cool Arts still managed to come together to make art as a community. Art/Apart, much like the manner it was made in, might feel disjointed at first, discombobulating, even a...

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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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September 9, 2020

Lindsay Kirker: Away We Go

I paint images of construction with Nature as a way to reinterpret the world around me. This method of painting within my current body of work developed significantly after experiencing loss. I intuitively began taking pictures of construction sites, as a need for stability, manifested itself through an attraction to structure. Life felt chaotic, but I found salvation in scaffolding,...

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August 17, 2020

2020 Mural: Upstream

The summer of 2020 was the first year that visual arts lecturer David Doody taught a fourth-year painting class, leading the students through the many steps necessary to plan, pitch and deliver a public mural. Eighteen students worked to create a full-scale permanent public mural in the heart of Kelowna’s Cultural District. Over the course of the five-week class in...

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August 14, 2020

I Must Be Streaming – Jorden Doody MFA Show

Jorden Doody is an interdisciplinary artist who is examining the transitional spaces between tangible material and digital media within the framework of spatial installations. By utilizing new media technologies in combination with traditional modes of craft, she choreographs sculptural installations that focus on blurring the boundaries between the theatrical stage and the architectural framework of the gallery. Jorden investigates how...

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June 15, 2020

2020 BFA Graduating Exhibition – Any Moment

Students have been working hard to create a body of original and engaging works. The graduation show includes a wide variety of artists’ works including sculpture, photography, drawing, painting, digital media and printmaking. Due to the current situation with COVID 19, the BFA Graduating Exhibition, Any Moment was an online platform but artist statements along with images of their work can...

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