FCCS ART – Page 17 – UBCO Creative Studies Virtual Gallery

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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April 3, 2020

BFA Grad students are preparing for their show!

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March 17, 2020

Still, they are speaking, Alison Trim MFA show

Still, They Are Speaking is an exhibition of expanded drawing practice developed in and with post-fire landscapes of the Okanagan valley. In 2003 the Okanagan Mountain Park Fire spread across more than 250 square kilometres and consumed 239 homes on the edge of Kelowna. In land still scarred by that fire, blackened trunks dominate the skyline with a now-familiar stubble,...