FCCS ART – Page 7 – UBCO Creative Studies Virtual Gallery

August 21, 2023

2023 Mural: Wild Horses

18 students enrolled in this year’s mural course were busy painting this new mural outside the Landmark District Market throughout July and August. The mural was celebrated on Thursday, August 17, 2023. This is the fourth mural painted by UBCO’s Visual Arts students who collaborated with instructors David and Jorden Doody to paint a colourful, large-scale mural. The theme for...

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July 10, 2023

Strategies in Digital Art: Virtual Worlds

Strategies in Digital Art: Virtual Worlds 2023 FCCS instructor Emerald Benzmer (VISA 269.001 Strategies in Digital Art: Virtual Worlds) is pleased to present the class final exhibition of virtual environments that place the artwork in critical, historical, and cultural context within creative inquiry in the arts and digital media production. The virtual worlds explore non-liner storytelling, media aesthetics, modelling,...

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June 21, 2023

Forty Feet Forward – BFA/BMS Final Exhibition

A letter from Shawn Serfas The studio experience is often solitary and reflective, drawing upon necessity, hope, and creative freedom. The Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Media Studies experience offers emerging artists a community to hone and magnify process while exploring difficult human terrain, and the silent questions in us all. Art traces and catalogues time, it captures...

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June 21, 2023

Invisible Forces: Tiffany Shaw and Krystle Silverfox

JUNE 7 TO AUGUST 24, 2023, FINA GALLERY Invisible Forces guide us through our lives, through ethereal worlds, symbolism, dimensions and the passages of time. The unseen is often more powerful than the seen, the unknown holds more power than the known when we activate our senses. These Invisible forces can help us navigate this earthly, corporeal existence of strained...

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June 21, 2023

YOU ARE ON SYILX TERRITORY

You are on Syilx Territory features recent acquisitions from UBC Okanagan’s Public Art Collection by Sheldon Louis, Coralee Miller, David Wilson and Manuel Axel Strain. JUNE 7 TO AUGUST 24, 2023, CCS Land acknowledgements were just one of the 94 calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report published in 2015. UBC Okanagan’s Public Art Collection was founded...

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June 13, 2023

2023 Outbdoor Banner Exhibition

This project originally launched in 2020, with the first banners erected in the spring of 2021, as a means of creating new opportunities for local artists amidst pandemic-related facility closures. The banner project continues as a unique and engaging way to expand access to exhibition space in the city. Each year, the Outdoor Banner Exhibition Program showcases 13 original works...

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June 6, 2023

I Died As A Mineral – Heraa Khan

UBCO MFA Exhibition held at the Lake Country Art Gallery. Through my artistic practice, I delve into the natural world and our connection to it. The unbridled desire of humans to succeed and advance has disrupted the essential tenet of coexistence between the realms of humanity and the natural world, causing an imbalance that has led to ecological catastrophes and...

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June 6, 2023

ZOORKHANEH زورخانه – Nasim Pirhadi

UBCO MFA Exhibition held at the Lake Country Art Gallery. Zoorkhaneh The work I’m doing is actively confronting and exploring the social instability and how it relates to the ways Iranian women fight for their rights. One response of this confrontation is through my recreation of a zoorkhaneh within the gallery space. A zoorkhaneh is a traditional gym that only...

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June 6, 2023

Misanthropocene: The New Epoch

Misanthropocene: The New Epoch These works by students of VISA 382: Advanced Practices in Media Arts are inspired by the term used by poets Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr in their poem #MISANTHROPOCENE: 24 THESES. Exploring the negative and the positive, our students have created work that observes the effect humans have on the planet and also on one another....

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May 15, 2023

Heads Up! : Advanced Practice in Sculpture

Heads Up! VISA 322T: Advanced Practice in Sculpture Instructor: Crystal Przybille Thom Ayling Carmen Bouvier Clara Cho Makeena Hartmann Bella Jiang Yaya John Garvin LeBlanc Amy Marui Ziv Wei Wayne Xie Heads Up! is an exhibit of plaster casts of sculptures first created in clay. The casts are the result of an intensive, skill-building process involving the creation of an armature, clay sculpture,...

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