FCCS ART – Page 8 – UBCO Creative Studies Virtual Gallery

April 3, 2023

PRINTMAKING

Printmaking at UBC Okanagan is extremely varied. In our modest print studio, students work with five different media areas – stone lithography, zinc-plate etching, ultra-violet screen printing, relief printing, and letterpress. Not only do students become adept at whatever print media they are studying but they learn how to work cooperatively in what can sometimes be a bustling and chaotic...

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March 31, 2023

Flowing to Unsettle – work by Ph.D. candidate Yujie Gao

Gao Yujie is an interdisciplinary media artist and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her generative participatory performance work studies the materiality of duration and explores the elasticity of space and time in rule-based interactive environments. Learn more about Gao’s work on her website. Artist Statement: Unsettling is home, life is improvisation, the present is not...

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March 6, 2023

Sofie Lovelady // What’s Mine Is Yours

Sofie Lovelady is a British Columbia-born artist and recent BFA graduate from UBC Okanagan. In this work, Lovelady amalgamate found images and text to express her experience growing up in a digital age that exploits the female bodies through imagery. What’s Mine is Yours will be on view in the Alternator’s Members’ Gallery from February 24 – March 18, 2023....

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March 6, 2023

Diapositive – Installation by Julia Pearson

This work by Julia Pearson is being showcased in the Kelowna Art Gallery’s glass gallery window space. It brings together photography, serigraphy, and installation to create multiple explorations of self-portraiture. Julia is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the University of British Columbia. This work will be on display at 1315 Water Street, Kelowna, BC until July 2023.

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March 2, 2023

We Are Countless – Rehan Yazdani and UBC MFA student Nasir Pirhadi

Nasim Pirhadi is a multi-medium artist and current MFA candidate at UBC Okanagan. As part of this two person exhibit, Nasim explores the current political discourse of what it means to be an Iranian woman both in a diasporic sense and as through lived experience. This important work includes a video addressing misogynist fears of traditional spaces and a painted...

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February 10, 2023

Hearts Together: Cool Arts Society Group Exhibition

HEARTS TOGETHER Cool Arts Society Group Exhibition Together with art educators during the weekly programs held in the Cool Arts Studio in the RCA, artists worked on the concept HEART, digging into the question – what does HEART mean? Artists discussed their feelings, thoughts, and ideas; then began their step-by-step big picture planning. These pieces are all representations of these collaborative...

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February 6, 2023

The Distance of the Sun – work by Connor Charlesworth

The Distance of the Sun is a series of five vertical painted diptychs. The work was conceived after a summer art residency inLos Angeles in which I was struck by the height and stability of these thin, spindly trees. Upon returning home to Kelowna, my paint pots in my studio had dried from the summer heat leaving various circular paint...

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February 2, 2023

Cultivations: Advanced Painting, Term One

Cultivations is an exhibition of paintings created by students in VISA 312S: Advanced Practice in Painting. Students in this class determined their own subject matter and explored different approaches to scale, space, value and materiality as a method of refining their body of work throughout the semester. Cultivations includes work by Katya Meehalchan, Sara Richardson, Tin Laam Au (Eunis), Taylor Carpenter, Melissa Clark,...

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January 30, 2023

Rylan Broadbent // Behind My Mask, I Am Secure

Behind My Mask, I Am Secure is an exhibition by UBCO MFA Alumni Rylan Broadbent This exhibition was shown at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (421 Cawston Avenue (unit 103) in Kelowna, BC Rylan Broadbent is a sculptor, designer, and fabricator, who resides and works out of the North Okanagan. Employing an array of techniques, ranging from traditional to digital, he...

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January 10, 2023

Algorithmic – Connor MacKinnon

Connor MacKinnon graduated in the Masters of Fine Arts Visual Art programme at the University of Victoria in 2022. He is now a Workshop and Studio Technician for the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBCO. Generating and using algorithms as tools for creation is a curious process. In many ways, they can be deterministic, repetitive, and...

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