FCCS ART – Page 8 – UBCO Creative Studies Virtual Gallery

October 4, 2022

Time As Relative – curated by Hans Lujan Torres

Time As Relative Ariell Twist, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Kama La Mackerel, Léuli Eshraghi, and Lucas LaRochelle Curated by Hanss Lujan Torres This exhibition was shown at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (421 Cawston Avenue (unit 103) Kelowna, BC Hanss Lujan Torres is an artist, researcher and curator from Cusco, Peru, working between the unceded territories of the Syilx/Okanagan Nation and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. He holds...

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September 23, 2022

Do I Know You? Alumni Art Exhibition

Do I Know You? was held in the FINA Gallery from September 19 to 29, 2022 and features fine arts alumni from the Public Art Collection at UBC Okanagan. This exhibition is hosted by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS) in collaboration with UBC Okanagan Gallery, and alumni UBC as part of Homecoming 2022 at UBC Okanagan. Do I Know...

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September 19, 2022

Processing…

Processing… Work by UBC Alumni, Christina Knittel Christina is an artist living in Kelowna BC, who creates abstract paintings using mixed media. She graduated in 2006 from UBC Okanagan with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, where she studied drawing and digital media. Her work has been on display at many local venues and has participated in art shows for over...

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September 7, 2022

Natasha Harvey: Layered Landscapes

Natasha Harvey is a current MFA candidate at The University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus. Layered Landscapes: Landscape Art, Politics and Connection My artwork consists of a series of collaged landscape paintings and linocut prints, which seek to represent and communicate the effects of human interference on the environment while evoking the participatory spirit of love and beauty of nature....

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September 6, 2022

Lindsay Kirker: This is Water

Lindsay Kirker is a recent graduate of the MFA program at The University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus. This is Water I’ve been thinking a lot about water. To float down the river effortlessly And break away from thought, form and distraction. To play in tune with the vibrating strings of You. Continuously I tell myself, be water....

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July 4, 2022

when this is over

Amanda McIvor Sonic Studio My relationship to, and my passion for, sound has been a driving force in my life that began in childhood. During the media studies program, I have focused on sound design and how one can be affected by it. I developed ‘Sonic Studio’ as an immersive sound experience that envelops the audience in a blanket of...

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June 27, 2022

Plastic Grass: MFA Thesis Exhibition

This exhibition held at the Lake Country Art Gallery featured the thesis work of MFA Visual Arts students Michaela Bridgemohan, Natasha Harvey, Scott Moore. Scott Moore’s artwork addresses the way we relate to our environment. Moore’s hyper-real digital and sculptural renderings of everyday objects compel us to examine the world around us and our concept of ‘place.’ Natasha Harvey’s large-scale...

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June 23, 2022

2022 Mural: Painted Turtle

Nine students in the visual arts mural painting course began work in early May 2022, unveiling the finished painting on June 23. This latest mural is located 2820 Pandosy St., and continues the theme of the previous two murals in downtown Kelowna—sensitive habitats and ecosystems of the Okanagan. Each mural depicts local flora and fauna to help bring awareness to...

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June 13, 2022

2022 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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April 14, 2022

Strategies in Digital Art: Virtual Worlds

FCCS instructor Emerald Holt (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, animation, interaction design and coding using 3D modelling...

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