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 collage and lino-print works deal with the paradox of living and revering the beauty of natural spaces while being overcome by its canceling through rampant development.

Michaela Bridgemohan’s work explores topics around relational connections and cultural identity, diving into stories through ritualistic use of both traditional and unconventional materials.

Exhibition dates: June 4th to July 16th, 2022

(images 1 to 6 show the work of Scott Moore; images 7 to 9 show the work of Natasha Harvey; images 10 to 1 show the work of Michaela Bridgemohan)

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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 some of the sensitive habitats in the local area.

The design features a large western painted turtle, showing it as the sun sets in a very calm surreal setting.

Support for this project was made possible with the generous donations from Sunbelt Rentals, CTQ Consultants Ltd., Opus Framing and Art Supplies and Fresh West Official.

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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 software and Unity game engine. A culmination of the students’ finest video fly-through compositions will be on exhibition for the month of April and May 2022.

The virtual environment exhibition will be shared with the larger university community in the FCCS video wall in the foyer, Sawchuck Family Theatre in the university commons building from April 22 to May 6 (Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays), and with the public community audience at the Rotary Art Centre Urban Screens in downtown Kelowna from April 21 to May 31, 2022.

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Behind A Head – Advanced Sculpture

The Advanced Practice in Sculpture exhibit Behind a Head explores the theme of the human head and psyche. Each student developed their concept through a learning process of creating a sculpture armature, oil-clay original sculpture, multi-part silicone mold, and casting the works in plaster.

Advanced Sculpture students:

Makeena Hartmann

Jordan MacDonald

Sara Richardson

Bruce Zhou

Instructor

Crystal Przybille

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Sea Dreams

Sea Dreams
An exhibition by alumni Joanne Gervais (BFA ’06, MFA ’10) and Shauna Oddleifson (BFA ’98)

This animated tale that tells a story of a little girl character wearing an octopus mask and her interactions with sea-creatures, underwater plant life and the impact of human negligence. With increasing temperatures brought about by climate change, and the accumulation of plastics, the health of the oceans is under threat. With this work we are referencing the affect we have on our environment, and how the way we interact with nature can have consequences. The naive drawing style allows for a buffer for the deeper meaning of our human condition and interactions with each other and natural environments. The elements that make up the animated narrative are hand drawn and sewn creatures along with photographs that are cut out, staged and brought to life through a combination of stop motion and digital media.

Sea Dreams was on display in the Project Gallery at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art from January 28 to March 12, 2022.

Photo courtesy of the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.

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Homescape – VISA 215 Introduction to Painting

Homescape

UBCO BFA Students

Under the instruction of David Doody, this group of Introduction to Painting (VISA 215) students present these paintings that explore the interior landscapes of one’s “own space”. Homescapes consists of portraits of physical and psychological residuals left in the wake life lived indoors, during a year of global pandemic and self-isolation. These works were created during the first semester back to in-person classes during the September semester of 2021.

Caity Dueck
Nick Tai
Chandler Burnett
Amy Marui
Peyton Lynch
Lauren Johnson
Hannah Palomera
David James Doody
Jenna Cooper
Serena Arsenault
Ella Cottier

 

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Collective Relevance – Advance Practice in Photography

‘Collective Relevance’ can be interpreted in two manners. Meaning can be attributed to seemingly unconnected works through mutual exhibition, but also that the collective remains an important strategy for sharing ideas and values.

This term’s component of the Advanced Practice in Photography course is dedicated to independent research, and some of the pictures here were produced in recent weeks. Others were created during autumn, 2021. Regardless of their date of creation, the work speaks to strategies for coping with the trauma associated with a global pandemic, and celebrates a return to face-to-face learning and physical photography.

Often considered a solitary medium, especially in its digital form, photography benefits from collective experience. The primary success of this exhibition lies in our ability to come together and consider these images in a new context.

 

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ONE Chair -VISA 105 class project

One Chair

What is a chair? Visa 105 sculpture students were asked to reflect on the manner by which we define objects, but also on how objects also define us. Using as a point of departure Joseph Kosuth’s seminal 1964 installation ‘One and Three Chairs’, they had to create a chair that would reveal something about them. These self-portraits in the form of common furniture had to be personal and unique, but beyond anything, they had to be constructed well enough to support the weight of their instructor (exact weight not disclosed). This proposal led to the creation of 19 unique pieces, thoughtfully created with materials of their choosing, relevant to the ideas they wished to share.

Samuel Roy-Bois, VISA-105 Instructor

Students: Maddy Bohnet – Faith Bye – Nadia Fracy – Cady Gau – Hailey Gleboff – Elly Hajdu – Asahna Hughes – Jordin Kolmel – Laura McCarthy – Connor McCleary – Grace Nascimento-Laverdiere – Kate Nicholson – Damla Ozkalay – Freddie Thacker – Telina Wales – Wenjing Wang

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