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Art in Perspective
Thursday 20 September 2007 | 4:30pm
Mosaic Books, 411 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour celebrating artists and writers whose work was featured in the fall issue of Okanagan Arts. An exploration into how art influences our lives, drawing on the experience of artist Gary Pearson, and curator Liz Wylie.
This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost. Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, CKOV Radio, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna
Okanagan Art Critics Work it Out
There's not an artist in the world who didn't grow up with parents telling them they could never make a living. Yet despite the dire warnings, art and artists survive.
This coming Thursday at Mosaic Books, Okanagan Institute continues its Re:Imagine Series with Art in Perspective featuring Patricia Ainslie, the former vice-president of collections at Calgary's Glenbow Museum, UBCO professor Gary Pearson, and Kelowna Art Gallery's new curator Liz Wylie. These three have managed to devote their lives to art, and offer compelling insights into how art has informed both their personal and professional lives.
Patricia Ainslie has just returned from a whirlwind tour of her latest book - Alberta Art and Artists. "Of course there is plenty of cross-over between Alberta and BC, so you may find some of your neighbours and colleagues in the book," she says, listing off such luminaries as John Hall, Joice Hall, Johann Geught, and Shawn Serfas, who now call Okanagan home.
Ainslie spent nearly 30 years working in Alberta working with some of Canada's best-known artists including Jack Shadbolt, Cecil Buller and Laurence Hyde. In 1993 she took on the mantel of vice-president of collections at the Glenbow developing a reputation for her innovation. She retired to Kelowna last year.
Gary Pearson hasn't allowed a moment of his life to pass without engaging himself in art - both at a personal and academic level. An associate professor at UBCO in the Creative and Critical Studies Department, Pearson teaches painting and drawing along with a graduate course on research methods in creative theory.
But even an academic needs to keep his hands in the paint pot. As a result, Pearson's work has appeared in exhibits throughout Canada, and around the world including Europe and Australia. Upcoming solo exhibitions will be at the Elissa Cristall Gallery in Vancouver, and in 2008 he'll be working on a guest curatorial project in Sydney, Australia. Pearson is also the author of The Creative Voice: Life and Art in the Okanagan, published in 1998.
Liz Wylie is one of the newest faces on the Okanagan art scene, but she's hardly new to an appreciation of what art means to people and how it reflects culture and community. Prior to her arrival in June as KAG's curator, Wylie was the curator for the University of Toronto Art Centre. She has a special interest in Canadian Art History and has written countless articles as a professional art critic on the development of contemporary Canadian art.
Over the years Wylie has spoken to numerous art galleries about how to expand and develop their own collections. Most recently she wrote a paper on the issues facing public gallery collection for an event put on by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries.
Art in Perspective is a free event, and takes place at 4:30 p.m. It's put on in association with the magazines of Wheat King Publishing - Okanagan Arts, Okanagan Home, and Okanagan Q. Re-Imagine is sponsored by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Books, CKOV Radio, UBCO Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, and supports the work of Project Literacy Kelowna.
Where inquiring minds gather. Okanagan Insitute at Mosaic Books
A hearty feast of presentations, workshops and seminars that celebrate the works and ideas of leading Okanagan creative individuals. Produced by the Okanagan institute in association with the magazines of Wheat King Publishing: Okanagan Arts, Okanagan Home, and Okanagan Q.
Re:IMAGINE is a cultural tonic that refreshes the mind. Join us at Mosaic Books after work on Thursdays for a free hour of stimulation that will get your synapses tingling with new ideas and fresh images. Designed for inquiring minds looking for, among other things, the wild blue yonder.
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