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ROBERT TRUSZKOWSKI
PENANCE
Topham Brown Gallery
March 29 - May 24
UV cured silkscreen and acrylic silkscreen varnish on paper 22 x 24 in
Exhibition Sponsor:
In conjunction with the Okanagan Print Triennial 2012 - a collaborative project between the Kelowna Art Gallery, Vernon Public Art Gallery, and the Department of Creative Studies (FCCS, UBCO Okanagan) - the Vernon Public Art Gallery will present an exhibition of 15 prints titled Penance, produced by the Regina-based print artist Robert Truszkowski, who was awarded a solo exhibition by the jurors of the Okanagan Print Triennial 2009. The focus of the exhibition will be centred on Truszkowski’s conceptual investigation of production and dissemination of communicable information, both digital and analogue, which are instilled in the contemporary production of repeated images. The meaning encapsulated in his images is definitely difficult to decode at the first glance, but the works are loaded with philosophical references, mediated residues of past and present events, and a reflection on the social values of contemporary society.
SD #22 SECONDARY STUDENT EXHIBITION This exhibition is sponsored by:
ART AND SOUL
Caroline Galbraith and Up-Front Galleries
April 26 - May 24
Art and Soul; a Vernon Public Art Gallery annual exhibition of artwork created by secondary students from School District #22, displays a maturity of handling various mediums and more importantly, demonstrates a strong conceptual approach. The works often communicate important messages referencing ecological and political concerns, or matters of relationships and elements from our daily lives.
JOYCE DEVLIN
WORKS IN THE VPAG PERMANENT COLLECTION
Community Gallery
March 29 - May 24
Joyce Francis Devlin will be the Artist in Residence at the Mackie House from April 6 to April 20, 2012. The VPAG will host an artist talk presentation in which Devlin will talk about her artistic practice and her connection to Vernon. Born in Fort Fraser BC in 1932, she began art lessons with Jesse Tophman Brown - the founder of the present day Vernon Public Art Gallery - at the age of nine until she was seventeen. Devlin returns to Vernon after decades of prolific artistic practice, teaching art, and exhibiting in Canada and Internationally.
