Opening Reception 6-8pm –
August 3 –October
20,
2017
F
eatured Artists
Doug Alcock, David Alexander, Glenn Clark, Carin Covin,
Briar Craig, Robert Dmytruk, Jen Dyck, Leonard Epp,
Diane Feught, Johann Feught, Joice M. Hall, John Hall,
Fern Helfand, Angelika Jaeger, Byron Johnston, Ann
Kipling, Patricia Kushner, Mary Smith McCulloch, Steve
Mennie, Rhonda Neufeld and Rodney Konopaki, Herald Nix,
Julie Oakes, Gary Pearson, Stephen Lee Scott, Heidi
Thompson, Laura Widmer and David Wilson
Headbones Gallery has reserved two nights outside of the
busy Okanagan summer schedules of friends, family and
outdoor fun to focus on the arts in their cool
(temperature as well…) gallery and studio spaces.
On Wednesday,
August 02 Dave Soroka stops in on his way to Arts Wells
to refresh our ears with his original songs. Hailing
from Grand Forks, this veteran musician is a well-known
figure on the music circuit, famous not only for his
song writing but also for his coffee with his portable
coffee wagon churning out lattes and cappuccinos at
local festivals. Dave Soroka has a lot of energy and
though he swears he’s not on an all-day coffee break, he
has written over 350 songs as of the count just before
he played for 24 hours straight as a fund raiser for MOM
in Fort St. James last August.
And on Thursday, August 03
Hand-picked Okanagan,
Headbones’ annual exhibition of Okanagan artists - a
selection geared to WOW - officially opens with a
reception from 6 to 8 PM and many of the artists in
attendance.
The landscape is unavoidably
featured in
Hand-picked Okanagan
but the take on the ‘scape is varied. Headbones has just
received a painting by Joice M. Hall that shows a strip
of Okanagan Lake with the Mission Hill Winery tower in
the foreground. It captures the wonder of the valley as
a beam of winter sun illuminates a strip of land. Works
by Laura Widmer, Mary Mc Culloch, Herald Nix, Angelika
Jaeger, Rodney Knopaki with Rhonda Neufeld and Ann
Kipling bring the perfect balance between detail and
vista into view. David Wilson’s landscape series
addressing water uses signs and symbols derived from his
Okanagan Nation’s heritage in combination with a bright
pop style. Glenn Clarke a resident of Penticton shows an
Elite (hint) view of his inner city rendered in a super
realist style.
John Hall takes another turn
on super realism with his 60 x 80 inch painting
Rattle.
Not to be a spoiler but to give a hint – this is a slap
of over-the-top sweetness, a sugar rush big enough to
visually satisfy a serious choc-a-holic.
Landscape veers into
abstraction in a large David Alexander painting,
Smoke on the Water.
Alexander picks beauty,
color, shape and nuance from those summer days when the
smoke drifts in as if he has captured images of the
powerful fire in direct confrontation with living,
growing nature. Carin Covin’s new abstract circular
composition brings to mind the essential elements of
Okanagan sun and sky while Heidi Thompson’s detailed
handling brings to the fore the intricacy of
relationships between natural forces. Doug Alcock
celebrates a larger perspective with a sculpture with
the year 150 in mind and in Robert Dmytruk’s works,
though they may have initially been prompted by an
aerial view of the land, the images are more akin to a
party than a respite.
The psychological kaleidoscope of humanity is seen from
a variety of artistic interpretations in the works of
Briar Craig, Gary Pearson, Diane Feught, Johann Feught,
Byron Johnston, Patricia Kushner, Steve Mennie, Julie
Oakes, Jen Dyck and Steven Lee Scott. Their works bring
to light the multifarious social and cultural landscape,
raised here in the Okanagan and coaxed into being by the
skill and talents of exceptional artists.