A
Flourish of Feathers
Featuring
Crystal Przybille
With works by
Joe Fafard, Gabriel Orozco, Julie Oakes, David
Wilson,
Doug Alcock, Steve Mennie, Stephen Lee Scott
and Rose Sanderson
Opening Reception 6-8PM - Saturday, November
28, 2015
Birds,
feathers, and flight have long fascinated from Greek
tales of Icaurus, to Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings of
flying machines, through to contemporary resolutions of
man’s entrancement with the skies.
Wish
is the featured presentation of a Flourish of
Feathers for it is the sweeping expansive
reach of this piece that suggested the title. Crystal
Przybille was commissioned in 2010 to create the piece
for the satellite airport space of the Kelowna Art
Gallery in which she utilized a sparseness of form
within a postmodern melding of diverse materials.
Complimenting Wish will be
alternative takes on feathering ways by Joe Fafard,
Gabriel Orozco, Allesandra Exposito, Doug Alcock, Julie
Oakes, Rose Sanderson, Stephen Lee Scott and David
Wilson.
Crystal
Przybille is a graduate from the Bachelor of Fine Arts
Program at the University of Victoria . In 2014, she was
awarded the Okanagan Arts Award in the Visual Arts
Category for her significant achievements and
contributions.
Exposure to the collections of
European museums and galleries can be seen in
Przybille’s figurative, monumental public sculptures,
large accomplished bronze works such as Father
Pandosy at Kelowna ’s Pandosy Mission
Heritage Site. The Father Pandosy maquette
and her maquette for Chief Sʷknc̓ut
(Sookinchute) showing the Chief standing and raising a
feathery plume towards the sky will also be exhibited at
Headbones Gallery.
This exhibition
is definitely not ‘for the birds’, though it calls into
play our bird-like affiliations. To add to the holiday
festivities, three birds of a feather, The Dharma
Dolls,’ undoubtedly plumed and pumped’ will be
performing December 27 at Headbones Gallery in their
fifth annual Glitter and Glam Holiday Concert. The
exhibition runs until January 16, 2016.