Roaming Perspectives
An Exhibition of Photographs by David T. Alexander &
Leonhard Epp
Opening Reception 6-9PM Thursday, January
23rd
David
Alexander and Leonhard Epp have each used the camera as
a tool of reference rather than as a medium until
recently when the long practice of recognizing that
which has the potential for artistic merit was arrested,
re-examined and chosen to exist not as a tool or a step
but as an art object by virtue of its own intrinsic
value. Since neither artist uses digital manipulation to
a sizeable degree, the ‘art’ in these photographs comes
directly from their individually developed sense of
perception
Alexander as
painter and Epp as ceramicist are artists who have honed
their disciplines to the extent that they have gained
significant recognition in their respective areas. David
Alexander has a national profile. He moved to the
Okanagan where he sequesters and paints between his
trips to exhibitions or into nature to work directly
from the surroundings.
Leonhard Epp, emigrated from Germany to Canada in 1951. After receiving a
degree in Sculpture from The Vancouver School of Art in
1960 followed by a professorship there until 1972, he
moved to the Okanagan where he set up his ceramic studio
near Falkland.
Roaming Perspectives, An Exhibition of Photographs,
on display from January 23-February 22, 2014 at
Headbones Gallery, Vernon.
Diane
Feught’s actual past, present and future have rarefied
beginnings. Feught grew up in an Anglican home. As an adult, she
lived in a Buddhist priory in Edmonton for seven years where she
experienced the lphical, spiritual and
cultural diversity while still living in the heart of a
‘typical’ Canadian milieu. Her oil paintings and gouaches leave
room for study as well as speculation as to their narrative
source. Often with a strong composition that supports the drama
of the imagery, her technique – impeccable and practiced –
supports the strangeness of her subjects by granting an
immediate viability to the juxtaposition of elements. The
overwhelming perfection and balance take over any doubt at the
unusual imagery. Feught also backs her innuendos with
information, detailing with a precision to provoke applause.
Afar
Per se
- what does it mean? Per se does not only mean “intrinsically”
but also, “by, of, for or in itself”. It seems a fitting
description of the works of Amar from Afar and Diane Feught with
all of the allusions to otherness that they inspire.
The
opening reception for Afar
Per se is Friday, November 11, which is
Remembrance Day and
11/11/11. Even the date is fittingly evocative yet cryptic.
Trance
and Nilt to cosmic Eastern sounds and melodies during the
opening reception with Daniel
Stark on sarode,
Bill Boyd on cello and
Gaz on guitar.
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