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Shh! Good Art Up & Down The Okanagan Valley
 
Headbones Gallery
July 22 - September 10, 2016
 
Samuel Adhi
Doug Alcock
David T. Alexander
Glenn Clark
Carin Covin
Briar Craig
Robert Dmytruk
Jen Dyck
Leonard Epp
Diane Feught
Johann Feught
John Hall
Joice M. Hall
Fern Helfand
Angelika Jaeger
Byron Johnston
Ann Kipling
Patricia Kushner
Mary Smith McCulloch
Steve Mennie
Amy Modahl
R. Nuefeld & R. Konopaki
Herald Nix
Julie Oakes
Gary Pearson
Stephen Lee Scott
Heidi Thompson
David Wilson
 
 
 
Up Next
 
Landon Mackenzie
 
Paul Mathieu
 
Headbones Gallery
September 16 - October 16
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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David Wilson

Steve Mennie

Julie Oakes

Stephen Lee Scott

Crystal Przybille
 

Herald Nix

Samuel Adhi


John Hall

Amy Modahl

Jen Dyck

Carin Covin

Robert Dmytruk

David T. Alexander

Byron Johnston
 
 
Patricia Kushner

Heidi Thompson

Johann Feught

Diane Feught

Rhonda Nuefeld & Rodney Konopaki

Angelika Jaeger

Mary Smith McCulloch

Gary Pearson

Doug Alcock
 
 
Joice M. Hall

Glenn Clark

Ann Kipling

Diane Feught

Leonard Epp
 
 
Fern Helfand
   

Shh! Good Art Up And Down The Okanagan Valley -A group exhibition with works by:

Samuel Adhi, Doug Alcock, David Alexander, Glenn Clark, Carin Covin, Briar Craig, Robert Dmytruk, Jen Dyck, Leonard Epp, Johann Feught, Diane Feught, John Hall, Joice M. Hall, Fern Helfand, Angelika Jaeger, Byron Johnston, Ann Kipling, Patricia Kushner, Mary Smith McCulloch, Steve Mennie, Amy Modahl, Rhonda Neufeld and Rodney Konopaki, Herald Nix, Julie Oakes, Gary Pearson, Crystal Przybille, Stephen Lee Scott, Heidi Thompson and David Wilson

Artists historically have gravitated towards grand cities in order to have the excitement of a burgeoning creativity within the scope of conversation - Paris, London, New York, Madrid, Berlin and lately Beijing, Barcelona, New Delhi. In Canada it has been no different so that the art scene was most potent in the eastern cities - Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa (The National Gallery) and then Vancouver came into eminence with a wave of artists who came to international significance – Jeff Wall, Douglas Copeland, Rodney Graham. In Winnipeg, Border Crossings magazine, Marcel Dzama and The Royal Art Lodge pulled in profile. In Canada, historically artists have stepped outside of the cities, some right into the wilderness like The Group of Seven or Emily Carr but it soon re-assembled in the eastern city centres with the Automatistes and abstract artists like the “Painters Eleven”. “The Regina Five” opened an awareness on the prairies and Alberta came into focus when the wealthy oil industry enabled collectors in that frontier land so that artists and galleries flourished.

This valley is rich but it is not necessary to keep it under wraps for art itself is generous – it’s made to be shared. Up and Down the Okanagan Valley there is a cultural treasure and we don’t have to go to New York to see it - though in the end it may be where it is eventually exhibited. Rather than going away to find art we can use it to bring people here. Destination museums, galleries and residencies have become a viable option when real estate values soar. Larger spaces can be had that show the work to better advantage. The viewing audience brings people, often internationals to locations outside of the big city centers and they come because the word has spread that there is something to see that makes it worth taking the trip.

The opening reception of the Headbones’ Okanagan show is an exhibition when works are brought forth
from the seclusion of studios and presented to the community, an important connection made from the
roots. Shh! Good Art Up and Down the Okanagan Valley cautions that there is something to sneak up
upon, something cool to see.