Exhibition Catalogue - Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art

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Turned Intos
Bellwether
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Turned Intos
November 21 - December 20, 2008
Exhibition at threewalls in Chicago
Whether interested in the reshapings that the night-mind works on the
day’s events, or the reinvention of a boy as a fish, or even the changes
to our conventional ways of seeing animal-human relations, each of the
exhibiting artists is also preoccupied with questions of transformation.
August, a Kelowna-based artist, will be exhibiting "Wildness"--a series
of prints that further the artist's fascination with animals and, more
generally, with popular conceptions of 'nature.' August's work is playful
but also disconcerting as it tends to reshape binary divisions between
human and animal, interior and exterior, cute and sinister.
H'anuse Corlett is an Okanagan-based multimedia artist and a member
of the Wuikinuxv, Heiltsuk, and Klahoose peoples. He will be exhibiting
his new work "Quqva" in Chicago. This meditative and urgent piece
includes painting, video, and performance elements. "Quqva" was
born out of H'anuse Corlett's documentary video work in his Wuikinuxv
home territory. Interwoven with images of the landscape is a captivating
soundscape and a carved mask (also by the artist) that tells a version of
the traditional story about "The Boy Who Turned into a Salmon."
Fuller is a Winnipeg-born artist whose work is primarily photographybased. At threewalls she will be exhibiting, "Dream Log"--this is the
artist's intriguing investigation into the mystery of dreams. In "Dream
Log," Fuller creates her own sleep lab, of sorts, in which she invites
people to take a pin-hole camera and a journal home with them in order
to record their dreams.
About the Alternator
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in Kelowna, B.C., is an artistrun centre operated by the Okanagan Artists Alternative Association,
a non-profit society created in 1989. The Alternator offers year-round
exhibitions of contemporary art in all media by regional, national
and international artists. Artist talks, exchanges, workshops, panel
discussions and other events promote awareness of contemporary
art practices and create a forum for the exchange of ideas within the
artistic community.
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Scott August, River Lobster, 2006
Sarah Fuller, Dream, February 24, 2008
Bracken H’anuse Corlett, Quvqa Mask, 2008
Scott August is a Kelowna-based artist and a graduate of UBC
Okanagan. His work has been exhibited at the Alternator Centre for
Contemporary Art (Kelowna), the Duotone Arts Festival (Kelowna),
the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Pop Montreal art and music festival
(Québec). August is also an internationally recognized musician with
two records on the Vancouver indie label Scratch Records as half
of Vote Robot and a solo production as French Paddleboat. He has
performed at Avant-garde music festivals in Europe and the United
States.
Sarah Fuller is a Winnipeg born artist living in Banff, Alberta. She
earned a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in
Vancouver in 2003. She has exhibited across Western Canada and
has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the
Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Fuller’s work is held in public and
private collections across Canada including the Canada Council Art
Bank and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Bracken H’anuse Corlett is an emerging Northwest Coast First
Nations multi-media artist. A recent graduate of the En’owkin Centre
for Indigenous Art in Penticton, B.C., he is completing his fine arts
degree at UBC Okanagan. H’Anuse Corlett works in video, sound,
painting, carving, writing and performance. He has worked as a writer
for Redwire Native Youth Media and has exhibited and performed
across British Columbia and Oregon.
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Bellwether
October 24 - December 5, 2008
Exhibition at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in Kelowna
A bellwether is a herald or a harbinger. Threewalls presents a group of
artists, all based in or formerly based in Chicago, whose work imparts
a kind of warning or prediction. Riding the line of disaster prophecy, the
work suggests both decline culturally and environmentally, as well as
simultaneously deconstructing the meaning of art or the Avant-garde as
a pilar of faith in the abstract. Positioning a group of artists whose work
creates disruption within the accepted narrative of modern art alongside
work that proposes a menacing or hesitant narrative, Bellwether is both
a document of current doubt and anxiety in the face of cultural disrepair,
as well as a provocation from a group of artists working from outside
the traditional poles of the Avant-garde.
About threewalls
Threewalls was founded in 2002 to provide greater support and visibility
for the visual arts community in Chicago. Threewalls operates a yearly
thematic residency, positioning a group of artists within the city to work,
collaborate, interact and/or make site specific projects that engage a
wider audience through project specific presentation strategies; an
ongoing studio residency open to all arts and humanities workers and
thinkers to come to work and live in Chicago for research, study and
production time; an exhibition program for local and regional artists;
the SALONS and symposium programs to generate open dialogue,
presentation of new ideas and the publication of new writing; as well
as partnering with other organizations on publication and education, to
broaden and contribute to the visual arts.
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David Coyle, Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 2006
Caleb Jones Lyons, Radiostack, 2008
Duncan McKenzie & Christian Kuras
Values, Values, Values, 2008
Josh Mannis, Downward Dog, 2008
Daniel Anhorn completed a BFA at UBC Okanagan and an MFA at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. He has exhibited
throughout the United States and Canada, with recent exhibitions at
the Green Lantern (Chicago), Old Gold Gallery (Chicago), Headbones
Gallery (Toronto) and the Ukrainian Institute for Modern Art (Chicago).
His work is in the collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery.
David Coyle lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His painting
and video work has been exhibited in the United States, including
the Beverly Art Center (Chicago), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago),
Ambrosino Gallery (Miami), RAID Projects (Los Angeles) and Gallery
40000 (Chicago). He was recently nominated for the Altoids Emerging
Artist Award.
Caleb Jones Lyons is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago. His work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad
including High Energy Constructs (Los Angeles), 40000 (Chicago), the
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and Bemis Underground
(Omaha).
Duncan McKenzie & Christian Kuras are based in London (UK) and
Chicago (USA). They have been working collaboratively since 2003.
Their work has been exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Centre (Chicago),
Vox Populi (Philadelphia) and Green Lantern (Chicago).
Josh Mannis has exhibited widely in the United States in the traveling
exhibition, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967,
curated by Dominic Molon (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago),
the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), Locust Projects (Miami), Bucket
Rider Gallery (Chicago), Gallery 40000 (Chicago) and Small A Projects
(Portland).
Heather Mekkelson completed her MFA at the University of Illinois.
Her work has been featured in Chicago at Standard, Gallery 40000,
Gardenfresh, the Green Lantern and the Pond. She was nominated for
a Driehaus award in 2006.
Jenny Walters is a Los Angeles based photographer with an MFA from
the University of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in Chicago,
Houston and Kansas City. Walters has been reviewed in ArtForum,
Modern Painters and Art Monthly.
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Chicago, IL 60607
p: 312-432-3972
www.three-walls.org
Threewalls is partially supported by a grant from
the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; the City of
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs City Arts I
Program; Artist Work Fund; the Gaylord and Dorothy
Donnelly Foundation; the Alphawood Foundation; the
MacArthur Fund for Arts & Culture at the Richard H.
Driehaus Foundation; and Major support is provided
by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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421 Cawston Ave.
Kelowna, BC, Canada V1Y 1T7
p: 250.868.2298
www.alternatorgallery.com
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
acknowledges the support of the Canada Council
for the Arts, the province of BC through the BC Arts
Council, the BC Gaming Commission and the City
of Kelowna as well as its members, sponsors and
volunteers.