Flow

June 11 - July 10, 2010

Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 10, 2010, 7-9pm

Five female artists create large scale fluid and expansive works that demonstrate a liquidity which results in a rich artistic experience. Their large abstract works are created with acrylic on silk; graphite and watercolour on synthetic paper, conte, watercolour and pastel on paper.

INTERACTIVE COMMUNITY COMPONENT
Artist Talk - Saturday, June 12, 1:00pm-2:00pm
 

Artists:

Jude Clarke, lives in Vernon, BC. She studied Visual Art Studies at the Three Schools, Toronto and received a BFA studies with a Major in Painting from the University of Regina, Saskatchewan and the Notre Dame University, Nelson, BC. Jude is inspired by the shapes, colour & form of the Kalamalka Lake in Vernon after sunset.

Shirley Hazlett, resides in Sacramento and San Francisco, California she has two BA degrees in Art Studio and Art History and is an MFA candidate in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. She examines the dynamics of directed chance, both as inquiry and process using water-based media-inks and acrylic paints-on silk canvases. 

Heidi Maddess, lives in Vernon, BC. She received her MFA with Honours from the San Francisco Art Institute, 2009 and another MFA with Honours from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Heidi explores her mythologies and landscape of her Icelandic heritage and how personal demons-shadows-thread themselves through sensibilities of physiological, emotional and psychological landscapes.

Alexandra Sprowls, lives in Chilco, California. She received her BA in Studio Art and Art Education from California State University in 2000, and her MFA in painting in 2008 from the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco. Alexandra’s acrylic paintings on silk speak of the ephemeral, meditative state that is both transformative and cognizant of time.

Sande Waters, lives and works in North Vancouver. She received her BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2006 and her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2009. Her drawings capture a sense of internal psychological spaces as well as the external body and its organs.