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In painting and drawing, I have used the still life genre to relieve common objects of their purpose, to feature them as characters as if in a series of tableaus. The paintings in this exhibition focus on Herald Nix’s studio, where collections appear just as the artist left them, gathered in new stacks each day. Whether carefully organized or haphazardly stacked, these objects seem to write humorous little stories throughout the home and studio. Like a midden, I see those arrangements as a transitory record, the detritus of daily life that I fix in new form where the objects merge, shift roles, and meaning.
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In recent years, Salmon Arm-based artist Amy Modahl has focused on painting, a practice for which she was awarded the 2023 Tanabe Prize for a mid-career painter. Modahl’s work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions at the Kelowna Art...More
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In painting and drawing, I have used the still life genre to relieve common objects of their purpose, to feature them as characters as if in a series of tableaus. The paintings in this exhibition focus on Herald Nix’s studio, where collections appear just as the artist left them, gathered in new stacks each day. Whether carefully organized or haphazardly stacked, these objects seem to write humorous little stories throughout the home and studio. Like a midden, I see those arrangements as a transitory record, the detritus of daily life that I fix in new form where the objects merge, shift roles, and meaning.
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In recent years, Salmon Arm-based artist Amy Modahl has focused on painting, a practice for which she was awarded the 2023 Tanabe Prize for a mid-career painter. Modahl’s work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions at the Kelowna Art...More
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