Faculty and Staff Exhibition

Prelude 

Annual FCCS Faculty and Staff Exhibition

An annual exhibition and speaker series featuring the artwork of selected faculty and staff in FCCS. All of our visual art and media studies instructors are practising artists, as are many of our staff. This is an opportunity to showcase their work and offer opportunities for our students to learn more about our faculty and staff art practices at weekly presentations.

2024 Exhibition

Exhibition dates: August 28. to Sept. 26, 2024.

The 2024 exhibition will showcase the works of current instructors Briar Craig, Aleksandra Dulic, Patrick Lundeen, Crystal Przybille (BFA ’97, MFA ’20, current instructor), and Darian Goldin Stahl, as well as current staff and alumni Joanne Gervais (BFA ’06, MFA ’10), Shauna Oddleifson (BFA ’98), and Lacia Vogel (BFA ’12).

During the course of the exhibition, the following artists will offer a 30-minute talk on their work and art practice in the FINA Gallery.

Artist Talks:

Briar Craig
Date: Wednesday, September. 11
Time: 12:00 pm

Crystal Przybille
Date: Thursday. September. 19
Time: 12:00 pm

Joanne Gervais & Shauna Oddleifson
Date: Saturday, September 21
Time: 2:30 pm
*during UBCO Homecoming

Patrick Lundeen
Date: Tuesday, September 24
Time: 12:00 pm

Darian Goldin Stahl
Date: Wednesday, September 25
Time: 12:00 pm

EVIL WORDS, 2023
Ultra-violet screenprint, 22 x 30”

Briar Craig

Briar Craig is a Professor in the Department of Creative Studies at UBCO. Briar Craig’s studio practice and art making interests focus almost exclusively in the area of screenprinting.

His work has been exhibited around the world in over twenty-five solo and over two-hundred and fifty group exhibitions.  Works are held in the permanent collections of the International Print Triennial Association in Krakow, Poland; the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Arts, Istanbul, Turkey; Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana; the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; the Japan Print Association, Yokohama, Japan; Guanlan International Print biennial, Guanlan, China; Penang State Art Gallery, Penang, Malasia; etc.

Becoming World

Aleksandra Dulic

Dr. Aleksandra Dulic, Associate Professor, Department of Creative Studies, UBCO is an artist-scholar with expertise in interactive art, climate change communication, and media for social change. She is the Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCT) and leads an interdisciplinary research team that engages multiple forms of art, media and information technologies as vehicles for the expression of community, culture, and identity. She has managed several interdisciplinary research projects and secured Canadian federal and provincial funding for these projects. She has created a number of large-scale dynamic environments and multimedia projects.

Screenshot of Sea Dreams animation

Joanne Gervias & Shauna Oddleifson

Joanne Gervais and Shauna Oddleifson collaborated to create works based on their intersecting interest in nostalgia, and their desire to combine their different mediums as a means of further investigating the impact of memory and imagination. Sea Dreams, is an animated that tells a story of a little girl character wearing an octopus mask and her interactions with sea-creatures, underwater plant life and the impact of human negligence.

Joanne Gervais work looks at the role memory plays in the formation of identity and how the arrangement of imagery, video, sound and motion can be used to depict the non-linear nature of nostalgia and its capacity to imaginatively restructure past narratives. Her work often references and suggests alternative perceptions of these narratives. Shauna Oddleifson’s work is subversive in nature, containing deranged visuals and a schizophrenic sense of humour, appropriating from our childhood desires and patterns of thought. Her work affixes a subtext narrative to a common object or idea in order to provoke a societal response. Her conceptual and creative practice centres on the character of the little girl, and her growth through living in the world with other people and creatures and environments.

Space Is the Place, 2024, mixed-media, approx. 48 x 48”

Patrick Lundeen

Patrick Lundeen was born in Lethbridge, Alberta (Siksikaitsitapi [Blackfoot Confederacy] territory). He is currently based in Kelowna, BC (unceded Okanagan Syilx territory) where he teaches drawing, painting, sculpture and art theory at UBC Okanagan. His interdisciplinary artistic practice includes explorations of painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, video, food, performance, and public art.

Lundeen’s visual strategies employ humour, sensory experience, and a rough and visceral aesthetic as a means to unpack social and political contexts. In addition to visual art, Patrick is also a dubiously talented musician with 5 self-released collections of music on record and cassette.

Impermanence, 2024, Mixed Media, 38″ x 25″

Crystal Przybille

Crystal Przybille is an award-winning artist and a sessional instructor at UBC Okanagan. Przybille’s work is included in the Public Art Collections of Kelowna, Surrey, North Vancouver, and Victoria.

Przybille’s work explores how art can serve in shaping personal and public narratives and consciousness. Her plein-air drawing Impermanence was created in a burnt, Okanagan forest.

Utilizing, in part, charcoal obtained from the work’s subject, the work is a contemplation on ephemerality and transformation.

Post Partum (Detail), Silkscreen, ink transfer, and watercolor, 24” x 42,” 2024

Darian Goldin Stahl

Darian Goldin Stahl is printmaker and bookmaker working between topics of medicine, disability, and well-being. After attaining a BFA in Printmaking from Indiana University Bloomington and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta, she went on to achieve a research-creation PhD in Humanities from Concordia University in 2021 that investigated the multi-sensory expressions of illness and disability in artists’ books.

This work awarded Darian a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UNBC Northern Medical Program and Health Arts Research Centre. Dr. Stahl is currently a Printmaking Instructor at UBCO and a Research Associate at the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. This interdisciplinary background demonstrates her commitment to championing those who have been marginalized and othered in Western medical systems through advocacy, research, and art. This work exhibits our complex encounters with medicine in a way that is inviting, enstranging, and wonderous. Although healthcare can be a heavy topic, dreamy visions of technicolor and even glitter transform a difficult and isolating subject matter into a universal tale that nearly anyone can see themselves within. Trails of mice lead us through the artwork, at once recalling folklore characters and the foundation of medical research using animal models. An amalgamation of anatomical illustrations, laboratory equipment, and hospital gowns further animate this surreal storyboard on illness experiences. Taken together, this surreal collection showcases the patient’s journey to live a life of her choosing.

marauder xvii, 2024, linocut

Lacia Vogel

Born in 1987, Lacia Vogel has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Regina (2015), a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UBC Okanagan (2012), and a Certificate in Studio Metalwork from the Kootenay School of Art (2007).

Lacia has participated in exhibitions and artist residencies internationally since 2009. For the works in this show, the starting point is Seamus Heaney’s translation of the Beowulf poem. Visually exploring the concept of the bold and fearless seafarer through the motif of a Viking ship, Lacia has been creating these miniature linocut prints in her home studio for almost a decade. The compositions have grown increasingly abstract as the series progresses.