Faculty and Staff Exhibition

Myron Campbell

We’ll grow rich with water (left), Jewels of rain (right). Inkjet prints on dibond

Myron Campbell is an Educator, Media Artist and Designer. He works as an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, where he teaches course in visual arts and digital media. Campbell completed an MAA with distinction at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2012 and where he received the Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. He has presented and exhibited internationally.

David Doody and Jorden Doody

Dream Team, mixed media assemblage

Jorden and David Doody are interdisciplinary artists who examine the transitional spaces between tangible material and digital media. Jorden received her BFA and MFA from UBC Okanagan and continues to exhibit widely across Canada. David received his BFA from UBC and his MFA from Concordia University. Jorden & David are currently Visual Arts instructors at UBC Okanagan. They are also the Artistic Directors of the Uptown Mural Project, an inclusive and educative urban art initiative held in Kelowna’s Rutland neighborhood.

Katherine Pickering

from the series Hum, oil on linen

Katherine Pickering teaches painting and drawing at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus on Okanagan-Syilx territory. Pickering received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and a Master in Fine Arts from Concordia University. Her artistic practice explores the language of abstract painting through assemblages and other sculptural gestures. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Article Inc. in Windsor Ontario and Simotas House in Istanbul Turkey, and has participated in several artist residencies, including The Room’s Terra Nova National Park residency in Newfoundland, and Figure in a Mountain Landscape thematic residency at the Banff Centre, AB.

Samuel Roy-Bois

Samuel Roy-Bois (Quebec city, 1973) is an award-winning artist and Associate Professor in Sculpture at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Laval University in 1996 and a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2001. Roy-Bois’ practice encompasses installation, sculpture, and photography, focusing on the built environment, vernacular practices, and art as an emergent phenomenon. His work has garnered national and international recognition, featured in exhibitions at esteemed institutions including the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM), the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, and the Esker Foundation in Calgary. His work is included in numerous Canadian collections, such as the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Simon Fraser Art Gallery, and the MACM. In recognition of his contributions, Roy-Bois was honored with the Vancouver Mayor’s Award in 2012 and the Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award in 2021.

Andreas Rutkauskas

From the series Silent Witnesses, 2024, inkjet print mounted on Dibond, 40×30”

Andreas Rutkauskas is a landscape photographer whose work explores wildfire aftermath and regeneration, a focus he’s pursued for seven years. Based in Kelowna, he teaches at UBC’s Okanagan campus and has held the position of Research Fellow with the Canadian Photography Institute, an artist in residence with the Grantham Foundation, and has worked with the Canadian Forces Artist Program. His photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the National Gallery of Canada and The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University. A 2025 Scotiabank Photography Award nominee, his work is held in public and private collections such as the Canadian War Museum, Musée Régional de Rimouski, and the Kelowna Art Gallery.

Miles Thorogood

Sounds installation in Sonic Production, Intelligence, Research, and Applications Lab (SPIRAL), run by Dr. Thorogood

Miles Thorogood is an artist/engineer at the University of British Columbia with research in the practice and theory of sound design and interactive digital art. His research seeks to identify formal models of creativity as it is by investigating aspects of human perception and design process in order to encode creative structures for computer-assisted technologies in art-making environments. Miles specializes in quantitative and qualitative methods from Music Information Retrieval, Human Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence toward cutting edge research in the development of novel computational models and systems for artistic creation. Research contributions include new knowledge in the fields of soundscape studies, affective computing, music information retrieval, and media arts.

Tania Willard

Through and Through, latex print on canvas

Tania Willard is a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist/curator whose research intersects with land-based art practices. An Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBCO in Syilx territories (Kelowna, BC Canada), her practice activates connection to land, culture, and family, centering art as an Indigenous resurgent act, though collaborative projects such as BUSH Gallery and support of language revitalization in Secwépemc communities.

Briar Craig

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

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.

Aleksandra Dulic

Becoming World

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.

Joanne Gervias & Shauna Oddleifson

Screenshot of Sea Dreams animation

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.

Patrick Lundeen

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

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.

Crystal Przybille

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

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.

Darian Goldin Stahl

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

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.

Lacia Vogel

marauder xvii, 2024, linocut

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.