, RCA
Shawn Serfas
Penticton Art Gallery’s Canvasing Greatness, October 26th, 2013
The Vanilla Pod at Poplar Grove Winery
Tonight’s Food and Wine Pairings 6:00 - 7:00 pm Opening reception and auction preview featuring artisan flatbreads & assorted canapés Wine Pairing: Music supplied by the Darylectones www.darylectones.com 7:15 First Course Butternut Squash Soup Wine Pairing: Followed by auction items # 1 - 4
Fourth Course Poached Pear Wine Pairing: Followed by auction items # 13 - 17 Coffee & Tea
Seven years of doing business together has formed a tight partnership for Paul and Sheila - with clearly defined roles. Paul, originally from London and who has long been a restaurateur, loves the excitement of meeting new people and ensuring their dining experience exceeds their expectations while Sheila focusses on the behind the scenes' aspect of the Vanilla Pod. Background
Second Course Beet Salad, Chevre, Balsamic Reduction Wine Pairing: Followed by auction items # 5 - 8 Third Course Braised Beef, Parsnip Puree Wine Pairing: Followed by auction items # 9 - 12
In 2011 the owners of Poplar Grove asked Sheila and Paul Jones to consider moving their restaurant to their winery in Penticton. A new beginning, a new challenge and great plans for the future began in July 2012 when the Vanilla Pod Restaurant at Poplar Grove Winery opened its doors.
Sheila & Paul Jones purchased the original Vanilla Pod Restaurant in Summerland, BC in March 2006. The specialty of the restaurant was primarily tapas paired with exceptional Okanagan wines. Paul has a finely-tuned ability to expertly pair the appropriate wines with the Vanilla Pod's various dishes - it's one of the reasons the restaurant is trusted to deliver an experience that delights the senses. Together the Jones have defined a new way of dining in Summerland and they now have a strong following where guests have been known to fly from Calgary to Kelowna for dinner at Vanilla Pod Tapas & Wine Bar!
Executive Chef Bruno Terroso Bruno joined the Vanilla Pod team in May 2006. His background includes fine dining, intimate restaurant cooking and banquets for 500+ people. Bruno brings a sense of adventure to his kitchen and his passion for infusing new dishes with a unique twist is what makes the menu so outstanding. Together Paul, Sheila and Bruno are The Vanilla Pod and wish to extend their invitation to you to come and enjoy "the perfect pairing of food and wine". www.thevanillapod.ca
Penticton Art Gallery’s Canvasing Greatness, October 26th, 2013
Poplar Grove Winery is located on the slopes of the Naramata Bench, a premier wine growing area just outside Penticton, British Columbia. One of the original five wineries on the Naramata Bench, Poplar Grove was founded in 1993 when Ian Sutherland dedicated 2.5 acres of land to the planting of Cabernet Franc and Merlot grapes. The first vintage was released in the fall of 1995, with the Poplar Grove Cabernet Franc receiving top honours at the Okanagan International Wine Festival. Over the past 19 years, Poplar Grove’s vision has remained the same: to make world-class wines that reflect the spirit of the Okanagan Valley terroir. Each year, the wine making team handcrafts the Poplar Grove wines with care, being true to their mandate to guide the winemaking process with little or no interruption of the natural process. In 2007, Tony Holler became Poplar Grove’s majority owner and President, with Ian Sutherland and Barrie Sali completing the new ownership team. The Holler family brought with them 110 acres of prime vineyard sites located throughout the Southern Okanagan Valley, appropriately named Holler Estate Vineyards. The addition of the new vineyards allows Poplar Grove wines to be made from 100% estate grown fruit. The viticulture team supports the estate vineyards by practicing a sustainable farming program that works with the complexity and variability of the individual vineyards resulting in grapes that are the optimum expression of the local terroir. Ian Sutherland continues as the Executive Winemaker at Poplar Grove. In 2008, Stefan Arnason took on the position of Winemaker and in 2011, Nadine Allandar was named Assistant Winemaker. Together the wine making team hand-crafts wines from the quality fruit harvested from each of the estate vineyards with the goal of guiding the process to allow the true expression of the fruit to shine through. The doors to Poplar Grove’s brand new, 9,500 square foot, state-of-the-art winery opened on July 1st, 2011. Designed to appreciate the natural landscape and topography, the new winery space is home to a working winery, a showcase barrel hall, and an expansive tasting room. The winery’s contemporary design features wall-to-wall panoramic windows that create a tasting room experience where visitors have the chance to sip award winning wines while enjoying one of the finest views the Okanagan Valley has to offer. Poplar trees, lavender, iris and Russian Sage have been planted on the property to incorporate the local flora into the winery landscaping. Within the new Munson Mountain estate vineyard, Poplar Grove included foundation plants to harmonize with biodynamic principals, including hard fescue, red clover and bluegrass. The vineyard edges are lined with crested wheatgrass, wild mustard and annual rye. Over the years, the winery has gained a reputation for producing quality, award winning wines. Poplar Grove’s Syrah 2008 was the only Canadian winery awarded a gold medal at the 2011 Decanter World Wine Awards. The Cabernet Franc 2007 won the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in British Columbia Wines and the Poplar Grove Merlot 2006 won Double Gold at the all Canadian Wine Championships. Most recently, the Cabernet Franc 2009 was awarded a Silver (Outstanding) Medal at the 2012 Decanter World Wine Awards. Poplar Gove’s star is on the rise. With the new state-of-the-art winery and signature restaurant, The Vanilla Pod, 100% premium estate grown fruit, and a clear vision for the future, Poplar Grove Winery looks forward to welcoming wine lovers to their corner of the wine world. www.poplargrove.ca
Penticton Art Gallery’s Canvasing Greatness, October 26th, 2013
A Welcome from Director & Curator, Paul Crawford On behalf of the Penticton Art Gallery's board, staff and membership I would like to welcome you to tonight's special fundraising event. As public funding sources continue to shrink non-profit organizations such as ours are forced to develop new ways to self-generate revenue in order for us to maintain the level of community programming we offer, which in our case is the promotion, preservation and education in the visual arts and the art history of our region, province and country. With that in mind the gallery's portion of funds raised through the sales of these works of art will be directly invested into our community ensuring that the gallery will be able to continue to develop and deliver the quality of programming in the visual arts our community has come to enjoy and expect. This, like all of our undertakings, would not have come together if not for the generosity and support of so many and to that end I would like to start off by thanking Ian Sutherland, Tony Holler, Jacqueline Carlson and the amazing staff at Poplar Grove's incredible winery for their continued support of the Penticton Art Gallery and for hosting this event here tonight. Thank you also to Chef Bruno Terroso who has designed tonight's special menu and restaurateur Paul Jones who along with the dedicated staff of the Vanilla Pod Restaurant are serving us tonight. Thank you also to my board and staff for their help and support and to you for purchasing your tickets and I hope spirited bidding on the incredible selection of artworks offered here tonight, which represents a nice cross section of the art history of our region over the past century. Finally I would be remiss if I didn't thank the incredible group of artists and donors who have stepped up and gone above and beyond to donate the incredible number of works offered here tonight. Each of them has agreed to offer their works with a minimum reserve of 40 - 60% of the retail value and the proceeds will be split evenly between the artists and the gallery. Each one of these artists was selected based on their national and international reputation and each one of these works could be considered of investment quality. Reading each artists bio you will see that the works offered mark a significant moment in each artists career and many will come with additional support material to provide further insight and understanding into their lives and creative process. Whether you are starting to build a collection or already have a collection of significance this is one of those rare opportunities one gets to acquire museum quality work. Even a casual search on the internet will show you that this group of artists have each achieved a national and international reputation and your search will only serve to bolster the importance and significance of these works offered tonight. As a collector and a curator I also know firsthand the importance of being able to meet the artists whose work I have collected, curated and exhibited over my 24 years working in the visual arts and I can assure you that every opportunity you have to meet the artist behind the work you are inspired by
will only serve to enhance the works meaning and significance in your lives. With that in mind I thank the artists and/or their representatives who have joined us tonight and are sat amongst you. This is a feast for your soul and I hope you will leave far richer for this experience than you were when you first arrived here tonight. Please bid well and bid often and know that your funds will be invested wisely both in the artists whose work you are bidding on and in the Penticton Art Gallery allowing us to continue to inspire, engage and educate our community through the visual arts. If you would like to make arrangements for a payment plan please contact myself or Rosemarie Fulbrook our gallery administrator as we will be more than happy to accommodate you in any way we are able. If you would like help hanging your new acquisition Glenn Clark and I would love the opportunity to come over and personally help install your new purchase. Thank you again for attending here tonight and I hope this will be the first of many such events and we look forward to continuing to serve the citizens of Penticton and beyond for many years to come.
~ Auction Rules The live auction will take place between each course
1) All artworks tonight are sold by numbered lots. Each lot will be identified by the auctioneer and are listed in this catalogue. 2) This catalogue is given to everyone who has purchased a ticket. Your BIDDING NUMBER is written on the back cover. 3) To make or raise a bid, you must hold up your number. (Make certain the auctioneer or a spotter sees your bid!) 4) All artworks have a predetermined minimum reserve, and is listed in the catalogue. 5) The highest bidder for each lot, whose bid is accepted by the auctioneer, is the purchaser. 6) In the event of a disputed final bid, the auctioneer shall have sole and final determination. 7) PST will be applied to all of your purchases tonight. PAYMENT 1) Payment on these items can be made tonight at the Penticton Art Gallery’s cash out table. 2) For higher value items, you can spread your payment over a few payments. 3) Payment in full needs to be received by December 31st, 2013. Payment for items tonight can be made by Cash, Cheque, MasterCard or VISA. 4) Payments can also be made in person at the Penticton Art Gallery up to December 24th, 2013. Payment for items tonight can be made by Cash, Cheque, Debit, MasterCard or VISA
Lincoln Clarkes (1957-) Born in Toronto in 1957, Lincoln Clarkes moved to Vancouver, BC in 1979. He was originally a painter, who encountered difficulties with his spray bomb graffiti paintings on walls and construction boards throughout downtown Vancouver. He enrolled at Emily Carr University of Art and Design to study painting but dropped out to pursue photography. Clarkes taught himself photography and began a career in fashion and portraiture, working in both Paris and London as well as working on magazine and newspaper assignments across North America. In 1996, he began working on a series of photographs that highlight the plight of women drug addicts living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The resultant series, Heroines was first exhibited in 1998 at the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver, and was subsequently turned into a book and an award-winning documentary film. Clarkes followed the success of Heroines with another series of photographs Views which also spawned a book and a music CD. His most recent series is called Cyclists, where Clarke photographed 150 men and women riding bicycles in Toronto that addressed the increase in cyclists in the city. Lincoln Clarkes is still an active member of the artistic community. What attracts people to Clarkes’ work is the focus on the things we would overlook every day. Clarkes takes the time to listen hard and watch closely his environment and that shows in his photographs. Clarkes work has received mixed reactions but that is what makes his work exciting. He enjoys bringing to light controversial issues and some of the public can relate to his work, morally and ethically on every level. His aesthetic is warm and not harsh and finds the comfort in alternative worlds. He has shown his work in solo exhibitions in Vancouver, Seattle and Toronto. Previously published photography books include. Heroines, 2002 (Anvil Press) Views, 2006 (Universal/Northern Electric). Feature documentaries on Clarkes include Heroines (Bravo 2001) and Snapshots (Knowledge Network 2011). He currently resides between British Columbia, Ontario and England.
www.worldwidegreeneyes.com
LOT 1
Penticton Art Gallery’s Canvasing Greatness, October 26th, 2013
Lincoln Clarkes (1957-)
Lincoln Clarkes (1957-)
Wild West Safe, Tofino, BC, 2006
Detroit (From An Afternoon in Detroit), 2011
Photograph
Photograph
16" x 12"
16" x 12"
Donated by the Artist Including a signed copy of his latest book, Cyclists, published by Quattro Books, 2013 Fair Market Value: $1,500 (as a pair) Opening Reserve: $500 (as a pair)
Shawn Serfas (1976-) Shawn Serfas was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1976 and grew up exploring the northern reaches of his home province’s lakes and river systems. Prince Albert is located in the broad valley of the North Saskatchewan River near the geographical center of the province where the agricultural prairie of the south and the rich forest belt of the north meet. It is often called the gateway to the north. It is close to the famous Emma Lake artist's school where many influential artists have lived and worked. Although initially drawn to an academic career in the Environmental Sciences, Serfas decided to follow his interest in painting and printmaking. He received a Bachelor of Art History degree (2002) and he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Saskatchewan (2001). Serfas continued his formal studies and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the University of Alberta (2003). He has been teaching at the University of British Columbia Okanagan since 2004. Shawn has exhibited throughout western and central Canada and Australia. His latest body of work Borderlands - Imagining the Immaterial was shown at the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery (Yorkton, SK) in September 2010 and the Art Gallery of Prince Albert (Prince Albert, SK) in 2011. In addition he has had recent solo exhibitions at Agnes Bugera Gallery - Field + Canal (Edmonton, AB) in 2010 and at Sopa Fine Arts - Radial Grey (Kelowna, BC) in 2009. He has also participated in recent group exhibitions at the Penticton Art Gallery in 2011 and in 2013 with a major solo exhibition, Peter Robertson Gallery - Edmonton Contemporary Artists Society – 17th Annual Exhibition (Edmonton, AB) in 2009 and Kelowna Art Gallery - Boundaries (Kelowna , BC) in 2008. After teaching at UBCO for a number of years Shawn was hired this past fall as an Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Department at Brock University in Ontario.
Selected Collections:
Selected Exhibitions: • Penticton Art Gallery, BC, 2013 • Wingfield Barns, Norfolk, England, 2013 • Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaqués, Spain, 2013 • Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna, B.C. 2013 • 12th Lessedra World Art Print Annual, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria 2013 • Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario 2013 • Polyglot: Braille/Babble, Rodman Hall Art Centre, • Brock University, St.Catharines, Ontario 2013 • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta 2013
The University of Alberta Museums and Collection, Edmonton, AB; The University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK; The University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC; Vernon Public Art Gallery, BC; Penticton Art Gallery, BC; plus Numerous Private and Corporate Collections in North America, Japan, and South Africa.
www.shawnserfas.com
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LOT 2
Shawn Serfas (1976 -) Red Shift, Stone Series, 2003 acrylic/aggregate/mixed media on canvas 24"x 24" Donated by the Artist Plus a signed copy of Shawn Serfas’s 2013 Exhibition Catalogue, Re-Picturing the Landscape which includes an essay and illustration of this work Fair Market Value: $2,400 Opening Reserve: $1,200
John Hall (1943-) John Hall has a 45-year career and a national reputation for his high realism. He began working in a period without a realist paradigm when artists in Canada were exploring new approaches in video and installation. With a popular culture sensibility, he paints fastidious, harshly realistic still life pictures. He is engaged in meticulous, formal experiments. The drama and richness of his painted surfaces develop from concentration and skill. John Hall did his training in art at the Alberta College of Art, Calgary and the Instituto Allende, Mexico in the 1960s Since completing his studies in 1966, he has lived and worked in Calgary, Alberta; Delaware, Ohio; New York, New York; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and, most recently, Kelowna, British Columbia. Hall has held teaching positions in art at Ohio Wesleyan University, the Alberta College of Art and Design, the University of Calgary, where he retired from a full professorship in painting and drawing, and the Okanagan University College. Currently he holds a professorship emeritus at the University of Calgary. John Hall was elected to membership in the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1975. John Hall is represented in many public collections worldwide. Likened to an urban archaeologist, Hall produces still life paintings that mine the rich complexity of contemporary urban life. Selected Collections: Selected Exhibitions: • Glenbow Museum, Calgary AB, 2013 • Art Gallery of Calgary, AB, 2011 • Loch Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2011 • Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC, 2007 • Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, BC 2006 • Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON, 2005 • Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, BC, 2004 • Okanagan University College, Kelowna, BC, 2004 • Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 2004 • San Francisco International Art Exhibition, 2004 • Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, SK, 2004 • Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY, 2003 • Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna, BC, 2003
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; Art Gallery of Ontario, ON; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, QC; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, NS; Winnipeg Art Gallery, MN; Edmonton Art Gallery, AB; Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON; Mendel Art Gallery; Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, ON; Confederations Art Gallery & Museum; Mackenzie Art Gallery, SK; University College of Cape Breton Art Gallery, NS; University of Calgary, AB; Canada Council Art Bank; Alberta Foundations for the Arts, AB. Plus numerous significant private, public and corporate collections around the globe.
www.mimesisfinearts.com
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John Hall, RCA (1943-) Rhapsody, 1995 acrylic on canvas 6" x 9" Donated by the Artist Fair Market Value: $3,000 Opening Reserve: $1,500
LOT 3
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Internationally recognized, American artist, Robert Rauschenberg’s earlier works anticipated the well known pop art movement. In 1947, he enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute and traveled to Paris to study at the Académie Julian the following year. In fall 1948, Rauschenberg returned to the United States to study under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina. During intermittent study there through 1952, he met avant-garde creative partners John Cage and Merce Cunningham, with whom he would later collaborate. Rauschenberg was offered his first solo exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1951. From fall 1952 to spring 1953, he traveled to Europe and North Africa with Cy Twombly, whom he had met at the Art Students League. During his travels, Rauschenberg worked on a series of small collages, hanging assemblages, which he exhibited in Rome and Florence. He returned to New York in 1953 and had begun a series on canvases that incorporated newspapers, fabric, and found objects and evolved in 1954 into the Combines, a term Rauschenberg coined for his well-known works that integrated aspects of painting and sculpture. In late 1953, he met Jasper Johns; together, Johns and Rauschenberg are now considered the most influential artists who reacted against Abstract Expressionism. Rauschenberg began to silkscreen paintings in 1962. He had his first retrospective, organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, in 1963 and was awarded the Grand Prize for painting at the 1964 Venice Biennale. He spent much of the remainder of the 1960s dedicated to more collaborative projects. By the end of 1970, Rauschenberg had established a permanent residence and studio in Captiva Island, Florida. He was passionate about his Overseas Cultural Interchange project that toured the world and promoted peace and acceptance. He passed away at his home on May 12, 2008. Rauschenberg works still circulate through the Sotheby’s and Christie’s art auctions fetching millions of dollars. Selected Collections: Selected Exhibitions: • Gagosian Gallery, London, UK, 2013 Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Hamburger Bahnhof, • Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, 2013 Berlin, Germany; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; • Philidephia Museum of Art, 2012-13 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands; Musee d’Art • Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, 2012-13 Moderne et d’Art Contemporain Nice, France; Les Ab• Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, 2012-13 • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2012 attoirs de Toulouse, France; Tate Britain, London, UK; Long • Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, 2010 Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Museum of Mod• Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, 2009 ern Art, New York, NY; Philidelphia Museum of Art, PA; • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 2005 Portland Art Museum, OR; San Francisco Museum of Mod• Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, 1998 ern Art, CA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washing• Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, 1997 ton, DC; The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Art Insti• Jewish Museum, New York, NY, 1963 tute of Chicago, IL, The National Gallery of Canada, ON. • Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, 1951
www.rauschenbergfoundation.org
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LOT 4
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Horsefeathers Thirteen—VII, 1972 (from the thirteen’ series, 1972-76) colour lithograph, screenprint, pochoir, collage, and embossing Due to the technique each is in fact a unique print: Edition: 8/84 Publisher Gemini G.E.L. 24" x 17 ⅝" Provenance: Donated by Wayne Eastcott who purchased this directly from Gemini G.E.L. 1973 Fair Market Value: $10,500 Opening Reserve: $4,500
Julie Oakes (1948-) Julie Oakes’ career, spanning over 30 years and 4 continents has been steeped in both compliment and controversy. She graduated with her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in 1969 from the University of Manitoba. Travels in the 1970s across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India led her to consistently thread a spiritual dimension throughout much of her work. Her path has crossed continents, crossed disciplines and crossed the line. More than once. Julie Oakes latest works are more of an exploration, rather than an elucidation of her surroundings, a reaction to her current life in BC’s Okanagan. Controversy has been set aside as wonder takes over. As an artist, Oakes is now moving more into clay, porcelain and glass work, she says, after years spent drawing and painting. Her expansive resume is full of solo and group exhibitions of her work from painting, to sculpture to literature and even video performances. Julie Oakes has a religious side, which may come as a surprise to those who know her mostly for her erotic drawings and writing. Julie completed her Masters Degree in Art and Art Professions at New York University in 2000 and completed another Master’s Degree in Cultural Theory at New School University in New York in 2004. Julie now lives in Vernon, BC at her home which also serves as headquarters for Headbones Gallery, which specializes in works on paper and small sculpture. Selected Collections: Selected Exhibitions: National Art Gallery of the Bahamas; The Kenderdine • The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Gallery, University of Saskatoon, SK; The Glenbow Waterloo, ON, 2011 Museum, Calgary, AB; The Varley Art Gallery, Mark• Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2011 ham, ON; The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Wa• The Canadian Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake, ON, 2009 terloo, ON; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK; The • Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2009 Norman McKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK; Lower • Gallery Moos, Toronto, Ontario, 2008 Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY; Vancou• Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, QC, 2008 ver Authors Society, Vancouver, BC; Straub Clinic, Ha• The Varley Gallery, Markham, ON, 2008 waii; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; • Galerie Atelier III, Barmstedt, Germany, 2008 • Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, BC, 2007 Vernon Arts Council, BC; Vernon Public Art Gallery, • Lehmann Leskiw Fine Art, Toronto, ON, 2005 - 06 BC; Vernon Public Library, BC; Gotham Restaurant, • The Rivington Gallery, London, England, 2005 HYS Corporation, Vancouver, BC; Penticton Art Gallery, BC. www.julieoakes.com
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Julie Oakes (1948-) Nubian Emerald oil on canvas 18 ⅜" x 24 ½" Donated by the Artist Fair Market Value: $1800 Opening Reserve: $900
LOT 5
David T. Alexander (1947-) David Alexander’s landscape and waterscape paintings give the viewer a sense of the land close up, in its raw and most immediate form. His larger works emphasize the surface of things in nature and tips them so that the sky is diminished to an almost insignificant strip. He provides us with an abstract view of the land that disregards our need for balance and recognition with his gestural application and broad palette. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, David studied at the Vancouver School of Art, Langara College, Notre Dame University, where he received his Bachelors of Fine Arts, and at the University of Saskatchewan, where he attained his Masters of Fine Arts in 1985. He has been personally influenced by impressionistic painters, such as Monet and Cezanne, and has an extensive knowledge of both historical and contemporary works. Since 1982 David has been invited as a guest as well as visiting artist at universities and public galleries throughout Canada, the United States and Europe. His work is in many public, private and corporate collections throughout the world. David’s source of inspiration is the first hand experiences he has with nature. His wilderness hikes have taken him into the Rockies, Greenland, Baffin Island, into the deserts of New Mexico, and to Holland, Germany and Belgium. He has recently returned to British Columbia where he has been painting in remote areas of the interior. Selected Collections: Selected Exhibitions: Canadian Embassy, Warsaw, Poland; Beijing, • Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2011, 2008 China; Vancouver Art Gallery; Saskatchewan • Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2011, 2009, 2007 Arts Board Collections, Regina, SK; Canada • Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2010, 2008 • Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 2008, 2006 Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON; Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, ON; Institute of Art, • Galerie D’Avignon, Montreal, QC, 2006 • Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON Hafnarfjordur, Iceland; Department of Foreign • Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 2003 Affairs, Berlin, Germany; Atilier Barnasse & • Wallack Gallery, Ottawa, ON 2003 Cawker, Nice, France; BC Forest Products, • Feheley Fine Arts, Tornonto, ON, 2000 Vancouver; Canadian General Electric, Toronto, ON. www.davidalexander.com
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LOT 6
David T. Alexander, RCA (1947-) Prevailing, mono print on paper, Edition 1/1 17 ½" x 20 ½" Donated by the Artist Fair Market Value: $2,800 Opening Reserve: $1,400 This mono print was created in Saskatoon with the master printer Rodney Konopaki, formerly of Tyler Graphics in NYC. The imagery is from the west coast of B.C. and the "Prevailing" title references the wind that blows inland from the ocean.
John Koerner (1913-) John Koerner is a painter, printmaker, etcher, muralist, educator, and author who was born in 1913 in Novy Jicin, Moravia, a province of Czechoslovakia, in what is now in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. He settled in Vancouver in 1939 and obtained a Canadian citizenship in 1944.He took law at the University of Prague, where he studied with Fritz Kausek, and Philosophy and the History of Art at Sorbonne in Paris, with Victor Tischler, Othon Friesz and Paul Collin. John has taught drawing and painting at the Vancouver School of Art from 1953-58, and at the University of British Columbia, from 1959-1971. The artist states that early on in his career he decided what the general direction of his work should be and that it would celebrate all positive values of the world. He uses many different varieties of medium such as acrylic, watercolour, casein, crayon, ink, collage, lithograph, and etching. He focuses on still-life and chooses to depict the Canadian West Coast landscape in his works and showcases different aspects of nature such as flowers and the shoreline and seascape. Koerner now in his 100th year is currently the oldest acting member of the Vancouver school of painters and the current subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Penticton Art Gallery. He still lives and works in Vancouver, B.C. Selected Collections: Selected Exhibitions: • The Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC, 2013 • Eliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2011 • Eastwood Onley Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2008-09 • Linda Lando Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2006-07 • Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2005 • John Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2000 • John Ramsay Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 1997-99 • Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1996 • Yongen Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, 1995 • Kisshodo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 1995 • Awanosato Art Forum, Tokushima, Japan, 1995 • Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria, BC, 1994
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON; Aranosato Art Forum, Japan; Government House, Ottawa, ON; Imperial Oil Collection, Toronto, ON; Justice Building, Ottawa, ON; London Public Library and Art Museum, London, ON; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The Tate Gallery, London, UK; University of British Columbia, Alma Mater Society Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
www.johnkoerner.ca
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LOT 7
John Koerner, RCA (1913 - ) Pacific Gateway: Opus 320 36" x 36" acrylic on canvas Donated by the Artist Plus a signed copy of John Koerner's 2005 coffee table book - A Brush With Life Plus a signed copy of John Koerner's 2011 retrospective catalogue Six Decades this work, Pacific Gateway: Opus - 320, is featured on the cover Fair Market Value: $8,000 Opening Reserve: $4,000
Laurie Papou (1964-) Born in Vancouver in 1964, Laurie Papou grew up in Port Coquitlam. Upon graduation from high school, Laurie moved to Vancouver and entered Emily Carr College of Art and Design where she fell under the influence of the late Bill Featherston, a noted figurative painter, and graduated with honours in 1988. Her figurative paintings explore the subjects of lineage, censorship, gender issues and desire. Her landscapes reflect the area in which she grew up and are familiar to any resident of the west coast – rainforests, river shorelines and evergreen covered mountains. The city of Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest has been formative to her creative process in that the landscape, climate and west coast culture are at the core of her psyche, inspiration and life experience and therefore inform her creative process. Over the past few years Laurie’s work has evolved through the addition of video projections. This has helped to broaden her technical skills adding the additional impact of sound, visual motion and time. Laurie’s paintings have been shown in many well known galleries across this country. She has also given lectures at the University of British Columbia, the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Art Fair of Seattle, to name just a few. Selected Collections:
Selected Exhibitions: • Storm, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC, 2010 • New, Cascadia Fine Art, New York, NY, 2009 • New, Cascadia Fine Art, Vancouver, BC, 2008 • New, Yukon Art Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, 2007 • Vanity Suite, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2000 • A Group of Seven, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 1997 • Sport and Recreations, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 1995 • Laurie and Iain: Shift; Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto, ON, 1992
The National Portrait Gallery, Ottawa, ON; The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC; London Regional Art Gallery and Historic Museum, London, Ontario; Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC; Yukon Art Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon; Seymour Collection, Vancouver, BC; Polygon Group Ltd., Vancouver, BC; BC Women's Hospital Foundation, Vancouver BC. The Michael and Yoshi Audain collection
www.lauriepapou.com
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Laurie Papou (1964 - ) Six, 1997 oil on birch panel 67" x 48" Donated by the Artist Plus a copy of Laurie Papou’s catalogue Group of Seven which includes an essay and illustration of this work Fair Market Value: $10,000 Opening Reserve: $5,000
LOT 8
Joice M. Hall (1943-) Joice M. Hall is a realist painter known for her large-scale landscapes that depict, in precise detail, the panoramic sweep of British Columbia’s beautiful Okanagan Valley. With a career that spans over 40 years, Hall’s work goes beyond realism, and pairs the “real” with certain aspects of the “surreal”, while using the “ideal” as her organizing principle. Hall spent most of her career based in Calgary, before moving to Kelowna in 1999. Working in a representational style, her landscape subjects have been drawn from these diverse locations. Enchanted by the natural beauty of Western Canada, Joice has looked to nature for an immediate and inexhaustible fund of visual riches. In her landscapes she has created a sense of wonder, a sacred and transcendental view of the world. Joice studied at the Alberta College of Art. She has had solo exhibitions in Canada and Mexico including the Art Gallery of Hamilton; the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; and Casa Verde Galeria, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; and has been included in many group exhibitions across Canada. In 1999, she painted a series of one hundred canvases, titled “Driving South” that depicted a motor journey from southern Alberta to central Mexico. Each of these 6” x 9” canvases records a view from inside a moving vehicle, an increasingly frequent location from which landscape is experienced as we enter the twenty-first century. This work was exhibited at the Atelier Gallery in Vancouver during the fall of the 2000. Some of these paintings are in various corporate and private collections in Alberta. Selected Exhibitions: • The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, 2013 • Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC, 2012-13 • The Art Gallery of Calgary, AB, 2011 • Wallace Galleries Ltd., Calgary, AB, 2010 • Kelowna Art Gallery, BC, 2010 • Wallace Galleries Ltd., Calgary, AB, 2007 • Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton BC, 2006 • Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna, BC, 2005 • Wallace Galleries Ltd., Calgary, AB, 2004
Selected Collections: Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, AB; Alberta Art Foundation, Edmonton, AB; Canada Council Art Bank; Foothills Hospital, Calgary, AB; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB; Government of Canada, Department of Public Works; Guaranty Trust Co., Calgary, AB; Inter-Provincial Pipeline, Edmonton, AB; MacLeod Dixon, Calgary, AB; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK; Petro-Canada Inc.; University of Calgary, AB; University of Lethbridge, AB; Jennings Capital Inc., Calgary, AB.
www.okanaganartists.com/the-artists/joice-m-hall
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Joice M. Hall, RCA (1943-) Driving South #82, 1999 oil on canvas 6"x 9" Donated by the Artist Fair Market Value: $1400 Opening Reserve: $700
LOT 9
Michiko Suzuki (1954-) & Wayne Eastcott (1943-) Michiko Suzuki was born in Japan and has been exhibiting internationally since graduating with an honours degree in graphic design in 1974. From 1981 to 1987 she trained and worked as a master printer at Print House OM in Yokohama, Japan. In 2002, she was invited as a visiting artist in the printmaking department at the University of Alberta, and then in 2003 was invited as the first artist-residence in the printmaking department of Capilano College, North Vancouver. In 2005 Michiko Suzuki immigrated to Canada and she now lives and works out of her studio just outside of Vancouver. Over the past 30 years Suzuki has developed her own unique printmaking technique called Toner Etching. Since 1993, Michiko’s work has been exhibited internationally, winning many awards and commendations. Wayne Eastcott was born in Trail, British Columbia in 1943. He graduated with honours in printmaking and painting from Emily Carr University (Vancouver School of Art) in 1966. His intrigue in the idea of the interplay between chance and order, the cycles of the seasons, musical harmonics, acceleration, colour and mathematical sequences, and linear perspective shows in his works. In 1968 he was awarded a Canada Council grant for innovative printmaking processes. Eastcott is represented by Bellevue Gallery in West Vancouver and the Gallery Concept 21 in Tokyo, Japan. Wayne joined the art faculty of the Capilano College in 1971 and, in the same year, he and BC Binning, established the Dundarave Print Workshop in West Vancouver which is now operating on Granville Island in Vancouver. In 1979, he established the printmaking Department of Capilano College. Wayne has exhibited nationally and internationally, including New York, Japan, Yugoslavia, Poland, Germany, Spain, India and Brazil. His work is found in many private, corporate and public collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada Selected Exhibitions: • Michiko Suzuki & Wayne Eastcott, Gallery Concept 21, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 • Gallery 219, Tokyo, Japan, 2004 • Digital Art Today, Vancouver, Canada, 2004 • Michiko Suzuki & Wayne Eastcott, Studio Art Gallery, Capilano College, Vancouver, BC, 2003 • Gallery San Chun, Calgary, AB, 2003 • University Theatre, University of Calgary, AB, 2003 • Print Study Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 2002
Selected Collections: (M.S.) Bridgestone Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Central Academy of Art, Malaysia; Copper Engraving Centre, Poland; Alberta Foundations for the Arts; University of Alberta Print Centre, Edmonton, AB; True North Energy; (W.E.) Capilano University, Vancouver, BC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; Art Bank, Ottawa, ON; Oregon State University, USA; MoMA, Kanagawa, Japan; Toronto Dominon Bank; Xerox Canada; Shell Canada.
http://bellevuegallery.ca/gallery-artists/michiko-suzuki/ http://bellevuegallery.ca/gallery-artists/wayne-eastcott/wayne-eastcott-gallery/
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Wayne Eastcott, RCA & Michiko Suzuki Interconnection 4 (visibility-3), 2005 Silkscreen and archival pigment inkjet on HP watercolour paper Edition 1/7 35 ⅖" x 25 ⅞" Donated by the Artists Fair Market Value: $3,000 Opening Reserve: $1,500
LOT 10
Bobbie Burgers (1973-)
Bobbie was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1991, she traveled to France to study painting at Université d'étudiantes étrangère, in Aix-enProvence, France. Upon her return she enrolled in the History in Art Program at the University of Victoria for four years. She graduated with a Bachelor in History of Art and a Minor in Film Studies. After completing university in 1996, she took summer programs at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1997. She frequently returns to Aix-en-Provence as it is a source of major inspiration for her work. Large canvases filled with botanicals and landscapes focusing on colour and movement are what Burgers is known for. Her luscious and dense work dealing with the fleeting moments of natural beauty give viewers a different perspective on the beauty around them. She has gained international status from over 60 solo and group exhibitions covering all of Canada, the United States and overseas. Her work can be found in many important corporate, private and public collections the world over. Selected Collections:
Selected Exhibitions: • Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2013 • Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC, 2013 • Bau -Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2013 • Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA, 2013 • Couture Galleri, Stockholm, 2013 • Campton Gallery, New York, NY, 2013 • Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2012 • Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 2011 • Vanderleelie Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 2006 • Foster White Gallery, Seattle, Wa, 2005 • Hubert Gallery New York, NY, 2005
Weber Shandwick, Thorn Mark Investments, Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Canada, Lawson Lundel Lawson, Sutton Place Hotel, Pen-Cor Mortage and Investments, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotia Mcleod, Bau-Xi Vancouver, BC & Toronto, ON; Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC; Couture Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden; Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA; Campton Gallery, New York, NY. Plus numerous significant private, public and corporate collections around the globe.
www.bobbieburgers.com
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LOT 11
Bobbie Burgers (1973 - ) Lost from the Words of Words, 2013 acrylic on canvas 40" x 40" Donated by the Artist Plus a signed copy of Bobbie Burgers 2013 coffee table book, Arriving at a Landscape Fair Market Value: $8,000 Opening Reserve: $4,000
Jack Shadbolt (1908-1998) Jack Shadbolt remains a well-respected artist, teacher and supporter of the arts in Canada. Born in England in 1909, he came to Canada with his family in 1912. He later taught in schools in Duncan, BC and Vancouver, BC while attending nightly art classes taught by Frederick Varley at the Vancouver School of Art. He later became a teacher there in 1938 and was the Head of the Painting and Drawing Department until 1966. He is commonly known to most as a Canadian War Artist as he spent two years painting in the Canadian Army. He also studied at the Art Student’s League in New York during this time. He and his wife, Doris Shadbolt (d. 2003), created a foundation called VIVA, providing financial awards to visual artists in British Columbia. Jack has received many awards and honorary degrees during his lifetime such as the Guggenheim Award in 1957, the Molson Prize in 1977 and the Gershon Iskowitz award in 1990. He was also awarded the Order of Canada and was made Freeman of the City of Vancouver in 1989. Shadbolt was a great ambassador for Canadian art showcasing in international exhibitions around the world and in all major galleries across Canada for roughly 60 years. His works are collected by and found in major galleries along with private and corporate collections world wide Selected Exhibitions: • The Penticton Art Gallery 2011 • Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver, BC • Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, U.B.C. 2009 • Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC, 2000 • National Gallery of Canada, 1969, 1970, 1992-93 • The National Museum, Warsaw, Poland, 1962 • Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA, 1955 • Tate Gallery, London, UK • 28th Venice Biennale, 1951 • Art Gallery of Ontario, ON, 1950
Selected Collections: The National Gallery of Canada, Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver, BC; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC; Art Gallery of Ontario, ON; The Glenbow Museum, Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Seattle Art Museum, The Tate, London, UK; The Hirshhorn Collection of the Smithsonian Museum, WA. The Penticton Art Gallery, plus numerous significant private, public and corporate collections across Canada and around the globe
www.www.shadboltfoundation.org/founders.html
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Jack Shadbolt OC, RCA, BCSFA, CGP, CSPWC Invictus, 1993 36" x 27" hand pulled lithograph in ten colours Value: $4000
Jack Shadbolt, OC, RCA, BCSFA, CGP, CSPWC Winter Sun Trap, 1993 27" x 36" hand pulled lithograph in nine colours Value: $4000
LOT 12
Jack Shadbolt,OC, RCA, BCSFA, CGP, CSPWC End of Season, 1993 36" x 27" hand pulled lithograph in ten colours Value: $4000
Jack Shadbolt, OC, RCA, BCSFA, CGP, CSPWC Captive White, 1993 27" x 36" hand pulled lithograph in nine colours Value: $4000
Printed by Torrie Groening Master Printmaker at Prior Editions, Vancouver, B.C. Published by Cascadia Fine Art Plus a copy of Counterpoint The Prints of Jack Shadbolt published by the Burnaby Art Gallery 1996 Captive White is featured on the cover and these 4 works are reproduced and written about in the text Fair Market Value: $16,000 (as a set) Opening Reserve $8,000 (as a set)
Gordon A. Smith (1919-) Born June 18, 1919 in East Brighton, England, Gordon A. Smith is a Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, and teacher living in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Smith taught at the Vancouver School of Art for ten years, and then spent 26 years at the University of British Columbia before retiring in 1982 to paint full time. An accomplished internationally recognized artist, Smith won the "Structure with Red Sun Award" in 1995. He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1996. He is an Education Professor Emeritus at the University Of British Columbia. In 2007 he received the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts. In March 2009 at The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, he was named a laureate and presented with the Governor General's Award in the Visual and Media Arts. His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, as well as the Vancouver Art Gallery. Smith continues to be involved in the contemporary art scene and he has exhibitions regularly at the Equinox Gallery in Vancouver. Selected Exhibitions: • Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1995 –2013 • Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, 2012 • Galerie Lilian Rodriquez, Montreal, QC, 1999 • Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 1995 • Kelowna Art Gallery, BC, 1994 • Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto and Vancouver, 1989-1993 • Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, ON, 1986 • Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, 1974 • 10th International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Paris, FR, 1973 • Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, 1972 • 1st Norwegian International Print Biennial, Oslo, Norway, 1972 • Pratt Centre, New York, NY, 1972
Selected Collections: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; Art Gallery of Ontario, ON; Oxford Birmingham Art Gallery, UK; BC Provincial Art Government Art Collection, Victoria, BC; Carnegie Foundation, New York, NY; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of Wales, Wales, UK; South London Art Gallery, London, UK; Vancouver Art Gallery, BC; Royal Bank of Canada; Dunwoody and Company; Westburne Industries. Plus numerous important collections across the Canada and internationally.
www.equinoxgallery.com/artists/bio/gordon-smith
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LOT 13
Gordon A. Smith, OC, RCA (1919-) North Shore Winter II archival pigment inkjet on HP watercolour paper, edition 23/40 16" x 21"
Donated by the Artist Plus copies of two Gordon Smith catalogues Black and White, & Entanglements Fair Market Value: $1200 Opening Reserve: $600
Rod Charlesworth (1955-) Rod Charlesworth was born in Terrace, British Columbia in 1955. His family moved to Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley when he was seven. His childhood fascination with drawing and painting has grown into a unique and primarily selftaught style. Influenced early on by the surrealist movement, he later discovered the impressionist school that led him to experiment with colour and the physical qualities of paint. The work of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven has had a profound influence on Rod’s style. He studied art at Okanagan College where his ability to capture the essence and beauty of the Western Canadian landscape became evident. Rod’s work is now collected worldwide in public, private and corporate collections. He is committed to painting images that have a strong Canadian cultural influence, whether through his boldly coloured landscapes or his more recent whimsical images of children at play. “Painting becomes tedious when the ultimate goal of the painter is to recreate the external world. I've always felt that the painting exists only within its own borders, which allows the artist to say – What if I did this?” Rod currently lives in Kelowna, BC.
Selected Collections:
Selected Exhibitions: • West End Gallery, Edmonton, AB 2012 • The Artym Gallery, Invermere, BC, 2012 • Gainsborough Galleries, Calgary, AB, 2012 • Harrison Galleries, Vancouver, BC, 2000 • Rendezvous Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC • The White Rock Gallery, White Rock, BC • Campbell Gallery, Whistler, BC • West End Gallery, Victoria, BC • Shorewind Gallery, Tofino, BC • The Lloyd Gallery, Penticton, BC • Tutt Art Galleries, Kelowna, BC • Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK
Hiram Walker & Sons, Wood Gundy Inc., Canadian North Airlines, Amoco Petroleum, Home Oil, LDI Realty Corp., Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Inter-Provincial Pipeline, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Canadian Utilities, Ensery Corporations, Columbia Oil & Gas, Bank of Montreal, West Coast Petroleum, Petrosul, Canadian Western Bank, Cornicopia Resources, Okanagan University College, C. M. Oliver, Bold Horizons Campaign. Plus numerous significant private, public and corporate collections around the globe
www.rodcharlesworth.com
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Rod Charlesworth (1955-) Okanagan Vista, 2013 Oil on canvas 20" x 24" Donated by the Artist Fair Market Value: $2400 Opening Reserve: $1200
LOT 14
Harold Klunder (1943-) Harold Klunder was born in the Netherlands in 1943 and immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1952. Primarily a painter and a printmaker, he has exhibited his work throughout Canada, Europe, the United States, Australia, Japan, and China and it is included in public and private collections across the country. Klunder, a full-time painter and part-time teacher, is principally known for his abstract paintings which are based on a non-traditional notion of “the self-portrait”. They often feature an abundant use of paint, and take years to complete. His paintings are layered, crusted and rich with paint. He puts copious amounts of paint on a work, over and over until it is full of active, organic forms. At first the completed work is spontaneous, as if the paint has been furiously flung onto canvas, but a deeper look reveals the complexity and variety of the improvisational marks that allow the viewer to look through the top layers. Klunder has exhibited constantly for more than three decades since his first solo show at Sable-Castelli Gallery in 1976. He currently lives in Montreal QC. Selected Exhibitions: • TrepanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, AB, 2011, 2010, 2008 • Transit Gallery, Hamilton, ON, 2009, 2007, 2006 • Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2009 • Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON, 2008 • McClure Gallery, Montreal, QC, 2007 • James Baird Gallery, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, 2006 • Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, ON, 2006 • Studio 21 Fine Art, Halifax, NS, 2005 • Winchester Galleries, Victoria, BC, 2002 • Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, ON, 2002 • Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, QC, 2002
Selected Collections: Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB; Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON; Government of Ontario, Toronto, ON; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin, Queensland, Australia; Shanghai Art Museum, China; The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, AB; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton BC
www.studio21.ca/harold-klunder.html
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LOT 15
Harold Klunder, RCA (1943-) How Light Travels (Blue to Green), 2009 watercolour on paper 14" x 10" Donated by the Artist Plus a copy of Harold Klunder’s catalogue Amibes Amorphes * Amorphous Amoebae Fair Market Value: $3,000 Opening Reserve: $1,500
Joeseph Plaskett (1918-) Born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Joe Plaskett is a well renowned Canadian painter who has studied with notable or iconic Canadian artists such as A.Y. Jackson and Lawren Harris. He attended an art program at the Banff Summer School of the Arts and one year later, was awarded the first Emily Carr Scholarship in 1946, allowing him to study outside of Canada for a year. Joe attended the California School of Fine Art. In 1947 he left San Francisco to go to New York. Plaskett was later appointed the position of Principal at the Winnipeg School of Art in the fall of 1947 and stayed there for two years. He later returned back to Banff to teach for the summer of 1949. After these paid positions of work, Plaskett set his sights on Europe. Arriving in Paris, his views of his art were drastically changed. Plaskett moved back and forth between Paris and Canada until 1957 when he permanently settled in Paris. He received the Order of Canada in 2001 for his excellence in the field of visual arts. Since the 1940’s he has had over 65 solo and group exhibitions with work appearing in public, private and corporate collections. He has now moved to England and supports the visual arts in Canada by awarding one young emerging Canadian painter with a $25,000 bursary to study abroad. Selected Exhibitions: • The Penticton Art Gallery, 2012, 2001, 1996 • Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver and Toronto, 2012, 2006, 2004 • Gallery 78 Fredericton NB, 2012 • Zwicker’s Gallery, Halifax, NS, 2008 • Walter Klinkoff Gallery Montreal, PQ, 2001 • Headscape Gallery, Paris, France, 1999 • Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC, 1998 • Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, 1998 • Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC, 1996 • Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, 1988
Selected Collections: Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton AB; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal QC ; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON ; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC ; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg MB; The Grand Forks Art Gallery, BC; Plus numerous significant private, public and corporate collections around the globe.
www.gallery78.com/jplask.htm
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Joseph Plaskett OC, RCA (1918 - ) Red Roses and Chandelier, 1998 - 99 oil on linen 30 ½" x 25 ⅕" Donated by the Artist Plus a copy of Joseph Plaskett's 2012 coffee table book, Changes Fair Market Value: $13,000 Opening Reserve: $6,500
LOT 16
Michael Hermesh (1955-)
Born in 1955, Hermesh studied at Okanagan College for a year and later transferred to the Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr University of Art & Design) in 1976 and majored in sculpture. He also has extensive experience in furniture design. From his residence and studio, he continues to indulge in his true passion of sculpting as wll as with holding workshops for drawing and sculpture. Hermesh’s realistic views on life and its dynamic ways reflect through his work. Integrity, awareness and dignity remain constants. He says that these are elements of life that are unchanging and real. His curiosity about the beauty and mysteries of life are what shine through in his final subjects and leaves it up to the viewer to find the message he is trying to convey. His works stand tall amongst various locations in the Okanagan, including the Summerland Arts Centre, the Summerland Research Station Ornamental Gardens, and Red Rooster Winery on the Naramata Bench. Michael’s mainly figural sculptures continue to be well received and represented in international collections in Canada, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Chile, Spain and the United States.
Selected Exhibitions:
Selected Collections:
• Penticton Art Gallery, 2012, 2010, 2008 • Alicia Armstrong Gallery, January 2011 • Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna, BC, 2008, 2006, 2004 • Triangle Gallery, Calgary, AB, 2008 • North Vancouver Arts Centre, 2006 • Simon Patrich Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2005
Former Vancouver Canuck Kirk McLean, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Penticton Art Gallery, BC; Red Rooster Winery, Penticton, BC, Ruby Blues Winery, Penticton, BC., Summerland Ornamental Gardens, “Leaning Tree”, Langley, BC; as well as United States, Germany, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela, England and the Netherlands. Plus numerous significant private, public and corporate collections around the globe.
www.michaelhermesh.com
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Michael Hermesh (1955-) Der Traumer, 2013 life size Donated by the Artist Fair Market Value: $30,000 Opening Reserve: $19,000
LOT 17
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