Live Art Auction - two rivers gallery :: prince george and ... · printed on the back page of the 2015 Live Art Auction Catalogue and ... In 2012, the PPABC selected Treemendous and

Saturday . May 2nd . 2015

Auctioneer: Doug Levis | Levis Fine Art Auctioneers

View the artwork online: www.tworiversgallery.ca

Absentee Bidding & Payment Plan Available

7th Annual

A D I V I S I O N O F A R T B A N K I N C .

FINE ART AUCTIONS & APPRAISALS

Live ArtAuction

Programme

7:30 pm

Mix, Mingle & View the Art with Drinks, Music & Hors d’oeuvres

8:30 pm

Welcome: Peter ThompsonAuction: Doug LevisLevis Fine Art Auctioneers, Calgary

Silent Auction, Coffee & Tea

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Levis Fine Art Auctions & Appraisals[a Division of Artbank Incorporated]1739 10th Avenue SWCalgary AB T3C 0K1

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About Our Auctioneer

Two Rivers Gallery is grateful to our auctioneer, Doug Levis, from Levis Fine Art Auctioneers, for donating (for the 7th year) his time and expertise to assist us with our Live Art Auction. As well as supporting charitable auctions like this one to benefit Two Rivers Gallery, Levis Fine Art Auctions & Appraisals holds two live auctions per year as well as the occasional specialized auction for estates, corporations and galleries. Generally speaking the auctions are scheduled for April and November. The mission of the company is to provide a well catalogued art auction to its clients from across Canada, the United States and elsewhere.

Doug Levis, the principal behind the company, has been involved in the art industry since the early 1970s. He attended the University of Calgary and graduated from the University of Victoria with a degree in Fine Arts. He returned to Calgary and managed Kensington Fine Art Gallery for five years before doing art consulting work and starting Artbank Incorporated which was Federally Incorporated in 1986. He formed Levis Fine Art Auctions in 1992.

At least twice a year, the company sends catalogues and notices for upcoming auctions to over 5,000 names currently on the mailing list. Clients include institutions, corporate collections, commercial galleries and private collectors from across Canada, the United States and overseas.

Two Rivers Gallery725 Canada Games WayPrince George BC V2L 5T1

250-614-7800www.tworiversgallery.ca

All funds raised support Two Rivers Gallery activities

A D I V I S I O N O F A R T B A N K I N C .

FINE ART AUCTIONS & APPRAISALS

Two Rivers Gallery 7th Live Art Auction

Absentee BidsAbsentee Bids will be accepted until: 5pm, Friday, May 1st, 2015, for artworks up for auction the following day. Contact Peter Thompson at 250-614-7803.

All absentee bids are confidential until the point of the sale.

Two Rivers Gallery will appoint a member of staff to be responsible for managing the absentee bidding process.

Two Rivers Gallery staff will, to the best of their ability, attempt to purchase the selected lots for the absentee buyer at the lowest possible price, up to the maximum amount specified, or when indicated, plus one incremental bid. (Plus One Bid will allow us to bid on your behalf up to and including 10% of your bid i.e. $3000 plus one bid = $3300.)

Two Rivers Gallery executes absentee bids as a convenience for its clients and is not liable for inadvertently failing to execute bids or for any errors relating to their execution of clients’ bids.

All bids are accepted subject to the Standard Conditions of Sale printed on the back page of the 2015 Live Art Auction Catalogue and published on the Two Rivers Gallery website.

Two Rivers Gallery will contact all absentee bidders after the auction as soon as possible, giving priority to those who have purchased items. Successful bidders are advised of the total to be applied to their credit card; packing fees of $50 and ground shipping charges via courier at the purchaser’s expense will be applied.

Payment PlanTwo Rivers Gallery wants to make buying art possible on any budget by providing an optional payment plan.

The payment plan is made up of two parts: a) an initial down-payment b) monthly installments spread out until April, 2016.

Payments can be made by post-dated cheques or credit card. A Promissory Note will be drawn up upon your agreement to purchase artwork.

Absentee Bid Forms are available in person at Two Rivers Gallery and online at www.tworiversgallery.ca. For security reasons, Two Rivers Gallery asks that credit card information is NOT sent over the Internet. Please phone or fax your Visa/MC account number with the expiry date.

Please fill in ALL of the information requested — without it, Two Rivers Gallery will not accept your Absentee Bid. The Absentee Bids are registered in the order in which they are received. Two Rivers Gallery will confirm receipt of Absentee Bids before 5pm, May 1st, 2015 by e-mail.

Deadline for Absentee Bids: in person, by telephone or e-mail, is:Friday, May 1st, 2015, 5pm (Pacific time).

Please feel free to phone the office or send us an e-mail if you have any concerns about how we handle absentee bids. We are happy to answer your questions about any aspect of the bidding procedure.

Telephone Bids are accepted. The Bidder will make contact with the Gallery either by e-mail or in writing to arrange a telephone bid in a similar manner to the above Absentee Bid format and paperwork. In addition the Bidder will give two telephone numbers for contact and will be called one lot prior to the Bidder’s lot number. The Gallery representative will act on behalf of the Bidder.

Standard Conditions of Sale appear on the last page of this catalogue.

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Artist Notes

Heather Thomas Lot: 1 page 1 ________________________________

Tony Yin Tak Chu Lot: 2 page 2 ________________________________

Laura Chandler Lot: 3 page 3 ________________________________

John Westergard Lot: 4 page 4 ________________________________

Miyuki Shinkai Lot: 5 page 5 ________________________________

Cat Sivertsen Lot: 6 page 6 ________________________________

Marie Nagel Lot: 7 page 7 ________________________________

Leszek Wyczolkowski Lot: 8 page 8 ________________________________

Will Gill Lot: 9 page 9 ________________________________

José Delgado Lot: 10 page 10 _______________________________

Erin Hutson Lot: 11 page 11 _______________________________

Betty Kovacic Lot: 12 page 12 _______________________________

Sybille Muschik Lot: 13 page 13 ________________________________

Tony Calzetta Lot: 14 page 14 ________________________________

Allan Farmer Lot: 15 page 15 ________________________________

Ann Nicholson Lot: 16 page 16 ________________________________

Maureen Faulkner Lot: 17 page 17 ________________________________

Robert Davidson Lot: 18 page 18 ________________________________

Gary Pearson Lot: 19 page 19 ________________________________

Peter von Tiesenhausen Lot: 20 page 20 ________________________________

Harry Stanbridge Lot: 21 page 21 ________________________________

Theresa Sapergia Lot: 22 page 22 ________________________________

Corey Hardeman Lot: 23 page 23 ________________________________

Karma Vance Lot: 24 page 24 ________________________________

Carole Epp Lot: 25 page 25 ________________________________

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Heather Thomas

Magnolia GrandifloraLithograph edition of 340 x 51 cm 2003

$500

Heather Thomas was born in Nova Scotia. She studied at UBC, ECUAD and the Akademie fur Bildende Kunst in Salzburg. She has completed residencies in Banff (AB), Centrum(WA) and the Contemporary Artist’s Center (MA). Recent solo exhibitions are Mute Traces at the Point Gallery (2010), Saltspring Island; Wounded at the Kelowna Art Gallery (2008); and The Physics of Power at the Nanaimo Art Gallery (2007), Vancouver Island. Thomas lives on Vancouver Island.

Her recent work is centred on notions of conflict and trauma. Her past interest in the irony of toxic balance led her to question the design relationship between objects in the natural world whose objective is to regenerate life, and objects in the industrial and technological world whose objective is to take life. In this hypermodern world, where fear has created contempt for the cultures that define civilizations, she is interested in the role of the artist as witness.

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Tony Yin Tak Chu

Nude #18 Mixed media on paper & canvas panel20" x 16"2013

$500

Born in China and raised in Hong Kong, Tony Yin Tak Chu came to Canada in 1996. He began his practice in drawing and painting, eventually expanding his media to mixed media installation. He graduated from the Visual Art program at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2006.

Tony Yin Tak Chu was part of the group exhibition, Earthly, at Two Rivers Gallery in 2014.

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Laura Chandler

Last RunAcrylic on canvas18" x 24"2014

$900

Laura Chandler has been a resident of Prince George for over 20 years, working as an art educator and artist. She was born in Thunder Bay and studied at the School of Art at the University of Manitoba.

Landscapes have been a major focus in her artwork throughout the years. She hopes that her work will encourage others to appreciate and experience nature as well as to practice good stewardship.

Being involved in local community endeavours is important to her and also very inspirational. Whether it was the Spirit Bear project, the City’s Banner Program or various local murals, she has been very happy to

be able to participate. Recently, Canada Games 2015 selected her piece, Nechako West Cutbanks for the VIP gifting program.

In 2009, Chandler had her first solo exhibition, In the Wake of a Legend, in the Rustad Galleria, Two Rivers Gallery. She is currently teaching at Two Rivers Gallery and is a member of the Community Arts Council and Prince George Artists’ Workshop.

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John Westergard

Catch of the DayPhotograph on aluminum29" x 42"2012

$750

John Westergard has been involved in the art industry since 1986 and currently owns two galleries, Direct Art in Prince George and Pier Street Gallery in Campbell River. Direct Art has hosted artists such as Robert Bateman, Steve Hanks, Greg Olsen, Craig Tracey and Chris DeRubeis to name a few. John’s connections in the art industry have brought a diverse collection of art to Northern BC and Vancouver Island regions.

John has been part of the Professional Photographers Association of British Columbia, since 2010. Many of John’s photos have been in Regional, Provincial and National competitions. In 2010, The Winds of Africa received a merit at a national level. In 2012, the PPABC selected Treemendous and Even Tide to represent BC in the national

photographers’ competition. In 2014, Late Harvest, which was taken at Hester Creek Winery in Oliver BC, was accepted provincially and went to Nationals. In 2015, Catch of the Day, Curiosity, Winter Won-derland, and Autumn Harvest were accepted provincially and will go on to Nationals.

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Miyuki Shinkai

Rice FieldGlass and mixed media on board23" x 17" x 2"2007

$600

Miyuki Shinkai’s mixed media installation piece called Unison incorporates hand blown glass and driftwood. In this recent work she explores the concept of oneness, collaboration and community. She draws inspiration from her past migrating to North America and her present residing in a beach-side community on the Sunshine Coast.

Coming to North America from Japan, Shinkai found that expressing herself through art helped her overcome language and cultural barriers. Art has always been an ultimate communication method for her to interact and integrate with society.

“I believe that we should be as one, respecting diverse cultures, uniqueness and individuality. I think freedom of thought and creativity promotes innovation. I am evolving my artistic practice by collaborating with communities and exhibiting in public areas with free access to a visual language therefore inclusive to all cultures. My art will echo the collective strength and viability of the community.”

Shinkai earned a BA in English and Comparative Culture in Osaka, Japan and then continued her studies in Hawaii, California and Vermont, earning an MA in Social Administration at Georgia Southwestern State University with a minor in glass blowing. This eventually led her to the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington. Shinkai and her husband, fellow artist Wayne Harjula, own and operate Mellonglass Studio in Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast, BC.

Shinkai’s solo exhibition, Uruoi, was at Two Rivers Gallery in 2002. She has completed public artworks for Whistler and Vancouver and won awards from the Corning Museum Glass Art Competition in 1997, 2000 and 2008.

http://www.mellonglass.ca

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Cat Sivertsen is a visual artist, workshop leader and worker bee. She has been part of the local arteroti for a little more than 8 years. She studied Fine Art at the diploma, university and masters levels but considers her best education to be from practice, interactions and deep looking, especially whilst living 20 years or so in the UK.

Sivertsen’s contribution is an automatic drawing made at the Fraser Riverbank during the Bank of Gratitude event on Rivers Day, 2014.

Cat Sivertsen

Fraser River Bank of Gratitude Pen and ink on paper11" x 15"2014

$250

Sivertsen had a solo exhibition, Aesthetics of Grief, in the Rustad Galleria at Two Rivers Gallery in 2011 and was part of the group exhibition, Flux, in 2009.

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Painting has been a life-long passion for BC artist, Marie Nagel. She continues to paint in her home studio in Victoria as well as regularly painting on location with other Vancouver Island plein air artists. Nagel headed the Prince George Art Gallery from 1986 to 1990 prior to the formation of Two Rivers Gallery. For the next 17 years she painted and operated her own gallery in Wells, BC, relocating to Victoria in 2007.

Marie Nagel

ObstaclesAcrylic on canvas 23" x 27"2009

$800

Nagel is represented by Eclectic Gallery in Victoria and her work can be viewed at www.marienagel.com

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Leszek Wyczolkowski

Glow Oil and acrylic on canvas12" x 12"2014

$750

Leszek Wyczolkowski was born into a family of artists in Poland. His formal education was obtained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, and the Ontario College of Art. In 2005 and 2007, he attended self-directed residencies at The Banff Centre. He has exhibited in over 170 solo and group exhibitions around the globe. Wyczolkowski’s work appears in museums, corporate, public and private collections in Asia, Europe and North America.

Leszek Wyczolkowski’s solo exhibition, Dialogue, was presented at Two Rivers Gallery in 2004. His contemporary paintings and graphics are included in the Permanent Collection of Two Rivers Gallery.

Wyczolkowski’s next solo public gallery exhibition will open in July, 2015, at Station Gallery in Whitby, ON. He has recently published a hardcover book of his work titled

“Beyond Geometry”.

http://www.enginegaller y.ca/artists/catalog/72/

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Will Gill

PylonsAcrylic ink / graphite on mylar9 ½" x 24"2015

$900

Exerpt from: Will Gill, From Coast to Coast–An Introduction

Art in Newfoundland and Labrador, both historically and in contemporary terms, has been dominated by its uncompromising landscape of rock and water. Artists inevitably paint their relationship with the landscape: picturesque, sublime or incidental. But Will Gill was not seduced by the landscape. Starting with his own experience and internal concerns, Gill paints the big picture, in full capital letters. It is at turns raw, romantic, primal and personal. There is nothing regional about it, nothing that would announce its origins as being particular to Newfoundland.

In Newfoundland parlance, Will is a CFA, a come from away. He is a mainlander from Ontario, yet Gill has been embraced as a favoured son and respected mentor in his adopted province. He arrived, settled in the local scene and quietly set about consistently making memorable art in a startlingly varied range of media and techniques. An imposing and expressive physicality linked the various bodies of work.

Will Gill chose to live in one of Canada’s least populated and remote provinces. Yet somehow he has with affable good humour found his way into the pages of Canadian Art, the lyrical words of award-winning novelist Lisa Moore, the centre stage of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche and this past summer [2013], the visual art world stage of the Venice Biennale. Emerging as it does from such a solid foundation this recent body of work at Two Rivers Gallery is the tip of an artistic iceberg.

gloria hickey is an independent curator and writer living in st. john’s, newfoundland

Will Gill’s solo exhibition, Bloodredlife, was at Two Rivers Gallery in 2013. A catalogue for Bloodredlife is available.

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José Delgado-Guevara

Flying PrismOil on canvas15" x 20" (in the frame)2014

$750

“I paint compulsively. It is how I interact with my environment, my way to mean-ingful contact. The contact I seek is dif-ficult to define, because my experience of interacting with the world is full with the tension of things that I’m missing. My work does not constitute research or investigation into this world of the miss-ing, but rather a means by which to inter-act with it with respect for its autonomy. Since a young age, I have described my childhood in musical terms; a cluster of distortions. My world was noisy. Emo-tionally noisy. There was no contact, no interaction. My peaceful times, my moth-er learned that very quickly, were always spent playing the piano, playing the vio-lin, and drawing compulsively. I enjoy the physicality and rhythm of painting, and I look to carve colours into meaningful rhythms. For me, the process of making a painting bears a certain resemblance to the process of making music. I adjust the values of tone and the composition of shapes by thinking of them in terms of strong beats, weak beats, and phrasing. This is the form that contact takes for me, and that is what matters most to me. I currently reside in Prince George, BC, where I am the concertmaster of the Prince George Symphony Orchestra and the Artistic Director of the Prince George Conservatory of Music.

My two main mediums are pencil and charcoal drawing and oils.”

2014, Two Rivers Gallery Rustad Galleria, Animism, solo exhibition2014, Groop Gallery, Prince George, Vestuario

Apprenticed with Corey Hardeman.

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Erin Hutson

MandragoraPen and ink and acrylic on canvas48" x 36"2014

$900

Erin Hutson is a Highway 16 art-ist. Originally from Kitimat, BC, she currently resides in Fraser Lake and works primarily in drawing media mixed with watercolour and acrylic. Her visual style is strongly influ-enced by imagery from dreams, the landscape of Northern BC, the tech-nical teachings of her artist mother, and the man-made environment of hospitals. A former disabilities worker in Cal-gary, Alberta, Hutson attended the Alberta College of Art and Design but then succumbed to her own dis-ability and returned to the care of her wonderful, supportive parents, Bill and Eileen. She continues to make art as diligently as ever; albe-it at a slower rate, but with a keener sensitivity to detail, frailty, the re-lentless persistence of nature, and the life-giving power of imagination. Her work has been compared to the philosophical tones of Werner Herzog and the biological aesthet-ics of H.R. Giger. And also once to Norman Rockwell, which was con-fusing, but taken as a compliment nonetheless.

Hutson was part of the group exhi-bition, Earthly, at Two Rivers Gallery in 2014.

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A Canadian artist based in Prince George, Betty Kovacic’s work is informed by her fascination with all aspects the human condition. Her projects and art have drawn acclaim since the 1980s. Kovacic has received many regional and national awards including an award of excellence at an Interprovincial Art Exhibition. She was further honoured with the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.

Kovacic’s projects have drawn local, national and international media attention. The Prince George Citizen’s feature on A Roomful of Missing Women was printed in papers all over BC. The Edmonton Sun and other Alberta newspapers published numerous articles regarding the project. The Globe and Mail featured her art and story in their Globe Report in January 2007. Articles about her art can also be found in the magazines: The Canadian Women’s Health Network and Herizon. Additionally, her work has been highlighted in many scholarly publications and presentations in Canada, France and South Africa.

Betty Kovacic

Conflicted after Henri Toulouse Lautrec The Quadrille at the Moulin RougeAcrylic on canvas30" x 48" (together)2012

$1,500 each | $2,500 for diptych

Always active in the community, Kovacic has worked as an independent art instructor for over 20 years. She also teaches at the College of New Caledonia.

Betty Kovacic’s art has added a unique dimension to numerous public, private, and corporate collections in Canada, the United States and Europe. She is represented by the Groop Gallery in Prince George.

Kovacic’s solo exhibition: A Roomful of Missing Women (catalogue available) was at Two Rivers Gallery in 2007. Her work was included in Two Rivers Gallery group exhibitions: North: An Exhibition for the 2015 Canada Winter Games; Pipeline: A Line of Division, in 2013 and Us in 2011.

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Sybille Muschik, a graduate of Em-ily Carr University of Art and Design, has been a practicing professional artist, graphic designer and art in-structor for over twenty years. She paints in a variety of mediums, predominately acrylics. Also a printmaker, she is especially fond of monotypes on various grounds including canvas.

Sybille Muschik was born in the out-skirts of Berlin to an artistic family. Her grandfather was a renowned landscape artist who often painted ‘en plein air’. It’s a small wonder that painting on site for her, which she often does in fall and spring, has been a continuing passion for over thirty years. She teaches draw-ing and painting classes as well as occasional seminars in printmaking to children and adults.

In her studio, Muschik often distills her connection with the wilderness into non-objective or abstract work in any number of media especially acrylic or printed monotypes. Her concern for the natural wilderness especially precious water resources, has led her to embrace stewardship issues. She sees the painting pro-cess as an extension of her inner vision that often references myths and archetypes while bridging a modern hectic lifestyle with be-ing enriched and sustained by the natural dynamic environment that surrounds her.

www.sybillemuschik.com

Sybille Muschik

Dance of the Seven VeilsMixed media on canvas20" x 16"2014

$325

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Tony Calzetta

Untitled #723Watercolour and graphite on paper9½" x 12" 2005

$750

Over the last 30 years, since receiving his BFA from the University of Windsor and his MFA from York University, Calzetta has exhibited continually in solo and group exhibitions. He works mainly on canvas and paper and at times in sculpture and printmaking. He has published three major livres d’artiste, “Acts of Kindness and Love” in collaboration with writer John Metcalf, and more recently, “How God Talks in His Sleep and other Fabulous Fictions” and “Peculiar Practices” with writer Leon Rooke. In addition to commissioned works, he is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Canada, the US and Europe. In 2011, his paintings exhibited at the Instituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto were part of the Padiglioni Italia at the 54th International Venice Biennale. Tony Calzetta was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 2014.

“My work is about drawing. The drawing is about images that are composed of shapes and forms constantly evolving from a highly personal visual vocabulary which started with subconscious doodling and automatic drawing and later from more conscious visual influence. My work can be viewed as “abstract funnies” or “surreal cartoons” which fit somewhere between high art and popular culture.”

Calzetta’s solo exhibition, War Stories for Children and Art Stories for Adults, was at Two Rivers Gallery in 2004.

Tony Calzetta is represented by De Luca Fine Art Gallery in Toronto, Giordano Gallery in Edmonton and Winchester Galleries in Victoria. www.delucafineart.comwww.winchestergalleriesltd.com

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Allan FarmerLandscapes from “HomeMaking”Light Dancing on MountainAcrylic on canvas20" x 30"2014

$600

Allan Hugh Farmer (1945–2014) was born in Vancouver and grew up in Duncan, BC. As a young man, Farmer studied languages at the University of Victoria, following which he travelled, worked and lived in Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand. In 1974, he returned to BC where he completed a certificate program for log scaling. Farmer worked in this industry for the rest of his life, moving to Prince George in 1998. Throughout the Prince George community, Farmer was known as a local artist. Often people described him with emotion as a passionate and intellectual man in the sense that he was always thinking and dreaming. He was very excited to retire, as for the first time, he could dedicate himself entirely to his art. He had long anticipated this opportunity and was looking forward to putting his ideas on canvas. Tragically, he died suddenly a few months short of realizing his artistic dreams. Allan Farmer was a self-taught artist, with his first paintings dating back to 1992. From early on, Farmer’s motivation and sources of

inspiration were evident in his choice of subject matter. He loved the region in which he lived and he painted what he saw, consequently, this landscape occupied an important place in his paintings. He also represented unknown places on canvas. His work and the pastimes he enjoyed, like fishing and hiking, often brought him far away from the city to remote locations few people have seen and he wanted to share these places with others. In this way, we can confer an historic value to his work. Many of Farmer’s paintings document Prince George and its surroundings, offering an honest picture of the region that will be familiar to people who live here.

Farmer’s solo exhibition, Far Away: Landscapes by Allan Farmer, was at Two River Gallery, Rustad Galleria in 2014 and toured the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George that summer. Catalogue available.

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Ann Nicholson

GhostsAcrylic on paper36" x 24"2007

$800

Ann Nicholson is an artist and anti-apartheid activist from South Africa. She studied Fine Arts at the Johannesburg School of Art in 1959 and 1960, and completed a Bachelor of General Studies at Simon Fraser University in 1987. Nicholson also has a Masters degree in Education specializing in Counselling Psychology from UBC and is in the process of completing a BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Nicholson was jailed for three years as a result of her involvement as an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. She has participated in two exhibitions at Two Rivers Gallery, the group exhibition, Pulse, in 2008 and a solo exhibition in Two Rivers Gallery Rustad Galleria, The Chilcotin War: a Colonial Legacy, which also exhibited at the Station House Gallery in Williams Lake. Nicholson has participated in a number of other group exhibitions around BC, as well as her solo exhibition in 2004, Winds of Change at Vertigo in Vernon.

Nicholson has completed nine residencies at BC schools, teaching art activities from 2001 to 2012.

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Maureen Faulkner grew up in a log-ging camp in Northern BC where she was home-schooled by her mother and where art was the re-ward for hard work. She began a BA in art history at University of BC after having taken six months after Junior College to travel around Eu-rope and North Africa. During this trip, she began documenting her travels, a practice that she has sus-tained as an artist through to the present day. Faulkner went on to obtain teaching qualifications (and eventually an MEd from University of Victoria) and began a 33 year-long career as a high school art teacher.

Faulkner’s career as a teacher left her with the time and resources to pursue an independent practice as an artist which she maintains since retiring. Travel remains an important source of inspiration to her as an artist. She has developed a significant archive of journals which inform and influence the painting, drawing and installation based work that she continues in her studio to the present day. Faulkner lives and works in Prince George, BC.

In 2013, her solo exhibition, Cake: A Traveller’s Journey (catalogue available), was in Two Rivers Gal-lery Rustad Galleria and toured the Regional District of Fraser Fort George.

Maureen Faulkner

It’s About the WaterMixed media on paper28" x 21"1998

$900

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Robert Davidson

u and eyeSerigraph40" x 30"2013

$2,550

Robert Davidson is a Haida artist with a worldwide reputation as a master carver, printmaker, painter and jeweler. He was born in Alaska and grew up on Haida Gwaii and in Vancouver. His Haida name is Guud San Glans/Eagle of The Dawn and his great grandfather was the famed Haida carver, Charles Edenshaw.

Davidson’s work has been collected by the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Canadian Museum of History and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. He has been awarded honorary degrees for his accomplishments by the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Davidson is a member of the Order of Canada.

Davidson’s solo exhibition, Eagle Transforming: the Prints of Robert Davidson, was shown at Two Rivers Gallery in 2011.

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Gary Pearson

View of Okanagan LakeCopper plate engraving: etching ink on Stonehenge paper22.5 x 20.5 cm2014

$1,300

Gary Pearson is an artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, in Kelowna, BC, Canada. He is also a freelance exhibition curator, art writer, and author. His exhibition reviews have been published in Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and Sculpture magazines, among other publications. Gary Pearson has received numerous grants and awards, including the Vancouver Institute of Visual Arts VIVA award in 1991, and the Okanagan Arts Award in Visual Arts, in 2010. His personal exhibition history includes solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the US, Australia and Europe. Pearson’s work is in the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery; the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery; Kelowna Art Gallery; Kamloops Art Gallery; Two Rivers Gallery; University of Saskatchewan; Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia; Residence Collection, Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, Australia, and the McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON.

In 2005, Pearson had his solo exhibition, One Way Ticket, at Two Rivers Gallery.

Gary Pearson is represented by the Winsor Gallery, in Vancouver.

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Peter von Tiesenhausen

Acts of ResistanceCharred wood / white wash5.75" x 6"2014

$1,125

Peter von Tiesenhausen lives and works in the small community of Demmit Alberta, however his reputation as an artist reaches far beyond. From his early beginnings studying at Alberta College of Art and Design, through having participated in projects and exhibitions in Europe, USA, New Zealand and many across Canada, he has become an artist on the international stage.

Von Tiesenhausen is an adept painter and sculptor but is also well known for his site specific installations. He has developed many of these installations on the land where he lives. Many of them use natural materials that over time disintegrate and revert to a natural state, sometimes leaving little trace, others like bronze sculptures placed in the forest or small chapel-esque buildings given over to the quiet contemplation, have a longer lasting legacy.

In 2003, Von Tiesenhausen drew national attention when his property line was breached by an oil and gas corporation planning to build a pipeline. Von Tiesenhausen argued that his land was a work of art and therefore protected under Canadian Copyright law. A settlement was reached out of court. In 2005, he had a solo exhibition, Requiem, at Two Rivers Gallery, which examined the impact of the Pine Beetle infestation in the boreal forest and in 2009, von Tiesenhausen’s sculpture, Balance, was also installed at Two Rivers Gallery.

www.tiesenhausen.netwww.clintroenisch.com; www.peterrobertsongallery.comwww.gibsongallery.com; www.trepanierbaer.comwww.willockandsaxgallery.com; www.jamesbaird.ca

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Harry Stanbridge

Sunny BoyAcrylic/canvas on board24" x 24" 2005

$2,400

Harry Stanbridge was born in Quesnel, BC and currently lives and works in Victoria. He is an elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art, his work hangs in prestigious Gallery collections in Canada and abroad, and he has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Harry Stanbridge exhibited at Two Rivers Gallery from April 27 to June 24, 2007, in a two person exhibition, Communion, alongside his partner, Linda Stanbridge.

Harry Stanbridge’s work is included in the Permanent Collection of Two Rivers Gallery.

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Theresa Sapergia’s drawings and paintings are based in a material exploration of figuration and a questioning of the historical tropes of representation. Her work uses sentimentality, sincerity and humour to call into question contemporary art’s current relationship with irony and distancing.

Sapergia has exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. In 2009, Sapergia’s work comprised the solo exhibition, I Like Canada and Canada Likes Me, at Two Rivers Gallery as well as Songs to Sing

Theresa Sapergia

Mr. PGColoured pencil on paper28 x 38 cm 2008

$700

to Yourself, a Fraser-Fort George Regional District travelling exhibition. In 2013, her work was included in Chosen: Your Selections from the Permanent Collection at Two Rivers Gallery. She lives in Prince George where she is Proprietor/Tattoo Artist of Handsome Cabin Boy Tattoo.

Sapergia’s work is included in the Permanent Collection of Two Rivers Gallery.

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Corey Hardeman

SnowyOil on canvas28" x 28"2014

$1,400

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Corey Hardeman has drawn since she could first hold a pencil. Her formal education in biology and, later, in architectural drafting have both influenced her art making, which combines elements of traditional illustration and technical drawing with a love of tonal painting, an abiding interest in biomechanics and an eye for tension and movement. She considers her paintings to be documents rendered with oil paint, expressing her love of her sur-

roundings as part of an ongoing conversation with the Boreal forest and its inhabitants. She is preoccupied with the creation of a sense of refuge from time; a haven for subject and viewer alike from the clamor of progress and industry.

Hardeman was part of the group exhibition, Pipeline: A Line of Divi-sion, at Two Rivers Gallery in 2013.

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Karma Vance

Inward BoundAcrylic on panel36" x 29"2010

$500

Karma Vance was born in Alberta and has lived in Prince George for many years. She has a Bachelor of Education, Double Arts Major from the University of British Columbia. In 2012, her work was part of Verge: Between Worlds (catalogue available) which toured the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George and Forest Bathing at Two Rivers Gallery, Rustad Galleria; Get Out of the Cold, 2011, at Prince George Community Arts Council; Rust and Found, 2010, at Groop Gallery, Prince George. Her work has been part of various other group exhibitions in the province.

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Carole Epp

The Voices in her HeadCeramic, wire, sculpey10"h x 7"w x 7.5"d2013

$600

Photo by Carole Epp

Carole Epp is a Canadian ceramic artist living and working in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She received her Masters Degree in Ceramics from the Australian National University in 2005, and has maintained a full-time studio practice since. Her ceramics branch off into two distinct bodies of work wherein she produces lines of sculptural and functional objects. Her work has been exhibited throughout Canada; in Australia, Scotland and the United States. Her artwork and writing has also been published in the past few years in magazines, websites and books. She is the editor of Musing About Mud, an online blog that showcases information, calls for entry, exhibitions and artist profiles related to the ceramic arts.

In 2013, Epp exhibited in Disquiet – Work by Carole Epp, Trace Nelson and Marcia Pitch, at Two Rivers Gallery. The artwork for auction was part of that exhibition. A catalogue from the exhibition is included in this lot.

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