JUNE NEWSLETTER
With summer holidays just around the corner, traffic has picked up again in the Okanagan Valley. We’ve been visited by lots of early travelers avoiding the school rush while enjoying our outstanding wineries and golf courses. Sopa has planned some strong summer shows opening the first Thursday each month, so be sure to stop by if you can!
Opening Night for Bryan Ryley’s solo exhibition
Tom DeGroot continues to work with resin on cardboard, producing a porcelain like finish on paint pooled, textural surfaces. He joins us at our next opening night, July 5 th from 7-9 pm, for the exhibition ‘Light + Latitude’ . Jennifer Seymour will also be in attendance.
 Tom DeGroot’s ‘Glint’ resin on cardboard
IN THE STUDIO
Sopa artist, Sara McIntosh-Robichaud has been extremely busy; she’s having a solo exhibition in July at the Engine Gallery in Toronto; as well as a solo show in Gallery Gora later in the month. In addition to her ongoing teaching, she’s just returned from Art Expo in New York. She’ll be dropping in to see us later this month to bring some of her newest paintings.
Sara McIntosh-Robichaud studio
Below, Kristine Paton installs her new commission in the Inner Harbor in Victoria.
'Full Circle' by Kristine Paton
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Bryan Ryley with 'Circus Train' 72 x 84
This month’s exhibition, ‘Upsetting the Clan’ has Bryan Ryley’s latest body of work, challenging the platform through which we read and understand contemporary painting. Easily one of the Okanagan’s most respected painters, Ryley shows us once again how masterful and skillfully he works his materials; applying multiple layers of paint horizontally, creating images that appear fleeting, as if caught out of the corner of one’s eye.
To see more opening night photos click here.
COMING UP NEXT MONTH
Jennifer Seymour and Tom DeGroot will be unveiling several of their newest pieces next month. In t his exhibition, Jennifer continues to explore her interest in transparency, light and lustrous architecture. This is Seymour's second gallery exhibition with Sopa since her initial introduction April 2006, and looks like it will be another successful show.
 Jennifer Seymour ‘Silent Structure’ 47 x 24
For a sneak preview of her new work, please stop by the gallery or send us an email so we can send you jpg images.
Christopher Griffin has moved studios in Ottawa but has still found enough time to continue painting and is preparing for his solo show at Sopa in August. His show, titled ‘Ground Rules’ will be the largest showing of his work we’ve had to date. Griffin has found numerous collectors in the Okanagan as well as many clients from western Canada. Please email the gallery if you have any questions about any of our shows or to be alerted when new work arrives by a particular artist.
Christopher Griffin's 'Kicking Horse' 36 x 60
Alex Couwenberg will be showing this month at Gilman Contemporary in Ketchum, ID, then with d.e.n. contemporary in LA in July, and Peter Blake Gallery in Laguna Beach this fall. Kitchener’s, James Nye will be unveiling his new work this month in St. Jacobs, ON. Gallery IMO in Seattle just wrapped up a show with John Paul Schafer. Works by these painters are available to view in our back gallery area.
A big thanks to Yuri Akuney for taking photos of our shows and installations.
“A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.”
Henri Matisse
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