In the Rustad Galleria fom October 8 to November 21.

New visual art by Annerose Geogeson and Barbara Scholtz
with a soundtrack by Jerremy Stewart.

Annerose Georgeson makes acrylic paintings and mixed media drawings based on imagery from nature. Georgeson has a BFA in Visual Arts from UVic and has shown her artwork in many solo shows. She was the curator of the Red & Blue Beetle Art, a regional exhibition about the impact of the mountain pine beetle.

Georgeson was born in Switzerland, and as a child immigrated to Canada with her family. She lives on the same piece of land where she grew up, near Vanderhoof.

Artist Statement

They are lovers of "scenery"... They want to see only what can be seen sitting down and at highway speeds. They are supposedly charmed by the notion of a wilderness place, but they want it neatly packaged in "views". They will exclaim over a long view of a monumental rock or a cliff, but will never see the phoebe clinging to its face. Still less will they be aware of the cycles of living and dying, pleasure and pain, plenty and want, eating and being eaten, growth and decay, that course through the scene they are looking at. -Wendell Berry

I am part of the "they". I drive a lot at highway speed and past the most amazing beautiful scenes. Lately that scenery includes a lot of dead pine trees and many new cutblocks. These places also have their beauty.
Barbara and I worked together on this theme to create this body of work. We also created graphical scores as inspiration for Jeremy to create music.

Barbara Scholtz
1959 born in and raised just outside vienna
austria barbara now makes her living
in the central interior of british columbia
she came to live in canada in 1985

after dropping out from the fashion class of
the college of applied arts in vienna,
(hochschule fuer angewandte kunst)
under karl lagerfeld and jil sander
barbara moved to a remote trapline
in the omenica mountains for a few years

1990 she moved back to austria for two years
she developed prototypes for myles
(a fashion house downtown vienna)
she also made costumes for stage and tv

2007 atoll of hope
red & blue beetle art
saik'uz first nation vanderhoof

2006 destiny & temptation - i felt it
art preformace with live music by jeremy stewart
two rivers gallery prince george

2005 in the shadow of your wing
art space prince george

2000 walk the walk
art space prince george

1984 modeschau zur erweiterung des modebegriffes
art performance with trixi groiss
u4 vienna

1982 malaria
costume design in cooperation with martina
list also performing for a film by niki list
vienna

this work is multifaceted on a variety of levels
and touches on different themes
that reach beyond the exhibited pieces

there is the drive-by theme
this vast land - who has not traveled through endless
stretches of scenery of bush and fields and swamps
impressive sky and cloud formations brilliant sunsets
and weather displays
drive-by landscapes are snapshots from such journeys through the land
moments snapshots - the still is set in motion
large memory space allowing for large collection of
imagery - fast moving time and space

the water theme
water streaming ever changing
constant flux - constant
river streaming music - stream
remixed sound of music - sound of water

i asked jeremy to set music to the waves and sparks
we see on the river's surface
we can set music to the patterns of barks of trees
to wherever we find pattern
we look at such patterns and can't help but
realize the correlation between micro and macro cosmos
the patterns we see in nature
micro macro realization

I long to work with a feeling of relaxation yet
without funding it's difficult to make art on a regular
basis - I wish for collaboration rather than competition
for interest critique and comment -
a platform from which to live off my art

The soundtrack to Drive-By Landscapes was composed in several steps. The first was to record landscape sounds and river sounds to tape deck, a medium chosen for its opacity---the tape machine's motor and the noise on the tape are often the loudest sounds recorded. The second step was to transfer those recordings to my laptop. There, they were edited, sequenced, and processed. They were cut up and layered. Third, I took small reproductions of images by Annerose and Barbara and cut them into pieces. These I pasted into music notation sheets, composing a graphical score. For this score, the horizontal axis represents time and the vertical axis represents pitch. The music on this score is arranged for solo guitar with electronic effects.