Fair Market Value of $2,400. Julie Oakes "Staircase of Wonders" original gouache painting on paper, 2010.
There is a staircase in The Royal Ontario Museum named the Staircase of Wonders that the businessman and collector, John Driscoll, had financed. He had bought my drawing Red Bob and thought it might be nice to have an installation of birds running the middle of the three story stairwell. This was a basic proposal drawing of that idea. The gouache was shown in my solo exhibition Genisis at Lonsdale Gallery in 2011 along with the large painting ARK. The glass bird stairwell installation never happened and today couldn’t because most of the birds have found good homes.
Julie Oakes Biography:
Environmental protectionism, women’s rights, spiritualism, artistic activism and the benefits of cultural diversity have been threads throughout Oakes’ work. As a multidisciplinary visual artist, she uses painting, ceramics, glass, performance, installation and video.
Oakes’ extensive exhibition history includes The Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, The Rivington Gallery, London, Curcio Projects, New York, Lehman Leskiw Fine Arts, Toronto, The Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Galerie Atelier III, Barmstaedt, Germany, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, The Varley Art Gallery, Ontario, The Canadian Museum of Northern History, Ontario, The Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, Ontario, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, 9 Bienal Internacional de Gravura Do Douro, Protugal, and the Kelowna Art Gallery, Penticton Art Gallery, Lake country Gallery, Vernon Art Gallery and Salmon Arm A rt Gallery, in BC. In Poland, her works were included in Interwoven; New Canadian Perspectives into Textiles and Printmaking at Kobro Gallery, Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz and The National Cultural Centre Art Gallery, Warsaw in 2017.
Oakes works are in public collections such as The Glenbow Museum, The Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, The Mendel Gallery, The Varley Art Gallery and The Vernon Performing Arts Center and more.
Her solo exhibitions at the Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, Swounds and Awestruck Calendar of Ecology were multimedia installations which paved the way for her current body of work, SHESHE which premiered at the Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC in November 2019. The installation SheShe showed in the duo exhibition SHE&SHE Jolanta Rudzka-Habisiakand Julie Oakes at TEST Galerie, Warsaw in November 2020 – January 2021 and then at KOBRO Galerie in Lodz, Poland August and September 2021.
The installation SheShe was at the Temiskaming Gallery June 12 to July 22 2022, along with the five Stellar Scrolls and the Saskatchewan Scroll. The floor to ceiling A Comprehensive and Concise History of my Personal Chromatic Veil, a self portrait lacily veiled by over four hundred make-up pads as monoprints studded with hennaed hair balls, was also be featured.
Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC
