Jim Kalnin: Pulse

November 14, 2011 to May 7, 2012 Oyama, BC-based artist Jim Kalnin is something of an institution in the Okanagan Valley. He arrived here from various peregrinations in the mid-1980s, and taught studio classes at Okanagan College beginning in 1987, until his retirement from UBCO in 2009. Kalnin is passionate…

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Steve Higgins: All Things Considered

Thoughts about Cities and History, War and Peace November 5 to December 31, 2011 Halifax-based artist Steve Higgins works in drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Examples of his work in all these media will be included in this nationally touring show when it comes to Kelowna. His areas of concern centre…

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Rose Braun: Requiem

November 5, 2011 to January 8, 2012 Kelowna-based artist Rose Braun has created an installation of two-dimensional works in mixed-media drawing and painting exploring the notions of death and personal loss and mourning. Using both representational means and visual metaphor, Braun’s work is expressive and evocative. Images of children –…

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Okanagan Print Triennial 2012

March 31 to June 17, 2012 The Okanagan Print Triennial 2012, a juried show that brings together a variety of original, contemporary work in printmaking. Dedicated to showcasing the creative forays made in printmaking in Canada and beyond, a call for submissions went out to artists across North, Central, and South…

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Insights

June 11 to July 10, 2011 Insights features the art work of students who took part in the Kelowna Art Gallery’s Youth inSights program. The Kelowna Art Gallery’s Youth inSights program is an exciting opportunity for teens, ages 16-18, to take part in an intensive nine-month art program. Through a series…

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The Point Is

Pierre Coupey || Landon Mackenzie || Bernadette Phan || Martin Pearce || Bryan Ryley August 20 to October 30, 2011 The Point Is exhibition brings together the work of five contemporary painters, all working in a large scale and in an energized zone that hovers between representation and pure abstraction.…

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Carolyn Wren: Searching for the Sublime

August 6 to October 30, 2011  Ontario-based artist Carolyn Wren approached her solo exhibition in our small gallery space as a site-specific installation. She had completed the preliminary work before her arrival, and the rest she worked while she was here to install. Using tissue paper dress patterns that have…

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Chad Pratch: Inanimate Phenotype

Dysfunctional Chairs seriesJune 18 to November 27, 2011 For his commission in our Dysfunctional Chairs series, Kelowna-based artist Chad Pratch has taken a socially-oriented route and has been adopting disregarded chairs from local individuals, and interviewing the donors about the chairs and their relationships with them. These discarded chairs will…

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Please Touch the Art: Art in the Public Space

July 16 to September 4, 2011 Public art is any work of art that is created by an artist for a specific public space. It is about more than beautification; public art can stimulate, entertain, or transform a city’s image by heightening our awareness, pushing us to question our assumptions,…

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Renay Egami: Piecework

May 16 to November 14, 2011 Kelowna-based artist Renay Egami is venturing into textile-related materials and processes for her piece to be installed in our airport art wall space. A long single curtain made up of many letterforms cut from fabric will be displayed hanging from a rod. The letters…

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Gabor Szilasi: The Eloquence of the Everyday

Organized by the Musée d’art de Joliette and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography May 14 to August 14, 2011 The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to be bringing this retrospective exhibition of photographs by the venerable Montreal-based photographer, Gabor Szilasi, to the Okanagan. The show has been curated by…

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Art in Action 2011

Time Frame March 11 – June 8, 2011 The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to host our 25th annual Art in Action exhibition titled Time Frame.  This exhibition features approximately 125 works of art created by students in Kelowna’s public and private high schools. Art in Action is a celebration…

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Our Walk With the Land

January 22  to February 6, 2005 The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to be a host venue for Our Walk With the Land, an exhibition highlighting the strength and diversity of film and video work by Indigenous filmmakers across Canada. Our Walk With the Land features innovative Aboriginal films and…

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Marie Cormack: Paradise

February 12 to April 10, 2005 This exhibition features the paintings of Summerland-based artist Marie Cormack. Cormack paints bright, patterned and colorful figurative paintings of kids eating cherries, women displaying their fresh baked pies or showing off their prized tomato plants. These are ordinary people enjoying ordinary times and it…

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Hanksville

February 12 to April 24, 2005 Hanksville A couple of years ago, I wrote a narrative for Blackflash magazine called The Wandering Boy. In this piece, I attempted to explain, through text and images, what I think my activities as a writer and producer of museum exhibitions is about. I…

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David Wilson: Here and There, One Hundred New Works

April 16 to June 19, 2005 My work is a construct of how the illumination of both people and objects reveals that which is of importance to us. The vitality of the imagery circumvents common assumptions of a wet and rainy night, illustrating how our illumination of both people and…

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Oasis

April 30 to September 11, 2005 In one short century, Kelowna has grown from a small village with a handful of pioneers to an international tourist destination with award-winning wineries and multi-million dollar lakeside properties. Throughout its history, the Okaganan landscape has enticed people to visit, live and retire in…

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Bev Tosh: One-Way Passage

June 25 to September 18, 2005 This exhibition is about the rite of passage of leaving home physically, emotionally and psychologically, and about the passage of time and lifetimes. One-Way Passage The term ‘war bride’ refers to women who married foreign servicemen during or immediately following World War II, and…

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Diana Lynn Thompson: 2nd Nature

September 24 to November 13, 2005 For over 10 years, Saltspring Island artist Diana Lynn Thompson has been exhibiting her work across Canada and internationally in solo and group exhibitions, and producing environmental installations, performances and community art projects. Thompson has been described as “a pilgrim of wonder in the…

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