Ken Lum, Don’t Be Silly, You’re Not Ugly, 1993, chromogenic print, lacquer, enamel on aluminum,182.9 x 243.8 x 5.1 cm, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Maryon and Jack Adelaar.Photo: Tim Bonham, Vancouver Art Gallery June 23 to August 19, 2012 The Kelowna Art Gallery is very pleased to…
May 7 to October 22, 2012 Kelowna-based artist Briar Craig has an unusual fondness for found texts, especially in the instance of tossed out hand-written lists, often on sticky notes. As was the case with one of his favourite artists of the last century, the German Kurt Schwitters, he prowls…
April 7 to May 27, 2012 Although artist Melanie Daniel was born and grew up in BC, she has lived and worked in Israel since 1995. This is her first solo show in Kelowna since 2003. Although she is known primarily for her painting, Daniel chose to install video works…
March 24 to August, 2012 in our Rotary Courtyard An outdoor installation of works by printmaking students at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus. The exhibition features twenty-five nine-foot-high banners on which the artists have imprinted their entire bodies, obscuring their faces with objects that are meant to provide…
March 3 to June 24, 2012 The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to host our 26th annual Art in Action exhibition. This exhibition features over 125 works of art created by students in Kelowna’s public and private high schools. Art in Action is a celebration of the creativity and artist talent…
Work by Art Teachers from School District No. 23 January 21 to February 26, 2012 The Kelowna Art Gallery has worked closely with the art teachers from School District No. 23 for the past twenty-five years on the annual Art in Action student exhibitions. This year we are we are…
January 14 to March 25, 2012 The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to present this survey show of Lake Country-based artist David Alexander. Alexander works in a modern landscape idiom and has travelled widely so that his imagery is international, as well as depicting many regions of Canada. He likes…
October 14 to November 6, 2011 In recognition of the artists who have donated work for auction to Seeing Red & White, we are pleased to announce the Seeing Red & White Artists’ Exhibition, on view at the Gallery from October 14 to November 6, 2011. You’re invited to join…
September 21 to October 11, 2011 The Kelowna Art Gallery proudly presents works of art created by the professional and talented teachers who lead classes at the Gallery. This exhibition showcases a range of art, reflecting the diverse classes we offer, such as oil painting, drawing, felting, acrylic painting, and…
September 6 to 17, 2011 The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to present this small but comprehensive selection of original works of art by Canada’s celebrated Daphne Odjig. Born in 1919 in Ontario, Odjig is of mixed Native and European descent. She has been making art since she was a…
Members’ Exhibition November 12, 2011 to January 15, 2012 The theme of this year’s members’ show is “abstraction,” and artists were challenged to think about their art in a new way. Abstraction is a term that indicates a departure from imagery in art. This could be removing any references to…
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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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