June 16 to September 9, 2007 The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition B.C. Binning, an instalment in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s provincial touring program – Across the Province – circulating exhibitions drawn from the VAG’s permanent collection. Bertram Charles Binning (1909-1976) was one of Canada’s foremost…
six artist | sixteen works | one hot show June 16 to September 9, 2007 To kick off the Kelowna Art Gallery’s 30th Anniversary we are pleased to present our most recent acquisitions from the last two years. Many of these works are on view for the first time in…
June 23 to September 16, 2007 Twenty years ago as a young art student Renay Egami visited Hiroshima, Japan. Recalling her visit to the Peace Memorial Museum located there, Egami observed the unthinkable destruction caused by the first atomic bomb, dropped in 1945: burned clothing, melted bottles, human shadows emblazoned…
September 15 to November 18, 2007 The Kelowna Art Gallery is very pleased to present Rick Rivet for the first time ever at the Kelowna Art Gallery. This visually tantalizing exhibition is organized and circulated by the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon and presents paintings by British Columbia-based artist Rick…
Reynolds Gallery – September 22 to November 25, 2007 Rotary Courtyard – September 22, 2007 to January 20, 2008 Have you noticed the changing landscape in B.C. and northwestern Alberta? Artists Marcia Harris and Danielle Helen Ray Dickson have taken notice and have collaborated in response in Landscape Awareness. Triggered…
An exhibition of works from the permanent collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery in celebration of the gallery’s thirtieth anniversary. December 1, 2007 to March 2, 2008 In order to share our thirtieth anniversary celebrations with the community, we focused on community links for this exhibition. Among the strategies put…
December 1, 2007 – February 3, 2008 Toronto-based artist Kate Wilson refers to her site-specific wall works as drawings, even though they are executed in black acrylic paint. It makes sense against the white gallery walls they look like drawings, albeit in huge scale. For a week at the end…
Indigenous Media Arts Exhibition 2008 presented by the Indigenous Arts Service Organization in partnership with the Ullus Collective. February 8 to April 13, 2008 For the eighth year in a row, the Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to host the IASO’s film series: REEL ROOTz Indigenous Media Arts Exhibition 2008. …
Curated by Katerina Atanassova, of the Varley Art Gallery March 8 to April 27, 2008 This exhibition sets out to change a common impression about this revered Group-of-Seven artist, who was actually known in his lifetime more for his portraits than his work in landscape. Pushed aside by the strength…
April 19 to July 13, 2008 Using a wide range of media, Qualicum Beach-based artist Heather Thomas will be creating installations of works in both our Reynolds and Rotary courtyard spaces this spring along the theme of war, armaments, and war injuries. Branching out from a background in printmaking, Thomas…
May 10 – July 27, 2008 The Kelowna Art Gallery is excited and pleased to be the first touring venue for the Pop Prints exhibition organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery. The Pop Art movement began in both Britain and the USA in the early 1960s and had its influence…
August 2 – November 2, 2008 Beginning in mid-summer the Treadgold/Bullock Gallery space will be transformed by means of images and sound into a place that will take visitors to a land of pure imagination. Calgary-based artist Derek Michael Besant has created an installation based on the notion of Canada…
July 19 – October 26, 2008 Toronto-based artist Greg Staats works with photo-based media, including traditional photography and more recently, video. Born in Ohsweken, Ontario, Staats, a Mohawk, is a member of the Six Nations of Ontario’s Grand River Territory (the location of his birthplace) in southern Ontario. He has…
November 1, 2008 to January 4, 2009 The Curatorial and Public Programming departments at the Kelowna Art Gallery have collaborated to invite Okanagan Valley-based artist Wanda Lock, to install recent work in the Reynolds Gallery, and add to this installation through a short residency in the Scotiabank Studio. The artist…
Recent works by artists associated with the University of British Columbia Okanagan November 14, 2008 to January 11, 2009 As a salute to the several artists in our community who not only maintain active exhibition records, but also work with post-secondary students, the Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to announce…
Dysfunctional Chairs series August 13, 2008 to January 11, 2009 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. – Lily Tomlin Welcome to the experience of Kelowna-based artist Byron Johnston’s gigantic wooden chair. Far too high for anyone to sit on, it is certainly undeniably dysfunctional. A visitor might be reminded…
January 10 to March 1, 2009 Calgary-based artist Bill Rodgers has been at work on the project installed for this exhibition since 1994. Searching for a way to combine his work as a visual artist with his interest in motorcycle racing, he wound up focusing on the Tourist Trophy (TT),…
Local Knowledge and Making Places January 17 to March 15, 2009 Organized and circulated by Museum London Curated by Ihor Holubizky This exciting group exhibition contains a wide range of contemporary works by six artists, three of whom live and work in Canada, and three who are from Australia. The…
Dysfunctional Chairs series January 24 to July 26, 2009 For the second in our on-going series of installations of contemporary art in our outdoor space, the Kelowna Art Gallery has commissioned Kamloops-based artist David Diviney to respond to the challenge. As his work has dealt with hometown and rural clichés…
Films by emerging First Nations artists presented by the En’owkin Centre in Penticton March 7 to April 19, 2009 This year will mark the ninth annual exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery of films created by emerging First Nations filmmakers, organized by the En’owkin Centre in Penticton. Our thanks to…
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