June 27 to August 30, 2009 This new exhibition will be an installation of three-dimensional work by Calgary-based artist Suzanne Franks. Contained within the one-word title Smother is the word “mother,” the fact of which the artist is only too well aware. We might call to mind the familiar term…
Dysfunctional Chairs series August 1 to November 1, 2009 A great topic for conversation when relaxing with friends, or even strangers (while stuck on an elevator, or in a traffic jam?) is things we used to think as children, and later discovered were errors. One old friend of mine said…
August 22 to October 18, 2009 We are excited to bring the widely varied work of this talented Toronto-based artist to Kelowna. This exhibition was curated by independent curator Donald Brackett, and has been produced by a collaboration among several public galleries in Canada. This is also how we have…
September 5 to November 1, 2009 Ontario-based artist Martin Pearce works with both drawing and painting, approaching each of these from an entirely different direction. This show is comprised of a selection of his drawings, including one that is ten feet long, of a disjointed landscape dotted with hilltowns made…
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada October 31, 2009 to January 10, 2010 Most of the series of photographs by internationally recognized Canadian photographer Geoffrey James have dealt with the built environment, that is structures either intentionally or unintentionally created by humans. As the title of this large survey…
November 7, 2009 to January 10, 2010 This exhibition features a suite of ten works on paper and a related large painting that local artist Bryan Ryley produced in 2004, inspired by a reproduction of a drawing by Picasso. The Picasso work was one of the numerous studies he produced…
Dysfunctional Chairs series November 7, 2009 to May 9, 2010 Kelowna-based artist Lori Mairs chose to work with her tried and true hallmark materials and methods to create a dysfunctional chair that has been deconstructed. So rather than experiencing the very chairness of a single chair-like creation, the viewer is…
An exhibition of new work in film by emerging Indigenous artists Join us in celebrating the tenth year of this collaboration. February 12 to April 30, 2011 Back for its tenth year! The Kelowna Art Gallery has worked collaboratively with the En’owkin Centre in Penticton for nine previous years in…
Organized by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in partnership with the Kelowna Art Gallery February 5 to May 8, 2011 Anyone in the Okanagan suffering from seasonal affective disorder this winter does not need to save up for a trip to Hawaii in order to cheer up. Just come to the…
November 8, 2010 to May 16, 2011 Outbound passengers at the Kelowna International Airport this season may find themselves with mysterious food cravings once they have cleared security. We can explain the phenomenon: it is the power of art. Kelowna-based realist painter John Hall will be installing two large paintings…
January 15 to March 6, 2011 Printmaking at the Okanagan Campus of the University of British Columbia is a result of the vital partnership between the Kelowna Art Gallery and the University of British Columbia Okanagan. “The Kelowna Art Gallery and the University of British Columbia Okanagan collaborate as often…
Selected works of art from private collections in Kelowna January 16 to March 7, 2010 As our contribution to helping Kelowna put its best face forward for visitors here in conjunction with the Vancouver Olympics, The Kelowna Art Gallery set out to organize a local collections show. The exhibition is…
March 20 to May 23, 2010 Realist painter Joice M. Hall spent most of her career based in Calgary, before moving to Kelowna to live in 1999. This exhibition is a full-scale survey show that has been organized for the Kelowna Art Gallery by independent curator Patricia Ainslie, who also…
Dysfunctional Chairs series May 15 to September 26, 2010 Artists Trevor Mahovsky and Rhonda Weppler have been working collaboratively since 2004 – almost a decade after their days in graduate art school at UBC. For their commission in our Dysfunctional Chairs series, they proposed that their chairs are dysfunctional because…
An exhibition of short films by emerging First Nations artists May 27 to July 18, 2010 Reel Roots is an exhibition of short films by emerging First Nations artists, in our Reynolds Gallery space. The Kelowna Art Gallery has worked collaboratively with the En’owkin Centre in Penticton for several years…
June 5 to July 18, 2010 During the summer months in Kelowna it is natural to develop a heightened awareness of the huge presence and proximity of Okanagan Lake. What more appropriate exhibition would there be, therefore, than this single, large installation of a giant wave form, made from wood?…
July 24 to September 26, 2010 To complement the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Tree exhibition, the Kelowna Art Gallery has organized a small exhibition of works selected from the permanent collection called The Okanagan Tree. Some of these works have not been exhibited in many years. All depict trees in the…
Organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery with the generous support of July 24 to September 26, 2010 What becomes a legend most? Canadian icons that retain their symbolism generation after generation, such as the beaver, the canoe and the lone, struggling tree, come to mind. This exhibition on…
Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery October 9 to December 12, 2010 Our main fall exhibition features works of contemporary art that have been added to the Gallery’s permanent collection in the last two years, many thanks to the financial support of the Canada Council…
October 9 to December 12, 2010 Keith Langergraber is a Vancouver-based multi-media artist who spent his formative years in Kelowna. This exhibition is comprised of a cluster of distinct elements that explore local lore, beginning with the Ogopogo. In his film Rattlesnake Island (included in the show), Langergraber himself plays…
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