Melany Nugent-Noble August 8, 2020 to August 29, 2021 Nothing to be done takes reference from the stage set of Samuel Beckett’s play, Waiting for Godot. First performed in Paris in 1953, the play is about two characters—Vladimir and Estragon—who wait beneath a tree by a country road for Godot…
Katherine Pickering Satellite Space at the Kelowna International Airport January, 22 2020 to July 8, 2020 In this series of shaped paintings Kelowna-based artist Katherine Pickering explores the overlap between painting and sculpture. The installation uses pattern, colour, and the materiality of paint to suggest the fluidity of time. In…
February 29 to September 13, 2020 For this year’s 34th Art in Action student exhibition, the Kelowna Art Gallery invited young artists to explore the vibrant world of colour. Middle and high school students throughout the Central Okanagan Region were encouraged to express themselves in a variety of mediums and…
Jenn E Norton March 21 to July 12, 2020 Slipstream video still; viewer in the installation. Photo courtesy of Jenn E. Norton. In an otherwise empty gallery space, this immersive video installation includes six reflective panels positioned in an inward-facing ring which create channels of infinite regress. A dancing figure…
March 14 to October 11, 2020 The word geisha is made up of two characters, gei means ‘art’ or ‘accomplished’ and sha means ‘person.’ Therefore it can be translated as ‘accomplished person’ or ‘person who lives by the arts.’ The fascinating life of Ichimaru (1906-1997), one of the most famous…
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller January 18 to March 15, 2020 Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Experiment in F# Minor, 2013, 72-channel audio installation including speakers, photosensors, and wooden worktables, 96 1/8 x 72 x 30 inches. Courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York. Experiment in F# Minor is…
Mariel Belanger June 22 to October 6, 2019 This June visitors to the Kelowna Art Gallery will have the chance to experience a traditional tule mat house created by artist Mariel Belanger of the Syilx—Okanagan Nation. The new immersive installation piece tukʷtniɬxʷ will be constructed in our open air gallery…
August 24 to November 17, 2019 Through Her Eyes traces a long history of landscape, and how ‘landscape’ has evolved into painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, the analogue and the digital. It highlights the particular vision that women artists bring to their environment, one that is filled with awe and appreciation…
November 9, 2019 to February 23, 2020 For this year’s annual members’ exhibition, the Kelowna Art Gallery asked its members to submit works of art that celebrate Stories. As human beings, we are drawn to stories because we see ourselves reflected in them. Sharing our subjective experiences through stories enables…
Canadian Mental Health Association Exhibition September 21 to November 3, 2019 Artists Among Us is an annual exhibition that celebrates recovery and wellness for people with lived experience of mental health challenges. This year’s show features a collection of works created by artists from the ArtWorks Studio. The ArtWorks Studio…
Lucas Glenn and Mat Glenn October 18, 2019 to August 2, 2020 We’re Solarpunk because the only other options are denial or despair. —Adam Flynn The Rotary Courtyard gallery has been taken over by two exciting, young, local artists—Lucas and Mat Glenn. Creative Growth Centre for Spiritual Nourishment is…
September 14, 2019 to January 5, 2020 Daphne Odjig 100 is a capsule retrospective of the late artist Daphne Odjig that opens the week of what would have been her 100th birthday. Odjig is one of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous painters and printmakers, and has often been referred to as…
November 30, 2019 to March 1, 2020 Guest curator Wanda Nanibush’s touring exhibition will showcase photography, video, and installation works by eight well known Indigenous contemporary artists: Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau, Dayna Danger, Robert Houle, James Luna, Shelley Niro, Adrian Stimson, and Jeff Thomas. The history of Indigenous Peoples performing…
Mariel Belanger, Tsēmā Igharas, and Tiffany Shaw-Collinge June 22 to September 8, 2019 She’s always going to remember this You are rebellion, resistance, re-imagination Her body will remember – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, 2013 In her poem “Leaks,” Leanne Betasamosake Simpson writes that the process of remembering within the body is…
May 18 to August 18, 2019 Over the past three and a half decades, Musqueam artist Susan Point has received wide acclaim for her accomplished and remarkably wide-ranging oeuvre that forcefully asserts the vitality of Coast Salish culture, both past and present. During this time she has produced an extensive…
April 20 to September 15, 2019 For this year’s 33rd Art in Action student exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery, young artists were asked to create artworks inspired by their community. Middle- and high-school students throughout the Central Okanagan Region were encouraged to use artistic expression to illustrate their thoughts…
David Wilson Sookinakin Satellite Space at the Kelowna International Airport March 13 to January 2020 David Wilson, Great Blue Heron Dance, acrylic on canvas. In his combination of linear forms and vibrant colours, David Wilson creates circular compositions that draw from the symbols and stories of his Okanagan First Nations…
Jane Everett March 9 to June 16, 2019 Understory is an immersive mixed media installation that evokes the feeling of standing amongst the grand forests of the British Columbian interior. The installation includes large-scale charcoal drawings of Lodgepole Pine, Ponderosa, and Douglas Fir trees. The works sway slightly in response…
February 2 to May 5, 2019 The Poetics of Space presents a range of historical and contemporary works by 29 artists that together communicate some of the countless ways artists have contemplated space—from its optical perceptions, to its emotional impact and finally, its geographical or topographical limits. Featuring works from…
January 19 to April 14, 2019 Our Lives Through Our Eyes: Nk’Mip Children’s Art brings together over 75 works of art created by children and youth who attended the Inkameep Day School during the era of World War II. Under the tutelage of Mr. Anthony Walsh the school, which was located…
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