Photo credit: Kelowna Art Gallery/Jackson Barren

There is new art to browse at the Kelowna Art Gallery, just in time for cozy fall outings. 

The gallery has added nearly 100 new works, pulled from their vault. The artworks will be put up as part of a new exhibition titled Rise/Fall: Works from the Permanent Collection, which “explores the links and relationships between the human body and the landscape.” 

Photo credit: Kelowna Art Gallery/John Hartman, Layer Cake Mountain, Kelowna, B.C.

You can see the work of incredibly talented Canadian artists on display starting Oct. 5, 2024 to Jan. 26, 2025. The collection features names such as A.Y. Jackson, Daphne Odjig, Gordon Smith and Susan Point. 

Hailing from BC are artists like Christos Dikeakos, Germaine Koh, Ho Tam and Samuel Roy-Bois, to name a few.

Photo Credit: Kelowna Art Gallery/Gordon Smith
 
“Visitors will have the opportunity to experience a diverse range of art mediums including sculpture, installation, video, fibre arts, painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking,” says Nataley Nagy, Gallery Director. “There really is something for everyone to see.”

For example, audiences will encounter a stark northern Canadian landscape as depicted by A.Y Jackson in Barren Lands near Atnick Lake (1961); but also, a human-manufactured landscape captured by Vancouver-based artist Christos Dikeakos in Foreground Study, Cucumber Greenhouse (2000).

Photo credit: Kelowna Art Gallery/Daphne Odjig 
Portraits will also be on display, such as Daphne Odjig’s print entitled Enfolding (1992), that depicts two figures entwined in each other’s arms; or Vancouver-based artist Ho Tam’s beautiful, but emotionally layered series Ghost Image (2008), which features negative images of old photographs that narrate the life and death of a gay man in the midst of AIDS.
 
“Rise/Fall invites visitors to think critically about how the land shapes, and is shaped by, human presence and activity,” says Curator Christine May. 

Photo credit: Kelowna Art Gallery/Ho Tam

“This exhibition highlights the ongoing dialogue between people and their environments, underscoring how art reflects and informs our understanding of the world around us.”
 
An opening reception for the exhibition is planned for Oct. 11, 2024, from 6 to 8 pm. Some of the artists will be in attendance, and it is free and open to the public.