Exhibition archive

2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery 2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery

Under $500

Each year the Gallery puts a call out to artists of all kinds to submit three artworks, all priced under $500. This exhibition receives interest from artisans, crafters, and visual artists working in all media from across British Columbia.

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2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery 2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery

Unart Uncommons

For nearly a decade now, a gathering of artists has been taking place in Edmonton each Saturday, their collective presence standing as a testament to their seasoned experience and artistic maturity. This isn't a congregation of young, naive novices; rather, it's an assembly of individuals who have meticulously honed their craft over time. Bound together by a shared love for unabashed artistic expression, they convene in local cafés, where tables are pushed together, transforming the space into a hub of creative energy.

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2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery 2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery

Object Power

The Penticton Art Gallery is thrilled to announce its 50th anniversary celebration, an exhibition featuring a diverse selection of artworks, each with a special story and significance to their owners. From meaningful gifts to incredible thrift store finds, these pieces represent the impact that art has on our lives and the diversity of the human experience.

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2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery 2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery

Under $500

Each year the Gallery puts a call out to artists of all kinds to submit three artworks, all priced under $500. This exhibition receives interest from artisans, crafters, and visual artists working in all media from across British Columbia.

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Lasting Impressions

Using the works of three of histories best known printmakers this exhibition explores how the art of printmaking became one of the most democratic disciplines of art by allowing more accessible to the general public.

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My Journey ~ Redux

In the spring of 2018 the much loved Dr. Michael Sime was recognized by the Penticton arts community at the annual Penticton and District Community Arts Council’s Arts Awards Gala with their highest honour, the lifetime achievement award for his contributions to the development and support of the arts community here in the South Okanagan.

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Punched Cards & Personal Computers

The work Kristen Roos creates explores the premise that weavings created by punched card Jacquard looms of the 1800s were the first example of an image created from data, as a kind of early form of digital image. This connects to his research with personal computers, and would add a wider historical context to his research into the roots of the digital image.

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Green Glass Ghosts

Over the past year the famed Canadian musician, activist, and author Rae Spoon partnered with illustrator Gem Hall to produce Green Glass Ghosts, their first Y.A. novel to be published by Arsenal Pulp Press this spring. This exhibition will feature the original illustrations for this book.

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2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery 2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery

Under $500

Each year the Gallery puts a call out to artists of all kinds to submit three artworks, all priced under $500. This exhibition receives interest from artisans, crafters, and visual artists working in all media from across British Columbia.

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2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery 2020 Exhibitions Penticton Art Gallery

181 Days and Counting…

Dirk Van Stralen saw his first cartoon published in Coquitlam’s Tri-City News in 1987. In 1990 he began a 17 year relationship with the Georgia Straight producing the much loved and award-winning weekly single panel cartoon, “vanstralen”.

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