A Closer Look - High School Exhibition

May 20th to June 11th, 2022
Main Gallery

Featured Artists:

Local students from Penticton Secondary, Princess Margaret Secondary, and Summerland Secondary

WRITTEN BY PAUL CRAWFORD

 The Penticton art Gallery is proud to host the annual local high school exhibition once again. The exhibit will host works by artists in grade nine through twelve from Penticton Secondary School, Princess Margaret Secondary School, and Summerland Secondary School. We are pleased to be doing this exhibition and showing off the South Okanagan’s budding young artists and their work, while also highlighting the importance of the arts in all levels of school, but especially secondary school. Providing youth an outlet in which to be creative is important and the Penticton Art Gallery is proud to provide a place and space to show off the beautiful and moving works that can come from that outlet.

This year’s theme is entitled “A Closer Look.” As Penticton Secondary School Teacher Shauna Reid says, “In this collection of work, you will get a glimpse into the students’ interpretation of the world around them. Even though all the students were given specific criteria and mediums, there was a surplus of creativity within the subject matter. You can see their personalities and artistic style emerging in each piece of work.” This exhibit gives the Art Gallery Patrons a closer look into the lives and experiences of the artists, in addition to allowing the artists to put the world around them and the part they play in it under a microscope to really dig deep into their own creativity and create context for their experiences through art.