Exhibition archive
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.
Homeage to a Rock
This mixed media sculpture is a meditation on nature, paying homage to an actual stone which defined the development of Beverley Reid’s rock garden overlooking Christina Lake.
Penticton: A Progression in Time
In celebration of British Columbia’s 150th Birthday, the Penticton Photography Club and Penticton Quilters’ Guild - Artsy Girls have joined forces to feature eleven prominent Penticton and area landmarks through their artwork.
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.
Weaving Cultural Identities - 2021 National Tour
Weaving Cultural Identities explores multicultural identity and intercultural relations through traditional weaving as a storytelling medium. Graphic artists and weavers from Vancouver’s immigrant Muslim communities and Coast Salish Indigenous communities including Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Tl'azt'en were brought together in collaboration to create a series of 10 small-scale “prayer rugs” inspired by Islamic prayer rugs and ceremonial Indigenous weavings.
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Pathfinder
Buffy Sainte-Marie’s exhibition Pathfinder, presents a rare and unique window into the evolution of one of the early innovators of digital art starting with the purchase of her first Macintosh personal computer in 1984. Within this unassuming beige cube, Buffy quickly discovered the power, flexibility, potential and the infinite possibilities presented to her through this sudden democratization of technology.
Event Horizon
Brian Fisher was born in Uxbridge, England in 1939, moving to Canada with his family as a child. He first studied fine arts at the University of Saskatchewan's Regina College under Arthur McKay, Roy Kiyooka, Ron Bloore, and Kenneth Lochhead. His paintings were also influenced by the Russian Constructivist style that emphasized a sense of movement.
Mythic Visions - Huichol (Wixárika) Yarn Painting
This incredible collection of artwork was assembled between 1958-59 by Ken and Gladys Davis who were living at that time in Guadalajara, Mexico where they were assisting with the restoration of Mexican churches.
Young Collectors Club
With this project, we want to encourage young people to start creating their own unique collection. The Penticton Art Gallery will have a selection of 150 original works of art for children to choose from.
From Then Till Now
If you have ever lived or spent any time in the lower mainland over the past 60 years, you have most likely been impacted in some regard by Dale's commercial work. More recently if you have attended any group exhibitions here in the Okanagan over the years, you have most certainly communed with his paintings.
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.
Living While Marginalized
Featuring artists ranging from up-and-coming to established, Living While Marginalized focuses on unpacking and highlighting the daily marginalization and discrimination LGBTQ2S+ and BIPOC Communities face.
Drawing From the Margins
This exhibition aims to lift the veil and introduce you to the work of three incredible artists and activists, each of whom has had to overcome unimaginable challenges to be able to function within the confines of our increasingly unpredictable and ever-shifting landscape.
TOAP at Twenty: Celebrating 20 Years of the Toni Onley Artist Project
As a project of Island Mountain Arts, the Artists’ Project for Professional and Emerging Artists was first offered in 2000, featuring the distinguished Canadian artist Norman Yates (1923–2014) as its inaugural mentor.
Follow the Water: Children’s Book Series
These stories introduce young readers to Syilx culture. The Follow the Water Book Series explores in English and N’syilxcən (Okanagan language) the importance of water to indigenous cultures and expresses the need to love, respect and protect it. The focus of the book series communicates the Syilx Okanagan water perspective and how it relates to healthy eco-systems.
Vignettes: A Journey into the Collection
Featuring artists ranging from up-and-coming to established, Living While Marginalized focuses on unpacking and highlighting the daily marginalization and discrimination LGBTQ2S+ and BIPOC Communities face.
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.
American Cycle
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown Edward Mapplethorpe was restricted by limited access to his studio and materials to pursue his artistic practice. The idea for American Cycle was conceived from the depths of his isolation in response to the barrage of dispiriting news coverage concerning the deplorable state of our United States.
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”.
To Talk With Others
To Talk With Others responds to the minutes of a meeting in August of 1977 between Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and five Yukon First Nations leaders regarding the then-approved Mackenzie Pipeline.