2024

Eye Spy - The Library Taxidermists

November 26 to December 24 - Discover the whimsical world of The Library Taxidermists, where discarded books and found objects are transformed into imaginative art. Explore intricate, treasure-filled creations and take on the challenge of finding hidden surprises. Don’t miss the Open House on December 14, 1-3 PM to meet the artists and dive deeper into their creative process. Perfect for all ages, this exhibit celebrates creativity, sustainability, and discovery!

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Member's Salon: Show and Sale

November 26 to December 20 - Discover the creativity of the Boundary-Kootenay community at the Grand Forks Art Gallery’s Member's Salon. This vibrant showcase features an array of works in diverse media and formats, offering something for every taste and budget. Celebrate local artistry, find unique holiday gifts, and support talented artists during this festive exhibition. Don’t miss it!

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Robin Wiltse - Altered Perceptions

Altered Perceptions explores the stories and narratives around the death of Rowan, the madness, the quest for healing and the altering effect it had on me and my perceptions of the natural world. As it was in his painted world, I too experienced some along with the deep crippling dread I found a new sense of who my daughter was, what her life meant. Held up by her strength and her etherial grace, we found so much magic in everything she was teaching us.

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Ian Johnston - The Life and Times of G

The Life and Times of G builds on a previous project Fine Line: Check Check, which explored the certainty and doubt associated with obsessive-compulsive behaviour. Similarly, this new work uses four screens to cast doubt and asks the viewer to question the conscious or unconscious nature of their movement as they engage with the work.

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Boat Without A Boat

Boat without a Boat features brand new work from Nelson-based painter Deborah Thompson. In the exhibition, elaborate cut paper drawings form narrative constellations which become the basis of stop motion animation works.

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Treelines - here and there

Treelines assembles a series of Gwen MacGregor’s photographs and videos with a forest of crocheted trees—altering perspectives, toying with memory, loss, and environmental degradation.

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Weather Events - Paul Walde

Paul Walde explores the unexpected interconnections between landscape, identity, and technology through interdisciplinary performance works staged in the natural world. Weather Events brings together two video installations that draw connections between how we perceive landscapes and interact with our world.

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Currents - Kelsey Stephenson

Currents is a large-scale installation that depicts our complex and often conflicted relationship with watersheds within the context of a changing climate. Comprising a grid of 150 individual prints that form a composite image, Kelsey Stephenson’s work focuses on the human impacts to water systems through visual explorations of the ice, snow, and moving water found in glaciers, rivers, and lakes.

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