Liz Wylie

Lynden Beesley’s The Artist’s Garden Project: Hortus Conclusus, images from the spring 2014 installation in the Rotary Courtyard at the Kelowna Art Gallery.

Wylie: Hortus Conclusus enlivens KAG

Lynden Beesley's idea was to emulate a medieval herb garden, as the Rotary Courtyard has always reminded her of a cloister.

Lynden Beesley’s The Artist’s Garden Project: Hortus Conclusus, images from the spring 2014 installation in the Rotary Courtyard at the Kelowna Art Gallery.

Wylie: Przybille takes wing

Kelowna artist was struck by the transformative power of intention, belief and will in the invention of and trials with ornithopters.

Kenneth Lavallee’s Milky Way, 2014, (above) acrylic on canvas, triptych, overall size 48 x 108 in. (121.9 x 274.3 cm).

Wylie: KAG launches series with Lavallee’s Man and Nature

The series commissions an emerging Aboriginal curator to choose an emerging Aboriginal artist with whom s/he would like to work.

Kenneth Lavallee’s Milky Way, 2014, (above) acrylic on canvas, triptych, overall size 48 x 108 in. (121.9 x 274.3 cm).
Elizabeth Zvonar, Channelling, 2009, digital lightjet print of a handcut collage, 90.8 x 75.2 cm

Wylie: Perspectives on Surrealism

To visit Unreal is to experience first-hand the ongoing heritage and lineage of Surrealism.

Elizabeth Zvonar, Channelling, 2009, digital lightjet print of a handcut collage, 90.8 x 75.2 cm

Wylie: Feel like a player in Glenn Clark’s Best of Seven

One of the most intriguing accomplishments…is the illusion for the viewer of being positioned right onto the ice rink.

The Artist’s Garden Project: Kyle Zsombor: A Green Desire in the Rotary Courtyard at the Kelowna Art Gallery until spring.

Wylie: Severe space transformed with a profusion of life

UBCO graduate Kyle Zsombor has taken the empty and rather severe inner courtyard space and turn it into some kind of planted paradise.

The Artist’s Garden Project: Kyle Zsombor: A Green Desire in the Rotary Courtyard at the Kelowna Art Gallery until spring.
Stephen Foster, detail from Portrait of a Sioux Scout, 2013, inkjet print for back-lit lightbox, 22 x 18 in.

Wylie: From novelty to wonder

Whether it's hot or drizzling, escape to the Kelowna Art Gallery for a 3-D art show.

Stephen Foster, detail from Portrait of a Sioux Scout, 2013, inkjet print for back-lit lightbox, 22 x 18 in.
Wanda Lock, Flying Machines and Poems Sung by Strangers, 2013, acrylic on canvas are mounted at the Kelowna International Airport.

Wylie: Tunes that won’t fly under the radar

Departing passengers at the Kelowna International Airport may find themselves humming tunes about flying.

Wanda Lock, Flying Machines and Poems Sung by Strangers, 2013, acrylic on canvas are mounted at the Kelowna International Airport.
Jordan Broadworth, outside script, 2012, oil on Mylar, 14 x 17 in.

Wylie: Illusion through addition, subtraction

Paintings by New York-based artist Jordan Broadworth brim with visual richness at the Kelowna Art Gallery.

Jordan Broadworth, outside script, 2012, oil on Mylar, 14 x 17 in.

Wylie: Cozy first impression

The suite of pieces by Halifax-based sculptor Sarah Maloney are really better seen in the setting of a small space.

Carol Wainio, Puss in Boots Copies, 2009, acrylic on canvas.

Wylie: Wonderful technique on dark ruminations

Ottawa-based artist Carol Wainio's current exhibition of works at the Kelowna Art Gallery are part of a series on the illustrated book.

Carol Wainio, Puss in Boots Copies, 2009, acrylic on canvas.
John Hartman, Layer Cake Mountain, Kelowna, 2011, watercolour, 28.5 x 35.5 cm, 11 ¼ x 14 in. Collection of the artist.

Wylie: Hartman includes human imprint in his landscapes

If you were driving in the Kootenays last year or in 2010 you might have seen John Hartman by the side of the road painting.

John Hartman, Layer Cake Mountain, Kelowna, 2011, watercolour, 28.5 x 35.5 cm, 11 ¼ x 14 in. Collection of the artist.
John Hartman, Rock Creek, B.C., 2000, oil on linen, 40 x 48 in.

Personal Topographies tops off a year focused on landscape

KAG's current group show of works drawn from the gallery’s permanent collection, called Personal Topographies.

John Hartman, Rock Creek, B.C., 2000, oil on linen, 40 x 48 in.
The focal point of the Vancouver Art Gallery permanent collection exhibit at the Kelowna Art Gallery is this wooden object installation by Cuban-born artist Magdalena Campos-Pons, created in 1992. They depict the arrangement of captured people in the holds of slave ships from the time of the African slave trade.

Wylie: ‘Freed’ from patronage, artists documented their times

The notion of an artist making a social or political comment on current events and/or issues is one born in the modern era.

The focal point of the Vancouver Art Gallery permanent collection exhibit at the Kelowna Art Gallery is this wooden object installation by Cuban-born artist Magdalena Campos-Pons, created in 1992. They depict the arrangement of captured people in the holds of slave ships from the time of the African slave trade.
The art work of Tony Scherman: An untitled 2003 monochrome digital print on frosted acetate, with oil and crayon on paper from the Kelowna Art Gallery permanent collection, a gift of the artist in 2007.

Wylie: Scherman’s art a series of ‘heavily laden symbols’

The work of Tony Scherman is a perfect example of art in which the actual subject is not the object(s) portrayed.

The art work of Tony Scherman: An untitled 2003 monochrome digital print on frosted acetate, with oil and crayon on paper from the Kelowna Art Gallery permanent collection, a gift of the artist in 2007.
Briar Craig, Oddments, installation at the Kelowna International Airport, 2012

Wylie: Discarded notes turn up in art project

Outgoing passengers at the Kelowna International Airport will be treated to an installation of art by Kelowna printmaker Briar Craig.

Briar Craig, Oddments, installation at the Kelowna International Airport, 2012
Visitors to an exhibition space like the Kelowna Art Gallery get a visceral experience from viewing the original art.

Wylie: In digital age, why have an art gallery?

In this digital age there have been huge strides made in the proliferation of images of works of art on the Internet.

Visitors to an exhibition space like the Kelowna Art Gallery get a visceral experience from viewing the original art.
David Alexander, Entering the Beginnings of the Big Dipper’s Horizon, 1989, acrylic on canvas, 152.4 x 172.7 cm, 60 x 68 in. Collection of the artist.

Wylie: Alexander seeks places beyond human footprint

Artist David Alexander relocated to Kelowna from Saskatoon just in time for the devastating Okanagan Mountain Park fire.

David Alexander, Entering the Beginnings of the Big Dipper’s Horizon, 1989, acrylic on canvas, 152.4 x 172.7 cm, 60 x 68 in. Collection of the artist.