Hours: Tuesday - Friday from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Our new Gallery Exhibition is featuring gorgeous paintings by Canadian-Israeli artist Galia Kwetny.
Lured by the Local*
"Lived experience is central to my painting and so is the subject of place. Every time we enter a new place, we become part of the local hybridity. By doing so, we change it slightly. This is a reciprocal process. The place changes us too. We become a part of the local landscape. I believe that every place alters our individual way of seeing.
Spending most of my life intensely looking at my surroundings, I carry in me bits and pieces of all the places I lived in, visited, and passed through. This visual simultaneity is reflected in my work.
Place provides the much-needed sense of belonging to newcomers like me before social communication steps in. All the landscapes in this collection, including abstracted ones have been inspired by Okanagan and BC Scenery.
Observing the whimsy of the old, somewhat 'savanna-looking' apricot trees in Naramata resulted in the series Apricot Land. The magnetism of the water in the lakes reflecting clouds - brought about the Blue Dragon. Softly-shaped mountains inspired the Elevated Magic paintings. The local scnery has yet to become familiar to me. Till then it will keep me amazed.
Lured by the Local will be exhibited in the Summerland Art Gallery from September 26th to November 9th. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday from 10 am - 4 pm.
*this title is a reference to Lucy Lippard's book The Lure of the Local.
Please click the link below to see our online show of the permanent collection. We have over 40 pieces, including recent additions from Summerland artists Elaine Watts and Marcia Stacy.
We wish to acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Syilx (Okanagan) Peoples.