with guest curator Hanss Lujan
April 7th to May 20th

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”
--Unknown
This exhibition invites artists to respond to the environmental changes happening throughout the Okanagan Valley. The past year in the Okanagan brought major flooding throughout the spring resulting in personal property damage and had us thinking about climate change and our relationship to nature. That conversation took on more urgency in the summer months with the lack of rain, forest fires, lost homes and day after day of smoke-filled skies. 
This exhibition explores current ecological crises and presents a platform for a discussion on the Anthropocene—the current ecological epoch that represents humanity’s dominant influence on the planet.


Guest curator Hanss Lujan is a Peruvian artist, writer and emerging curator living in the Okanagan. He has worked on a variety of exhibitions and projects for galleries in Kelowna including the Kelowna Art Gallery and the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art. His project research themes include place and cultural identity, globalization, and socially engaged practices.
Opening Reception Pancake Breakfast: Saturday, April 7th 11:30am to 1pm
Curator Talk: Sunday, April 15th @2pm 
Upcoming Events in detail:
Saturday April 7th:
11am: Unveiling of Ponderosa Sphere by David Jacob Harder, adjacent to GESS, 10241 Bottom Wood Lake Rd.

Join the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in partnership with the Lake Country Public Art Commission on Saturday April 7 at 11am for the unveiling of a new temporary public art sculpture, Ponderosa Sphere, by BC artist David Jacob Harder.

Ponderosa Sphere, a 10’ orb constructed of metal and ponderosa wood and bark, lets visitors examine the structural poetry of the organic and inorganic. Inspired by the common use of natural materials for advancements in technology and engineering, Harder anchors this exploration to his own observed changes in the Thompson Okanagan landscape over time, and prompts us to consider how the built environment continues to impact the natural life cycle of the natural world around us.
11:30 am to 1pm: Pancake Breakfast and opening reception of Restless Earth at the LC Art Gallery
1pm: LC Art Gallery’s AGM
Sunday April 15th: Curator’s Talk for Restless Earth at 2pm
Summer Monster Camp: Register now for Summer Monster Camp, July 9th-13th at the LC Art House. Details on the gallery website.

​Who Are We? A Visual Narrative of Our Community March 1 to April 1
Who Are We is an exhibition of work from everyone who responded to the open call. Included are works from all ages, individual and collaborative works (artwork created by 2 or more individuals) all were welcomed, any size, any medium.
Artists were also asked to complete the following statement statement: I believe that the 3 ingredients needed to make up a strong and inclusive community are ...
1......____........
2......____.......
​3.......____.......

third beach
Melany Nugent and Trent Noble
January 13th to February 25th

Opening Reception: Saturday January 13th 2-4pm
Existential Cafe/Artist Talk: Sunday January 28th 2-3:30pm 


The Lake Country is very excited to start off 2018 with an installation by artists Melany Nugent and Trent Noble.

This installation will ponder the idea of community and activate the gallery as a gathering space by enhancing a sense of warmth, comfort and home with a virtual campfire.

Trent Noble and Melany Nugent Noble are Kelowna-based artists that work across an array of mediums, including animation, text, and public space. As a classically and 3D trained animator, Trent has worked on a diverse range of installations, video and interactive projects across Canada and internationally, including Stan Douglas’ Circa 1948 interactive app for iOS, and the play Helen Lawrence with the National Film Board of Canada. Also the Rockheim Museum in Trondheim, Norway. 
In her artistic practice, Melany Noble makes use of tactics of play that are negotiated through text and public space that aim to collate, destabilize and amplify repetition and patterns in order to create slippage and displacement of rhetoric, language and everyday routine. She has a Masters of Applied Arts from Emily Carr University of Art  + Design, in Vancouver B.C. and in 2016, was the recipient of an Emerging Artist Grant from the BC Arts Council.
Upcoming Events:
third beach Opening Reception: Saturday January 13th from 2-4pm
Existential Cafe: Sunday January 28th 2-3:30pm
Who Are We? Submission dates: Who Are We? A Visual Narrative of Our Community is open to everyone of all ages. Individual and collaborative works are welcome, any size, any medium. Drop off days: February 22, 23 and 24 at the LC Art Gallery
Who Are We? A Visual Narrative of Our Community: March 1st to April 1st

Under 100
November 25th to December 21st
Small affordable Artwork by Okanagan Artists 
This year’s exhibition promises once again to be an impressive display of original art work from over 65 Okanagan artists. Art work in all mediums will be on exhibit, under 100 inches squared in size and priced under $100.

The exhibition opens at 10am on Saturday November 25th, when eager buyers will be lined up ready to take the first picks of the hundreds of original artworks on offer.

Prices start at just $18 and every budget up to $100

A small selecton of high quality larger works will also be on offer.

The exhibition will continue everyday (7 days per week) from 10am to 4pm until December 21st. New art will be added each Wednesday throughout the exhibition




Upcoming Events:
“49” Exhibition in the Pop-Up Gallery (located in the ArtHouse):
The Creative Room at the Lake Country Art House is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of recent work entitled “49.” 
In conjunction with the Lake Country Art Gallery’s “Under 100” show, there will be a display of student work at the Pop Up Gallery in the Art House. The assemblage pieces are inspired by the work of avante-garde 20th century artist Louise Nevelson. 

Man OverBoard is a metaphor for all the follies of manhood. Rose Braun, John Hall, Joice Hall, Michael Hermesh and Deirdre Hofer ponder the shifting and complex role of man and masculinity. This exhibition bridges the melancholy with the humorous and opens up a discussion about male identity and humankind.

​‘Furbish: Remnant Themes of Post-Amusement’
Scott August
July 14th to August 27th
Opening reception: Friday July 14th, 6-8pm

You wont find much about Peter Soehn on the Internet, aside from the occasional credit on a roadside attractions website, or as the creator of some bizarre “world’s largest sculpture“ in Western Canada. In a time before digital posts occupied our lives, we spent time outside, visiting petting zoos, waterslides, theme parks and fruit stands. In Furbish: Remnant Themes of Post-Amusement, artist Scott August explores what little remains of Peter’s unrecognized legacy, from unearthing a buried 1970’s  Billboard, to posthumously documenting the artist’s mind-boggling studio. All that remains of Peter’s efforts are fading family photographs, unfinished sculptures, and dust covered memories. 

Born in Saskatchewan in 1933, Peter Soehn not only created characters of rural life, he himself was exactly that. Soehn worked as a television prop builder and on-camera painting Instructor in Alberta and in Kelowna British Columbia at C.H.B.C. T.V. during the 1960’s and 1970’s. In the 1980’s his family created ambitious folk-art sculptures and theme-parks for the amusement of others, from the demolished Kelowna Zoo to the re-developed Old MacDonald’s Farm, very little remains of his work in the Okanagan. 

Scott August is a Kelowna born artist working between the Okanagan and Vancouver, he has been actively photographing and collecting what remains of the Soehn’s Attractions. Furbish: Remnant Themes of Post-Amusement will resurrect forgotten feelings and memories, while enveloping the viewer in it’s overwhelming scale and decaying state. Like Peter Soehn, Scott August’s art focuses around creating fantastical large-scale installations: 25 Foot Cowboy (2005), Bear Peaking Over Mountain Gets New Cowboy Friend (2008), and Artist Changes Sign (2015). He has exhibited at the Kelowna Art Gallery, the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria’s 50/50 Gallery, Vancouver’s Interurban Gallery, and abroad at Pop Montreal Arts Festival and Chicago’s Three Walls Gallery. 

Plan your summer vacation around visiting FURBISH at the Lake Country Art Gallery, then continue with your Soehn travel-homage by visiting his legendary Penticton Peach, his Cultus Lake water squirting frogs, or by trying on his Clem T. Gopher Mascot Head at the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum in Torrington, Alberta.  

‘Upside Down’
Dianne Schienders and Alexandra Goodall
May 26th to July 8th
 
Opening reception: Friday May 26th from 6-8pm
 
The Existential Cafe Artists’ Talk & Coffee with ’Upside Down’ artists:
Saturday May 27th @1pm

​The Lake Country Art Gallery’s upcoming exhibition ‘Upside Down’ opens Friday May 26 featuring the work of artists Dianne Schnieders and Alexandra Goodall.
 
This exhibition explores the interconnected relationship between humanity and nature, and our connection to animals in particular. The gallery is morphing into an installation space for the summer, starting at the end of May through to the end of August.  
 
Dianne Schnieders graduated from UBCO in 2015 with a B.F.A.  Dianne’s work examines animal welfare and the ethics of human/animal relationships as fellow species.
 
Alexandra Goodall is a multidisciplinary artist living in the Okanagan Valley. She is drawn to the shaping of perception through the arts, tweaking processes in the service of insight, especially as it pertains to embodiment.
 
Meet the artists at the opening reception on Friday May 26th from 6-8pm and plan to attend the Existential Cafe and join the conversation on Saturday May 27th from 2-3:30pm.
 
‘Upside Down’ runs from May 26th to July 8th.