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Gathie Falk

Canadian artist

Gathie FalkCM OBC is a Canadian painter, sculptor, installation and performance artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1][2] Since the s, she has created works that consider the simple beauty of everyday items and daily rituals.[3]

Life and work

Gathie Falk was born on January 31, , in Alexander near Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, to immigrant Russian Mennonite parents.

Her father, Cornelius, died that same year and her mother, Agatha, went to work to support her and her older brother Gordon, while her eldest brother, Jack, had to move in with another family.[4] In , the Falk family relocated to another small town in southern Manitoba and continued to move around, eventually ending up in Winnipeg when Falk was a teenager.[5] At 16, she left high school to work so she could assist with the family finances and completed her education via correspondence courses.[6] When she was 19, Falk and her mother moved to Vancouver, where she still resides.[7] Her first job in the city was at a luggage factory, where she sewed pockets inside the suitcases.

This experience helped her develop her skills in detailed handicraft, which would later become integral to her artistic practice.[8] Falk then became a school teacher in and taught elementary students until , when she left to commit herself full-time to creating art.[7]

Falk has worked in various media, including performance, installation, ceramics, painting, drawing and papier-mâché.

Her early paintings from the s and s were influenced by German Expressionism.[8] Falk created her first ceramic interpretations of quotidian objects, such as shoes, boots, and a suit coat, while studying ceramics with Glenn Lewis at the University of British Columbia.[8] Her works find their source in the events and objects of everyday life, inviting us to consider the significance of the commonplace, including her well-known ceramic sculpture Fruit Piles (–70), Single Right Men's Shoes (–73) and Picnics (–77).

As described by Vancouver Art Gallery senior curator Bruce Grenville, "Falk is remarkable for her ability to seize the ordinary and turn it into a powerful revelatory force the paintings and sculptures she produces have a deeply personal presence that is grounded in an intense scrutiny of her daily environment."[9] Drawing from subjects ranging from apples, oranges and shoes to dogs, dresses, hedges and clouds, and often amplifying their beauty through repetition, her work summons and recalls for viewers the ways in which the everyday claims a vivid place in our imagination.

Between and , Falk created some fifteen performance artworks, which typically involved undertaking everyday activities, such as eating an egg, putting on makeup, or reading a book.[8]

Falk has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States, France and Japan. A major retrospective show of her work at the Vancouver Art Gallery in later toured to various Canadian galleries including the National Gallery of Canada.

Recent exhibitions include The Things in My Head ( Equinox Gallery, Vancouver), and paperworks ( Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia). More recently, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, held another retrospective show from June to January

Falk's work can be found in private and public collections including the Vancouver Art Gallery,[10] the Winnipeg Art Gallery,[11] the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,[12] the Burnaby Art Gallery[13] and the National Gallery of Canada.[14]

She is represented by Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, B.C., Canada and by Michael Gibson Gallery in London, Ontario, Canada.

Gathie falk biography of martin luther Gathie Falk 35 Lightbulbs, Gathie Falk, December The vehicle became a key element in the trials that saw Swanson imprisoned again, and according to Falk, its decorative flames recurred as a motif in the Picnics series, as can be seen in Picnic with Birthday Cake and Blue Sky , However, Falk revised Some Are Egger Than I after its first performance so that it included a slideshow backdrop depicting her being pelted with eggs in Eighty Eggs , , a Douglas Chrismas theatre piece.

Grants and awards

Falk has received many awards including the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (), the Order of Canada (),[15] the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts () and the Viva Award for Lifetime Achievement (). Others are:

References

  1. ^ ab"Canadian Heritage Information Network - Gathie Falk".

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  2. ^"Gathie Falk - National Gallery of Canada".
  3. ^Jacques, Michelle (). Gathie Falk: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute.

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  4. ^Lind, Jane (). Gathie Falk. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. p.&#;7. ISBN&#;.
  5. ^Lind, Jane (). Gathie Falk. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. pp.&#;7–9.

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  10. ^ abLind, Jane (). Gathie Falk. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. pp.&#;10– ISBN&#;.
  11. ^ abcdJacques, Michelle (). Gathie Falk: Life & Work.

    Gathie falk biography of martin lawrence Through economical living, Falk never had to go back to teaching elementary school, although she would later teach visual art part-time at UBC in —71, and again from to Franz Marc, Blaues Pferd I , , oil on canvas, x In fall , Equinox Gallery in Vancouver supported the production of an important series of cast bronze sculptures at the foundry of well-known Canadian sculptor Joe Fafard — Six feet tall, leaning forward at an unsettling angle, its crown-like headdress fiercely spiked and its long train weighted down by two big rocks, The Problem with Wedding Veils reads as an even more sinister indictment of marriage.

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  12. ^Laurence, Robin; Grenville, Bruce; Thom, Ian M.; Graham, Mayo; Milroy, Sarah. (). Gathie Falk. Vancouver, British Columbia: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. pp.&#;"Preface, " pp.

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  13. ^"Vancouver Art Gallery, The Permanent Collection"(PDF). p.&#;2.
  14. ^"Canadian Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery". Archived from the original on Retrieved
  15. ^"Gathie Falk "Heavenly Bodies Again".
  16. ^"Art Gallery Collections · Burnaby Art Gallery".
  17. ^"Artwork - National Gallery of Canada".
  18. ^"The Governor General of Canada - Honour Recipients".

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  19. ^"Order of British Columbia - Recipient - Gathie Falk".

Further reading

  • Milroy, Sarah. Gathie Falk: Revelations. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, ISBN
  • Jacques, Michelle. Gathie Falk: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, ISBN&#;
  • Laurence, Robin, et al.

    "Gathie Falk: paperworks".

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  • Laurence, Robin. Gathie Falk. Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN&#;
  • Falk, Gathie, et al. "Gathie Falk Retrospective". Vancouver Art Gallery, ISBN&#;
  • Rosenberg, Ann. "Gathie Falk Works". Issue & Capilano College, ISSN
  • Stealing the show&#;: seven women artists in Canadian public art