Exposed!
2025-10-16 18:00 - 2025-12-20 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | British Columbia
Members’ Exhibition

Caroline Galbraith Gallery & Up-Front GalleryOctober 16 – December 20, 2025Opening Reception: October 16, 2025

Our annual Members Exhibition, Exposed!, provides a unique opportunity to showcase the breadth of talent within our local art community. This exhibition offers the public a chance to appreciate the diverse approaches and styles embraced by our members, reflecting a deep engagement with artistic practice.

Whispers of Home
2025-10-16 18:00 - 2025-12-24 17:00
Marzieh Homayoun

Community GalleryOctober 16 – December 24, 2025Opening Reception: October 16, 2025Artist Talk: November 15, 2025 at 6PM

Marzieh Homayoun, an immigrant artist from Iran whose practice draws on the delicacy of Persian miniature painting. Her work blends natural imagery with surrealist elements, offering a unique lens on the world around her. We look forward to featuring her work in the Community Gallery this October as part of our ongoing collaboration with Mackie Lake House.

Marzieh Homayoun, Traces of a Life, 2025, ink on paper

Kitchen Corner
2026-01-09 09:00 - 2026-03-11 17:00
Samuel Roy-Bois

Topham Brown Memorial GalleryJanuary 8, 2026 to March 11, 2026

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 8, from 6–8 PMArtist Talk: Saturday, January 24, from 1-2 PM

Kitchen Corner is the title of a Depression-era photograph by Walker Evans. While not adirect source for the works assembled here, its rediscovery during the preparation of thisexhibition proved resonant. Evans’s image operates as a portrait of a context articulatedthrough objects. Documentary in nature, it renders a modest interior where things—a frayedrag, a slanted broom, a patinated chair—assume the status of characters seemingly asking tobe observed, “objects in a moment of pause between use.”1 What is striking, however, isthat Kitchen Corner withholds the very signifiers conventionally associated with a kitchen(no sink, no stove). In this disjunction between title and referent, the photograph underscoresthe complexity of representation and the capacity of objects to exceed their functionalidentity.

The works in this exhibition similarly dwell in thresholds of recognition. They positionobjects, sculptures, and bodies in states of indeterminacy: what reads as structure functions assupport; what appears fragmentary gestures toward wholeness; what suggests immediacyproves resistant, even opaque. Produced over the course of eighteen months, these workswere not initially conceived as a unified installation. Their subsequent convergence, however,revealed affinities of form and sensibility, generating conditions for thought and affect thatexceed the sum of individual pieces.

The works composing this exhibition invite tension into the domain of the built environment.Each references architecture obliquely: through the evocation of house foundations, theabstracted language of the maquette, or vestiges of timber-frame construction. Despite theirvaried scales and spatial logics, they converge around a shared problematic: the negotiationbetween the self and the possible. In their oscillation between recognition and estrangement,they foreground the contingencies of agency and the fragility of ideals. Failure, unfulfillment,and speculation emerge not as deficiencies but as constitutive modes of experience, openingonto a broader meditation on how subjectivity is continually shaped, unsettled, and redefinedthrough material encounter.

1 Richon, Olivier. Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner. MIT Press, 2019.

Kitchen Corner, 2026. (install image)

Balloon (Vent), 2025.

Unit (Arts and Gun Club), 2025.

Balloon (Schematic), 2025.

Art from the Heart
2026-01-09 10:00 - 2026-02-07 16:00
SD#22 Elementary Students

Caroline Galbraith, Up-front, and Community GalleriesJanuary 9 – Febuary 7, 2026

Opening Reception: January 10 at 1pm

The Vernon Public Art Gallery is delighted to welcome back Art from the Heart, our annual exhibition showcasing the creativity and imagination of elementary students from School District No. 22. This community favourite celebrates the joy, curiosity, and honesty found in children’s art, offering a vibrant snapshot of how young learners see and interpret the world around them.

Featuring a wide range of mediums and subjects, Art from the Heart fills the gallery with colour, energy, and excitement. We invite families, teachers, and community members to join us in supporting these emerging young artists and celebrating the value of arts education in our schools.

The Vernon Public Art Gallery extends its deepest gratitude to the dedicated art educators across School District No. 22. Their unwavering commitment to nurturing creativity in the classroom makes this exhibition possible each year and plays a vital role in fostering the next generation of artists and community leaders.

Art & Soul
2026-02-13 09:00 - 2026-03-11 17:00
SD#22 High School Students

Caroline Galbraith, Up-front, and Community GalleriesFebuary 13 – March 11, 2026

Opening Reception: Febuary 12 at 6pm

This exhibition offers a sophisticated look at how emerging artists navigate their world through visual media. Featuring a diverse range of mediums, from traditional painting and drawing to modern digital works and sculpture, Art & Soul fills the gallery with the energy of a new generation. These works reflect not only technical growth but also the deep personal expression and critical thinking developed in the secondary art classroom.

We invite families, teachers, and the community to join us in celebrating these talented students. This exhibition is a testament to the power of arts education in our schools and its role in helping young people find their voice.

The Vernon Public Art Gallery extends its deepest gratitude to the dedicated art educators across School District No. 22. Their unwavering commitment to nurturing creativity and technical skill makes this exhibition possible each year, fostering the next generation of artists and community leaders.

Portals to Elsewhere
2026-03-20 10:00 - 2026-05-20 17:00
Amy J. Dyck

Topham Brown Memorial GalleryOpening Reception: March 19 from 6 to 8 pm

Portals to Elsewhere invites viewers into a dreamlike, psychological landscape populated by strange, fragile, and resilient beings. Drawing from her lived experience with disability and chronic illness, Amy J. Dyck creates figures that are broken and fierce, layered with symbols of human, animal, and mechanical forms. These creatures act as visual metaphors for imagination, memory, instinct, resistance, and self-protection—reflecting the complexity of what it means to endure and adapt.

At the heart of the exhibition is a large circular installation that transforms the gallery into a contemplative, immersive environment. Seven evolving figures suggest movement through time, even as they were created during a period when the artist’s body was in collapse. Windows appear throughout the work as a central metaphor—portals to other spaces and possibilities, offering escape, reflection, and the hope of becoming something different. The exhibition ultimately becomes a wild, otherworldly place where both artist and viewer are invited to imagine new ways of belonging, resilience, and home.

Amy J. Dyck is a contemporary multimedia figurative artist and writer based in Langley, British Columbia. After a sudden and severe illness in her early twenties left her using a wheelchair, Dyck turned to art as a way to process and survive her changing reality. Her practice draws on classical approaches to anatomy and figurative painting, combined with experimental mixed media processes that explore the body as a vessel for memory, emotion, and lived experience. Dyck exhibits widely, with work held in private collections internationally. She has received multiple international awards, was granted a Canada Council for the Arts award in 2024, and is a frequent podcast guest and speaker. She is currently working on a memoir exploring the intersection of art, illness, and resilience.

Twist with Moons

Bed-Desk Series (detail)

Amy J. Dyck with Portals to Elsewhere

I'm in this World, Doing
2026-03-20 10:00 - 2026-05-20 17:00
Vivian Smith

Caroline Galbraith GalleryOpening Reception: March 19 from 6 to 8 pm

I’m in This World, Doing is a body of work that explores the hidden systems of labour that quietly sustain our daily lives. Through mixed-media works and installations, Vivian Smith examines how unpaid care work, domestic labour, and affective labour remain economically invisible despite their essential role in supporting society. The exhibition draws attention to the intersection of the gift economy and capitalism, embedding images of unpaid work into objects that hold greater market value than the labour they depict. In doing so, Smith challenges viewers to reconsider how we assign worth, productivity, and compensation in contemporary life.Rooted in personal documentation, the works feature photographs of the artist performing everyday tasks—cleaning, cooking, and caregiving—printed onto domestic textiles such as chiffon, satin, silk, and linen, then coated in beeswax. These materials reference both gendered expectations of care and the natural labour of worker bees. By transforming these images through hand-stitching, quilting, and sculptural installation, Smith reveals how women’s labour connects intimate home spaces to global economic systems. The exhibition ultimately advocates for recognition and systemic change, including the need for Universal Basic Income as a way to value essential work that remains unseen.Vivian Smith is an artist based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary), Alberta. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from the Alberta University of the Arts and has participated in numerous residencies, including at the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre and the Similkameen Artist Residency. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Calgary Arts Development Authority, and she has exhibited widely across Canada. Through her interdisciplinary practice, Smith focuses on labour, gender, and economic systems, creating work that encourages dialogue about how care, value, and community are interconnected.

In the Corners of the Eye, 2024.

A Place for Relaxation, 2025.

Glass Walls, 2024.

Blooming Together
2026-03-20 10:00 - 2026-05-20 17:00
Cool Arts Society

Community GalleryOpening Reception: March 19 from 6 to 8 pm

Blooming Together is a collaborative exhibition that explores themes of community, diversity, and collective growth. Created by the artists of Cool Arts Society, the exhibition highlights how individual voices come together to form a vibrant, colourful, and ever-evolving whole.

At the centre of the exhibition is a large collaborative artwork representing community as a shared landscape. It is built through layers, colours, and connections. Alongside this work, the artists present a series of clay masks, each one unique, illustrating the diversity of identities, expressions, and perspectives within the group.

The exhibition unfolds through three closely connected themes: Dream, Birth, and Growth. Lush jungle scenes inspired by the world of Henri Rousseau evoke imagination and a dreamlike atmosphere. Raised floral elements symbolize the birth of a growing community, while the collective compositions emphasize the strength that emerges through collaboration, inclusion, and shared creation.
