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Exhibition Schedule 2024
Current Exhibit:
Arrow of Time
Installation Exhibit by Kelly Shpeley
September 13 to November 2, 2024
Opening Reception from 7 – 9 pm, September 13. All are welcome.
The Kootenay Gallery is pleased to announce that the gallery will host a unique installation exhibit by well-known local artist, Kelly Shpeley.
The Kootenay Gallery is pleased to announce that the gallery will host a unique installation exhibit by well-known local artist, Kelly Shpeley.
Kelly’s wonderfully colourful and strange landscape “Arrow of Time” exhibit at the Kootenay Gallery is an interactive art piece and is meant to surprise and delight the viewer, and remind them that even the smallest presence truly does have an effect. Carefully crafted over the last year, this exhibit uses 90% recycled and repurposed items from community businesses, and individuals.
Kelly Shpeley is a self-taught, a multi-disciplinary artist from Nelson, BC, Canada. She has had showings in Canada, the United States, and Norway, and has done artwork for Stan Lee, the Calgary Comic Expo, and was part of Neil Gaiman’s “Calendar of Tales” in January 2015. Kelly has had work mentioned in Juxtapoz Magazine, Print Work Magazine, Trend Prive Magazine, and most recently The Globe and Mail. Kelly has worked in the film industry for White Monkey Studios, Amazing Ape Studios, Masters fx studios, and others. Kelly painted the original poster for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival (Coastal Jazz) in 2015, and in 2018 was part of the Nelson International Mural Festival. She currently maintains a studio in historic downtown Ymir BC.
With gratitude to our exhibit sponsors, Grant Thornton LLP, and the Nelson and District Credit Union.
Acknowledgements
Since time immemorial and in the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge with gratitude that we are on unceded and ancestral territories of Indigenous Peoples. We would also like to recognize all other Indigenous Peoples who have come as guests to live, work, and play on this land, and who honour and celebrate their territory.
Thank you to the local organizations, businesses and people who support us in many ways.
The Kootenay Gallery of Art acknowledges exhibition support from their major sponsors: The BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, City of Castlegar, BC Gaming, Grant Thornton LLP, and the Columbia Basin Trust through the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance