Active since the 1960s, Gathie Falk has achieved renown for creating significant works across diverse media, including painting, sculptural ceramics, installation, public art, and some of the first works of performance art in Canada. Falk’s interdisciplinary work is always identifiable as uniquely hers through the individuality of her hand and her characteristic exaltation of the everyday. She has built a distinctive visual language formed of a personal vocabulary of quotidian items, such as apples, eggs, fish, furniture, and clothing. Through devices such as repetition and the juxtaposition of odd pairings, she finds revelatory new modes of expression.
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Home Environment 1968
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Some Are Egger Than I 1969
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196 Apples 1969–70
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Red Angel 1972
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Eight Red Boots 1973
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Border in Four Parts 1977–78
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Beautiful British Columbia Multiple Purpose Thermal Blanket 1979
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Night Sky #16 1979
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Theatre in B/W and Colour 1984
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My Dog’s Bones 1985
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Soft Couch with Suit 1986
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Dress with Insect Box 1998
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Dreaming of Flying, Canoe 2007
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Abstract 4 2018
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