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Gathie Falk is a Canadian painter and sculptor who has been active in the art world since the 1950s. She is best known for her large-scale, brightly coloured paintings of everyday objects, such as chairs, tables, and teapots. She has also created a number of sculptures, including a series of bronze figures of animals.
Falk was born in Manitoba, Canada, in 1928. She studied at the University of Manitoba and the Vancouver School of Art, and later taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.
Falk has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada and internationally. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Order of Canada, the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, and the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts.
Falk is currently 95 years old.
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Agathe Falk |
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artist |
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96 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius |
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31 January, 1928 |
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31 January |
| Birthplace |
Alexander, Manitoba, Canada |
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Canada |
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Gathie Falk Net Worth
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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 2000 later toured to various Canadian galleries including the National Gallery of Canada. Recent exhibitions include The Things in My Head (2015: Equinox Gallery, Vancouver), and paperworks (2014: Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia). More recently, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, held another retrospective show from June 2022 to January 2023.
Falk has received many awards including the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (1990), the Order of Canada (1997), the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2003) and the Viva Award for Lifetime Achievement (2012). Others are:
Between 1968 to 1972, Falk created some fifteen performance artworks, which typically involved undertaking everyday activities, such as eating an egg, putting on makeup, or reading a book.
Gathie Falk CM OBC is a Canadian painter, sculptor, installation and performance artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Since the 1960s, she has created works that consider the simple beauty of everyday items and daily rituals.
Falk has worked in various media, including performance, installation, ceramics, painting, drawing and papier-mâché. Her early paintings from the 1950s and 1960s were influenced by German Expressionism. 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. 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 (1967–70), Single Right Men's Shoes (1972–73) and Picnics (1976–77). 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." 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.
Gathie Falk was born on January 31, 1928 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. In 1930, 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. At 16, she left high school to work so she could assist with the family finances and completed her education via correspondence courses. When she was 19, Falk and her mother moved to Vancouver, where she still resides. 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. Falk then became a school teacher in 1953 and taught elementary students until 1965, when she left to commit herself full-time to creating art.
