Opening in January 2026 is Weather, Window, Echo, Hum by local artist Katherine Pickering!
Weather, Window, Echo, Hum brings together two interconnected bodies of work: Hum, small oil paintings on linen, and Weather Patterns, sewn India ink works on cotton. Through processes of layering, sanding, cutting, and sewing, the work approaches abstraction as a material practice attentive to time, labour, and material process.
In Hum, small geometric abstractions are painted at the kitchen table, then repeatedly sanded and repainted over months, with faint traces of earlier decisions remaining visible. The deliberate slowness of this process becomes central to the work, offering a quiet counterpoint to the speed of contemporary life. The paintings’ small scale fosters intimacy, shaped by the conditions of their making. Lived with, revisited, and left to dry on a windowsill, the works were reconsidered as part of daily routines.
Weather Patterns extends this approach through textile processes. Ink is applied to cotton and dried in hot summer air, preserving the movement of ink. The material is then cut and sewn into geometric compositions that draw on the artist’s mother’s quilt-making practice. Across both series, abstraction emerges as an embodied, iterative process grounded in intimacy, repetition, and attentiveness.
Join us on January 16th from 6 - 8pm for a triple opening reception, as we celebrate alongside Chantal New in our Project Gallery and Jian Suniga in our Members’ Gallery. Let us know you’re coming!
Katherine Pickering is a visual artist based on Syilx territory in Kelowna, British Columbia. Her practice is grounded in material experimentation and abstraction, engaging sculptural and textile processes to expand the language of painting. Her paintings have been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and internationally, and supported through artist residencies in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Pickering holds an MFA from Concordia University (Montréal) and a BFA from UBC Okanagan, where she is a Lecturer in the Department of Creative Studies.