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Gathie Falk CM OBC is a Canadian painter, sculptor and performance artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. ==Life and Work== Gathie Falk was born 1928 in Alexander, Manitoba, Canada, to immigrant Russian 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. She became a school teacher and taught elementary students until 1965, when she left to commit herself full-time to creating art.〔 At one time, Falk was a pupil of Lawren Harris, one of the artists from the Group of Seven.〔Birnie Danzker, Jo-Anne. Foreword. ''Gathie Falk: Retrospective''. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1985. p. 5. Print.〕 She has worked in various media, including ceramics, painting, drawing and papier mâché. Her subjects are often everyday objects. 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. Her work can be found in private and public collections including the Vancouver Art Gallery,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vancouver Art Gallery, The Permanent Collection )〕 the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada. Falk is represented by (Equinox Gallery ) in Vancouver, B.C., Canada and by (Gibson Gallery ) in London, Ontario, Canada. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gathie Falk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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