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Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Agatha (Gathie) Falk
1928 -
BCSA OC
Gathie Falk is a prominent West Coast painter, sculptor, printmaker and performance artist whose works are in major museums across Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada. Born in 1928 in Alexander, Manitoba into a Mennonite family, Falk spent her early life in Manitoba until her family moved to Vancouver in 1947. Falk studied education at the University of British Columbia in the 1950s, and spent 12 years working as a school teacher. During this time, she began formal art training at the University of British Columbia summer classes under Jock MacDonald. In 1965, she ceased teaching and launched her career as an artist.
The idea of collaboration and an interdisciplinary approach were part of the Vancouver community in the 1960s. During this time Falk created performance art pieces in which she acted assisted by friends. Images and actions were drawn from the everyday, but had a surreal or dreamlike quality. In this same decade, she produced ceramic sculpture based on everyday objects such as shoes and fruit, and often used repetition of form - such as ruby red ceramic apples carefully piled in a pyramid or bright orange ceramic shoes displayed in a cabinet. She also produced installation works, such as Home Environment, a room containing altered furniture and clay objects.
Falk's ceramic work continued to evolve into the 1970s, with works such as her Picnic series of still life tableaus. Also in this decade after a pivotal trip to Venice in 1977, she plunged into painting on canvas, pulling her subjects from her surroundings such as her garden. Beginning in 1979, she worked on the extraordinary series of large-scale paintings entitled Night Skies.
Falk has continued to paint in series, bringing great awareness to bear on the everyday objects that are often part of her work, sometimes with elements of whimsy. In recent years she has worked three-dimensionally in painted papier mâché and bronze with subjects such as men's shirts, women's dresses and canoes.
Her list of exhibitions is extensive, and includes a retrospective exhibition in 1985 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Another retrospective originated at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2000, touring across Canada and ending at the National Gallery of Canada.
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Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Support System with Camelia Bush
84 x 60 in 213.3 x 152.4 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000 CDN
Sold for:
$20,060
CDN (premium included)
August 2016 - 2nd Session on Thursday, August 25, 2016
Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Pieces of Water (03830/A84-0016)
77 1/2 x 66 in 196.9 x 167.6 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 CDN
Sold for:
$17,500
CDN (premium included)
Highlights from DuPont Canada on Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Support System with Michaelmas Daisies #1
84 x 60 in 213.3 x 152.4 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 CDN
Sold for:
$15,000
CDN (premium included)
West Coast Modern & Contemporary on Thursday, March 25, 2021
Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Apples
48 x 48 in 121.9 x 121.9 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CDN
Sold for:
$11,875
CDN (premium included)
Post-War & Contemporary Art on Thursday, March 26, 2020
Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Night Sky 16
62 x 47 1/2 in 157.5 x 120.6 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CDN
Sold for:
$11,250
CDN (premium included)
Post-War & Contemporary Art Highlights on Thursday, November 28, 2019
Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Heavenly Bodies, Sun
136 x 60 in 345.4 x 152.4 cm
acrylic on canvas
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000 CDN
Sold for:
$10,000
CDN (premium included)
West: Modern & Contemporary Works by B.C. Artists on Thursday, March 28, 2019
Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Piece of Water: Chief Dan George
78 x 66 in 198.1 x 167.6 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 CDN
Sold for:
$9,945
CDN (premium included)
September 2013 - 1st Session on Thursday, September 26, 2013
Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Clean Cuts #8
24 1/2 x 24 1/2 in 62.2 x 62.2 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $4,000 - $6,000 CDN
Sold for:
$9,200
CDN (premium included)
May 2008 - 4th session on Saturday, May 31, 2008
Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Venice Sink with Postcards from Marco Polo #13
42 x 42 in 106.7 x 106.7 cm
oil on canvas
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000 CDN
Sold for:
$8,625
CDN (premium included)
Fine Canadian Art Spring 2004 on Thursday, May 27, 2004
Agatha (Gathie) Falk
Support System With Bushes From West Border
84 x 60 in 213.5 x 152.5 cm
1987
oil on canvas
Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000 CDN
Sold for:
$7,150
CDN (premium included)
on Thursday, November 09, 1995