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Gathie Falk (Agathe Falk) was born on 31 January, 1928 in Alexander, Manitoba, Canada, is a Canadian artist. Discover Gathie Falk's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 96 years old?

Popular As Agathe Falk
Occupation artist
Age 96 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 31 January, 1928
Birthday 31 January
Birthplace Alexander, Manitoba, Canada
Nationality Canada

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Gathie Falk is a Canadian painter, sculptor, installation and performance artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

1928

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.

1930

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.

1950

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.

1953

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.

Falk has worked in various media, including performance, installation, ceramics, painting, drawing and papier-mâché.

1960

Since the 1960s, she has created works that consider the simple beauty of everyday items and daily rituals.

1967

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.

1968

Between 1968 and 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.

Falk has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States, France and Japan.

1990

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:

2000

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.

2015

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's work can be found in private and public collections including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Burnaby Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada.

She is represented by Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, B.C., Canada and by Michael Gibson Gallery in London, Ontario, Canada.