Germaine Koh: Home Made Home

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Germaine Koh, "Core," 2016

prototype for suite of recombinant furniture and fixtures, plywood, aluminum, hardware, three units, each 84"x 28"x 84".

The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to bring the work of Vancouver-based artist Germaine Koh to Okanagan audiences with this solo exhibition called Home Made Home. Koh envisions two built elements to engage visitors. One will involve wood-frame construction and the other will be situated in the lofty alcove looking down into the Gallery’s interior hallway. With its insistence on local materials, often recycled ones, modest scale, and an eye to community, the project is well suited to Kelowna, with the current conversations here about development, density, and sustainability. One aim of Home Made Home is to get people imagining other modes of living/housing.

Germaine Koh was born in Georgetown, Malaysia. She has been a Canadian citizen since 1976. She has exhibited widely, both in Canada and internationally. Koh has a BFA from the University of Ottawa (1989) a BA in the theory and history of art (University of Ottawa) and an MFA from Hunter College, New York from 1993. In 2010 she was awarded the VIVA award from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation in Vancouver.