Gallery Vertigo in Vernon, North Okanagan, Canada | Art Gallery

Gallery Vertigo is an Artist Run Centre in Vernon, British Columbia in Canada.
Gallery Vertigo is located in the historical Winnipeg Union Bank Building on the corner of 30th Avenue and 31st Street, right in the heart of the city. We are on the second floor of this fine red brick and granite example of Edwardian Classical Revival architecture. Visit our two gallery spaces and resource centre. Feel free to chat with artists at work in their studios as well.
The North Okanagan Artists Alternative is a registered non-profit society comprised of local and regional artists and friends of the arts.
In early 1999, we began to meet regularly to discuss art-related issues and in order to clearly identify the needs of artists and arts audiences in our region.
What is an Artist-Run Centre? Although artist-run centres are substantially different from one another according to their origins and locations, all have been founded on and share several basic principles.
Presently, there is a void in this community with respect to professional development for artists. Artists work in isolation and are far from the institutions which nuture artistic creativity such as art museums, alternative galleries and teaching institutions. Independent venues for the exhibition and viewing of contemporary cutting-edge work are non-existent.
Gallery Vertigo in Vernon, British Columbia is an artist-run centre which is more accessible than a public gallery. A rtist-run centresare open to participation by all artists, regardless of their experience level or exhibition history. Evaluation of artwork rests with the artists' own peers, where it belongs, rather than its being made subject to arbitrary dismissal by Art Gallery professionals who may or may not have direct knowledge and experience in the actual creation of art . Peer evaluation allows for an evolving aesthetic, artist initiatives, and the sharing of challenging work.