Jan. 15th – Feb. 8th, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 17th, 2pm – 4pm

In the Main Gallery

AMY J. DYCK | Portals to Elsewhere

Pulling from the artist’s lived experience with disability and difficulty, this exhibition is filled with creatures that are nuanced and strange, broken and fierce, and filled with conflicting layers that make up the whole of who they are. Mixed media sculptures, drawings, oil paintings, and collage are used to create figures evolving through time, existing in a wild place where strange beings can stretch their legs, escape, belong, or find their place in the world. Using symbols of human, animal and insect bodies, as well as monsters and ghosts and mechanical and abstracted forms, Amy J. Dyck suggests a complex psychological landscape in each figure. These visual metaphors evoke ideas such as primal instinct, imagination, haunting memories, self-protection, dignity, and resistance. Dyck explores an allegory of what resilience might look like in the face of hard and life-altering circumstances.

Deeply autobiographical, Fraser Valley based artist Amy J. Dyck’s work references their own experience with a disabling and unsolvable complex chronic illness that has led to reliance on a wheelchair, and other life-altering consequences. Much of her work and practice is shaped by this circumstance; her own ghosts and mobility aids and creatures emerge as part of each figure. Amy J. Dyck has exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions throughout the Lower Mainland, she has won awards in several international art competitions, and her work has been shown and collected internationally.