Organized by: Kamloops Art GallerySponsored by: Excel Industries
Local artist Donald Lawrence is known for his diverse artmaking practice, in particular his use of materials and his preoccupation with the relationship between culture and nature. His work explores the landscape, especially the way in which our society perceives “landscape” as “nature”. These interests are taken up by such previous bodies of work as The Beach (1985), Romantic Commodities (1993), and The Sled (1996), as well as his ongoing Underwater Pinhole Photography Project and Travel Journals.
Lawrence’s two- and three-dimensional works are unique: the sculptural pieces don’t simply suggest utility but are, in fact, working pieces used in the production of pinhole photographs. Lawrence’s illustrated journals document the works’ progression, traversing the blurred line between artefact and art, and fulfilling his interest in the intersection between image and text, a focus of much of his work. In addition to having their individual material forms and explorations, these current projects indulge the artist’s interest in sea kayaking.
His new body of work includes pinhole camera photographs as part of this major installation and was researched during Lawrence’s recent excursion to Atlantic Canada, coinciding with a number of exhibitions of his work in the Maritime region.
Lawrence’s exhibition is accompanied by a full-colour catalogue.
Dianne BosNarbonne Carousel (up-close), France, 2001pinhole c-printPhoto courtesy of the artist
Organized by: Kamloops Art Gallery
Dianne Bos uses a pinhole camera to re-create new photographic configurations. Her work challenges the photographic medium, using pinhole cameras and long exposure times. Bos says, I record not an instant, but rather the passage of time at a site. Viewers have said that my work evokes the memory-image that remains for them long after they have viewed a familiar location. I think this recognizes the importance I have always assigned to time, memory, and capturing the essence of the place, in my images of architectural icons and classic travellers destinations. All of my work centers around contemplative spaces, from ancient gardens to the night sky, and offers a meditation on time’s movement within a still image. Time and light, movement and stillness, memory and the observer: these elements link all of the diverse images I create.
The artist has a keen interest in the mood a photograph can convey, and includes, for the first time, a sound component. Bos records the ambient sound at the site of her photography for the duration of exposure of film to light, drawing on the combination of audio and visual information to play on time and push the audience’s perceptions of the photographic medium.
Bos’s exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by freelance writer/curator Ihor Holubizky, available in The Gallery Store.
Organized by: the Kamloops Art Gallery
The works of three internationally-known Canadian-born artists make up this exceptional photographic exhibit from the Kamloops Art Gallery’s permanent collection and provide a thought-provoking complement to concurrent exhibitions by Donald Lawrence and Dianne Bos.
This exhibition features portfolios from contemporary artists whose unique and disparate visions of place, captured through the photographic medium, expand upon the pinhole photography exhibitions in the adjacent galleries. Stan Douglas alludes to the dynamics of social change in his portfolio Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene, drawing on interactions between nature and industry in a series of colour photographs sequenced to resemble a film loop. Geoffrey James’s La Campagna Romana features the Italian landscape in black and white panoramic views, while Brian Wood’s Rolling Out is a series of sharp, detailed, black and white prints using a circular motif that echoes and responds to Lawrence’s underwater photography in the main gallery.
J. Kevin DunnIn a Miner’s Cabin, East Coulee, Alta., 1999black and white photographPhoto courtesy of the artist
Penticton artist Kevin Dunn has created a new series of work that explores the relationships between humans, dogs and the landscape. Using black and white photography, Dunn has created humorous, thought-provoking images that capture the very essence of his subject, the dog. His artmaking philosophy incorporates elements of the canine personality, a way of being that Dunn emulates. The artist says, “Uncluttered by extraneous thoughts, unburdened by physical baggage and open to each day as it awakens, the dog has much to teach.”
Savona painter Rose Delap’s small-scale architecturally-inspired works are featured in The CUBE Gallery Store exhibition space. This senior artist makes stunning use of colour to depict buildings in settings that include the interior of British Columbia and New Mexico, where Delap has travelled. These unique landscapes celebrate the passage of time, highlighting the beauty of evolving architectural styles
Organized by: Kamloops Art GallerySponsored by: Thompson Valley Savings, Kamloops Catering & Event Services and Oasis Art & Frame Centre
Guess who has reserved a spot at the KAG’s 14th Annual Original Art Auction Gala? None other than Marilyn Monroe. This year’s auction includes a silkscreen print of Marilyn Monroe by Sunday B. Morning (after Warhol), acquired through Sotheby’s, along with a strong selection of work by local artists. Also, a number of businesses have generously donated exciting gifts for the auction, including President’s Choice: Dog sledding excursion with Alaskan Husky Adventures, Clearwater.
Director’s Choice: A two-night stay at the luxurious Naramata Heritage Inn & Spa complete with dinner and massages.
The Kamloops Art Gallery has organized a special three-week exhibition to give everyone an opportunity to preview the works of art by local, regional and national artists, which will be offered for auction on September 21st. See works by Toni Onley, Frances Harris, Ted Smith, Valerie Deacon, Bill Edmonds, Steve Mennie, Robert Bateman, Ann Meredith Barry, and Eric Metcalfe. These are just a few of the artists who have donated work for the Kamloops Art Gallery’s principal fund-raising event of the year.
And there’s more! Adventures, such as Kumsheen Raft Adventures, skiing at Sun Peaks, a Vancouver excursion with two night’s accommodation at Coast Canadian Inn at Stanley Park, ocean boating at Sewell’s Marina and passes for the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Enjoy live theatre courtesy of Western Canada Theatre. Visit the Royal London Wax Museum while staying at the Chateau Victoria or visit Craigdarroch Castle during your visit to our provincial capital. Come and take a look, select your favourites, and then on September 21st make your bid. You may be the one to take home that special work of art or adventure package.
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Organized and circulated by: the National Gallery of Canada Guest Curator: Catharine M. Mastin Sponsored in Kamloops by: British Columbia Lottery Corporation, Weyerhaeuser, and Coast Canadian Inn
In 1997, the National Gallery of Canada acquired a large gift of 229 watercolours, drawings, prints, and oil sketches by Group of Seven artist, Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945). This gift not only made a significant contribution to the pre-existing group of paintings and works on paper by Carmichael in the Gallery’s collection, but also represents the important thematic legacies of this significant Canadian artist. The exhibition highlights Carmichael’s artistic versatility and his diverse practice working in oil and watercolour, drawing, and several printmaking methods.
Concentrating on the landscapes of Ontario, in particular the La Cloche region west of Sudbury, the exhibition introduces two main themes: Carmichael’s adherence to the Group of Seven’s ideologies, and his spiritual focus. A sub-theme looks at the paradigm in which both Carmichael’s and the Group’s work are situated, that of a “pure” landscape undergoing considerable change in the forms of industrial and urban development. Another sub-theme addresses the place of the La Cloche in the artist’s practice, as well as Carmichael’s influence on other artists who later sketched the region, for example, A.Y. Jackson, Frederick Haines, Arthur Lismer, and Anne Savage.
Frances Harris is a local painter, and some of her work was discovered quite by chance in the basement storage area of a Kamloops business. Her paintings are regularly exhibited elsewhere in the province, but this exhibition marks the first time her work has been shown at the Kamloops Art Gallery.
An immigrant to Canada from England in 1939, Harris has spent most of her life in Western Canada. The scenery from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast and the Gulf Islands of British Columbia has been her greatest source of inspiration. Harris’s paintings are likened to those of the Group of Seven, who were also influenced and inspired by the Canadian landscape.
At 89 years of age Harris has impaired eyesight, which has altered the way she works. She now paints on large canvasses using large brushes, giving her recent work a strong, purposeful visual appeal. Although she has experimented with a variety of media and techniques, Harris is most drawn to the use of oils to paint the powerful B.C. landscape. Her exhibition at the KAG features a cross-section of works from the 1970s to the present.
For centuries artists have used the land as subject matter. Until the 1600s, however, images of the land were used as handsome backdrops in paintings depicting people.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, influential trends, such as the Sublime and the Picturesque, helped push the aesthetic advancement of landscape painting styles in which the land became the subject, rather than merely decorative background. During the Post-Impressionist movement, artists moved their art to a more emotionally charged terrain, producing bold, vibrant canvasses and investing elements of the landscape with symbolic meaning. It is from this that the Group of Seven took its influence.
In 1920, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, Lawren Harris, Franklin Carmichael, F.H. Varley and Frank Johnston officially formed the Group of Seven. Until this time it was not thought possible for Canada to have its own expression of self, rather taking as its own, landscapes influenced by more established painting styles. The Group began to voice a unique Canadian nationalism in their paintings and written articles.
The Group continued to refine in paint their vision of Canada, and in 1920 were invited by the Art Gallery of Toronto, known today as the Art Gallery of Ontario, to have their first exhibition. Achieving international acclaim and acceptance at home, the Group of Seven held eight exhibitions of their work and grew in membership to ten with the additions of A. J. Casson, Lemoine Fitzgerald and Edwin Holgate. They held their final show in December 1931.
Local painter Lloyd Bennett’s Wells Gray Sketches is a series of plein-air paintings of Wells Gray Park, located north of Kamloops. The works capture the park’s rawness under varied weather conditions. The entire series consists of 100 small-scale works, a selection of which is shown in The Cube.
The paintings are grouped in response to distinct landscape features of the park. Exhibited concurrently with the Franklin Carmichael exhibition in the main gallery, Bennett’s work provides a local perspective on the strong tradition of Canadian landscape painting established by the Group of Seven.
Bennett worked on the collection of acrylics over a period of three years. The series is reproduced in the full-colour book Wells Gray Sketches, (2001), which is available in The Gallery Store.
The works in The Cube are for sale.
Gallery Under Glass features Elements, a collaborative project by students from the Kamloops Art Gallery home-school art class. Elements is an installation consisting of two large-scale works on canvas and a sculptural element. These two- and three-dimensional pieces were created by the students in response to works by Group of Seven artists, particularly those of Franklin Carmichael. Focussing on Kamloops’ distinctive landscape features, such as the rivers, the skyline and Mount Paul, the students co-operatively selected components of each other’s work to contribute to the whole.
The artists are Kathleen Fath, Anyssa Gill, Mariah Gill, Dana Jarvis, Elani Lewis, Brennan Lewis, Jacob Lloyd, Aaron Race, Camille Robertson, Wes Sharkey, Lis Sharkey, and Morgan Sidky.
Jorma Puranen Imaginary Homecoming, 1991 silver print photograph Collection of the Artist
Organized by: Kamloops Art Gallery and Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum Guest Curator: Annette Hurtig
Financial assistance received from The Canada Council for the Arts Exhibition Assistance Program and Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
The exhibition Lost Homelands brings together works by Manuel Piña from Cuba, Jorma Puranen, Finland, and Edward Poitras and Jin-me Yoon, Canada, four artists who are purposely working from the margins of society. Living in different parts of the world and from somewhat dissimilar cultures, these artists nonetheless share similar thematic concerns and artistic styles. They are interested in the landscape and what it means in terms of belonging, that is, having a place to call home, a privilege not shared by all the world’s peoples.
In her catalogue essay, guest curator Annette Hurtig refers to Landscape and Memory, a popular book by cultural historian Simon Schama. Hurtig points out that Schama draws our attention to the landscape and how it has provided a sense of homeland through the ages, and how this sense of place and our understanding of history are a delicate balance of myth and reality.
Lost Homelands has toured from Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum in Charlottetown, P.E.I., to MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, and Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery in Montreal, Quebec. After the show in Kamloops, it travels to Art Gallery of Mississauga in Ontario. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by Elizabeth Edwards, Annette Hurtig, Shauna McCabe, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, and Alfred Young Man, Ph.D.
Artist’s/Curator’s Talk: Annette Hurtig and Jin-me YoonSunday, April 14, 1:30 pm
Ann BatesUpper Nicola Church, 1996watercolourCourtesy of the artist
Ann Bates is a senior local painter whose watercolour sketches have chronicled Kamloops and surrounding areas since her arrival in 1965. She works en plein air, surrounded by her subject matter. The artist’s commitment to painting has grown in recent years as she has felt an increased emotional connection to her outdoor rural and urban scenes and as her career has advanced.
Brigitte RadeckiReading Between the Lines, 1998oil on canvasCourtesy of the artist
Montreal painter Brigitte Radecki, who temporarily took up residence in Kamloops while working on The Burnt Poem Series, captures gestures originating in handwriting. The German-born painter has drawn from journals and handwritten documents of pre-World War II women writers. Radecki takes enlarged portions of calligraphic writing from books burned during the Nazi regime and uses expressive colour and rhythm to explore the emotional content of the undecipherable text.
Tricia SellmerTapestry Garden series,2001ink on paperCollection of the artistPhotograph by Kim Clarke
Tricia Sellmer is a recognized Kamloops artist whose works have been featured in various locations throughout the city. In Tapestry Gardens, a solo exhibition in the Weyerhaeuser Gallery, Sellmer revisits her signature floral motif by combining vivid, large-scale garden imagery with computer-processed tapestries, fabricated on a jacquard loom. The tapestries echo the line-drawn conceptual beginnings of the elaborate paintings.
In an exploration of different representations of the floral theme, Sellmer takes the audience through the weaving process, which is linked to utility and domesticity. These processes become visible through the presentation of the work in various forms, revealing the labours of the artist and relating to the theme of the work. The loom allows for the translation of Sellmer’s static floral designs into a pliable medium that acts as a document to further the discussion concerning women, labour and class.
The Kamloops Art Gallery is pleased to exhibit the works of this prominent Kamloops artist whose works are also included in the Gallery’s permanent collection.
Artist’s Talk/TourThursday, March 7, 7:00 pm Adult Art Class: Exploring with Tricia SellmerThursday, March 14, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Takao TanabeChilcotin Plateau 1/98, 1998 acrylic on canvas Collection of the artist Photograph by Jerry Geen Photographx
Organized by: Kelowna Art Gallery Guest curated by: Roger H. Boulet
Lynda BoutilierSpring Sunshine, 2001, watercolour on mat board Collection of the artist
The Kamloops Water Media Artists celebrate their tenth anniversary in an exhibition organized by the Kamloops Art Gallery. The original works in this exhibition are rendered on circular mat board and are displayed collectively to form a unique installation. The works display a range of interpretations of nature and landscape and demonstrate the artistic activity in the community.
Included in this exhibition are works by Bernice Armstrong, Trish Armstrong, Ed Barry, Lynda Boutilier, Werner Braun, Delores Collett, Bob Cullen, Fay Davies, Lynn Eremko, Kathy Feschuk, Cathie Flahr, Inger Flamand, Rose Foster, Marleen Freeman, Sylvia Garay, Maxine Grass, Shirley Hastings, Marj Herchak, Elinor Hill, Jeneta Johnson, Allen Larson, Anne McAllister Johnson, Kathy McArthur, Vida Newington, Agnete Newman, Sharon Olfert, Pat Owen, Shirley Palmer, Lorraine Papp, Dely Patterson, Cathie Peters, John Phillip, Joyce Popein, Carol Richardson, Dora Richmond, Paul Rivett, Rose Rodrigues, Lorraine Scott, Goldie Serack, Flo Vlaanderen, Dorothy Walton, Pearl Wark, and Hema Wijeyesinghe.
The Cube exhibition space is an extension of The Gallery Store, and all works are for sale.
Both venues feature archival and collectible pieces from private collections that support and encourage discussion about Japanese customs and rituals. On display are wooden masks crafted in the Japanese Noh theatre tradition, kimonos, and sculpture.
Takashi MurakamiAND THEN PinkPhoto courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Linda Favrholdt
Organized by: Kamloops Art GallerySponsored in part by: the British Columbia Lottery Corporation and Kirin Brewery Company Limited. Financial assistance received from the Japan-Canada Fund, a gift to The Canada Council for the Arts from the Government of Japan.
This group exhibition features the contemporary work of emerging and established artists from Japan, including Taichi Ishidate, Hidehiro Kinoshita, Takao Kubo, Mariko Mori, Takashi Murakami, Rika Takahashi, Tamura Satoru, and Kaori Yamamoto.
Translated into English, Kyozon means “the merging together of two opposing things.” The exemplary work featured in this exhibition endeavours to do just that: merge traditional ideologies with the progressive attitudes emerging from Japanese youth culture. With a variety of topics and mediums, the works in Kyozon embrace the rich and diverse cultural history of Japan. The contemporary viewpoints of the artists provide differing perspectives, all co-existing under the umbrella of identity and attempting to work outside mainstream or corporate Japanese society. Exploring the conflicts and contradictions currently found in Japan’s culture, these young artists create, through their works of art, a starting point for discussion.
Recognizing an economy in recession, crumbling infrastructures, and the ever-restricting gender imbalance that exists for women, the artists push the rigid boundaries of Japanese culture. They illustrate that North American influences on Japan are as strong as Japanese influences on North America, thereby provoking questions of authenticity and ownership. The works range from video projections to photography, lithography, sculpture, and installation.
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