WESTERN & SONIA CORNWALL ROUNDUP

Central Gallery
January 18 to March 23, 2013

Curated by Roger Boulet, Charo Neville

The Kamloops Art Gallery’s 2013 exhibition program focuses its attention on the idea of “place.” Situated within active ranching country, the first exhibitions of the year look at how the mythology of the West has developed in this region and opens up a conversation about our relationship to this place. Western brings together key works by artists who have addressed the idea of the “west” and the “western” in diverse and complex ways. This group exhibition aims to take stock of the history of settlement in the west and to reflect upon how this history and its manifestations have shaped the popular imagination. It includes an absurd and yet strongly metaphorical large-scale installation by the artist collective DRIL that features the tumbleweed as the main protagonist…