SUGGESTIONS FROM KAMLOOPS
Rhonda Neufeld
Rodney Konopaki
The Cube
April 5 to June 14, 2014
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
Rodney Konopaki is Vancouver-based artist who teaches in the visual arts department at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. His practice is grounded in print media, drawing and painting. Rhonda Neufeld lives and works in Armstrong, British Columbia. She has taught in the visual arts department at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. Her practice is based in print media, drawing and installation. Together, Konopaki and Neufeld have been walking and drawing their way through urban, rural and wilderness environments over the past five years. They have explored communities and locales across Canada and created collaborative drawings and prints that attempt to capture a sense of place unique to every location encountered.
For the project in The Cube, the artists walk Kamloops to make marks that reflect their movement across the topography and hint at visual elements of their surroundings. The works combine a type of intaglio technique on paper with drawing. Gouged marks and an absence of pigment combine with drawn lines and fields of colour to represent the terrain and landmarks of a specific locale. It is a visceral process that pushes their collaboration to explore print media and drawing beyond traditional techniques.
Installation view of Suggestions From Kamloops
Rodney Konopaki and Rhonda Neufeld
Photo: Kamloops Art Gallery
