LANDSCAPE REVISITED
Central Gallery
October 19 to December 31, 2013
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
Landscape looms large within the public imagination of Canadians. Canada’s natural landscape is vast, changeable and diverse. There is a deep cultural attachment to the landscape; nature and culture are intimately intertwined. The land is something to be owned, consumed, viewed and pictured.
INTO THE WOODS: ETCHINGS BY GEORGE RAAB
George Raab
Central Gallery
October 19 to December 31, 2013
Curated by Art Gallery of Peterborough, Carla Garnet
Ontario-based artist George Raab’s practice spans four decades and is grounded in portraying the wooded world. From his early etchings to present day photo-based prints, Raab’s work portrays the iconic Canadian forest, emphasizing the difference between short-term and long-lasting perceptions of nature.
MONUMENTAL IDEAS IN MINIATURE BOOKS
The Cube
September 21 to November 2, 2013
Curated by University of Akron, Myers School of Art, Professor of Art, Hui-Chu Ying
Organized by the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron, Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books is an international collection of hand -made books including work by Kamloops-based artist Darlene Kalynka. At a time when books and print are increasingly turning to digital media, this exhibition invites the viewer to embrace the book as a physical object. The artist book is something not only to be read for its content, but to be taken in as a crafted work of art. The books showcase a wide range of printmaking techniques including traditional relief, intaglio, lithograph, serigraph and digital processes. The viewer is invited to investigate the content and technique of artist’s books and explore the possibilities of what a book can be.
STRINGS
Elizabeth Warner
The Cube
June 29 to September 7, 2013
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
This 2013 Curator’s Choice exhibition is the ninth annual presentation of work by a student graduate from Thompson Rivers University Visual Arts Department. Selected by Kamloops Art Gallery Assistant Curator Craig Willms, this year's Curator’s Choice features Elizabeth Warner’s Strings.
BEAT NATION: ART, HIP HOP AND ABORIGINAL CULTURE
Central Gallery
June 29 to September 7, 2013
Curated by Tania Willard, Vancouver Art Gallery, Kathleen Ritter
Beat Nation describes a generation of artists who juxtapose urban youth culture with Aboriginal identity to create innovative and unexpected new works—in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video—that reflect the current realities of Aboriginal peoples today.
WEATHER SYSTEMS
Germaine Koh
Central Gallery
April 6 to June 15, 2013
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
Weather Systems presents work by Vancouver-based artist Germaine Koh from the past two decades and new works made specifically for this exhibition. The selected work relates natural and human systems by focusing on the inter-relatedness of conditions in the built and natural environment that might otherwise seem disparate. It brings together the artist’s series of three Fair-weather forces works for the first time. This series comprises architectonic interventions that suggest a reciprocal relationship between human behavior and natural or meteorological phenomena, namely wind, sunlight and tides.
PLACE IN MEMORY
Tara Bauer
The Cube
April 6 to June 15, 2013
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
Place in Memory explores the relationship between people and place and reveals the common ground found in our memories of significant spaces. Tara Bauer interviews elderly people about their sense of home and community and asks her subjects to describe important places they feel tied to and resonate for them. She then creates paintings of “place in memory” based on these descriptions. The works are overlaid with text taken from the interviews and memory maps drawn by the subjects accompany some of the works, weaving together memories through a variety of sources. Much like memories, frosted glass in front of Bauer’s paintings obscures imagery with cut out windows revealing elements while other details are fuzzy or lost.
A NARRATIVE CORPSE
The Cube
January 18 to March 23, 2013
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
A Narrative Corpse brings together the comic strip format of sequential narrative and the Surrealist game of "exquisite corpse." In this collaborative project, artists from the region are invited to continue a chain story through a comic strip format that is painted directly onto the walls of The Cube gallery. Each artist receives only the final panel of the previous artist's work and is given the freedom to continue on their own tangent through a three-panel comic strip format. After the final contribution is revealed, the walls of The Cube will be transformed into one large-scale comic book created from a multi-perspective narrative.
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…