LUMINOCITY
Terryl Atkins // Derek Brunen // Doug Buis // Paulino Caputo // Florian Claar // Dana Claxton // Instant Coffee // Wayne Egers // Cao Fei // Tara Gardner // Isabelle Hayeur // Brian Howell // Gary James Joynes // Clarence Jules // Khan Lee // Devon Lindsay // Dasha Novak // Cheryl Pagurek // Stephanie Patsula // Jean Robison // Matt Smith // Holly Ward // Siqi Xu // Vincent Viezzer
Downtown Kamloops & Riverside Park
October 31 to November 8, 2014
Curated by Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Luminocity is a week-long public art project featuring video projection, new media works and events in public spaces throughout downtown Kamloops. This new off-site initiative is a forum for independent media arts regionally, nationally and internationally. Enlivening public spaces in unexpected ways,Luminocity embraces new creative concepts and modes of expression in the media arts field and encourages diverse audience engagement outside the Gallery’s regular programming. Inspired by public art events such as Nuit Blanche, this is the KAG’s inaugural presentation, with videos screening in storefronts and on the facades of buildings, in the windows of the TNRD building and at the Old Courthouse and Rotary Bandshell at Riverside Park.
SHUNT
Khan Lee
Central Gallery
October 18 to December 31, 2014
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
Khan Lee’s video Shunt focuses on the iconic image and sound of a freight train—a feature of the local landscape that is steeped in Canada’s growth as a nation and that resonates locally on many levels, as a key source of employment and a constant sign of the movement of goods. In relation to A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr, Shuntcontributes to an ongoing dialogue about the sublime and industrialized landscape. To be viewed and heard inside and outside the Gallery, the work was produced as part of Luminocity, a week-long public art project featuring video projection, new media works and events in public spaces throughout downtown Kamloops.
A TERRIBLE BEAUTY
Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr
Central Gallery
October 18 to December 31, 2014
Curated by Bruce Grenville, Vancouver Art Gallery
A Terrible Beauty offers a selection of photographs by Toronto-based photographer Edward Burtynsky, who is internationally renowned for his captivating images of natural and built environments that reflect both the impressive reach of human enterprise and the extraordinary impact of our hubris. Produced between 1983 and 2013, the photographs in A Terrible Beauty together represent all of his major bodies of work, from his early series of homestead photographs shot in British Columbia in the 1980s to his new, groundbreaking project on the subject of water and its fundamental place in the world ecology.
THE MEMORY BOX
Zev Tiefenbach
The Cube
September 20 to November 1, 2014
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
Zev Tiefenbach’s practice is grounded in film photography. Past bodies of work have included large-scale photographs taken from medium format negatives. With the advent of digital photography and the camera phone, Tiefenbach has become increasingly interested in the way people capture, consume and disseminate images. The ease and disposability of images means that the rigour and concentration of capturing a moment on film and composing an image has become a rare pursuit. With social media and online sources available for storing images, dissemination can be instantaneous.
VESSEL
Stephanie Patsula
The Cube
June 28 to September 6, 2014
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
Curator’s Choice is the tenth annual exhibition of work by students graduating from Thompson Rivers University. This year’s selection is Stephanie Patsula. Patsula works with found and constructed objects and explores their relationship to the space in which they are made and displayed. Inspired by a recent residency at TRU’s Wells Gray Research Centre, Patsula considers the materiality of found objects and utilizes colour theory to create installations where individual elements play off each other and engage in dialogue.
SEVEN DECADES OF WORKS ON PAPER
Jack Shadbolt
Central Gallery
June 28 to August 30, 2014
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
Coinciding with Ted Smith: A Retrospective, Jack Shadbolt: Seven Decades of Works on Paper showcases the recent addition of seventy-nine Jack Shadbolt works to the Kamloops Art Gallery’s permanent collection. Many of these works on paper were studies for major public artworks or large-scale paintings. Spanning seven decades, this selection of drawings is significant to an understanding of Shadbolt’s oeuvre and his contribution to the history of Canadian art.
A RETROSPECTIVE
Ted Smith
Central Gallery
June 28 to August 30, 2014
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
The summer exhibitions feature a retrospective of work by Kamloops-based painter Ted Smith. Ted Smith: A Retrospective encompasses the first major selection of Smith’s work since his 1992 exhibition at the original Kamloops Art Gallery space. Work starting in the 1960s and spanning five decades has been borrowed from the artist’s studio, the KAG’s permanent collection and most substantially from local private collections.
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.
UNREAL
Central Gallery
April 5 to June 14, 2014
Curated by Daina Augaitis, Vancouver Art Gallery
Drawn primarily from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection, Unreal presents work by artists who explore beyond the realm of what is considered real. Using inventive processes and unusual materials, they aim to unhinge us from our typical views of the world and open our eyes to the marvelous, the fantastical, the weird and even the monstrous.
PICASSO'S BEASTS: SELECTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA
Central Gallery
January 17 to March 22, 2014
In conjunction with the National Gallery’s touring exhibition, Beautiful Monsters: Beasts and Fantastic Creatures in Early European Prints, the Kamloops Art Gallery presents a key selection of Pablo Picasso’s (1881-1973) most celebrated series of etchings from The Vollard Suite, drawn from the National Gallery of Canada’s permanent collection.
BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS: BEASTS AND FANTASTIC CREATURES IN EARLY EUROPEAN PRINTS
Central Gallery
January 17 to March 22, 2014
Beautiful Monsters explores the representation of monstrous creatures in early European art by bringing together approximately fifty prints from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. The engravings, etchings and woodcuts assembled at the Gallery feature real and fictitious beasts and monsters in exuberant and enigmatic compositions. Handsome beasts and hideous creatures, boldly represented, vie for attention in this selection of surprisingly fantastical and strange images.
UNLIMITED EDITION
Central Gallery
January 17 to March 22, 2014
Curated by Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation), Aboriginal Curator in Residence, Kamloops Art Gallery
unlimited edition looks at how prints by Indigenous artists in the Kamloops Art Gallery’s permanent collection represent a drive to preserve, portray and popularize oral histories and address social inequities.
THE WASTE LAND
Andrea Kastner
The Cube
January 17 to March 22, 2014
Curated by Kamloops Art Gallery, Craig Willms
Andrea Kastner is a Kamloops-based artist. Her practice explores the presence of the unseen, both in her physical surroundings and in the human psyche. Previous bodies of work have included archeological excavations of household refuse and paintings that reveal the excess and sacred nature of rejected objects found in basements, alleyways and neglected spaces. In 2012, Kastner was selected as a finalist for the RBC Painting Competition for her painting Demolition.