LUMINOCITY
Ruba Alshoshan // Lea Bucknell // Maureen Gruben // Doug Buis and Brad Harder // Allison Hrabluik // Jessie Kobylanski // Donald Lawrence // Nichole Mahon // Cindy Mochizuki // Jeneen Frei Njootli // Nicolas Sassoon and Rick Silva // Marlene Millar and Phillip Szporer // Howie Tsui // Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Chandra Melting Tallow and Tania Willard // Jin-Me Yoon
Downtown Kamloops & Riverside Park
October 12 to October 20, 2018
Curated by Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Luminocity returns in the fall of 2018 for its third biennial event. A week-long video art exhibition, Luminocity showcases video projects by artists from across the country in public spaces throughout the downtown core of Kamloops. As an off-site Kamloops Art Gallery initiative, Luminocity embraces new creative concepts and modes of expression in the media arts field and brings recent video projects previously shown primarily in gallery settings to the outdoors.
INVERTED PYRAMIDS AND ROADS TO NOWHERE
Eleanor King
Central Gallery
September 29 to December 29, 2018
Curated by Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Eleanor King is a Nova Scotian artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice combines sound art, social practices, improvisations, drawing, and sculptural installations that engage with memory, community, technology and the everyday. Also a musician, sound is often integrated into the spatial experience of her found and self-generated sculptural installations. King’s site-specific installations and relational aesthetics emerge from research that addresses the place and context where she is exhibiting.
A CHINESE DANCE
Edward Cheung
The Cube
September 15 to November 3, 2018
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
The 2018 Curator’s Choice exhibition features a new project by Edward Cheung. The artist works with photography and video to explore his Chinese-Canadian heritage and the changing cultural and geographic community where he grew up. Investigating a pivotal shift in the place he calls home, Cheung addresses the loss of heritage and cultural spaces within Vancouver’s Chinatown by critiquing the methods that developers use to preserve and acknowledge spaces that have been lost to gentrification. A Chinese Dance speaks to the way in which commercial endeavours and the tourism industry are effecting changes to the cultural fabric of this historic community. The social and architectural landscape in Cheung’s scenes are activated through audience participation as the viewer’s presence directly disrupts and degrades the images they are viewing. This intervention is a prompt for viewers to consider how their presence affects the work in the gallery and how collective actions can have unintended consequences in the gentrification of communities and cultural spaces.
THROUGH THE MEMORY ATLAS: 40 YEARS OF COLLECTING
Central Gallery
July 14 to September 15, 2018
Curated by Roger Boulet, Jen Budney, Susan Edelstein, Adrienne Fast, Andrew Hunter, Charo Neville, Jordan Strom and Tania Willard
In celebration of the Kamloops Art Gallery’s 40th anniversary, Through the Memory Atlas: 40 Years of Collecting, gathers together the most comprehensive selection of works from its permanent collection in one exhibition to date. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to bring a large and diverse group of works, in various media, out from storage and into public view. The exhibition title and curatorial framework pay homage to the German art historian and cultural theorist Aby Warburg, who founded a private library for Cultural Studies that organized and classified the legacy of Western culture in an experimental, non-logical and non-conventional manner. His project has worked to inspire and inform many contemporary artists today. Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas constituted cosmographic and art historical images arranged non-chronologically to reveal the ways in which subjective and objective forces shape our understanding of Western culture. His juxtaposition of “information constellations” attempted to make sense of the overwhelming process of historical change, creating what he called “thought space” (Denkraum), rather than a definitive archive.
EVERY NIGHT A WORLD CREATED
Dion Fortie
The Cube
July 7 to September 8, 2018
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
As part of Dion Fortie’s artistic process, he finds materials through daily walks along riverbanks, industrial outskirts and sites of refuse. At these sites, cast-off materials are detached from their intended purpose and found alongside unrelated objects. Fortie repurposes these finds, transforming them symbolically and formally in sculptural arrangements. The works take the form of assemblages, assisted ready-mades and installations that reference art history and design. They are often constructed to human scale, suggesting anthropomorphic forms that act as stand-ins for the human body.
THE POETICS OF SPACE
Barbara Astman // Maxwell Bates // Rebecca Belmore // B.C. Binning // Lee Bontecou // Bertram Brooker // Karin Bubaš // Arabella Campbell // Emily Carr // Ian Carr-Harris // Share Corsault // Christos Dikeakos // Michael Drebert // Lawren Harris // Owen Kydd // Beatrice Lennie // Landon MacKenzie // Myfanwy MacLeod // Scott McFarland // Jason McLean // Alex Morrison // Ben Nicholson // James Nizam // Dennis A. Oppenheim // Annie Pootoogook // Richard Prince // Pudlo Pudlat // Abraham Rattner // Kyohei Sakaguchi // Reece Terris // Ron Tran // Renée Van Halm // William Vazan
Central Gallery
April 14 to June 30, 2018
Curated by Daina Augaitis, Chief Curator Emerita and Emmy Lee Wall, Assistant Curator, Vancouver Art Gallery
Much art of the last several centuries has been preoccupied with the creation of space, from the illusionistic space of Renaissance art to the presence of depth that can exist even within pure abstraction. Divided into three sections, this exhibition presents a range of historical and contemporary artworks by more than 30 artists that together communicate some of the countless ways artists have contemplated space – from its optical perceptions, to its emotional impact and finally, to its geographical or topographical limits.
CIRCLES & WIGS: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER
Ashleigh Bartlett // Jessica Groome
The Cube
April 7 to June 23, 2018
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
CIRCLES & WIGS is a collaborative practice between Jessica Groome and Ashleigh Bartlett creating drawings, paintings and installations. Living in different cities, they have conducted intensive self-directed residencies in each other’s studios since 2015 to produce new work playing off each other’s practices. For this exhibition, the two artists worked from their respective cities for six months before coming together at the Kamloops Art Gallery for a two-week residency to complete the project in The Cube.
RE PRESENT: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM SOUTH ASIA
Anonymous 19th Century Photographers // Felice Beato // Samuel Bourne // John Burke // Raja Deen Dayal // Nandan Ghiya // Alexander Gorlizki and Riyaz Uddin Studio // Sunil Gupta // Panchal Mansaram // Annu Palakunnathu Matthew // Adolf de Meyer // Nandini Valli Muthiah // Zinnia Naqvi // Pushpamala N. and Clare Arni // D. Nusserwanji // Raqs Media Collective // Ghasiram Haradev Sharma // Dayanita Singh // Pamela Singh // Vivan Sundaram // Linneaus Tripe
Central Gallery
January 19 to March 31, 2018
Curated by Adrienne Fast, Interim Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Re Present: Photography from South Asia is a landmark exhibition, the first of its kind in Western Canada to present a diverse range of the rich and varied histories of photographic media from the Indian subcontinent.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Garnet Dirksen
The Cube
January 13 to March 24, 2018
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Garnet Dirksen works in photography, opting to shoot with film for its attachment to a history of documentary photography. He looks at shifts in trade and industry, their effects on local economies and the human element within built environments. Having grown up in Merritt, BC, Dirksen has documented the effects of economic downturn and the closing of resource-based industries and their impact on workers, residents and associated businesses. He seeks out work spaces altered by labourers with their own personalized touch and the emptiness of spaces in the absence of them.