HEXSA’AM: TO BE HERE ALWAYS
Siku Allooloo // Scott Benesiinaabandan // Darryl Dawson // Jaymyn La Vallee // Diane Roberts // Sara Siestreem // Juliana Speier // Nabidu Taylor // Kamala Todd // William Wasden Jr. // Tania Willard // Lindsey Willie
Central Gallery
October 5 to December 28, 2019
Curated by Marianne Nicolson and Althea Thauberger
In 1914, delegates of the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission met with Johnny Scow (Kwikwasuti’nuxw), Copper Johnson (Ha’xwa’mis), Dick Webber and Dick Hawkins (Dzawada’enuxw), and Alec Morgan (Gwawa’enuxw), as well as all the Kwakwaka’wakw Chiefs, to establish the land base of the Kwakwaka’wakw group of nations. A century later, in May 2018, the Dzawada’enuxw First Nation launched the first-ever BC Supreme Court case to extend Aboriginal title to the ocean, claiming that the Province does not have the authority to grant tenures to salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago. As two moments in a tangled timeline of resistance, these legal encounters bring forward the ways that cultural practices can bring new realities into being for a community experiencing ongoing social, cultural and ecological effects of colonization and globalizing economics.
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Josh Allan // Deb Fong // Kazia Poore // Elizabeth Sigalet
The Cube
September 21 to October 26, 2019
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Josh Allan, Deb Fong, Kazia Poore and Elizabeth Sigalet initiated a Polite Conversation in their final year as Bachelor of Fine Arts students at Thompson Rivers University. Coming from different perspectives and using different mediums, the four students began their project by employing a “call and response” approach as a way to step outside their own ways of working and to expand their methods of making art in an attempt to push the boundaries of their own practices.
IONIC BONDS
Maggie Boyd // Steven Brekelmans // Tom Burrows // Babak Golkar // Glenn Lewis // Eunice Luk // Paul Mathieu // Eric Metcalfe // Gailan Ngan // Wayne Ngan
Central Gallery
July 13 to September 21, 2019
Curated Charo Neville
The atoms in ceramic materials are held together by chemical bonds. An ionic bond occurs between materials with different electronegativity—metal and non-metal. The metal atom transfers electrons to the non-metal atom, becoming positively charged, whereas the non-metal becomes negatively charged. The two ions, having opposite charges, attract each other with a strong electrostatic force. The artists in this exhibition are bonded by their distinctive approaches to ceramics. Through diverse ways of working with clay, the artists respond to the deep historical roots of ceramics, the medium’s connection to the land and its ability to transform through human contact.
POLY(MER)HEDRON
David Jacob Harder
The Cube
July 6 to September 7, 2019
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
David Jacob Harder started journaling his interactions with the materiality of everyday objects in 2012. While working on large-scale projects as part of his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Thompson Rivers University, he began keeping a “metal journal” where he recorded his daily encounters with metal objects. More recently Harder has been chronicling every plastic object he uses on a daily basis. For each object, he records what it is and its estimated lifespan and he writes about his personal connection to and use of the object. Harder then casts each object in concrete, creating a monument to each of these objects while quantifying the volume of space each object takes up.
COMET MMXVIII
Donald Lawrence
TNRD Civic Building
May 11, 2019 to December 31, 2021
Curated by Charo Neville
The Kamloops Art Gallery is pleased to announce the realization of Donald Lawrence’s public artwork, Comet MMXVIII, 2018, on the new entrance to the Thompson-Nicola Regional District Building which houses the TNRD civic offices, the Kamloops Branch of the TNRD Library and the Kamloops Art Gallery. An illuminated work, Comet MMXVIII will light up as dusk arrives each evening. Interpretative material is on display in the building's atrium.
PRESENCES
Samuel Roy-Bois
Central Gallery
April 6 to June 29, 2019
Curated by Charo Neville
Originally from Québec City, Samuel Roy-Bois is based in the Okanagan, where he is assistant Professor of Sculpture in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus and heads an interdisciplinary lab for creative exchange The Research Studio for Spaces and Things. Roy-Bois’ artistic practice involves site-specific installations concerned with the conceptual and material definition of space and the ways the built environment contributes to our understanding of the world. Through sculpture, photography and installation, Roy-Bois examines the relational network of objects and their historical resonance: How do we define ourselves through the creation of structures? Is it possible to conceive of one’s existence outside any material linkage? We make things, but are things making us?
FOUR OLDEST DAUGHTERS
Darlene Kalynka
The Cube
March 30 to June 29, 2019
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Darlene Kalynka is a Kamloops-based artist working as an instructor in the Faculty of Visual Arts at Thompson Rivers University. In this new body of work, Four Oldest Daughters, Kalynka reflects on family roles, labour and sacrifice across three generations of her family in Ukraine and Canada.
GLINTS AND REFLECTIONS
Adad Hannah
Central Gallery
January 18 to March 23, 2019
Curated by Lynn Bannon and Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre. Produced and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette.
Adad Hannah was born in New York in 1971, spent his childhood in Israel and England, and moved to Vancouver in the early 1980s. He lives and works in Vancouver and exhibits his work nationally and internationally. This exhibition brings together key works made by Hannah in the past decade that focus on his enduring interest in the photographic image in relation to personal and social histories.
I WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION AND NOW IT'S OVER
Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber
The Cube
January 12 to March 23, 2019
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber are Winnipeg-based artists who work collaboratively to create paintings, drawings and text-based work. In 2008, Dumontier and Farber began working as a duo, meeting regularly, listening to records and making collaborative drawings, following a successful period working collaboratively with the larger artist collective The Royal Art Lodge.