AMBIGUOUS PARTS
Mark Soo // Lisa Klapstock
The Cube
November 21, 2020 to January 16, 2021
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
This exhibition brings together two unique photographic works from the Kamloops Art Gallery’s collection. Both works explore the viewer’s perception through abstraction by playing with scale to distort meaning and to question the subject. Each artist has specified an unconventional installation of their photographs to encourage the viewer to engage with the work in relation to the confines of gallery space.
LUMINOCITY
Tania Willard // Caroline Monnet // Sky Hopinka // Marina Roy // Kirsten Leenaars // Adad Hannah // Camal Pirbhai & Camille Turner // Jessie Kobylanski // Levi Glass // Isabelle Pauwels // Jessica Karuhanga // Shirley Bruno // Yoshua Okón // Sandeep Johal // Bertille Bak
Downtown Kamloops & Riverside Park
October 23 to October 31, 2020
Curated by Zoë Chan, Guest Curator, and Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Presented every two years, this FREE, week-long, new media, art exhibition showcases video projects by local, national and international artists in unexpected 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.
PLEASANT FIELD
Anyssa Fortie
The Cube
July 7 to November 14, 2020
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Through the creation of a new body of work, Pleasant Field, Kamloops-based artist Anyssa Fortie has developed an immersive installation based on recollections of places and events as abstracted memories. Taking an autobiographical approach, Fortie pulls from past experiences and examines how they have transformed over time…
CASTING THE EYE ADRIFT
Donald Lawrence
Central Gallery
July 7 to December 31, 2020
Curated by Charo Neville
Offering insight into almost four decades of Donald Lawrence’s practice, the retrospective exhibition Casting the Eye Adrift brings together major sculptural works, videos, photographs, drawings, preparatory models and ephemeral works that represent Lawrence’s longstanding interest in the intersections between art, science and technology, and concepts of wilderness.
CLING
Twyla Exner
The Cube
January 17 to March 14, 2020
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Twyla Exner’s practice is inspired by nature and the reciprocal systems of electronic refuse and technological obsolescence. Of the pre-Internet generation, Exner is both frustrated and fascinated by the increasing use and invasion of technology in our daily lives.
FREE REIN
Feminist Land Art Retreat
Central Gallery
January 17 to March 21, 2020
Curated by Charo Neville
Feminist Land Art Retreat (FLAR) is a conceptual project that was initiated in 2010 with a poster advertising an unrealized event. Appropriating the style of a 1960s protest poster, the artists inverted an image of the canonical land artwork Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson to transform it into an image of the female reproductive system. Through this simple gesture FLAR asked the viewer to reconsider the terms “feminist,” “land art” and “retreat” and the resulting associations that emerged. By doing so, an art historical moment was reimagined. Since that time FLAR’s practice has involved advertising forms including posters, site-specific billboards and clothing, as well as videos, sculptures and performances. Their work draws upon the material, conceptual and political work of feminist artists, land artists, activists, theorists, writers and musicians.