INJUSTICE AND IDENTITY
Jana Sasaki
The Cube
October 2 to December 31, 2021
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator
Injustice and Identity features work by Jana Sasaki, an artist originally from Merritt, BC, and now based in Vancouver, BC. The exhibition includes early photo and text-based works from the Kamloops Art Gallery’s collection that address the history of Japanese internment and the complexities of her family’s mixed-race or Hapa identity.
WHOSE STORIES?
Diyan Achjadi // Naoko Fukumaru // Tomoyo Ihaya // Load na Dito // Mark Salvatus // UJINO
Central Gallery
October 2 to December 31, 2021
Curated by Makiko Hara
Reflecting on the experiences and narratives of "others," Whose Stories? shares the work of six artists of Asian descent. Through video installation, photography, animation, print media, drawing, collage, and restored ceramic works, artists Diyan Achjadi, Load na Dito, Naoko Fukumaru, Tomoyo Ihaya, Mark Salvatus, and UJINO convey personal histories told within a community of artists and woven across generations.
HOLDING A LINE IN YOUR HAND
Azadeh Elmizadeh // Colleen Heslin // Russna Kaur // Lyse Lemieux // Rajni Perera
Central Gallery
July 17 to September 18, 2021
Curated by Charo Neville
Holding a line in your hand presents the work of five Canadian women painters from different cultural backgrounds, at different stages in their careers, and based at opposite ends of the country. Their work contains divergent methodologies, but also strong affinities. The exhibition includes artwork abundant in colour, line, and texture, embedded with and unencumbered by ideas. The focus on a small group of female painters offers a renewed perspective on an historically male-dominated domain and reflects today’s growing number of female artists working in the medium. Exploring and expropriating the idea of the painting in a myriad of ways, these artists share an expanded approach to painting. Holding a line in your hand speaks to a resurgence of painting in Canada and an active dialogue around historical precedents and contemporary approaches.
HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?
Amy Modahl
The Cube
June 26 to September 25, 2021
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator
Amy Modahl interweaves explorations of the vocabulary of space, visual-translation, and human and material gesture into her visual language. In her recent project developed for The Cube, Modahl worked with the Kamloops Art Gallery to circulate a call for letters in response to the question “How have you been?” She invited contributors to consider the changes and challenges of the past year and to share their experiences and thoughts. With the limitations of social interaction during the pandemic, our ways of interacting have been greatly altered. Physical interactions and movement in public spaces has to be consciously navigated, often adding stress to previously low-stress outings. Limited travel to see friends and family and the need to avoid comforting physical interactions and in person conversations has further contributed to our stress and general well-being.
SOUNDINGS: AN EXHIBITION IN FIVE PARTS
Tania Willard // Peter Morin // Maggie Groat // Olivia Whetung // Ogimaa Mikana // Garry Gottfriedson // Greg Staats // Tanya Lukin Linklater // Camille Georgeson-Usher // Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk // Aaron Leon // Sebastian De Line // Diamond Point and Jordan Point // Kite // Raven Chacon and Cristóbal Martínez
Central Gallery
April 29 to July 3, 2021
Curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson
How can a score be a call and tool for decolonization?Curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts features newly commissioned scores, performances, videos, sculptures, and sound by Indigenous and other artists who respond to this question. Unfolding in a sequence of five parts, the scores take the form of beadwork, videos, objects, graphic notation, historical belongings, and written instructions. During the exhibition, these scores are activated at specific moments by musicians, dancers, performers, and members of the public gradually filling the Gallery and surrounding public spaces with sound and action.
THE SENSE ECONOMY
The Laboratory of Spatial Bemusement
The Cube
April 10 to June 19, 2021
Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator
Through their collaborative practice, The Laboratory of Spatial Bemusement, Megan Dyck and Tia Halliday have focused on presenting a series of kinetic sculptures and dance-based performances that incorporate design and accoutrement reminiscent of 18th-century French furniture and textiles. The Sense Economy invites viewers to engage in a tactile and movement-based consideration of luxury and hybridized domestic objects while being encouraged to think about our own relationship to these objects.
OMNIUM GATHERUM | A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS THINGS
Kelsey Blokland // Ashya Cross // Sophia Dodic // Marisa Drayton // Tenessa Gagnon // Sara Hall // Kalene Michalovsky // Sue Miller // Christyn Rebmann // Lyn Richards // Carol Schlosar // Elizabeth Spike // Emily Wood
The Cube
January 30 to April 3, 2021
Curated by Craig Willms, Assitant Curator
This exhibition celebrates the work of the Thompson Rivers University Bachelor of Fine Arts 2020 graduating class. The COVID-19 global pandemic has disrupted many events, including how students participate in university classes, resulting in the shut down of many public and private spaces, including the University.
A MARKER TO MEASURE DRIFT
Scott Massey
Central Gallery
January 22 to April 3, 2021
Curated by Charo Neville
Canadian artist Scott Massey (b.1971) explores the confluence of art and science through multi-media projects that accentuate natural phenomena by fabricated means. Drawing on research into quantum physics, cosmology, astronomy, and other scientific disciplines, Massey’s practice examines cosmological subjects as a way of understanding our place in this greater context.
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.