WITNESSING
Alicia Henry
Central Gallery
October 1 to December 31, 2022
Curated by Daina Augaitis
For the last two decades, Alicia Henry has been exploring unconventional approaches to portraiture, using the face to represent something that is hidden, revealed, and performed. Henry creates two-dimensional figures and group compositions that are commanding in their grace and expressiveness. Selecting her media carefully, she works with felt, canvas, and other textiles, as well as leather and paperboard, all of which absorb drawn and stitched gestures that register a spectrum of contexts and emotions. Notions of gender and family are significant in her works, as are physical layers that suggest multiple and unfixed identities. Tender renditions of a mother with a child appear, as do groupings of 20 or more females that signify formations of like-minded families within communities.
ASTRAL
Autumn Christopher
The Cube
September 17 to December 31, 2022
Curated by Craig Willms
This exhibition shares work by a recent graduate from Thompson Rivers University (TRU) as part of the Gallery’s annual partnership with TRU’s Fine Arts department. Selected by Kamloops Art Gallery Assistant Curator Craig Willms, this exhibition highlights an emerging artist or artists from TRU’s Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) graduating class, giving artists an opportunity to work with a professional curator to create new work for a professional exhibition space outside the context of school. This year the work of Autumn Christopher is presented.
READING THE LAND: TEN YEARS OF COLLECTING
Rebecca Belmore // Franklin Carmichael // Dana Claxton // Feminist Land Art Retreat // Rodney Graham // Adad Hannah // Andrea Kastner // Ann Kipling // Germaine Koh // Rodney Konopaki and Rhonda Neufeld // Donald Lawrence // Scott Massey // Daphne Odjig // Toni Onley // Gary Pearson // Jerry Pethick // Richard Prince // George Raab // Jack Shadbolt // Gordon Smith // Ted Smith // Tania Willard // Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Central Gallery
July 16 to September 17, 2022
Curated by Charo Neville
Offering a view into the Kamloops Art Gallery’s collection through its acquisitions over the past ten years, Reading the Land: Ten Years of Collecting shares the expanse of artists and artworks that have come into the Gallery’s care over the past decade. The selection of works focusses on a range of approaches to representing the landscape and critically exploring the idea of land. Spanning wide-ranging art-historical epochs and diverse approaches, the exhibition offers a view into artmaking over the past 100 years in the context of shifting worldviews and conversations about land use and cultural implications. The selection of works in Reading the Land: Ten Years of Collecting present a reading of the land that is inseparable from culture.
GHOST DAYS
Terrance Houle
The Cube
June 30 to September 10, 2022
Organized by the Kamloops Art Gallery
This exhibition is the culmination of GHOST DAYS projects developed since 2018. Initiated in 2015, GHOST DAYS is an experimental art adventure, bringing together film, video, performance, photography, and music. This project conjures spirits and ghosts of Indigenous, colonial, and non-colonial history that exist in the light of night, as well as in the darkness of the day.
HERE ELSEWHERE OTHER HAUNTINGS
Jin-me Yoon
Central Gallery
April 23 to July 2, 2022
Curated by Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre
Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée d’art de Joliette
Here Elsewhere Other Hauntings is the first retrospective dedicated to the work of Jin-me Yoon, a Korean-Canadian artist living in British Columbia. Conceived and organized by the Musée d'art de Joliette, Québec, this exhibition brings together nearly 30 years of Yoon’s artistic practice through a thematic journey. It shares works that condense several of the artist's preoccupations, including her relationship with her Korean heritage, her experience of migration, and her testing of the reality of what are considered Canadian ideals.
SAILING PRETTY CLOSE TO THE WIND
Robin Hodgson
The Cube
April 23 to June 18, 2022
Curated by Craig Willms
In a new group of paintings, Kamloops artist Robin Hodgson investigates the psychological and emotional nature of post-able-body life. Through his large-scale colourful compositions, Hodgson incorporates autobiographical moments with broader narratives about the global pandemic.
HALCYON FOG
Kelly Richardson
Central Gallery
January 22 to April 2, 2022
Curated by Charo Neville
Using digital technologies, Kelly Richardson creates hyper-real, sublime, and spectacular landscapes that communicate underlying unsettling narratives. Richardson is a Canadian artist based in Victoria, BC, where she is a Professor in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. From 2003 to 2017, she lived in North East England, where she was a Lecturer in Fine Arts at Newcastle University. Widely recognized internationally, Richardson has exhibited her work less frequently in Canada. This solo exhibition presents a view into Richardson’s longstanding exploration of our relationship to nature and how this relates to climate change.
MARKS IN PROGRESS
Christine Savage // Nathan Skyers // Clement Yeh
The Cube
January 15 to April 16, 2022
Curated by Craig Willms
Drawing is often understood as the preparation for a final work, not a fully realized practice, but over the past 50 years, as contemporary artists continue to explore its possibilities, drawing has been elevated from a supporting role to a primary medium alongside other art forms.
With this theme as the premise, Marks in Progress features work by three Kamloops-based artists who have divergent approaches to drawing. Applying techniques that range from traditional pencil on paper to digital rendering, much of the finished work emerges through preparatory sketches and experimental processes, where a physical artwork is not fully realized until the final stage. The act of drawing is evident in the final work; each artist emphasizes the gesture of lines and marks to capture memory and movement and to infer a narrative or ideas that do not exist exactly as they are drawn.