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.
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.
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.
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.