REAL LIFE AND LANDSCAPES
Isao Sanami/Morrill
Central Gallery
October 19, 2008 to January 4, 2009
For many years, Isao Sanami/Morrill lived in Coldstream, near Vernon, where she made ceramics, painted, and grew organic vegetables. This exhibition brings together over twenty of her watercolour paintings and pastel drawings for the first time in Kamloops.
Influenced by both Japanese and Western watercolour techniques, Sanami/Morrill paints our region’s landscapes, capturing both their timeless beauty as well as aspects of their modern degradation. The traces of human habitation, including abandoned cars, mining pits, “keep out” signs, and condo developments, blend with wild landscapes of forests, rolling hills, lakes, grasslands, and sagebrush that contribute to the Southern Interior ’s reputation for great natural beauty. These paintings, along with a series of domestic still lifes featuring appliances and computers in her home, are documents of the rapid change affecting our local environment and our day-to-day lives. In their simple beauty and honesty, Sanami/Morrill’s paintings preserve for future generations a vibrantly hued portrait of our specific time and place.
The exhibition is accompanied by a full-colour catalogue with texts by Jen Budney (former KAG curator) and Thompson Rivers University Geography Professor Ross Nelson.
Supported by the Province of British Columbia through BC150 Years, a Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts initiative
Generously sponsored by B-100