SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
Minn Sjolseth
Anthony Carter
Central Gallery
April 5 to May 24, 2009
Curated by Lisa Henderson
The exhibition Minn Sjolseth and Anthony Carter: Somewhere Between explores the artistic partnership of painter Minn Sjolseth and photographer Anthony Carter. Travelling long distances across the province of British Columbia in the 1960s and 1970s, the two artists sought to capture a transitional moment within many aboriginal communities. Somewhere Between focuses attention on three parallel subject matters depicted in these two artists’ work: moments of candor and the everyday that exist parallel to official ceremonies between aboriginal and settler culture, portraits of native elders in the act of creating arts and crafts, and ‘village-scapes’ where ancient art forms are shown coexisting with the structures of modern life. Sjolseth and Carter’s work highlights a key moment for a diverse set of cultures in British Columbia, making evident aboriginal peoples’ survival and rebirth to a larger Canadian public whose image of First Peoples had been formed from popular media. Addressing the space between modernity and antiquity, the exhibition simultaneously questions the critical boundaries between the document and the work of art.
Sjolseth and Carter resided in the Kamloops area. This exhibition is comprised of works on loan from a private collector and others drawn from the Kamloops Art Gallery Permanent Collection.
Anthony Carter
Chief Dan George, 1970
black and white photograph
Collection of the Kamloops Art Gallery, Gift of the Estate of Minn Sjolseth
