AN ERA OF DISCONTENT: ART AS OCCUPATION
Central Gallery
October 12 to December 31, 2012
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
The Kamloops Art Gallery’s final exhibition of 2012, An Era of Discontent: Art as Occupation, brings together artwork that speaks to the current momentum of Occupy movements and Arab Spring revolutions, which are radically transforming our global reality. A group exhibition containing work in wide ranging mediums such as silkscreened posters, large-scale sculptures, video and installation works, An Era of Discontent: Art as Occupation offers diverse artistic responses to local and world politics, shifting social moralities, and destabilizing balances of power.
CONFLUENCE
The Cube
September 8 to November 3, 2012
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
Ernie Kroeger brings together historical and contemporary images in an examination of the confluence of the North and South Thompson rivers, a natural phenomenon that has been central to the shaping of Kamloops. Confluence traces Kamloops’ history through text and photographs, speaking to the city’s historical relationship to the rivers. The word “Kamloops” is derived from the Shuswap word “Tk'?mlúps,” meaning “confluence.” The text portion of the exhibition reveals the many iterations of the city’s name, sourced from signs, books, magazines, encyclopaedias, local historical accounts, and the Internet…
RE-STORY: WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
Central Gallery
June 30 to August 25, 2012
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of human communication. The Kamloops Art Gallery’s summer 2012 exhibition, Re-Story: Works from the Permanent Collection, expands upon notions of witnessing explored in the preceding KAG exhibitions this year and imparts a re-vision, re-telling, and re-dress of dominant storylines. The exhibition features a large selection of significant works from the KAG’s permanent collection as well as works borrowed from other institutions and the studios of local artists.
THE WILD MAN APPRECIATION SOCIETY
Emily Hope
The Cube
June 30 to August 25, 2012
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
This year’s Curator’s Choice is the eighth annual exhibition of work by students graduating from Thompson Rivers University. Selected by Kamloops Art Gallery Assistant Curator Craig Willms, Curator’s Choice features Emily Hope’s museum of The Wild Man Appreciation Society.
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Transart Collective
The Cube and BMO Open Gallery
March 24 to June 16, 2012
Curated by Tricia Sellmer, Craig Willms
Connecting the Dots is a multi-gallery project organized by Kamloops-based artist Tricia Sellmer that brings together international artists with artists from the Kamloops region at the Kamloops Art Gallery, Thompson Rivers University Art Gallery and Arnica Artist Run Centre.
WHITE-OUT: BETWEEN TELLING AND LISTENING
Esther Shalev-Gerz
Central Gallery
March 24 to June 16, 2012
Curated by Charo Neville, Annette Hurtig
This exhibition brings together two key works by Esther Shalev-Gerz in the first solo exhibition of her work to be organized in Canada. Born in Lithuania, raised in Israel and a resident of Paris since 1984, Esther Shalev-Gerz is internationally recognized for her investigations into the nature of democracy, citizenship, cultural memory and spatial politics. Additionally, her work persistently challenges traditional notions and practices of portraiture; it considers the portrait’s possibilities within contemporary discourses and the politics of representation.
IPHONEOGRAPHY
Sarah Jules
The Cube
January 14 to March 10, 2012
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
The camera phone has created immediacy in photography in a way never seen before in the history of image making and image publishing. Photographers are now able to post their snap shots of events and moments to social media and photo sharing websites within seconds of image capture; subsequently rendering the printed hard copy photograph out-dated and unnecessary. Sarah Jules captures moments of intimacy that hint at greater narratives through her iPhone. She weaves a story from her experiences through these snapshots shown on video monitors and the printed image.
BEARING WITNESS
Central Gallery
January 14 to March 10, 2012
Curated by Ian M. Thom
This exhibition launches a year of programming at the Kamloops Art Gallery that focuses on the re-reading of history, the provocation of power relations and the notion of “bearing witness” to world events through personal and collective narratives. Bearing Witness is the first in four exhibitions throughout 2012 that will be ideologically linked by these common threads.