RESONANT OBJECTS
Open Gallery
December 6, 2023 to January 13, 2024
This community art project was inspired by the idea that the objects we keep in our lives embody some significance to us and hold our stories. Through conversation, self-reflection, and explorations of Deanna Bowen’s exhibition Black Drones in the Hive, participants were invited to consider their relationships with objects. Which objects in our lives hold meaning? What gets saved and why? How do we decide which objects tell our story?
BLACK DRONES IN THE HIVE
Deanna Bowen
Central Gallery
September 23 to December 30, 2023
Curated by Crystal Mowry
For more than 20 years, Deanna Bowen’s practice has evolved from its roots in experimental documentary video into a complex mapping of power as seen in public and private archives. Research and exhibitions are rarely mutually exclusive modes for Bowen, in part because her subjects reveal new perspectives over time. Whether it is through strategies of re-enactment or dense constellations of archival material, Bowen’s work traces her familial history within a broader narrative of Black survival in Canada and the United States.
TOB TOB KIN
Paula Ducharme
The Cube
September 16 to December 30, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
In a new body of work called Tob Tob Kin, Paula Ducharme, a recent Thompson Rivers University Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate, fuses traditional and contemporary materials and ideas to explore her Indigenous ancestry.
Generously sponsored by Wilson M. Beck Insurance Services Inc.
LUMINOCITY
Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke // Shiraz Bayjoo // Blaine Campbell // Carolina Caycedo // Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman // Luciana Freire D'Anunciação // Marja Helander // Cheyenne Rain LeGrande // Beric Manywounds // Natalie Purschwitz // Ahilapalapa Rands // Genevieve Robertson
Kamloops Art Gallery & Riverside Park
October 14 to 21, 2023
Curated by Emily Dundas Oke and Charo Neville
Luminocity, a week-long outdoor video art exhibition, returns to the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw this fall. Dynamic video projections and immersive light experiences will fill the grass field at Riverside Park and transform the exterior of the Kamloops Art Gallery. With projects that range from narrative storytelling to experimental film and animation, accompanied by nightly tours in the Riverside Park, Luminocity offers a portal to urban transformation and insightful encounters for all ages.
THE SHAPE OF MEMORY
Summer Art Camp Participants
Open Gallery
September 2 to 16, 2023
Curated by Adrian Romeo and Kora Ellison
What is the shape of memory? How can we physically represent something so variable and expansive? How can we express our personal relationship to memory through art making?
Generously sponsored by Watson Engineering Ltd.
PROCESS, PRODUCT, MINDSET
Kiyana Basworo // Willow Beers // Benjamin Branch // Hannah Durant // Tarynne Gray // Ruby Liddy // Jade Matthews // Ze McDaniel // Jasmine Thomas // Aidan Wiggil
Open Gallery
July 15 to August 26, 2023
Curated by Simone Olanski
What inspires creation?
Process, Product, Mindset, portrays the artwork of 10 youth interns who were brought together for two weeks to collaborate on a group exhibition which expresses their identity through art. They chose to showcase their individuality by bringing their personalities to life through different styles and forms of art. The interns chose to ask themselves what inspires them to create.
ECHOES
Scott Benesiinaabandan // Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour & Dayna Danger // Caroline Monnet // Nicole Preissl // Maika‘i Tubbs // jaz whitford
Central Gallery
July 15 to September 9, 2023
Curated by Emily Dundas Oke
“Water connects us all.” - Elder Dr. Margaret Vickers Hyslop
As an echo reflects and repeats between entities, this exhibition contemplates ways recurrences traverse generational and geographical expanses. An echo is a continuation that needs a physical body on which to resound. Here, the bodies of water and the physical remnants of stone, plastic, and land become the houses for the historical traces of change and continuity. The works in this exhibition explore the physical and embodied ways in which memory appears and continues to resonate within individuals and across generations. Through practices such as ceremony and revisitations of the voyages of one’s ancestors, the artists included in echoes call upon knowledge systems that do not rely on the written word, but rather assert a continuity and interconnectedness between body, land, and water. Each of these entities also demonstrate their agency as knowing beings. These practices and beliefs posit specific notions of time while entangling our bodies within processes of remembering.
echoes is organized and circulated by the Burnaby Art Gallery, and curated by Emily Dundas Oke.
THE FADEAWAY
Mallory Tolcher
The Cube
July 8 to September 9, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
The iconic fadeaway jump shot in basketball is executed when the shooter gracefully and effortlessly glides away from the defender while still maintaining control of the ball. In The Fadeaway artist Mallory Tolcher captures the essence of this move by focusing attention on the history of women’s basketball. Through a series of photographs, sculptures, and textiles, Tolcher challenges gender stereotypes of women in sport and celebrates the rise and acceptance of professional women’s basketball. In the context of prescribed social gender roles, basketball was historically deemed too rough and cardiovascular for women. Despite these attitudes, women’s professional basketball has excelled. As the game has evolved, calls for equality, empowerment, and social justice have been amplified.
THE COSMIC SYMPHONY OF INTERGALACTIC CHAOS
bunchofsickness // Clementine Clark // Ryder Dobson // Jahree James // Rowan Jensen // Michelle Jones // Kira Makela // NAPCOLORS // Vasualha Nikku // Riffia // SAFO // Shades // Huxley Wendland III Esq. // Sophia Westwood // Emily Wood // WORMLORD
Open Gallery
April 15 to June 24, 2023
Curated by Chris Bose and Charlie Napoleon
This exhibition shares the work of The Fierce Unicorn Shadow Masterminds Artists Collective. Lead by KAG Youth Programs Coordinator Chris Bose, this program engages a determined and dedicated group of young artists who meet weekly in the Kamloops Art Gallery studios to explore multi-media.
I KNOW ABOUT LOTS OF THINGS I’VE NEVER SEEN. AND SO DO YOU.
Zoe Kreye
Central Gallery
April 22 to June 30, 2023
Curated by Charo Neville
Breathe, listen, feel, connect, observe. Tune into a sensation in your body. What is it telling you?
I know about lots of things I’ve never seen. And so do you. invites us to trust our internal knowledge. The exhibition shares work by Vancouver-based artist Zoe Kreye created through a studio practice informed by politicized somatics which grounds the artist in her body and allows her to connect with creative forces informed by her bodily sensations.
Generously supported by the Women’s Art Initiative and Jane Irwin and Ross Hill
THE 215 LE ESTCWICWÉY̓ (“THE MISSING”)
Johnny Bandura
The Cube
April 15 to June 24, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
Upon hearing the news in May of 2021 of the 215 children discovered in graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Johnny Bandura began painting 215 portraits as a therapeutic process. He felt compelled to respond to the findings as his grandmother was a Residential School survivor from Kamloops and Bandura remains connected to family in the region.
GLACIAL RESONANCE
Paul Walde
Central Gallery
January 21 to April 1, 2023
Curated by Charo Neville
Presenting the glacier as a central protagonist, Glacial Resonance brings the stark reality of otherwise distant mountain ranges to the forefront. A solo exhibition of ambitious projects by Canadian artist Paul Walde, Glacial Resonance shares the artist’s enduring concern about environmental crises, channelled through sound and video. Best known for his interdisciplinary performances staged in the natural environment, Walde’s work often involves music and choreography. His immersive installations materialize from projects on mountain sides and from deep in old growth forests that involve myriad volunteers and performers, and technically ̶ and geographically - challenging logistics. The splendor and sense of awe evoked by these landscapes, emphasized through the embodied sound experience of Walde’s installations, offer alternative modes in which to traverse the overwhelming scale of climate change.
QUEER NEWFOUNDLAND HOCKEY LEAGUE (QNHL)
Lucas Morneau
The Cube
January 14 to April 1, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
Playfully and provocatively challenging the prevalence of homophobia and hyper-masculinity in the culture of team sports, Lucas Morneau’s Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) proposes 14 fictional teams that reclaim, empower, and amplify LGBTQIA2S+ voices. With team names that include the St. John’s Sissies, Bonavista Buggers, and Ferryland Fairies, Morneau subverts pejoratives used against the LGBTQIA2S+ community, paired with places historically associated with senior hockey league teams in Newfoundland and Labrador.
HEBREW SPELLED BACKWARDS (תירִבעִ)
Lindsey Tyne Johnson
Open Gallery
January 21 to April 1, 2023
In her exhibition, Hebrew Spelled Backwards, Lindsey Tyne Johnson examines the complexities of identifying as Jewish and the fear and uncertainty that often come with it. Through a combination of modern, spiritual, and Jewish themes, Johnson explores discovering one's ancestry later in life and its connection to familiar experiences and art. By challenging people to learn more about cultures they may not understand, Johnson aims to create a space for dialogue and inclusivity.