SEVEN DECADES OF WORKS ON PAPER
Jack Shadbolt
Central Gallery
June 28 to August 30, 2014
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
A RETROSPECTIVE
Ted Smith
Central Gallery
June 28 to August 30, 2014
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
PICASSO'S BEASTS: SELECTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA
Central Gallery
January 17 to March 22, 2014
BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS: BEASTS AND FANTASTIC CREATURES IN EARLY EUROPEAN PRINTS
Central Gallery
January 17 to March 22, 2014
UNLIMITED EDITION
Central Gallery
January 17 to March 22, 2014
Curated by Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation), Aboriginal Curator in Residence, Kamloops Art Gallery
LANDSCAPE REVISITED
Central Gallery
October 19 to December 31, 2013
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
INTO THE WOODS: ETCHINGS BY GEORGE RAAB
George Raab
Central Gallery
October 19 to December 31, 2013
Curated by Art Gallery of Peterborough, Carla Garnet
BEAT NATION: ART, HIP HOP AND ABORIGINAL CULTURE
Central Gallery
June 29 to September 7, 2013
Curated by Tania Willard, Vancouver Art Gallery, Kathleen Ritter
WEATHER SYSTEMS
Germaine Koh
Central Gallery
April 6 to June 15, 2013
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
WESTERN & SONIA CORNWALL ROUNDUP
Central Gallery
January 18 to March 23, 2013
Curated by Roger Boulet, Charo Neville
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.
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.
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.
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.
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS
Central Gallery
October 15 to December 31, 2011
Curated by Patrik Andersson
To many Canadians the title of this exhibition will bring to mind David Suzuki’s longstanding science and nature television series of a similar name. However, in the context of this art exhibition the title is meant to summon up the words and images created by Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius in his epic poem De rerum natura. Its purpose was to explain Epicurean philosophy to Roman audiences in the 1st century BC.
THE ART OF THE CELEBRITY PORTRAIT
Edward Steichen // Yousuf Karsh
Central Gallery
October 15 to December 31, 2011
Curated by Ann Thomas
The aim and the art of the portraitist who works with a camera are not merely to produce a likeness but to reveal the mind and the soul behind the human face. When I have had the opportunity of studying those who have left their mark upon our time, I have tried to focus my camera on that quality which has made my subjects stand out from among their contemporaries. I have always been in quest of a secret, for that quality is elusive, indefinable. — Yousuf Karsh in Portraits of Greatness
GLOBAL NATURE
Lorraine Gilbert // Sarah Anne Johnson
Central Gallery
June 11 to September 3, 2011
The unique art of Winnipeg’s Sarah Anne Johnson come into being through personal memories and histories. Pieces in the KAG show include work inspired by a 12-day-expedition to the Arctic Circle. Johnson has been a featured artist at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. In 2008, Johnson’s work earned her the Grange Prize for photography. She is a graduate of the University of Manitoba Fine Arts program and a holds Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale.
SUBLIME MOMENTS
Victor Hamm
Central Gallery
June 11 to September 3, 2011
Curated by Jann LM Bailey
The exhibition of photographs by Kamloops artist Victor Hamm can be scrutinized from many different perspectives—technically, spiritually, politically and aesthetically. They are images of architectural or natural elements which can function on a more personal level as metaphors for subjective experience. Like the cracking and crumbling surface of the work in the Kamloops Art Gallery’s permanent collection, The Men’s Residence, Tranquille, these exquisite and overtly detailed images imply a certain fragility and vulnerability. To those of us living in the Thompson/Nicola region of British Columbia the images are deeply authentic.
THE OPTIMISM OF COLOUR: WILLIAM PEREHUDOFF, A RETROSPECTIVE
William Perehudoff
Central Gallery
March 26 to May 28, 2011
Curated by Karen Wilkin
For six decades, since his first solo exhibition in 1950, William Perehudoff has been regarded as a leading Canadian artist and one of the most influential abstract painters in Western Canada.