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
PLACE IN MEMORY
Tara Bauer
The Cube
April 6 to June 15, 2013
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
A NARRATIVE CORPSE
The Cube
January 18 to March 23, 2013
Curated by Craig Willms, 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.
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.
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
THE BONES
Tara Look
The Cube
September 17 to October 29, 2011
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
The Cube is transformed into a projection room for Tara Look’s The Bones. Look explores her family history through a digitally recorded performance of herself playing a Celtic instrument called the bones. The instrument was one of the few creative endeavours passed on to the artist by her father who valued hard work and utilitarian skills over creativity and artistry. The movement required to play this instrument and the framing of the work draw the viewer in while the practice of playing the music serves as a reminder of the artist’s father and a way of dealing with grief after his passing in 2009. Look blends traditional with contemporary music playing along to country songs on the artist’s MP3 player.
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.
CURATOR’S CHOICE
Eric Fagervik
The Cube
June 11 to September 3, 2011
Curated by Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery
Curator’s Choice is the seventh annual exhibition of work by students graduating from Thompson Rivers University. Selected by Kamloops Art Gallery Assistant Curator Craig Willms, Curator’s Choice highlights some of the talent from TRU’s Bachelor of Fine Arts graduating class. Eric Fagervik’s installation is the second version of an actual camper recreated for The Cube at the Kamloops Art Gallery. The work draws attention to sensory experiences and physical awareness of the body’s position in space. Sitting down, opening an overhead compartment and simply entering the space triggers different actions within the camper.