IDEAS & THINGS
Jen Aitken // Hadley+Maxwell // Kelly Lycan // Mark Neufeld // Derek Sullivan
Central Gallery
March 28 to June 13, 2015
Curated by Charo Neville
“The story of objects asserting themselves as things, then, is the story of a changed relation to the human subject and thus the story of how the thing really names less an object than a particular subject-object relation. And, yet, the word things holds within it a more audacious ambiguity.”
LUMINOCITY
Terryl Atkins // Derek Brunen // Doug Buis // Paulino Caputo // Florian Claar // Dana Claxton // Instant Coffee // Wayne Egers // Cao Fei // Tara Gardner // Isabelle Hayeur // Brian Howell // Gary James Joynes // Clarence Jules // Khan Lee // Devon Lindsay // Dasha Novak // Cheryl Pagurek // Stephanie Patsula // Jean Robison // Matt Smith // Holly Ward // Siqi Xu // Vincent Viezzer
Downtown Kamloops & Riverside Park
October 31 to November 8, 2014
Curated by Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery
Luminocity is a week-long public art project featuring video projection, new media works and events in public spaces throughout downtown Kamloops. This new off-site initiative is a forum for independent media arts regionally, nationally and internationally. Enlivening public spaces in unexpected ways,Luminocity embraces new creative concepts and modes of expression in the media arts field and encourages diverse audience engagement outside the Gallery’s regular programming. Inspired by public art events such as Nuit Blanche, this is the KAG’s inaugural presentation, with videos screening in storefronts and on the facades of buildings, in the windows of the TNRD building and at the Old Courthouse and Rotary Bandshell at Riverside Park.
SHUNT
Khan Lee
Central Gallery
October 18 to December 31, 2014
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
Khan Lee’s video Shunt focuses on the iconic image and sound of a freight train—a feature of the local landscape that is steeped in Canada’s growth as a nation and that resonates locally on many levels, as a key source of employment and a constant sign of the movement of goods. In relation to A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr, Shuntcontributes to an ongoing dialogue about the sublime and industrialized landscape. To be viewed and heard inside and outside the Gallery, the work was produced as part of Luminocity, a week-long public art project featuring video projection, new media works and events in public spaces throughout downtown Kamloops.
SEVEN DECADES OF WORKS ON PAPER
Jack Shadbolt
Central Gallery
June 28 to August 30, 2014
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
Coinciding with Ted Smith: A Retrospective, Jack Shadbolt: Seven Decades of Works on Paper showcases the recent addition of seventy-nine Jack Shadbolt works to the Kamloops Art Gallery’s permanent collection. Many of these works on paper were studies for major public artworks or large-scale paintings. Spanning seven decades, this selection of drawings is significant to an understanding of Shadbolt’s oeuvre and his contribution to the history of Canadian art.
LANDSCAPE REVISITED
Central Gallery
October 19 to December 31, 2013
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
Landscape looms large within the public imagination of Canadians. Canada’s natural landscape is vast, changeable and diverse. There is a deep cultural attachment to the landscape; nature and culture are intimately intertwined. The land is something to be owned, consumed, viewed and pictured.
WEATHER SYSTEMS
Germaine Koh
Central Gallery
April 6 to June 15, 2013
Curated by Charo Neville, Kamloops Art Gallery
Weather Systems presents work by Vancouver-based artist Germaine Koh from the past two decades and new works made specifically for this exhibition. The selected work relates natural and human systems by focusing on the inter-relatedness of conditions in the built and natural environment that might otherwise seem disparate. It brings together the artist’s series of three Fair-weather forces works for the first time. This series comprises architectonic interventions that suggest a reciprocal relationship between human behavior and natural or meteorological phenomena, namely wind, sunlight and tides.
WESTERN & SONIA CORNWALL ROUNDUP
Central Gallery
January 18 to March 23, 2013
Curated by Roger Boulet, Charo Neville
The Kamloops Art Gallery’s 2013 exhibition program focuses its attention on the idea of “place.” Situated within active ranching country, the first exhibitions of the year look at how the mythology of the West has developed in this region and opens up a conversation about our relationship to this place. Western brings together key works by artists who have addressed the idea of the “west” and the “western” in diverse and complex ways. This group exhibition aims to take stock of the history of settlement in the west and to reflect upon how this history and its manifestations have shaped the popular imagination. It includes an absurd and yet strongly metaphorical large-scale installation by the artist collective DRIL that features the tumbleweed as the main protagonist…
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.