Tuesday, May 17, 2:00 pm (PDT)
All ages, FREE
Online via ZOOM
Join exhibiting artist Robin Hodgson and Craig Willms, Kamloops Art Gallery Assistant Curator, online on Tuesday, May 17, for a conversation about the exhibition, Sailing Pretty Close to the Wind, and to learn about Hodgson’s painting practice.
In a new group of paintings currently on view in The Cube, Kamloops artist Robin Hodgson investigates the psychological and emotional nature of post-able-body life. Hodgson creates conceptual paintings where the process and the outcome are equally important, and he often experiments with new devices and tools to paint beyond the scale of his own body movements. Working from a wheelchair, he has invented and adapted a number of tools to overcome his mobility restrictions, with the additional help of his assistants. His continued experimentation aims to develop a painting style unique to his disability, while expanding on the already existing history of notable artists within the disabled community.
Robin Hodgson holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Thompson Rivers University. In 2019, Hodgson received the Kamloops Mayor’s Award for the Arts as Emerging Artist of the Year.
Sailing Pretty Close to the Wind is curated by Craig Willms, and is on view in The Cube at the Kamloops Art Gallery until June 18, 2022.
Photo: Kim Anderson