Kamloops Art Gallery
Kamloops Art Gallery
Jayce Salloum: History of the Present (Selected Works 1985-2009)
Edited by Jen Budney
This monograph accompanying the first retrospective of this important Canadian artist’s career fills an large gap in contemporary art documentation. There are many reasons for Salloum’s relatively low profile in his home country, including the non-commercial and interdisciplinary nature of his work (photography and video practices, collaborative, community-based work, curating and writing) and its extremely broad international focus. Yet Salloum is one of Canada’s most widely recognized artists abroad, where his distinctive commitment to the exploration of personal stories and viewpoints within unstable or uncertain geo-political contexts has led him to collaborations with individuals and communities in places as far-ranging as Palestine, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Cuba, Lebanon and more. The comprehensive publication brings together diverse and sometimes competing voices of many individuals to reflect upon the impact of Salloum’s production. Contributors include Keith Wallace, Jamelie Hassan, Walid Raad and Haema Sivanesan. Published with the Mendel Art Gallery.
Kamloops Art Gallery / Confederation Centre Art Gallery (11/2009) 112 pp col. ill. 10 x 9 in softcover 978-1-896359-69-4 $29.95 Can. $32.95 U.S. (24 euros)
Tania Willard: Claiming Space
Chris Bose & Jordan Strom
Tania Willard's art offers a passionate probing of First Nations’ land issues. This first monograph presents paintings, large-scale graphite drawings and a panoramic mural through which the artist traces the 1926 purchase and relocation of a six-ton petroglyph rock installed in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. Willard considers this cultural artifact's historical role as an exemplary object of 'authentic Indian Art' within the mid-20th century tourism industry.
Kamloops Art Gallery (07/2009) 64 pp 20 col. ill. 9.5 x 6.5 in softcover 978-1-895497-78-6 $14.99 Can. $16.99 U.S. (12 euros)
Diyan Achjadi & Brendan Tang: Sugar Bombs
Kristen Lambertson
Tang’s finely crafted ceramics fuse robotic forms from Japanese manga with the ceramic traditions of Ming Dynasty, transforming beautifully decorated objects into tools of voice and power. Achjadi’s inkjet prints have a playful cartoon look, but speak of the role of militarism and war in nationalist propaganda and popular culture. Both artists borrow from globalized culture and reflect its hybridity in contemporary society.
Kamloops Art Gallery (07/2009) 34 pp 18 col. ill 10 x 8 in softcover 978-1-895497-76-2 $14.99 Can. $16.99 U.S. (12 euros)
Isao Sanami/Morrill: Real Life and Landscapes
Jen Budney & Ross Nelson
Sanami/Morrill’s watercolours and pastel and charcoal renderings examine how humans claim space and mark territory on the natural surroundings of the British Columbia interior. Marked by power lines, mines and urban sprawl, her landscapes and domestic scenes reveal a dual influence, that of traditional Japanese brushwork and of western watercolour technique. Born in Japan, Isao Sanami/Morrill has lived and practiced across the country from Nova Scotia to the British Columbia.
Kamloops Art Gallery (12/2008) 48 pp col. ill. 8 x 5 in softcover 978-1-895497-73-1 $14.99 Can. $15.99 U.S. (12 euros)
Patrick Mahon: Drawing Water
Jen Budney & Michael Blackstock
Documentation of a three part exhibition featuring Mahon’s selections from the gallery’s permanent collection, along with work produced in the artist’s community based workshops, and Mahon’s own drawings, sculptures and videos referencing the engravings by J.M.W. Turner. An essay explores Mahon’s definition of water from commodity to metaphor. Accompanied by a poetic text on the political, spiritual and ecological movements surrounding the issue of water.
Kamloops Art Gallery (12/2008) 48 pp col. ill. 8 x 5 in softcover 978-1-895497-74-8 $14.99 Can. $15.99 U.S. (12 euros)
Gary Pearson: The End is My Beginning
David Bateman & Jen Budney
Although Pearson began as an abstract painter, today most of his works portray individuals and groups in transient venues, such as bars, diners, or hotels. Patterns remain an important feature of all his compositions, which may include words, architectural features, and other images or symbols. In an interview with the artist we learn of Pearson’s admiration for artists of the 1920s and 1930s, particularly those associated with German Expressionism. Along with paintings and drawings, Pearson produces videos, which share a painterly quality in their production style visual appearance and thematic concerns. Essays and an interview.Kamloops Art Gallery (04/ 2008) 48 pp 35 col. ill. 10 x 7.5 in softcover 978-1-895497-71-7 $14.99 Can. ($16.99 U.S.)
Rhonda Weppler / Trevor Mahovsky
Jen Budney & Susan Buis
Sculptors Weppler and Mahovsky are among the most exciting young artists to emerge in Canada in the last decade. The duo is known for the playful and unsettling ways they transform everyday objects, such as styrene coffee cups, tin cans and other hallmarks of the everyday. Their work draws from both minimalist and Pop histories, while displaying a distinctly contemporary critical conceptualism. Among the work featured is a new body of work called Clutter Sculptures, which is decidedly more “baroque” than their earlier, clean-lined Stacked Objects. Everyday items, such as bricks, bottles, and tires, are formed out of wire armatures, which are then slathered in plaster and enameled. An essay, a poetic appreciation, and an interview comprise the publication.
Kamloops Art Gallery (04/2008) 64 pp 32 col. ill. 7.5 x 10 in softcover 978-1-895497-72-4 $14.99 Can. ($16.99 U.S.)
Ian McDonald: Boys and Boxes
Terryl Atkins
The recent resurgence of documentary-style photography is borne from a conscious questioning of what a photograph gives and what it does not. Ian McDonald offers photographic portraits of technicians working at Highland Valley Copper, one of the world's largest open pit copper mines. The workers, all men, are specialists in a variety of trades, and the portraits include those of welders, heavy duty and automotive mechanics, electricians, machinists, tire men, and millwrights. McDonald, who also works at the mine, has photographed each man standing next to his tool box. McDonald approaches his subjects in what appears to be a direct and matter-of fact way and his work provides a fascinating contrast with industrial portraiture of other photographers, notably Yousuf Karsh.
Kamloops Art Gallery (11/2007) 48 pp 35 col. ill. 9.5 x 7 in softcover 978-1-895497-70-0 $14.99 Can./U.S. (12 euros)
Undiscovered: New Art from the Thompson-Nicola Regional District
Kristen Lambertson
A presentation of work by six young artists from the Kamloops area selected by a jury of art professionals.
Kamloops art Gallery (11/2007) 30 pp col. ill. 5 x 5 in (brochure within a sealed box) 978-1-895497-69-4 $9.99 Can./U.S. (8 euros)
Overstepped Boundaries: Powerful Statements by Aboriginal Artists in the Permanent Collection
Ayla Joe, Erika Lakes & Julienne Ignace
An exploration of the gallery's collection of traditional and contemporary works of art by Aboriginal artists. The three young Aboriginal women who curated the exhibition discuss art history and issues of tradition, identity, and innovation, and learn the process of creating an exhibition for a public gallery.
Kamloops Art Gallery (04/2007) 32 pp col. ill. 7 x 5 in softcover 978-189549768-7 $9.99 Can./U.S. (8 euros)
The Heritage Kamloops Collection by Werner Braun
Ken Favrholdt
Werner Braun is celebrated for his watercolour paintings of heritage properties in the region of Kamloops, British Columbia. The publication features thirty-five of Braun's paintings of the most significant historical architecture in the region, including schools, commercial buildings, churches and private homes. Each reproduction is accompanied by a detailed history of the depicted structure, researched and written by historian Ken Favrholdt, who also supplies an overview essay of Kamloops' history. The Heritage Kamloops Collection by Werner Braun is a valuable resource for anyone interested in British Columbian history as well as students of painting and architecture.
Kamloops Art Gallery (01/2007) 98 pp 35 col. ill. 10 x 11 in softcover 978-1-895497-67-0 $29.99 Can./U.S. (24 euros)
Ernie Kroeger: Beetle Letters
Jen Budney
Using a combination of ancient and modern techniques, Kroeger's photographs pay homage to the mysterious communications of pine beetles.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2007) 16 pp 8 ill 6 x 9 in 1-895497-65-5 $5.00 (4 euros)
Linda Walton: Evanescence, Barnes Lake in Decline
Jen Budney et al
Using a combination of ancient and modern techniques, Kroeger's photographs pay homage to the mysterious communications of pine beetles.Kamloops Art Gallery (2007) 14 pp ill. 9 x 6 in 1-895497-66-3 $5.00 (4 euros)
Lisa Klapstock: Liminal
Alison Nordström & Scott McLeod
Lisa Klapstock's photographic practice challenges visual perception of everyday urban environments. This splendid first monograph, illustrated with dozens of colour plates, presents several series produced from the late 1990s to today. Living Room documents the hidden life of urban back lanes. Threshold - scenes shot through holes in backyard fences - reveals views that are invisible to the naked eye. Ambiguous Landscapes juxtaposes stark landscapes with and without the human figure (Klapstock herself). While the work is highly formalized and richly textured, Klapstock's overriding concern is the gray area between private and public and how, as both artist and woman, one inhabites that space. In English and French. Lisa Klapstock has exhibited at George Eastman House, Presentation House Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Alison Nordström is Curator of Photography at George Eastman House. Scott McLeod is editor and publisher of Prefix magazine.
La pratique photographique de Lisa Klapstock défie la perception visuelle de l'environnement urbain quotidien. Cette première monographie nous présente plusieurs séries produites durant les années 1990 jusqu'à aujourd'hui. La série Living Room documente la vie cachée des ruelles urbaines. Quant à Threshold - des photographies prises à travers des trous dans des clôtures -, l'artiste nous dévoile des scènes cachées à l'oeil nu. La série Ambiguous Landscapes juxtapose des paysages avec ou sans une figure humaine (Klapstock elle-même). Quoique l'œuvre soit formelle et riche en textures, la préoccupation principale de l'artiste demeure la zone grise entre le privé et le public et, en tant que femme et artiste, comment habiter cet espace. En français et anglais.
Southern Alberta Art Gallery / Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery / Kamloops Art Gallery (04/2006)
96 pp 57 col. ill. 1-894699-33-5 hardcover $39.95 Can./U.S. (32 euros)
Proximities: Artists' Statements & Their Works
Edited by W.F. Garrett-Petts & Rachel Nash
Writing about art / writing as art. Two English literature academics investigate artists' statements in terms of their relationships to art and artistic practice. Believing that artist's statements represent an intriguing example of "literatures of lesser diffusion", they explore the intersection of the visual and the verbal in works that rely heavily on language. The artists themselves work with their own earlier statements in ways that annotate their original works, creating new work in the process. Their visual and verbal contributions broaden our understanding of the contexts informing the production of each work. Participating artists include Donald Lawrence, Jan Peacock, Brenda Pelkey and Sandra Semchuk.
Kamloops Art Gallery (11/2005) 88 pp col. ill. 9 x 6 in hardcover 1-895497-63-9 $19.99 Can./U.S. (16 euros)
Rebecca Belmore: Fountain
Jessica Bradley & Jolene Rickard
Official publication of Canada's representation at the 2005 Venice Biennale. The art of Rebecca Belmore - whether installation, video or photograph - is based in performance, a medium she sees as shared by old traditions and modern expression, at once indigenous and international. The sense of loss is always explicit and specific: lost battles, lost culture and lost language. Yet despite the difficult subject matter, her work is always infused with a sense of play and wonder. Fountain, a performance-based video installation, has been conceived specifically for the Biennale. The time is both today's industrialized landscape and another time of creation, myth and prophecy. As befits current events, we do not know whether this is a metaphor for creation or an apocalyptic vision. Rebecca Belmore is an Anishinabekwe artist working out of Vancouver. She has exhibited internationally, most notably at Santa Fe's Institute of American Indian Art, the Heard Museum and the National Gallery of Canada. She also represented Canada in a group exhibition at the 1998 Sydney Biennale. Co-published with the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2005) 108 pp 28 ill (16 col.) 10 x 7 in softcover 0-88865-634-3 $20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros)
Daphne Odjig: Four Decades of Prints
Jann LM Bailey & Morgan Wood
This outstanding publication documents just one aspect of a multi-faceted career spanning forty years. Essays and numerous colour prints allow us to celebrate aboriginal cultural heritage through the eyes of one of Canada's most remarkable artists. Wood explores Odjig's life and work and her significance in the promotion of First Nations art and artists in Canada. Bailey recounts the development of the gallery's collection of Odjig's prints, the largest of any institution in the country. Sylistically, Odjig has taken traditional Northwest Coast Native art and transformed it into something new and personal. Daphne Odjig is the recipient of The Order of Canada and the Aboriginal Achievement Award. She represented Canada at World Expo Japan and has exhibited in numerous international exhibitions. Daphne Odjig was born in 1909 and continues to work to this day.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2005) 64 pp 24 ill. (col.) 10 x 9 in
Softcover 1-895497-61-2 $19.99 Can./U.S. (16 euros) / Hardcover 1-895497-62-0 $34.99 Can./U.S. (28 euros)
Daphne Odjig : Quatre décennies de gravures
Jann LM Bailey et Morgan Wood
Première monographie en français dédiée aux gravures de cette artiste amérindienne exceptionnelle. Cette publication accompagne l'exposition de Odjig qui a fait le tour du Canada. Les essais et les maintes planches couleurs nous permettent de célébrer l'héritage culturel amérindien à travers l'œuvre de Odjig. Née en 1919, Daphne Odjig doit quitter l'école à un jeune âge suite à une maladie. Durant sa convaléscence, elle découvre et développe ses abilités artistiques. Dans les années 1970, Odjig et son mari ouvrent le Odjig Indian Prints of Canada, lieu tremplin pour des artistes tels Alex Janvier et Norval Morisseau. Âgée de 87 ans, l'artiste est toujours prolifique. Wood explore la vie et le travail de Odjig ainsi que son rôle dans l'avancement de l'art et des artistes des Premières nations. Bailey discute le développement de la collection de gravures de l'artiste par la Kamloops Art Gallery.
Kamloops Art Gallery (05/2006) 64 pp 24 ill. coul. 25 x 20 cm souple 1-895497-64-7 $19.99 (16 euros)
Leonard Epp: A Precarious Journey
Andrew Hunter & Bill Richardson
The British Columbia ceramist produces darkly humorous works that reference contemporary social issues, art history, and religious and cultural traditions. Realistically, the sculptures depict the consumption of fish, but the grotesqueness of the figures refers to the loss of our sensitivity to consumption.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2005) 40 pp 18 ill (14 col) 11 x 5.5 in softcover 1-895497-59-0 $12.99 Can./U.S. (10 euros)
Jin-me Yoon: Unbidden (Out of print)
Susan Edelstein & Susette Min
Yoon's video installations and photographic works address the traumas of war and the effects of the current war on terrorism. Through the staging of war-like imagery, the work plays on the viewer's memory and automatic response to imagery.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2004) 54 pp col. ill. 7.5 x 6.5 in softcover 1-895497-58-2 $12.95 Can./U.S. (10 euros)
Onley's True North
Roger H. Boulet
Publication of a retrospective exhibition initiated prior to Onley's tragic death on February 29th this year at the age of 76. For over thirty years Onley traveled, often alone, throughout the Canadian Arctic, producing hundreds of watercolours and prints. Boulet's essay reflects on the beauty and haunting vibrancy of Onley's work and on the relationship that he and earlier Canadian artists, notably Varley, have had with the land. Prior to his death, Onley had already arranged to donate much of his work to the Gallery, reflecting his passion for the British Columbia Interior. This publication commemorates the man, the artist and the public figure.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2004) 72 pp 20 col. ill. 8 x 11 in softcover 1-895497-57-4 $14.95 (12 euros)
Richard Prince: Taxonomy of Islands
Ian M. Thom
Taxonomy is the term used in science for classification and in this new body of work. Prince identifies and classifies islands or objects relating to islands by arranging their elements to examine the rich history, both real and imaginary. Sculptures, photographs and drawings.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2003) 24 pp col. ill. 8.5 x 10 in 1-895497-56-6 $14.95 (12 euros)
Donald Lawrence: Kayaks and Caissons
Keith Wallace
Lawrence's two- and three-dimensional works are working pieces used in the production of pinhole photographs. His illustrated journals document the works' progression, traversing the blurred line between artifact and art, and fulfilling the artist's interest in the intersection between image and text. In addition to having their individual material forms and explorations, these current projects indulge the artist's interest in sea kayaking. A booklet with an essay, twelve inscribed postcard-sized photographs and an overview of the exhibition are enclosed within a cardboard box
Kamloops Art Gallery (2003) 31 pp & 12 cards in cardbord box 6x5 in 1895497558 $18.00
Yoko Takashima
Mowry Baden
Large-format digitalized colour photographs confront the viewer with images of private matters and domestic relationships that have universal relevance. The artist's newly-acquired roles as mother and caregiver are threaded throughout. Other works relate to inter-family relationships and act as a catalyst for her explorations of the emotions associated with parenting: anxiety, vulnerability and obsessiveness. Yoko Takashima was born in Japan and currently lives in Vancouver.
Kamloops Art Gallery / Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2003) 38 pp 12 col. ill. 10x6.5 in hardcover 1-895497-54-X $20.00 Can./U.S. (14 euros).
Dianne Bos: Son et Lumière
Susan Edelstein & Ihor Holubizky
The narrative effect of Bos' pinhole photography, with its ability to photograph over time and capitalize on unexpected peripherals, is enhanced by an audio CD wherein sound bites animate the moment of each photograph.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2002) 24 pp 12 ill. 6x7 in (with audio-CD) 1895497523 $16.00
Kyozon
Susan Edelstein, Yoichi Kimura, Kevin Ei-ichi De Forest & Monika Kin Gagnon
In Japanese, Kyozon refers to the "merging together of opposite things", an insightful name for this look at eight contemporary Japanese artists by writers who themselves are of opposite and merged cultural identities. Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami are among the participating artists. As Kimura notes, in comparison to movements in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s, these works are not obviously political. They do however acutely reflect the changes that have rocked a post-Hirohito society since the Emperor's death in 1989. Critiques of the status of women, education and traditional mores are explicit. De Forest provides a context for understanding contemporary Japanese art, detailing the lack of government funding and the consequent reliance on corporate entities like Sony. Gagnon's essay on video, particularly that of Mori, is especially relevant in relation to this accessibility to technology. The concepts of duality and merging inform all the essays. Influences discussed range from manga (Japanese comic strips), traditional performance art as well as George Segal and Cindy Sherman. But as De Forrest warns, the resemblance between Japanese and Western art can be misleading. In a society renowned for its ability to copy Western products, resemblance typically remains on the surface.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2002) 60 pages, 21 ill. (19 col.) 10x8 in. softcover 1895497493 $24.95 (Can./U.S.)
Gu Xiong: Yellow River / Blue Culture
Gu Xiong & Andrew Hunter
Documenting their trip to China, Vancouver artist Gu Xiong and artist/curator Andrew Hunter focus on cultural hybridization. Gu Xiong draws on similarities between the rapid commercial development of cities in China and their Canadian counterparts, highlighting the commonality of those places where American corporate influence (Blue Culture) has blurred cultural borders. Hunter recounts his visit to China, noting the almost seamless insinuation of Blue Culture into everyday life. Xiong's photographs so perfectly embody this cultural cross-pollination that one has to look closely to discover if the local is the Forbidden City or in fact Montreal's Chinatown.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2002) 27 pp 29 col. ill. 9x8 in 1895497507 $8.00
Renée Van Halm: Dream Home
Lisa Robertson & Sherry McKay
Van Halm creates sculptures and paints gouaches that breakdown and investigate contemporary domestic architectural obsessions. Her scale models of rooms and her evocative aerial renderings of homes illustrate how leisure, class and social standing are expressed through architecture, demonstrating, for example, that the more expensive the home, the more the design is steeped in nostalgia leaving more modest dwellings to utilize modernist notions of simplicity and utility. Essays by Roberston (author of the ongoing project Office for Soft Architecture) and McKay (professor at the UBC School of Architecture) discuss Van Halm's work as art, architecture, design and popular culture.
Southern Alberta Art Gallery / Kamloops Art Gallery (2002) 44 pp 18 col. ill. 9.5x8 in softcover 0920751857 $15.00 (Can./U.S.)
Ed Pien
Robin Laurence
The first major publication on the work of this singular artist. Ed Pein's drawings are immensely engaging because they are nourished by rich cultural traditions and because they literally pull the viewer in. References to Chinese and Italian manuscripts are striking and Pein's concern with life, death and life after death register an acute cultural hybridity. In the West we are most familiar with Dante's Inferno but the depiction of suffering and of the desire for ascendancy of the spirit is equally prevalent in Chinese Buddhist art. Pein's creations, with their circularity and repetition are at once ceremonial and playful and themselves hang between Eastern and Western traditions. Born in Taiwan, Ed Pein lived in Vancouver before moving to Toronto. He has exhibited at the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, La Biennale de Montréal 2000 and The Drawing Centre and the Asian American Arts Centre, both in New York. Co-published with Vancouver's Contemporary Art Gallery.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2001) 46 pp 10 col. ill. 10x6.5 in. hardcover 0920751814 $20.00 (Can./U.S.)
Brian Wood: Cribbed
Lisa Robertson
Using both drawing and photography, the New York-based Canadian artist creates a work steeped in duality - reality and abstraction, the conscious and the unconscious, the rational and the irrational. This collection of photo-based works from the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Kamloops Art Gallery provides a clear understanding of the natural progression and development of the artist's practice over the last number of years. Brian Wood has taught at New York and Fordham universities and currently teaches at Yale.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2001) 32 pp 12 ill. 9x7 in. softcover 1895497477 $12.00 (Can./U.S.)
Eric Metcalfe: The Attic Project
Hector Williams & Peter White
The Vancouver artist's long career has been marked by incursions into conceptual art, Fluxus and his own personal conceptual framework known as "Brutopia" whose chief preoccupations are repression and violence. His current project - pots inspired from Greek antiquity - with its lightens of vision and physical beauty, seems a radical departure from a dark and ironic practice. White's essay shows that the projection is in fact quite linear. By reproducing the original shapes of ancient Athenian pottery, painting them with designs that work on both literal and metaphorical levels and placing them in institutional spaces, Metcalfe manages to succinctly comment on the role of the museum and its historical manipulation of art. The results, visually stunning yet not without suggestions of parody and pastiche, project a wide range of attitudes. The name of the exhibition itself, which references both antique Greek culture and contemporary antique roadshows, signals the remove.
Southern Alberta Art Gallery / Kamloops Art Gallery (2001) 64 pp 38 col. ill. 9x6 in. hardcover 1894699025 $20.00 (Can./U.S.)
Lost Homelands
Elizabeth Edwards, Annette Hurtig, Shauna McCabe, Dannys Montes de Orca Moreda and Alfred Young Man
Five essays examine the implications of Landscape as it relates to the creation and meaning of national identities in the work of four international artists. In questioning the meaning and function of national identity, Manuel Pina (Cuba), Jorma Puranen (Finland), Edward Poitras and Jin-me Yoon (Canada) explore through their work the powerful yet fragile notion of place and belonging. Although diverse in treatment and presentation, the common medium is largely photo-based and the common concerns include the construction of official history, cultural representation, colonialism and territorial rights. Each essay is accompanied by a statement by the artist and a resumé.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2001) 60 pp 12 ill. (10 col.) 6.5x6.5 in, 1895497442 softcover $14.95 (Can./ U.S.)
Ann Kipling: Prints
Roger H. Boulet & Ian M. Thom
Two essays explore the two distinct stages of Kipling's career as a printmaker: 1958 to 1967, the period during which she produced an important body of prints; and 1999 t0 2000, when, incited by renewed interest, she began again. Having always seen herself as a "drawer", her activities as printmaker are an expansion of her drawing vocabulary from the stylized abstracts of the mid-sixties to her later exuberant landscapes of the British Columbia interior. Also included is a detailed explanation of various printmaking techniques. With full page colour plates.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2000) 63 pp 22 ill., (4 col.) 11x8 in. 1895497450 softcover $14.95 (Can./U.S.)
Home Grown. Five from the Region
Susan D. Edelstein
The work of five artists of various disciplines - all current or former residents of the Kamloops British Columbia area - provides a rich opportunity to consider how place and "home" affects and cultivates our sensibility.
Kamloops Art Gallery (2001) 23 pp 14 ill. (5 col.) 11x8 in 1895497469 $7.00 (Can./U.S.)
Angela Grossman: Correction(s)
Susan Edelstein & Matthew G. Yeager
A series of photographs from the 1930s and 1940s depicting convicts from the British Columbia Penitentiary have been reworked by Grossman (oils, mixed media) and now tell a much different story. The essayists discuss manipulation of the viewer, the construction of identity and the issues of privacy and public domain. Grossman, whose career was launched with the important exhibition, The Young Romantics, has exhibited through Canada and the United States.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1999) 27 p., 8 ill. (6 col.), 9.5 x 7.5 in 1895497396 $14.00 (pb)
Jerry Pethick: Drawing/room
Peter Culley & Annette Hurtig
Known primarily as a sculptor, the British Columbia based artist's interests extend to technologies like holographic laser systems and integral photography. The essays and accompanying CD -Rom provide extensive documentation of the artist's innovations in aesthetics and imaging systems as they are reflected not only in sculpture but in drawing and photography.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1999) 10 pp foldout with CD-Rom. 9.5x7 in 1895497388 $19.95
Carl Skelton: Out Here
Andrew Hunter, Lisa Gabrielle Mark et al
Relationships between the natural world and technology are a constant for the artist who over the years has created a singular sculptural oeuvre impregnated with the Canadian wildlife tradition. Three essays and a short story elaborate different facets of the work: its relationship to Inuit art; its place within the history of installation art; and the effects it has, as public art, on the viewer.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1999) 55 p., 10x8 in 24 col ill. 189549737x $15.00
Re tsúwets re Secwepemc: The Things We Do
Marianne Ignace, Ron Ignace & Gerald Etienne
A discussion of the way in which contemporary Secwepemc (Shuswap) people live their cultural traditions as part of an ancient and continuing way of life, as well as a glimpse at their own history of photography. Produced in conjunction with the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1999) 21 pp 8x10 in 13 ill.(11 col.) (no ISBN) $7.95
David Neel: Living Traditions
David Neel & Andrew Hunter
Working as both photographer and mask carver, Kwaglutl artist Neel expresses the realities of the contemporary world with power and feeling.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1998) 16 pp 9x9 in 90 col. ill. 1895497353 $15.00
Home Base: Notes to an Installation
Andrew Hunter
A curatorial exploration of the Gallery's permanent collection, history and programming strategy.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1998) 7x9 in col. ill. 1895497345 $4.95
Art Now: An Expansive Field of Play
Annette Hurtig
A critical overview of the Gallery's extensive collection of contemporary Canadian art.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1998) 7x9 in cm col. ill. 1895497329 $4.95
Changing Spirits: Canadian Art of the 1960s and 70s
Catherine Mastin
The essayist considers the Gallery collection from this significant period in Canadian history.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1998) 7x9 in col. ill., 1895497302 $4.95
Towards the Group of Seven and Beyond: Canadian Art in the First Five Decades of the Twentieth Century
Leslie Dawn
The first comprehensive consideration of the Gallery's growing collection of historical Canadian art.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1998) 7x9 in col. ill. 1895497310 $4.95
North American Indian Art: It's a Question of Integrity
Alfred Young Man
Young Man's essay addresses a broad range of issues concerning the relationship between Native and non-Native cultures. He explores contemporary art produced by First Peoples artists in relation to dominant Western models and considers stereotypes perpetuated through poular culture.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1998) 8x10 in 62 ill.(13 col.) 1895497337 $19.95
Making an Impression: Contemporary Moccasins of the Shuswap
Jann Baily & Sarah Jules
A look at the history of this people's traditional footwear, tracing its roots and examining how contemporary Shuswap still decorate and wear the moccasins. A short history of the people is also included.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1997) 8x12 in col. ill. 1895497248 $9.95
Gisele Amantea: Requiescat
Annette Hurtig
The artist responds to cultural codes and social mechanisms that produce identity and designate difference, thereby determining relations and the formation of desire.
Kamloops Art Gallery. (1997) 8x9 in col. ill. 092113228x $10.00
Philippe Raphanel: Poisons / Phobia
Annette Hurtig & Bruce Hugh Russell
With specific references to the AIDS/HIV epidemic, the artist celebrates the splendour of the natural world. With two essays.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1997) 8x9in col. ill. 1895497272 $9.95
Gloria Elies
Laurence Robin
A biographical portrait of the non-conformist philosopher and feminist living and sculpting in Mexico. Bronze is her chosen material.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1996) 48 p., ill. 10x9.5 in (no ISBN) $12.95
Mary Longman: Traces
Gerald McMaster, Mary Longman
Attesting to the role played by memory in aboriginal culture, McMaster illustrates how Longman's sculptural work connects family, traditiona and community.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1996) 32 pp ill 11x7 in 1895497213 $12.95
E.J. Hughes: The Vast and Beautiful Interior
Jann L.M. Bailey et al
The essayists focus on the painter's lesser known depictions of the
British Columbia interior. Kamloops Art Gallery (1994) 72 pp ill., 8x11 in 1895497132 $14.95
Don Menzies: One to One
Jann L.M. Bailey et al
An examination of the painter's approach to portraiture.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1994) 16 pp ill., 7x9in 1895497159 $4.95
Leslie Poole: Through the Looking Glass. Self-Portaits of Leslie Poole
Robin Laurence et al
Two essays and an interview with the artist illucidate the painter's concerns.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1992) 31 pp ill., 11x9 in 1895497035 $9.95S
Ted Smith: Three Decades of Colour
Anna-Maria Larsen et al
An examination of the career of the landscape painter.
Kamloops Art Gallery (1992) 12 pp ill., 7.5x9 in 189549706x $5.00
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