[BCMA] FW: Kamloops Art Gallery Media Release | Town + Country exhibition opens July 20

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For immediate release from Kamloops Art Gallery
July 9, 2024

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Tania Willard, Landscape Painting; Secwepemcúĺecw, 2024
documentation image from Bush Gallery activation, moosehair,
copper, wood, pell-tsqwéqwyem̓c (Indian paintbrush) ell r tmicq (and land)
dimensions variable

Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital
Architects Against Housing Alienation
Rodney Graham
Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
Karin Jones
Tiziana La Melia
Carel Moiseiwitsch
Alex Morrison
Janet Wang
Holly Ward
Tania Willard
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

July 20 to September 21, 2024
Central Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery
Curated by Caitlin Jones, Charo Neville, and Melanie O’Brian
New Summer Exhibition at the Kamloops Art Gallery: Paintings, Sculptures, and Videos Redefine the Urban-Rural Divide

Visitors are invited to explore the Kamloops Art Gallery’s new summer exhibition, Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital, curated by Caitlin Jones, Charo Neville, and Melanie O’Brian. Beginning July 20, this group exhibition features works by ten contemporary artists and one collective who take up current concerns around the housing crisis and Indigenous land rights while pointing to historic mass movements from the city to the country as seen in the British Arts and Crafts movement at the turn of the twentieth century, the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s, and the most recent pandemic exodus.
Through painting, photography, sculpture, video, and more, the exhibition troubles the enduring narrative of the urban/rural divide. With a focus on the histories and practices of so-called British Columbia, Town + Country addresses Indigenous sovereignty, the ongoing climate catastrophe, and a critical reframing of land use. Highlighting issues of colonialism, property ownership, and the mass exploitation of human capital, visitors are invited to engage with art that challenges and subverts traditional conceptions of town and country. Join the Gallery in exploring these profound impacts through the lens of contemporary art.
This exhibition is co-organized by the Kamloops Art Gallery and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. These sites offer a dialogue between the binaries of town and country as well as on the structures of settler colonialism on unceded Indigenous territory that define these institutions.
Join the Gallery for the opening reception of Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital on Saturday July 20. Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital runs from July 20 to September 21.

Read the full Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital<https://kag.bc.ca/all-exhibitions/town-country-narratives-of-property-and-capital> exhibition text.

This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of the Audain Foundation, Jane Irwin and Ross Hill, the Hamber Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council, the City of Kamloops, and the Belkin Curator’s Forum members.

Media Information
Charo Neville, Curator
250.377.2410
cneville at kag.bc.ca<mailto:cneville at kag.bc.ca>

About the Kamloops Art Gallery
The Kamloops Art Gallery, established in 1978, is situated on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people. The largest art gallery in Secwepemcúl̓ecw (the Interior of British Columbia), the Gallery offers national caliber art experiences through a diverse range of accessible and affordable exhibitions, talks, tours, and studio-based programming for all ages and abilities, and boasts a collection of over 3,000 works of art.




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KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY
101 – 465 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC  V2C 2A9
250.377.2400  |  www.kag.bc.ca<http://www.kag.bc.ca/>


The Kamloops Art Gallery is situated on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people.

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