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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kamloops Art Gallery</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">January 10, 2022</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marks in Progress</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christine Savage</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nathan Skyers</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clement Yeh</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE CUBE</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">January 15 to April 2, 2022</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drawing is often understood as the preparation for a final work, not a fully realized practice, but over the past 50 years, as contemporary artists continue to explore
its possibilities, drawing has been elevated from a supporting role to a primary medium alongside other art forms.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">W</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ith this theme as the premise,
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Marks in Progress
</i></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">features work by three Kamloops-based artists who have divergent approaches to drawing. Applying techniques that range from traditional pencil on paper to digital
rendering, much of the finished work emerges through preparatory sketches and experimental processes, where a physical artwork is not fully realized until the final stage. The
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>act</i></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of drawing is evident in the final work; each artist emphasizes
the gesture of lines and marks to capture memory and movement and to infer a narrative or ideas that do not exist exactly as they are drawn.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christine Savage’s blind contour drawing project began as a means for Savage to resume her art practice after a few years of putting it aside. She began drawing daily with
the goal of completing 100 drawings within a few months. The technique of blind contour drawing—where the artist looks at the subject and not the page—allowed Savage to avoid overthinking the process and to draw from photo references or things in her immediate
vicinity. This practice then changed for Savage. Following the death of her father, she shifted this daily ritual and began using the practice of contour drawing to process her grief through memory. Working from photographs of her father, herself, and other
family members, Savage has focused on creating a series of larger connected drawings that incorporate even more techniques of mark-making while linking various modes of visual expression.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nathan Skyers is a graphic designer and commercial illustrator who uses pen and pencil on paper along with digital tools. Starting on paper, Skyers begins by drawing small
sketches or studies that introduce composition and chiaroscuro (light and dark) as means to explore the details of his subjects. These preparatory drawings are scanned, refined, and reworked digitally until each component reaches completion. They are then
digitally stitched together to create a final work that cannot be found in the original pencil sketch. Through this process Skyer explores subjects from everyday life and his surroundings.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Incorporating a myriad of drawing styles and approaches to mark-making, Clement Yeh’s work explores the movements and gestures of a ballet dancer in motion. Yeh’s project
is inspired by Norman McLaren’s National Film Board of Canada film </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Pas De Deux,
</i></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1968,</span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
which presents the superimposed movements of two dancers as they move across the screen. The film and Yeh’s response create a visual echo of the dancer’s movements through gestural repetition. Originally conceived as multiple large-scale drawings, Yeh’s project—re-conceived
for The Cube space—conveys the movement of the ballet dancer through life-size fluid sketches that unify bodily movements across the wall.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sharing the different ways in which each of the artists approach drawing,
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Marks in Progress</i></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> also includes sketchbooks and artist reference
material to offer insight into the unique development of each project for this exhibition.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Please direct all media inquiries to Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery, (250) 377-2406 or
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55""><a href="mailto:cwillms@kag.bc.ca"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cwillms@kag.bc.ca</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">About the Kamloops Art Gallery</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Founded in 1978, the Kamloops Art Gallery offers inspiring, provocative and transformative art experiences of national caliber. Located in Secwepemcúlecw, it
is the largest art gallery in the Interior of British Columbia and boasts a collection of over 3,000 works of art. With more than 12 exhibitions every year, the Gallery offers diverse, accessible and affordable experiences including talks, tours and studio-based
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CRAIG WILLMS [he/him] </span>
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