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Tricia Sellmer</div>
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<i>Unfolding 3</i>, 2024</div>
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Kamloops Art Gallery</div>
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<b><i>Unfolding</i></b></div>
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<b>The Cube</b></div>
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<b>May 3 to August 20, 2025</b></div>
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<b>May 10 Opening Reception 6:30 to 8:00 pm</b><br>
<b>Curated by Craig Willms</b></div>
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<b>Kamloops artist Tricia Sellmer translates sound into colour and gesture through new abstract paintings at the Kamloops Art Gallery</b></div>
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<i><a name="_Hlk192511805">Unfolding</a></i>, an exhibition of new work by Kamloops-based artist, Tricia Sellmer, is composed of eleven paintings organized into four chronological parts. This body of work was created over the past year in Sellmer’s current
dedicated studio and exhibition space on Victoria Street in Kamloops. Made while listening to the dynamic and moving sounds of classical music, this backdrop of sound inspired bold brushstrokes and patterns. As the title suggests, this work captures the unfolding
of Sellmer’s artistic career into movements, like a musical score, telling the story of shifting ideas and styles as her practice developed.</div>
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Throughout her artistic career Sellmer has engaged with feminism, modernism, and abstraction, best exemplified in her
<i>Tapestry Gardens Series</i>, first exhibited at the Kamloops Art Gallery in 2002 and later acquired for its collection.
<i>Tapestry Gardens Series</i> serves as the inspiration and an instigating force behind the
<i>Unfolding </i>exhibition where multiple layers of paint are built up like a tapestry. Selections from the
<i>Tapestry Gardens Series</i> are presented as a companion to this new body of work.</div>
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<b>Artist Biography</b></div>
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Sellmer writes, lectures, and curates projects and exhibitions. In 2002, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University College of the Cariboo (now TRU) in conjunction with BC Open University, and in 2009, she received a Master of Fine Arts
degree from Transart Institute for Creative Research. Sellmer has participated in numerous national and international residencies and her artwork is in collections throughout North America, Europe, Mexico, and South Africa.</div>
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Charo Neville, Curator<br>
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<b>About the Kamloops Art Gallery</b></div>
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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
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