Recover All That is Ours
Lindsay Dobbin, Meryl McMaster, Meagan Musseau, Becca Taylor, and Niki & Breanna Little.
Featuring poems by Gwen Benaway and Janet Rogers
March 1 – April 25
Main Gallery
Guest Curator: Shannon Webb-Campbell
Inspired by a line by Mohawk/Tuscarora poet Janet Rogers, the exhibition redefines the ideas about Canada, and its 500 hundred year-old relationship with Turtle Island through de-colonial poetics, mythology, and contemporary multi-disciplinary Indigenous art practices.
With funding by the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, and the City of Campbell River.
Read the review by Jocelyn Doll from the Campbell River Mirror: Exhibition Review
Wendy Goes West
Walter Scott
March 1 – April 25
Satellite Gallery
Curated by Jenelle Pasiechnik
The Campbell River Art Gallery commissioned Walter Kaheró:ton Scott, a Kahnawake born artist who lives between Toronto and Montreal to create three new drawings. They come from Scott’s Wendy cartoon, a project he began drawing for fun after finishing art school in 2009. With two books in print and several exhibitions the Campbell River Art Gallery is proud to be a stop in the Wendy-verse. The stories follow Wendy, an art school party girl, and her friends as they try to ‘make it’ in the art world. Scott’s sarcastic portrayals and distinct style are a sideways world you don’t want to miss.
With funding by the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, and the City of Campbell River.
Alaska Variations
Paul Walde
May 3 – July 3
Main Gallery
Curated by Jenelle Pasiechnik
Paul Walde is an inter-media artist, composer, and curator. Walde’s body of work suggests unexpected interconnections between landscape, identity, and technology. Alaska Variations is an album of 11 scores performed in the landscape and presented as a series of video installations. The videos document the creation of original compositions and performances situated around Anchorage, Alaska. Within the multi-dimensional portrait are breathtaking landscape views and original sound pieces that combine to reflect on time, place, and the environmental impact people have on the areas they inhabit.
With funding by the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, and the City of Campbell River.
Coal, Gold & War
Marlene Yuen
May 3 – July 3
Satellite Gallery
Curated by Jenelle Pasiechnik
Marlene Yuen is a multi-disciplinary artist whose current focus is on handmade books using printmaking processes. Coal, Gold & War explores the history of labour and Chinese immigration in the Fraser Canyon during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Marlene weaves a rich tapestry of history in beautifully handmade and detailed books that offer handmade and detailed books that offer unique perspectives and fresh designs. Marlene Yuen acknowledges funding by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
With funding by the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, and the City of Campbell River.
Horizon Felt
Scott Bertram, Dan Browne, Megan Dickie, Kym Greeley, and Jessica Houston
July 12 – September 5
Main Gallery
Curated by Vicky Chainey Gagnon
The exhibition Horizon Felt presents the work of artists who draw on diverse media to focus on different ‘perspectives’ that challenge what is seen through the naked eye. What can a pink sky, a malleable sculpture made with a thousand small triangles, and a slow-motion video about trees tell us about how the landscape is achieved in art-making today?
With funding by the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, and the City of Campbell River.
Territorial Acknowledgements
Sonny Assu
July 12 – September 15
Satellite Gallery
Curated by Jenelle Pasiechnik
Interdisciplinary artist Sonny Assu negotiates Western and Kwakwaka’wakw principles of art making as a means of exploring his family history and the experiences of being an Indigenous person in the colonial state of Canada.
With funding by the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, and the City of Campbell River.
Data Camouflage Strategies To Survive The Armageddon in Style
Dominique Pétrin
September 20 – November 10
Main Gallery
Curated by Jenelle Pasiechnik
The internationally renowned installation artist Dominique Pétrin (Montreal, QC) will join our gallery team for a two-week installation and series of youth workshops. Her vibrant and subtly subversive work consists of immersive wallpaper installations cut from patterns she combines and remixes to form a colourful and out-of-this-world pop art experience.
Funded in part by a British Columbia Arts Council Youth Engagement grant. With additional funding by the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, and the City of Campbell River. Special thanks to Denis Mitchell Interiors for sponsoring the exhibition.
Anywhere Else
Carly Butler
September 20 – November 10
Satellite Gallery
Curated by Jenelle Pasiechnik
Carly Butler (Ucluelet, BC) speaks to us from the edge of the world. Her interdisciplinary work centers on nautical knowledge around navigation and survival, life by the sea, and reflects on the aches and gains that accompany the seafarer’s life.
