Nov 2011 –Jan 2012 - Preview

www.satellitegallery.caNature, Knowledge and the KnowerSATELLITE GALLERY, VANCOUVER BC – Oct 29-Jan 14, 2012 Subtitled James L. Clark Archives andthe Construction of Habitat Dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History, this exhibit offersunprecedented access to the work of James L. (Lippit) Clark (1883-1969). Clark was an artist,explorer, big-game hunter, entrepreneur, museum preparator and director. He completed theconstruction of the Hall of African Mammals for the museum in New York, and planned andconstructed the museum’s Asian Hall and North American Hall of Mammals.The Vancouver exhibitionpresents three dramaticpanoramas enlargedfrom the original shotstaken with Kodak Cirkutcameras in Kenya between1920 and 1930. One commemoratesthe AfricanHall expedition, and theother two were used assource material to createthe background of theJames L. Clark, Kenyan Water Hole No. 1 (1933), black and white photograph, detail [SatelliteGallery, Vancouver BC, Oct 29-Jan 14]Water Hole Group diorama.The photographs providevisitors to Satellite Gallerywith an immersive environment in which to consider how African nature was seen, understood andmeasured for reconstruction and representation at the American Museum of Natural History.A second part of the exhibit can be seen online at www.natureknowledgeknower.com. The onlinearchive, made public for the first time, allows access to a selection of visual materials originally collectedand organized by Clark to facilitate making the habitat dioramas.Satellite Gallery is an experimental exhibition space shared by the Morris and Helen Belkin ArtGallery (UBC), the Museum of Anthropology (University of British Columbia), and PresentationHouse Gallery. It is a Michael O’Brian Family Foundation project.Lovely as a Tree: Selections fromthe Permanent Collection; EASTHERITAGE GALLERY The Forest and theCommunity.KAMLOOPS★ Kamloops Art Gallery101-465 Victoria St ✆250-377-2400www.kag.bc.camon-wed, fri-sat 10am-5pm thurs10am-9pm sun 12-4pm closed statholidays. Thru Dec 31 On the Natureof Things, advertising, found photographs,driftwood and Modernistart, Surrealist wit is employed torepurpose clichéd forms from oureveryday urban environment andpopular culture; THE CUBE Tara Gardner,“The Bones”, screening ofGardner’s digitally recorded performanceof herself playing a Celticinstrument called the bones, one ofthe few creative endeavours passedon to the artist by her father; Jan 14-Mar 10 “Bearing Witness: Worksfrom the Collection”, works by 27artists examine industrial exploitation,large-scale government action,the atrocities of warfare, the historyof slavery and the representation ofJohn Fulker, Catton Residence [WestVancouver Museum, West Vancouver BC,Nov 15-Jan 14]women in society, drawn from theVancouver Art Gallery’s permanentcollection, artists include MargaretBourke-White, Robert Capa, LeonGolub, Nancy Spero, and BarbaraKruger; THE CUBE Sarah Jules, capturesmoments of intimacy with heriPhone that hints at greater narrativesand weaves a story from herexperiences and travels throughmonitors and printed images.KASLOLangham CulturalCentre Gallery447 A Ave ✆250-353-2661www.thelangham.cathurs-sun 1-4pm. Admission bydonation. Thru Dec 11 “Into the Forest”,group exhibition features thework of Claire Kujundzic, Annerose30 PREVIEW ■ NOVEMBER/DECEMBER/JANUARY 2011/12 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS