[BCMA] Media Release Kamloops Art Gallery | Ted Smith and Jack Shadbolt opening reception June 28

Wed Jun 18 10:46:37 PDT 2014

[Dunes]  [cid:image004.jpg at 01CF8ADD.0B09A260]
Ted Smith, Dunes (detail), 2008
acrylic on canvas, 101.6  x 152.4cm
Private Collection
Photo: Ray Perreault

Jack Shadbolt, Untitled, 1957
ink on Paper
20.9 x 24.8 cm
Collection of the Kamloops Art Gallery,
gift of Simon Fraser University via Estate of Doris Shadbolt
Photo: Ray Perreault

MEDIA RELEASE

For immediate release from
Kamloops Art Gallery
June 18, 2014

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Ted Smith: A Retrospective
&
Jack Shadbolt: Seven Decades of Works on Paper

June 28 to August 30, 2014
Curator's tour with Charo Neville, Saturday June 28, 5:30 to 6:30pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 28, 6:30 to 8pm

The 2014 summer exhibitions feature a retrospective of work by Kamloops-based painter Ted Smith. Ted Smith: A Retrospective encompasses the first major selection of Smith's work since his 1992 exhibition at the original Kamloops Art Gallery space. Work starting in the 1960s and spanning five decades has been borrowed from the artist's studio, the KAG's permanent collection and most substantially from local private collections.

Ted Smith was born in Vernon, BC, and grew up in Kamloops. He studied at the Vancouver School of Art in the early 1960s when the principal instructors were notable artists Orville Fischer, Fred Amess, Peter Aspell, Don Jarvis, Roy Kiyooka, Reg Holmes and Jack Shadbolt. Jarvis and Shadbolt, as well as other artists Smith would later study in books, such as the (Russian-born) French painter Nicolas de Staël, have had an enduring impact on Smith's practice and his interest in abstraction. He has always felt comfortable moving between the representational and the abstract and his work is informed by the surrounding landscape and driven by a strong commitment to the possibilities of paint. It is Smith's bold approach to landscape, or more accurately, his interest in the act of painting, that defines his artistic practice. Smith has remained a prolific painter for the past many decades and continues to paint into his eighties.

The exhibition is curated by Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery and accompanied by a full-colour publication with essays by Charo Neville and Roger H. Boulet, Associate Curator, Historical Canadian Art, Kamloops Art Gallery.

Coinciding with Ted Smith: A Retrospective, Jack Shadbolt: Seven Decades of Works on Paper showcases the recent addition of seventy-nine Jack Shadbolt works to the Kamloops Art Gallery's permanent collection. Many of these works on paper were studies for major public artworks or large-scale paintings. Spanning seven decades, this selection of drawings is significant to an understanding of Shadbolt's oeuvre and his contribution to the history of Canadian art.

Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998) was born in England and immigrated to Victoria, BC, with his family in 1921. One of Canada's most distinguished artists, his career began in the 1930s and continued to flourish as a prominent force in Canadian visual art into the 1990s. After serving in World War II with the Canadian War Artist establishment, Shadbolt was head of the painting and drawing department at the Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) until 1966. Shadbolt produced three books and profoundly influenced art and artists in British Columbia through his instruction.

Shadbolt was one of Ted Smith's most instrumental instructors during Smith's studies at the Vancouver School of Art from 1960 to 1964. Emerging as an artist at the beginnings of Canadian modernism, Shadbolt was linked to a generation of artists who discovered and promoted abstraction in Canada. His drawings, paintings and murals were developed from personal experience and the world around him, serving as an authoritative voice for an art that questions the social order and confronts the modern condition.

Please join us at the Kamloops Art Gallery on Saturday, June 28 for the public and free tour starting at 5:30pm and opening reception at 6:30pm.

Please direct all media inquiries to Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery,
(250) 377-2406 or cwillms at kag.bc.ca<mailto:jgordon at kag.bc.ca>

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