The Kamloops Art Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of the much anticipated summer blockbuster exhibition in one month. The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig: A Retrospective Exhibition, organized by the Art Gallery of Sudbury and the National Gallery of Canada, opens June 8 and runs until August 31, 2008. The exhibition, curated by independent curator Bonnie Devine, comprises 58 works of art that span four decades of Ms Odjig’s career.

Kamloops Art Gallery is thrilled to bring the work of Daphne Odjig back to town. This breathtaking exhibition debuted at the Art Gallery of Sudbury in the fall of 2007 to rave reviews. In addition to the Kamloops Art Gallery, the nation-wide tour currently includes the National Gallery of Canada (autumn 2009) and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. Visitors who recall Odjig’s stunning exhibition of prints organized by the Kamloops Art Gallery in 2005 know they are in for a most stimulating and inspirational treat.

Ms Odjig is one of Canada’s most celebrated artists. She was awarded The Order of Canada in 1986, and that same year was one of only four artists chosen to paint a memorial to Pablo Picasso in Antibes, France. In 1998 she was awarded an Aboriginal Achievement Award. She has received five honorary doctorates, most recently from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops last year. Also in 2007, she was awarded both the Order of British Columbia and a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.

The exhibition is sponsored by British Columbia Lottery Corporation; Simmons, Black and Emsland Insurance Services; and TD Securities. The media sponsors are Kamloops Daily News, Kamloops Thompson Nicola Review, and Radio NL.

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