Kevin Schmidt: Oct. 3 to Jan. 2, 2015 at the Kamloops Art Gallery

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Kevin Schmidt, "A Sign in the Northwest Passage," 2010-present.

Kevin Schmidt, "A Sign in the Northwest Passage," 2010-present, sculpture, photographs, watercolours, Photobook and HD video

The Commons, a survey of work from the last decade, demonstrates how Kevin Schmidt displaces cultural spectacles such as billboards or rock-show lights from the urban environment into wilderness settings. He questions notions of the sublime and shared bodies of knowledge, proposing a utopian assertion of the commons, where both culture and the land are publicly available.