Not the Whole Picture

Sat. March 22, 2025 - Sun. July 27, 2025


Off Campus Location - Whatcom Museum Lightcatcher Building

Open Wednesday - Sunday, noon - 5pm
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Disability Accommodations

Equal Opportunity Institution. 24+ hours advance notice is appreciated for accommodations.

An exhibition of the collaborative work of Western's Art professors Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour, presented by the Whatcom Museum. Not the Whole Picture brings together 35 years of photography, painting, and mixed media investigating personal archives in a way which documents, marks, and recognizes the incredible contribution individuals make in their lives.

Not the Whole Picture takes its name from a new, large-scale photography installation that will anchor the exhibition. Printed photographs are stitched together into enormous, radiating rings that evoke devotional mandalas. The photographs explore the universality of everyday moments – birthdays, travel, shared meals, pets, celebrations, mourning – and, in ring form, act as calendars imbued with time and memory.

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Artists

Garth Amundson received his MFA from Syracuse University, and Pierre Gour received his MFA from the University of New Mexico. Together, they are tenured faculty in the Department of Art & Art History at Western Washington University (WWU). They exhibit both nationally and internationally and have completed several residency programs, both independently and collaboratively, at The Banff Center, Alberta, Canada; Sculpture Space in NY; Cimelice Castle near Prague; Fundación Valparaíso in Spain; Lademoen in Norway; Fulbright in Mexico; and a Rockefeller Foundation Residency Award at The Bellagio Center, Italy. In the summer of 2016, they participated in a residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute entitled Immigration/Emigration.

Thematic exhibitions have included Whipping it Up at the University of Idaho’s Prichard Art Gallery; Queer Me at the LGBTQ Center in NYC; and Random Acts at the Round House Gallery Art invitational exhibition in conjunction with the Pride Festival in Vancouver, BC. They have also presented research at conferences around the United States. Additional exhibitions have been shown in Gallery Gowoon, Changwon, South Korea; Catherine Edelman, Chicago IL; and SHIFT Gallery, Seattle, WA.