Eavesdropping on the Yukon horizon
  • Visual artist, specializing in paintings in
    acrylic, oil and encaustic, large format
    drawings and installation
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    experience and workshops to suit
    different groups, ages 3 to 103
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Hello there,

I live in Whitehorse, in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Yukon's dynamic
skies and strong mountains drew me here to paint for the summer,
beginning in 2001. I've made my home base here since 2003.

May 10, 2009

I just drove in to Dawson. I got such a pang of happiness to be here it
almost hurt. I walked along the river and touched the long clean daggers
of candle ice from the enormous dirt-encrusted ice pans. I drove through
some (pretty shallow) water on the highway on the way here. Saw
standing rain with a bald eagle circling in front of it. The green mist of tree
blossoms on the deciduous trees.  A golden eagle and some ravens
nibbling something dead beside the road.

I'm here to install two shows.

Yukon Drives will open May 14 at the ODDGallery in Dawson City. This
show of groups of 1 foot square panels tracks some common drives in the
Yukon. I painted the road along these journeys every 50 km or so. I wrote
on the backs of the panels before I painted, and will offer this text in the
form of small book works with the show. I've been crazy with producing
these books - but I'm hoping to have a page up with works from this show
soon, for those of you who can't come to Dawson to see it. If you click on
the link above, you will get to a site under construction

In addition to this, May 11-31 you can see Other Roads, a show of other
work that led to the Yukon Drives show, on display in the Bombay Peggy's
bar across from the ODDGallery.

Wendy Cairns, Bombay Peggy's proprietress, has put me up for tonight in
the "Snug," a little room with access to the shared claw footed tub. I've
been sewing books in here while sipping the house sherry, complimentary
for hotel guests. That tub is next on my to do list.

When you come to Dawson, stay at Bombay Peggy's.

The pieces in Other Drives are for sale. After this show they will be
available in June and throughout the summer at the 40 Mile Gold Gallery
in Dawson City.

Then coming up soon after, the Yukon Artists at Work Cooperative
(YA@W) will be bringing a group show called What's going on up there?
down to The Reach Gallery in Abbotsford. The show will open June 4 and
continue through August. There will be a mini Yukon Arts Festival over that
weekend outside the gallery, with eight YA@W members travelling down
to present workshops and demonstrations of their art practises.

I've been coordinating this show on behalf of YA@W.

In recent news, I came home April 3 from Calgary where I did the 100
Dresses as part of the St[art] residency at Art Central. That was my 12th
hundred in the past two years!  I also opened a solo show of my artwork
at the Keystone Art Gallery in Calgary April 2, 2009. That show's title is
Upward Mobility: Mountains, Ravens and Farmland from the sky. Click
here for images from that show.

The last 30 dresses of the 100 (71-100) were recently on display at
Keystone, and Daniel there has all of them (that haven't sold yet) in a file
box for you to check out if you like. Some of Upward Mobility is also still
up.

Earlier in March I did my 11th hundred dresses as part of Breaking
Ground, a group show on contemporary landscape art practices at the Art
Gallery of Peterborough. Selections from my Grande Prairie, Inuvik,
Juneau and Yellowknife dress series are also on display there at the Art
Gallery of Peterborough until May 10.

Cheers! Nicole.

Here's a sneak preview of one of the Other Roads paintings you will be
able to see over at Peggy's:

I'll be installing it tomorrow!
Nicole Bauberger
Dempster Highway, North Fork Pass
Travelling to a summer show at The Reach
 gallery in Abbotsford
It's a YA@W members group show called
What's going on up there?
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available paintings
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the horizon.