Welcome to Nicole Bauberger's home page

Eavesdropping on the
Yukon horizon

Visual artist, specializing in
paintings in acrylic, oil and
encaustic, large format
drawings and installations
Arts educator with a wide
range of experience and
workshops to suit different
groups, ages 3 to 103
Writer of poetry and arts
columns
Storyteller

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.

August 30, 2010

Tomorrow or Tuesday I'll leave for my fall painting trip in the Tombstones.
I really hope I haven't missed all the fall colours!

I just finished painting 100 Dresses for Cadence Cycle with three young
collaborators - Ariel Durant, Akasha Sage, and Pascale Halliday. If you
missed the show, never fear, it will be remounted for the month of
November at the Youth Gallery at the Yukon Arts Centre.

Early in July I painted the road from Edmonton to Whitehorse. Every 50
km or so, where the road bends right, I found a place to pull over and
paint from the back of my Toyota 4Runner.

The old truck did great, and I was grateful for the help of the Yukon
Territorial Government Advanced Artists Award in carrying out that part of
the project.

Click here to see some pics.

Somewhere in the Rockies I realized I had painted most of the Alaska
Highway by the time I got to Whitehorse. So why stop there? Therefore, I
will left on July 19th to continue the series to Fairbanks.

I also painted the road to Anchorage.

Going a little further back, at the end of June Listening to the Mounta in
came down at the Yukon Arts Centre. It was its last full show.

I feel grateful that it had two of the three gallery spaces in the Yukon Arts
Centre to really reverberate in. The Yukon Arts Centre also produced
some fun social media stuff in connection with the show - click here to see
some of that.

I also created two small illustrated reading performances with the help of
Dean Eyre and Matt Koop-Pearce that I performed at Nakai's Home Grown
Festival and the Break Up Theatre festival in Dawson. Click here to see the
utube promo video for that piece. I'll also create utube video versions of
those pieces - watch this site for links to those.

The individual paintings from Listening to the Mountain are now released
for sale. Click here to see them. I'll retain a few, which I feel would be
necessary if I did a remount of a smaller version of the show - they're
marked "NFS". Contact me if you'd like to inquire about purchase.

This past spring in Juneau, Alaska, I painted the Juneau road for a show at
the Canvas in April 2011.

In recent news, I had a piece selected for the Canada Council Art Bank
collection. That Damn Drive: Whitehorse to Dawson is a 14 panel piece,
painted in September every 40 km or so of the drive from Dawson to
Whitehorse. It was part of my Yukon Drives show that appeared at the
ODDGallery in Dawson City last spring.

This winter I did two 100 Dresses projects. I did 100 Dresses for West
Vancouver during the Olympics at the West Vancouver Community Centre,
2121 Marine Drive. This project was brought to you by the Yukon
Territorial Cultural Contingent to the Olympics...

I also painted 100 Dresses for the Depths of Winter in Haines Junction.
Winter wasn't really all that deep - it's been a warm one. But the Guest
Dresses were amazing - there were over 100 in the show, in addition to
my own 100. Here's the link to those - I've got all 100 of my dresses up.
on the site now too.

That project was brought to you by Junction Arts and Music.

Cheers! Nicole.

Nicole Baubergerr

Dempster Highway, North Fork Pass
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