Get There From Here was up till December 21 at the Yukon Arts Centre
Public Gallery. Here's a link to the blog I kept while making a bunch of the
paintings this summer, and here's one to the Whitehorse to Inuvik portion,
previously shown as part of Yukon Drives, that will make up part of this
painting Odyssey, and here's a link to the Yukon Arts Centre's page on the
project. I'm excited about the installation, honoured by the fact that they've
allowed the show to take up two galleries. It's monumental and I really hope
that you can see it. I've got a rough installation-based video up on Facebook
or hopefully you can see it here.
The Cadence Cycle Seasonal Gallery was open till Dec 23, Weds-Fri 12-6
and Sat 12-5. At 508 Wood St. 100 small works priced $100 and under by
Philippe LeBlond, Linda Leon, Belinda Harrow, Jessica Vellenga, Sandra
Storey, and myself. See Philippe's newest kinetic sculpture.
Landscapes in sequence showed at YA@W this past fall. Here's a video of
one of the sequences from the show. Many of the works will be part of its
Christmas show, opening Nov. 18. This show includes other landscape
sequences I've been working on over the years, apart from the road series,
that have never before been seen in Whitehorse, as well as new sequences
from Juneau and the Tombstones. Though all the pieces are works in
sequence, each painting is available for sale individually.
Then Oct 2 till Halloween I installed a show at the Baked Cafe, selections from
the 100 Dresses for West Vancouver during the Olympics and 100 Dresses for
the Depths of Winter in Haines Junction.
The first weekend in September, I was one of the Artists in Residence at the
Tombstones Territorial Park. Click here to see the lineup of artists and the
other projects that Friends of Dempster Country hosted. Originally I was going
to just do a series of oil paintings, with a painting workshop. (I did do some
painting - click here to see a video of one painting sequence I did up there.)
But instead I did The Emperor's New Dresses again, but this time called
Dresses to See Through. I did this project at the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival
on Discovery Day weekend, and it worked out better than I anticipated. I also
did two painting sequences for Landscapes in Sequence while I was up there.
This past summer I also made a river trip with Parks Historian David Neufeld.
Click here to see his blogpost about that trip, and click here to see my article
about David's historical river practice.
For most of the summer, my blogging energy went into my road blog, kept
while I was painting work for Get There From Here. Click here to get there.
To give you some context, the summer of 2010 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.
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 continued the
series to Fairbanks.
I also painted the road to Anchorage.
In other news, Laurel Smith at the Wild Rose Gallery in Cold Lake Alberta now
carries my ravens.
The Infinite Road appeared at The Canvas arts centre in Juneau Alaska April
2011. Click here to see the longest series in that show.
I'm delighted to report that the Yukon Territorial Government Permanent
Collection has acquired a group of 12 Listening to the Mountain paintings,
which were on display with the rest of this year's intake at the Yukon Arts
Centre this past summer.
In similar 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 the previous spring.
Also, the Art Gallery of Peterborough recently collected the two self-portraits
from my series of Artemesia Gentileschi repaintings, as well as an artist book
from that show. Other paintings from that show are available for purchase,
rental, or some combination of purchase and donation to the right institution.
You can see "Corisca and the Satyr" in the Yukon Arts Centre Lobby, across
from the bathrooms.
Cheers! Nicole.
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