Blind Encounters

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Kathy Piwowar

(photo by Glenn Piwowar)

Opening Reception: Friday, October 4^th from 5 to 7 pm

Do you remember as a child playing the broken telephone game, also known as the whisper game? A group of children would line up, and the first person in line would whisper a sentence to the child beside them. The second person would then whisper what they had heard to the third child in line. This would continue until the last child said out loud what the sentence was that they had heard. It was always fun to learn how much the message morphed as it passed down the line.

It was this game that inspired the latest group show at Yukon Artists at Work. The show is called Blind Encounters, curated by Janet Patterson. It involves two- and three-dimensional art by ten current or former YAAW members.

“Artist Kathy Piwowar started off this visual game,” Patterson said. “The word I gave her was ‘encounter’, and she created a wonderful multi-media piece that involves a biker, a camera, and a moose.”

Once Piwowar completed her art piece, Patterson sent a photo of it to the second artist on the list, Linda Leon. Leon only had Piwowar’s work for inspiration; she was not given the secret word, nor were any of the artists who later created work for this project. Each one only had the work of the previous artist to use as a clue to the theme of the project.

The eight other participating artists are Doug Rutherford, Leslie Leong, Aimee Ellis, Virginia Wilson, Susanne Hausermann, Pat Bragg, Maya Rosenberg, and Marie-Hélène Comeau.

“Even though no one except the first artist was aware of the theme, all of the pieces somehow work together,” Patterson said. “It was such a fun experiment to try, and I thank all the artists for playing along.”