Nicole Bauberger, "Small Blue Dress," 2020
ceramic and oxides, installation view along Dalton Trail in Whitehorse, dimensions variable upon installation (photo courtesy of the artist)
Nicole Bauberger isn’t letting gallery closures slow her down.
The Whitehorse artist has set up an outdoor gallery along a snow-covered trail in a green belt near her home that people are welcome to tour while maintaining social isolation.
The walk is not for the faint of heart – temperatures have dropped as low as 28 below Celsius – but Bauberger says her works seemed to be “tenderly and insistently asking” to be displayed.
"There was a major thaw last week," says Bauberger. "I had a creek running through my gallery. I thought how great it was to have a gallery that takes flooding in stride."
Her installations include suspended ceramic dress forms she has worked on over the winter, as well as ravens cut from thorn-proof bicycle tubes, a project conceived in collaboration with Upper Tanana artist Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé.
Bauberger is known for a series of highway paintings that she made on road trips across Canada. ■
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