Ludmila Gallery
129 1/2 Hunter St. W. 2nd Floor Peterborough ON
gallery@ludmilagallery.ca

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Gallery Hours
Friday, Saturday & Sundays noon to 5pm
By appointment email gallery@ludmilagallery.ca

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Paintings

 

Dancing the broken window, shards

 

Dancing the broken window: spring snow
Upcycled, broken, coldworked, fused and slumped glass
Individual dresses
$50 ea

 

 

Artist Statement

This show brings together three motifs which I’ve used in my work for years. For me a motif serves as a pretext to begin, to enter the imminent moment of the process. These motifs are complex and have their own characters, which interact to make more complexity. This show asks what they might say together.

For me anyway, dresses evoke both the presence and absence of a body. They are vessels, the possibility of action, space to work in, among other things.

Ravens inspire resilience, play, using what is there, and the will to initiate communication.

Tyson Istead, a glass artist who works at Lumel Glass Studios in Whitehorse, said that for him the monsters evoked freedom and fear. Their character includes breaking, the accidental, and the unexpected. You may find something different. I hope so. Many of these works have spent time outdoors, some of them in the Dalton Trail Trail Gallery. Some of what is here I have learned in this ad-hoc gallery I set up just past my own backyard.

Artist Bio

Nicole Bauberger is an artist of settler heritage who has made her home in the territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council since 2003.

In the almost 20 years since she moved there, she has become deeply entangled in her Yukon communities, loving the ongoing learning she can do there. She took a diploma in Northern Studies from Yukon College (now University) to better understand the social context she was making art in.

These studies led to an ongoing learning friendship with Kwanlin Dün elder Mrs. Annie Smith and her family. She serves as chair for the Yukon Artists At Work Society. She curated the Youth Gallery at the Yukon Arts Centre last spring, installing not only in the gallery but in the lobby, in the sculpture garden outside in the snow, and marching youth artwork around the gallery to the sounds of a brass band. The possibilities that Monster Parades open up excite her, and she has instigated 7 parades in the past year. She will make another with alumni of the Milkweed Preschool while she’s in town.

Performance has also continued to play an important role in her practice. She’s been making puppets and performing with Nakai Theatre in Whitehorse, and will perform songs and stories with Kim Beggs in a cross-Canada house concert tour on her way home in November.

Before the Yukon claimed her, she emerged as an artist in Peterborough, Ontario, active here through the 90s and early 00s. She must still like you at least a little bit because she drove this exhibition all the way here from her home in the Yukon.

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Pick up: Gallery open weekends Noon – 5pm or by appointment
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