Nikki Middlemiss & Peter Tucker: Elevate & Holon

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(Left) Nikki Middlemiss, "Elevate 11," 2019

(Right) Peter Tucker, "Holon," 2020. Photograph of "Elevate 11" courtesy of the artist and Guy L'Heureux. Photograph of "Holon" courtesy of Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery.

Nikki Middlemiss & Peter Tucker: Elevate & Holon

Opening Reception: Friday, March 18, 7-9 PM

Nikki Middlemiss uses drawing to investigate the world, the unseen and the fortuitous magic of material experimentation. The artist creates a delicate dialogue with place, materials and marks, tracing a personal and sensitive record of time through line and evidence of deterioration.

Sculptor Peter Tucker shapes wood with reverence and empathy for trees as living beings. Though not figurative, his gently curving sculptures that enfold viewers within their finely sculpted bulk are self-portraits. Each hand-smoothed surface, ingenious join and rippled wood grain tells of his experiences as a biracial adoptee. The spiraling structure of "Holon," comprised of dozens of oblongs of different varieties of wood, optimistically imagines a diverse group moving as one.

Abstraction is often perceived as encoded with the worst elements of toxic masculinity emerging in the mid-twentieth century: dispassionate, unfeeling, chilly intellectualism. Middlemiss and Tucker give form to the deeply felt and inexpressible in the spare essentials of abstraction: line, mass, and material.

Workshop: Nikki Middlemiss leads bilingual/hybrid workshop Let Your Materials Guide You/Laissez vos matériaux vous guider on March 20/20 mars.