Jocye Majiski: Artists in the Window
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Yukon Artists @ Work Cooperative 4129 4 Avenue, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 1H7
Joyce Majiski, "Yukon Artists at Work Window," 2021
Jocye Majiski plans to bring in artist books in various media, work on a few that are still in progress, and demonstrate a bookmaking technique that she hopes visitors can take part in, depending on weather and Covid restrictions.
This will be the first appearance in Arts in the Park for the well-known Whitehorse based artist. Over the years she’s created many different bodies of work. In the process she creates many drawings and so on that don’t get shown in the final exhibition. For example, there are many more drawings that came out of her Song of the Whale project than could be displayed at the Yukon Arts Centre this past winter.
Majiski loves to make artist books with this material, and has noticed that visitors to her studio especially love to seem them.
Her exhibition in the window will feature many different kinds of books, at different sizes. She hopes to include larger pieces, including accordion fold books and sculptural books that most people have never seen. Some of them are in interactive, telescoping boxes. These will be on display in the window the afternoon of June 7th till 13th.
The bookworks draw from twenty years of projects on a variety of topics, as well as overseas residencies, sketchbooks, and so on.
During each afternoon demonstration, she hopes to set visitors up with a flat surface and a ruler, and some coloured paper, so that they can walk away with some beginning of their own bookwork.
While most of the work in the window will be from Majiski’s personal collection, she also plans to have some small new works available for sale.
California artist Zea Morvitz has co-created bookworks with Majiksi for eleven years, based on their intensive postal art exchanges. This body of work will be featured in their upcoming exhibition at Arts Underground this coming October.
Bookworks are part of Majiski’s daily practice. She likens it to the “breathing that happens when you’re an artist full time.”
The Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery is located in the blue building at the corner of 4th and Wood Street, and is open this summer Tuesday to Sunday, 11-4 p.m.
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