Nicole Bauberger | Dress that’s always green

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Nicole Bauberger, “The dress that's always green,” 2024

(courtesy of the artist)

Opening Reception: January 10 as part of the First Friday Art Crawl, 5-7 pm

The winter forest is mostly black and white for a rather long time in the winter, here in the Yukon. Whitehorse-based visual artist Nicole Bauberger is planning an exhibition at the Northern Front Studio in January that will feature the Dress that’s always green. Bauberger created this sculpture as a balm to the colour-hungry.

You may have seen this piece before, installed in the sculpture garden up at the Yukon Arts Centre during Covid, or in Bauberger’s Dalton Trail Trail Gallery in the woods behind Hillcrest. It also appeared in January 2021 on Paddy’s Pond, as part of the RavenMonsterDress installation, presented as part of Nakai Theatre’s Covid-adapted Pivot Festival.

The dress will come indoors as the centrepiece of an exhibition of Bauberger’s sculptures.

The dress will not come indoors alone. Bauberger plans to add more bottle-glass leaves to the space, as if they radiate out from the dress. She will suspend some discarded branches she found heaped in the woods, and wire leaves to them.

“I am interested in breaking as something that takes place in the middle of making things rather than at the end. I hope that this imagining of summer using broken discarded materials might provide a moment of irrational hope in people’s days,” reflects Bauberger.

A few other pieces that also explore brokenness and parts coming together will complete the installation.