Exhibition Opening
Brown Hozjan + Dorward
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, April 14, 5-7pm
ON VIEW: April 11 - 29, 2023
Please join us on Friday, April 14, 5-7pm for the opening of our two new exhibitions, 'Field Guide' by Dan Brown Hozjan and 'New Pottery' by Colin Dorward.
All are welcome to attend this free event. A chairlift is available for those who require mobility assistance. Food and drinks will be provided.
Thank you to our sponsors and funders: Hougen Group of Companies, Government of Yukon, Lotteries Yukon, and the City of Whitehorse, Yukon.
A special thank you to the two April artists for being so flexible with the unexpected changes to their original opening reception date.
FIELD GUIDE | DAN BROWN HOZJAN
"Field Guide
/fēld ɡīd/
Vade Mecum (Latin: go with me)
A field guide is a book designed to help the reader identify wildlife or other objects of natural occurrence.
It is generally designed to be brought into the “field” or local area where its subject matter exists. The guide’s purpose is to assist the reader in identification and understanding of different species and aspects of the natural world.
In my art practice, I employ field guides as reference material for crafting my drawings and illustrations. My personal library of roughly one hundred books includes about twenty to thirty guidebooks. These field guides allow me to more accurately represent the subject matter that I am interested in; additionally, they also facilitate my ability to imagine fantastical connections that could exist between different organisms and their environments. As I flip through different guidebooks, from one featuring birds’ nests to one focused on rocks and minerals to one about wildflowers, I can imagine flora and fauna merging together, changing across the planes of deep time and wide spaces of the landscape. But even as these books help me move into the realm of the surreal, they also allow me to stay connected the accurate and specific, with their basis in scientific study and careful observation.
This exhibition also includes observational drawings from the “field” itself, and from natural history museums, which I like to think of as the institutional equivalents of field guides."
NEW POTTERY | COLIN DORWARD
"This exhibition represents Colin's return to the medium after a seven year hiatus. The work is an exploration towards a voice that includes elements of his painting practice, which has been his primary medium for the last two decades. Unlike painting, however, this work is committed to functionality. In a cultural-climate where paintings are not in high demand, perhaps pottery provides a more practical route for fine-craftwork to enter the home. "