Exhibition Opening
Tomlin & Harris
OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, November 4, 5-7pm
ON VIEW: November 4 - 26, 2022
Please join us on Friday, November 4 from 5-7pm for the opening of our new Edge Gallery exhibition, 'Watercolour Wanderers' by Judy Tomlin & Melanie Harris. Dennis Shorty's Focus Gallery exhibition 'Our Relations' has been extended from October and will continue to be on view until November 26.
All are welcome to attend this free event. Food and drink will not be served at this exhibition. Please note that our chairlift is currently out of order. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and are hoping it's fixed very soon.
Thank you to our sponsors and funders: Hougen Group of Companies, the Government of Yukon, Lotteries Yukon, and the City of Whitehorse, Yukon.
WATERCOLOUR WANDERERS | JUDY TOMLIN & MELANIE HARRIS
Judy Tomlin and Melanie Harris are longtime friends with a shared enthusiasm for creativity. Connected through family ties and as former work colleagues, it was their shared interest in watercolour that bonded their friendship. Their watercolour journeys began with visits to sketch and paint at the kitchen table, over snacks and tea (and the occasional glass of wine!), and later sitting alongside each other to sketch plein air. Judy and Melanie further fed their creative cravings, and desire to learn watercolour, taking on-line art classes and travelling south together to attend in-person workshops.
Both are inspired by the Yukon’s vast outdoors, spectacular scenery and unique history, and enjoy the calm peacefulness that noticing the beauty around them brings to their art. Judy and Melanie only recently began sharing their watercolour paintings with the public. This exhibit is a glimpse into their watercolour wanderings.
OUR RELATIONS | DENNIS SHORTY
”The exhibition shows a new body of work that took me about 12 months to complete. It is of carved soapstone sculptures mixed with moose and caribou antler and copper.
It was a challenge for me to work with soap stone and will further my artistic career and knowhow. The goal was to incorporate materials that are familiar to my current art practice like antlers, wood and copper and to introduce soapstone as an expansion upon my current sculptural practice.
In each sculpture there is a strong reference to my Kaska history, culture and traditional background. I explored a new facet of art-making through the use of a new material and different tools.”