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Gallery Hop
4. Tedd Tucker
Forty Mile Gold
Tedd Tucker is a Whitehorse-
based painter who will be
exhibiting a collection of
illustrated Yukon animals.
He created these illustrations
by combining graphite
textures with simple, bold
shapes.
5. Bennie Allain
A Mediocre Oracle.
Billy Bigg’s Blacksmith Shop
Bennie will be constructing
a large-scale, interactive,
found-object sculpture as part
of on ongoing series called
“A Mediocre Oracle”. The
sculpture will function as a
carnival game-like piece that
participants can interact with.
In the end, viewers will recieve a
concise though vague personal
fortune.
6. Dan Brown Hozjan
Wall Tent and Canvas
Main festival grounds
This piece was concieved during
long days hiking through
the wild spaces of the Yukon
Territory and dreamt of during
nights spent in canvas tents. It
is a tribute to the vibrant light
and life of the summertime and
was painted in a small cabin
on Haida Gwaii. Dan Brown
first arrived in Dawson eight
years ago as a student of the
Yukon School of Visual Arts and
subsequently fell in love with
the community and has been
here ever since.
7. Dan Brown Hozjan +
Rachael Siminovitch
Exquisite
Bombay Peggy’s
Dan Brown Hozjan and Rachael
Siminovitch are two of Dawson
City’s favourite illustrators. For
this show, Exquisite, the two will
be showing recent work and
collaborative pieces exploring
the extremely beautiful,
delicate, and sometimes
unsettling aspects of the Yukon
landscape.
8. Basia Hinton
Blackhole Love Song in the
Key of Dawson
Front deck of SOVA
Step inside a 3-D grid-map
representation of a black hole
made entirely from recycled
materials! This large sculptural
piece explores sound and light
waves, intimacy, the cosmos,
time, patterns in nature, and
desire. The piece playfully
invites viewers to pause and
experience a moment of self
reflection and connect with
their environment. Basia has
been loving the north and
all its magic for the last five
years, spending time making
art, teaching, drumming, and
coordinating youth and arts
programs.
9. KVA
Jack London Museum
A Collective Gallery featuring
work done by talented KVA and
Gerties Staff. They’re not just
Blackjack dealers, bartenders,
and administrators…
10. Sara Wray Enns
Flushed
SOVA bathrooms
As private and public spaces
washrooms are witness to both
benign and profound moments,
from intense conversations to
shopping on instagram. Flushed
explores these conversations,
thoughts and ideas through
audio, text and visual
installations in the washrooms
of SOVA.
11. SOVA Masterclass
Master Class Projects
SOVA 2D Studio
The SOVA Summer Master
Class series ran throughout
the summer as crash courses
in critical art theory. They
were run and developed by
three practicing artists with
connections to Dawson City:
Aubyn O’Grady, Amy Ball, and
Justin Apperley, with many
local contributors taking part.
Works resulting from and
inspired by each of the three
classes are on display.
12. Parks Canada
Everywhere, A Sign:
Advertising and Signage as
Art in Dawson.
SS Keno
Like any trade, signwriters
in Dawson were the masters
of their craft. These skilled
craftspeople trained for years as
apprentices just to tell you what
a business was or what was sold
there. And while it is meant to
do a simple thing, advertise,
the result of signwriting is a
work of art, admired by passing
customers, lured by the font
or captive image on display.
Sign painting in the early 20th
century was such a booming
industry that the practitioners
didn’t consider themselves
artists, but ‘mechanics.’
In our display, we will show
examples of signage and
advertisements from the Parks
Canada collection. They are
meant to evoke a sense of
appreciation for the surviving
examples still on display when
wandering the boardwalks of
Dawson.
13. Maria Sol Suarez
Sacred Space
Camera Obscura
Focusing on the role of
ritual, symbolism, and
religious iconography as
visual expression of the
subconscious mind, this
interactive installation invites
the public to participate in
creating a communal non-
denominational altar. People
may bring offerings to the alter
at any time throughout the
weekend.
14. Rosie Butler .
Hot Tin Roof food truck
(beside The Pit)
New mural by Rosie Butler
15. To Talk with Others
Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre
Gallery
To Talk With Others featuring
a special screening of work by
Fran Morberg-Green.
Also visit the ODD Gallery at
KIAC and the gallery at
SOVA for other TTWO works.