Nicole Bauberger’s 100 Dresses for Grande Prairie
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- Dress flying in from Calgary
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- Booster Juice Dress in a Macha Monsoon
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- Dress of Bare Branches Against the Sky
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- Caution. Dress Closed. Under Construction
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- Small Dress of Green Painter’s Tape
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- Seeker’s Dress After Carmen Haakstad
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- Pedestrian Dress Crossing
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- Truck with a big tailer-lod of dresses
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- Great big wide divided highway dress
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- Cattail Dress with fluffy boa
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- Curved Brick Wall Dress
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- Hooded Dress for One of Helena Mulligan’s figures
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- A Wisdom of Dresses. After Helena Mulligan
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- On Dresses
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- From the right angle, it looks like a dress
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- Dress for the wounded Art Gallery of Grande Prairie
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- Extended Mall Sign Topper Dress
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- Soft Dress (Cattail Fluff),
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- Boat necked soy sauce dress from Toyko Ichiban
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- Dress with Bear Creek running through it
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- Dress cut into a pumpkin, aging
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- Dress broken through thin ice
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- Ping Pong net dress
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- Dress Parking Only
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- Red Dress for the “Ladies in Red” Event Nov 6
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- November Poppy Dress
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- “Dead” Ms. Pacman Dress with Blinky Skirt
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- Grande Prairie Public Dresses. No Stopping.
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- Cupcake Dress
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- Dress with a Waterslide
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- Plastic Bag Dress Stuck in the Bushes
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- Mr. Harper’s Thumbs-up Victory Dress
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- Post-Halloween Caramel Kisses Dress (from Amy’s desk)
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- Bernie’s Celery with Cheez Whiz Dress
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- Wolveswear Dress
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- Hockey Dress
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- Camo Dress Art Card for Art Club Ladies
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- Cloud at the End of Day Dress
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- Stucco Skirt in the Pillars
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- Early Morning Windshield Scraping Dress
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- Candy Machine of Possible Dresses
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- Dress of Free Popcorn from the Students’ Association
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- Two Dresses on a Panel Discussing Where the Republicans Went Wrong
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- Sniffly Tissue Dress
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- Spoonful of Sugar Dress
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- Dress Print Into the Wet Snow
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- 9,900 Year Old Ice Age Dress Skeleton
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- Cheerful High-Visibility Dress With a Happy Hardhat Hem
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- Must-Have Half Tonne Dress to Transport the ATV Dress
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- Magpie Dress
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- Vending Machine Dress
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- Dress Shaped Load of Logs
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- Dress that’s barely visible through the sunny ice fog
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- Hoar Frost Dress After Ice Fog Clears
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- Jackpot! 5 Blue Dresses
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- Chicken Strips Dress
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- Clear Blue Sky Unplayed Bingo Card Anything’s Possible
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- Back side of losing bingo card dresses with a silver lining
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- Triple and Gold Card Dress Bingo
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- Smartie Pants Dress
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- 4th Year Apprentice Millwright Dress
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- Barrel of Crude Dress with Free-Flowing Skirt
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- Dress that contains the price of 1L of gasoline
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- Dress Rig on a Flat Bed Truck
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- Bedraggled Pigeon Feather Dress Downtown
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- Dress in the Wolves Logo
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- Snow White Shadow Dress Left by a Truck with a Load That Took off at 7 am
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- Dress of the Morning’s Little Pink Clouds
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- Dress Trampled in the Snow
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- Shopcoat Dress Usually Worn with Pants
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- Puffed Wheat Square Dress
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- Takeout Cup Warmer Dress
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- Tall Cowboy Hat Dress
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- Laptop Dress
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- Pine Boughs Dress
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- Three Lamps Above the Pool Tables at Better Than Fred’s
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- Dress of Evaluated Levels
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- Peppermint Tea Bag Label Dress
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- Brush Died in the Line of Duty, Came Back as a Dress
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- Lonely Dress
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- Explosion Dress
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- H2S Dress (you can’t see it)
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- Dress Down
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- Where the Dresses May Not Cross
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- Cloud Dress Flare Dress
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- Valve Handle Dress
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- Dress Wrapped in Hockey Tape
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- Snowy Streetlight Dress
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- Storm Dress
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- Dress Made of Blue Sky and Money
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- Snowman Dress
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- Dress of Grass Poking Up Through the Snow
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- Dress for the 214 Building
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- Trailer Park Dress Real Estate
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- Red Dress for a Well
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- Dress Inspired by St. Joe’s at Night
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- Rolling Suitcase Dress
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- Truck with Flame Job Dress
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- Parking Dress
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- Exhaust Dress Drifting Away
Nicole Bauberger’s 2007 exhibition, Listening to the Mountain, had paintings of the same mountain painted on 100 different days. In this exhibition, Nicole exhibited 3 small paintings of dresses. People liked them and it inspired her to continue making them and create the 100 Dresses series, which has now been created in 10 cities. That’s 1,000 dresses; Grande Prairie being the 9th city. Her first 100 Dresses was in Whitehorse in March 2007.
Nicole Bauberger thinks of the 100 Dresses project as a kind of landscape painting. She pays attention to the experience of being in a particular place at a particular time, and makes small dress paintings inspired by that experience. She looks to her surroundings and finds what is special, unique or just plain interesting about the city. “This can be a way of painting the landscape” she said. It’s a different level of painting the landscape. One that is less photographic, and more detailed, intimate and based on experience. All 100 dresses are painted in encaustic (en kô stik) which is a type of painting combining melted wax and pigment, and fused to a surface with heat. Objects which are imbedded into the wax are often not archival and may not stand the test of time.
Learn more about 100 Dresses for Grande Prairie.
Visit Nicole Bauberger’s website.
Photo Credits: Olivia Kachman of Visual Cocktail