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Nicole Bauberger’s 100 Dresses for Grande Prairie

Dress flying in from CalgaryBooster Juice Dress in a Macha MonsoonDress of Bare Branches Against the SkyCaution. Dress Closed. Under ConstructionSmall Dress of Green Painter's TapeSeeker's Dress After Carmen HaakstadPedestrian Dress CrossingTruck with a big tailer-lod of dressesGreat big wide divided highway dressCattail Dress with fluffy boa
Curved Brick Wall DressHooded Dress for One of Helena Mulligan's figuresA Wisdom of Dresses. After Helena MulliganOn DressesFrom the right angle, it looks like a dressDress for the wounded Prairie Art GalleryExtended Mall Sign Topper DressSoft Dress (Cattail Fluff),Boat necked soy sauce dress from Toyko IchibanDress with Bear Creek running through it
Dress cut into a pumpkin, agingDress broken through thin icePing Pong net dressDress Parking OnlyRed Dress for the "Ladies in Red" Event Nov 6November Poppy Dress"Dead" Ms. Pacman Dress with Blinky SkirtGrande Prairie Public Dresses. No Stopping.Cupcake DressDress with a Waterslide
Plastic Bag Dress Stuck in the BushesMr. Harper's Thumbs-up Victory DressPost-Halloween Caramel Kisses Dress (from Amy's desk)Bernie's Celery with Cheez Whiz DressWolveswear DressHockey DressCamo Dress Art Card for Art Club LadiesCloud at the End of Day DressStucco Skirt in the PillarsEarly Morning Windshield Scraping Dress
Candy Machine of Possible DressesDress of Free Popcorn from the Students' AssociationTwo Dresses on a Panel Discussing Where the Republicans Went WrongSniffly Tissue DressSpoonful of Sugar DressDress Print Into the Wet Snow9,900 Year Old Ice Age Dress SkeletonCheerful High-Visibility Dress With a Happy Hardhat HemMust-Have Half Tonne Dress to Transport the ATV DressMagpie Dress
Vending Machine DressDress Shaped Load of LogsDress that's barely visible through the sunny ice fogHoar Frost Dress After Ice Fog ClearsJackpot! 5 Blue DressesChicken Strips DressClear Blue Sky Unplayed Bingo Card Anything's PossibleBack side of losing bingo card dresses with a silver liningTriple and Gold Card Dress BingoSmartie Pants Dress
4th Year Apprentice Millwright DressBarrel of Crude Dress with Free-Flowing SkirtDress that contains the price of 1L of gasolineDress Rig on a Flat Bed TruckBedraggled Pigeon Feather Dress DowntownDress in the Wolves LogoSnow White Shadow Dress Left by a Truck with a Load That Took off at 7 amDress of the Morning's Little Pink CloudsDress Trampled in the SnowShopcoat Dress Usually Worn with Pants
Puffed Wheat Square DressTakeout Cup Warmer DressTall Cowboy Hat DressLaptop DressPine Boughs DressThree Lamps Above the Pool Tables at Better Than Fred'sDress of Evaluated LevelsPeppermint Tea Bag Label DressBrush Died in the Line of Duty, Came Back as a DressLonely Dress
Explosion DressH2S Dress (you can't see it)Dress DownWhere the Dresses May Not CrossCloud Dress Flare DressValve Handle DressDress Wrapped in Hockey TapeSnowy Streetlight DressStorm DressDress Made of Blue Sky and Money
Snowman DressDress of Grass Poking Up Through the SnowDress for the 214 BuildingTrailer Park Dress Real EstateRed Dress for a WellDress Inspired by St. Joe's at NightRolling Suitcase DressTruck with Flame Job DressParking DressExhaust 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