Nicole Bauberger


100 Dresses


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My 100 Dresses projects engage people with their sense of place.



They began (and continue) as painting projects, where I paint 100 small encaustic paintings of dresses on site, all inspired by that particular time and place, and invite others to do so with me, resulting in a portrait of a place in 100 small details, carefully observed and whimsically rendered. You can see many of the dresses by following the links below. Enjoy. They're a hybrid creative writing/visual art project, so seeing the image and reading its name are equally important.





Since 2011, I have moved into sculpture, building dresses on people's bodies using clear packing tape, removing and installing them in the environment, resulting in an evocative and ephemeral occupation of the landscape by these very human volumes.



100 Dresses



1 Sundress


2 Moondress


3 Artificial Sun Dress


9 Dress of feathery snow falling at dusk


10 Kinda see through dress


11 Squinched up dress with a secret


12 Dress of distressed numbers


13 Dress of dresses


14 Encouragement Dress


15 Dress with Green Sequins


16 Whose Dress


17 Dress that Dreams of Ketchup


18 Striped dress


19 Dress of toilet paper rolls


20 Camoflage dress


20 Dress made to measure


21 Little black dress and pearls


22 Dress that only counts to 100


23 Three dresses and their shadows skiing by moonlight


24 Scott Price house dress


25 Small surveillance dress in the forest


27 Obnoxiously cheerful dress


28 Waterproof knit dress


29 Dress of rain


30 Mitten and glove dress for Mario


31 A forest fire in my dress


32 Very tightly corseted fish dress


33 A vision in blue


35 Dress of tree shadows on the snow


37 What if the dress is naked


38 GST dress for Canadian small business


39 Iaconic line dress


40 Rocket dress


41 Dress with a raggedy hem


42 Textured dress possibly Mexican


43 Dress trying to become pants


44 Hanging dress gesture


45 Vampire dress


46 Bruise dress 1


47 Raven and dress on streetlight


48 Bruise dress


49 Cosmic ray dress


50 Oxidized Copper Dress


51 Secret Water Dress


52 Small Striped Dress


54 Studio 204 Algae Dress


56 Secret Melting Dress Dancing Under the Snow


58 Bruise Dress 3


60 Ghost of the Wetlands Dress Haunts Walmart Parking Lot


62 The Ascension of the Dress


63 Pale Dress


64 Dress of Flame


65 Dress that Rustles


66 Expansive Dress


67 Soft Dress Extracted by Heat


68 Aluminum Dress


69 Girlie 70s Dress


70 Cool Dress on a Tomato


71 Two Ravens and the Pink Dress


72 Optimum Points Dress


73 Raven and Dress Wait for a Ride


74 Dress on Wheels


75 Mouse Pushes Dress on Three Wheels Up a Hill


76 Fourfold Fiction 1


77 Fourfold Fiction 2


78 Fourfold Fiction 3


79 Fourfold Fiction 4


80 Dress that Wonders if you're Looking at its Breasts


81 Sky Dress Inspired by Maya


82 Mercury Dress


83 Beaded Dress


84 Oxygen dress with red blood cell


85 Sunlight Dress with Chlorophyll


87 Pushpin Dress or Fakir Dress or as you will


89 Small Smorg Party Dress


91 Day Dress in the Night for Susan


92 Brown Paper Bag Dress with Dent


94 Tight Dress with a Frothing Skirt


95 Dress in Triplicate 1


96 Dress in Triplicate 2


97 Dress in Triplicate 3


98 Slip in the City


99 Pocket List Dress


100 100 More Dresses


I live and create on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council.

© Nicole Bauberger 2021