Yellowknife artist Nick MacIntosh is hosting a show at the Top Knight bar this coming Friday. Proceeds will help a relative displaced by a fire on Halloween.
The Awesome Sauce show and sale runs from 6-10pm on November 21, during which time MacIntosh’s nephew, Brenden MacIntosh, will perform live music.
MacIntosh has been creating art in Yellowknife for the past 17 years. He describes his latest paintings as “a celebration of pop culture with a specific focus on the Gen-X era of the 80s, plus some of my own original, imaginative musings.”
“I’m known for offbeat, eclectic interpretations of the North where I incorporate a lot of pop culture references. And you know, my early childhood influences tend to shine through my work,” he said.
His last show was a darker, horror-themed northern show, and he wanted to follow that with something a little more fun.
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The show will feature 20 pieces priced from $400. Sales will help raise money for his sister’s family, who were displaced following a fire at their home on Halloween.
“It was just too much heartbreak or misfortune,” he said. “As her brother, I just couldn’t sit by and allow that to happen without coming to her aid in some fashion.
“When it’s $100 a bag for groceries, I don’t have a lot of disposable income available to me. However, I do have these 20 paintings sitting here.”
MacIntosh said northern art tends to lean heavily on northern themes, like local landscapes, but he wants to showcase his other interests as well.
“This is an opportunity to show the public that there’s all kinds of artists living in Yellowknife, and it doesn’t exclusively have to be the same kind of run-of-the-mill themes, whether it’s landscape or wildlife or all these wonderful things,” he said.
“This is just something else, something different. If you’re a person that’s interested in seeing something offbeat or not what you’re used to seeing here in town, I’m one of the rarities here in town that can make work like that, and [I] want to show it to the public.”
