Opening of 'Sign of the Times', a solo art exhibition by Tara Higgins

We are excited to celebrate 5 years in our corner gallery this October. To mark the occasion our founder, Tara Higgins will be having a solo exhibit.

This show was inspired by the Motel sign in Coleman. If you stand outside the Cinnamon Bear Café and look up at it, you can squint away the rooftops, and it seems the sign is inviting you to the mountains as nature’s motel.

This juxtaposition of vintage neon signs against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains really intrigues me and became the springboard for the show. Neon signs are synonymous with the Vancouver I grew up in - to buying a pair of red patent shoes, big buckets of popcorn during afternoon movies, and going to Woodwards, all those experiences were lit up in flashing neon signs. To place them in my adult playground of the mountains begs the question of how nature inspires human creation of entertainment and shelter.

It also acts as a reminder, to the viewer, to look up from their devices and look around. As Ferris Bueller once said. "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it"

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