Atonement
Frances Dorsey and Carol Jurgens

October 13 — November 3, 2024
open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm or by appointment

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 12th, 2pm

Nocturne: open late on Saturday, October 19th, 6pm - midnight with exhibition organizer Peter Dykhuis

This 2-person exhibition features artwork created by the daughters of deceased veteran US soldiers from WWII. 

Frances Dorsey was born in Alabama and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, but is a long-time resident of Halifax; Carol Jurgens lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Both artists have explored the records and archives that were left by their fathers from WWII, John T. Dorsey Jr. in Europe and Roy Jurgens Jr. in the island warfare of the Pacific Theatre. 

Through their paintings, textiles, and mixed media projects, Dorsey and Jurgens respond to the physical and emotional damage that their fathers experienced as young men in combat zones and how, as survivors of war, also manifested their scars through intergenerational trauma that affected their mutual families and relationships.

Hermes will be open late with the organizer Peter Dykhuis for Nocturne: Art at Night on Saturday, October 19th, 6pm - midnight.