Friday March 21st from 5 - 7pm this is an event for Whatcom museum members only. Enjoy wine, light hors d’oeuvres, and live music.

In 2025, the Whatcom Museum will present Not the Whole Picture, a comprehensive exhibition of Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour’s collaborative work and the first major museum exhibition for the Bellingham-based artists. The exhibition will be a visual compilation of 35 years of photography, painting, and mixed media installation, which often centers queer identity while exploring the arc of their collaborative and personal partnership.

Not the Whole Picture takes its name from a new, large-scale photography installation that will anchor the exhibition. Printed photographs are stitched together into enormous, radiating rings that evoke devotional mandalas. The photographs explore the universality of everyday moments – birthdays, travel, shared meals, pets, celebrations, mourning – and, in ring form, act as calendars imbued with time and memory.

Amundson and Gour primarily draw their source imagery from their own extensive personal collection as well as from those contributed by community members. The aim for the artists is that through universal and wide-ranging themes, visitors can envision themselves in the artwork, prompting conversations around empathy and understanding through shared experience.