- Idle hands and other essays
I won’t be writing a review of this month’s James North Art Crawl as per my usual practice for the simple reason that I wasn’t in attendance at last Friday’s event. Between the combination of exhibitions being carried over from March and others for which I have already attended openings in the weeks since then, […]
- Michael Allgoewer at b contemporary
The same night I was milling around the reception for Paul Cvetich’s exhibition at transit Gallery, word was circulating about the concurrent opening of b contemporary, a new gallery on James Street North. Whether by choice or circumstance, former transit gallerist David Brace had kept news of this first reception fairly quiet - b contemporary’s […]
- Paul Cvetich at transit Gallery
The visual pleasure that pervades Paul Cvetich’s Ichikupark at transit Gallery is both immediate and fully justified after slower consideration. While the many individual sculptures produce a cacophonous effect from a distance, the writhing shapes of each work slow the eye down when one stops long enough to take in the show one piece at […]
- Prelude to Paul Cvetich
Due in part to writing obligations elsewhere, I’ve been remiss lately in reviewing exhibitions on this blog apart from my drive-by commentary on the monthly Art Crawl here in Hamilton. I’m therefore looking forward to restoring the critical balance around here by bringing in two reviews of exhibitions that opened this past Friday: Paul Cvetich […]
- James North Art Crawl: February
I’m tempted to apologize for the lateness of this month’s James North Art Crawl post, but the larger part of me - the part that believes form should follow content hooking up with the part of me made of spite - can’t help but find it fitting that my sluggish pace of blogging follows upon […]
- Latest Akimblog Hamilton now online
While I continue to struggle to throw together some thoughts on last Friday’s largely inconsequential Art Crawl, I can at least offer to fill the void with my most recent Hamilton report for Akimblog, which went online this morning.
Diane Landry, The Defibrillators, installation view (photo: Mike Lalich)
Head over there now to read about Gary Pearson, […]
- Meryl McMaster at MacLaren Art Gallery
Since some of my dearest friends now live and work in the environs of Barrie, Ontario, I tend to take advantage of that long-ish drive up the 400 to stop at the MacLaren Art Gallery during my visits. It’s the sort of regional space that deserves wider recognition for both its strong programming of contemporary […]
- Ernest Daetwyler’s Reality in Reverse [barn raising]
Because yesterday’s installation at the Rotunda went so smoothly, I had all sorts of free time left to drop by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery to finally see their two current exhibitions before they close at this weekend. Though I walked in full of eagerness to see the retro-tech antics promised by sciencefictionsciencefair (which I’ll get […]
- ‘Age of Enlightenment’ now open at Kitchener’s Rotunda Gallery
The unfortunate case of the sniffles that plagued my Christmas and New Year’s Eve eased off just enough to make today’s task of installing my exhibition at the Rotunda Gallery manageable. In fact, between the pleasant drive through seldom-seen rural patches of southwestern Ontario and a hang that went as smooth as butter, I was […]
- Top Five Hamilton Hits of 2010
As I’ve done now for the past two years, I’m taking advantage of the lull afforded by the end of the holiday season and a lingering cold to reflect back upon the best of what Hamilton’s art scene had to offer in 2010.
While tracing back through the year’s exhibitions and events, I was gratified to […]
