- James North Art Crawl: May
This month’s Art Crawl got off to an earlier-than-usual start on account of my involvement in The Print Studio’s newly launched membership campaign, complete with last minute task-wrangling and free crantinis, the latter of which provided a temporary respite from the surprisingly humid weather. Not-raining was a lovely surprise, but it made sweaty work of […]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: May
The Print Studio: Yoshiko Shimada, Bones in Tansu: Family Secrets
The second exhibition in The Print Studio’s On Surface series features artist-in-residence Yoshiko Shimada visiting from Japan with her on-going project archiving and displaying anonymously gathered secrets in locally sourced dresser drawers, with space provided for visitors to contribute their own secrets to future installations.
Hamilton Artist’s […]
- James North Art Crawl: April
While I had heard speculation through the week over whether Good Friday would impact attendance, this month’s Art Crawl still saw a healthy turn-out in the street and galleries, and just as well given that the range of exhibitions on offer was of a higher standard than I have seen in several months.
Elizabeth Chitty’s installation, […]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: April
Hamilton Artists Inc.: Elizabeth Chitty
Elizabeth Chitty, Guardian of Niagara: The Great Lakes
Chitty’s exhibition of ecologically conscious photographs and installation work has been on view since March 20 when I posted an announcement of her Artist Talk for the exhibition, but will be having its opening reception during the Art Crawl.
The Print Studio: Shelley Niro, Warriors […]
- James North Art Crawl: March
For reasons of chronology and convenience, Loose Canon has tended to round up the latter end of my monthly art crawl coverage - it’s just where I tend to go last, and that proved a good strategy as I got to save the best for last. I’ve already had opportunity to sing the praises of […]
- James North Art Crawl Preview: March
Having devoted a fair chunk of time in the last couple weeks to helping The Print Studio rally together something resembling a marketing campaign - one of the joys of serving on the Board of Directors - I’ve become increasingly conscious of something that seems rather obvious in retrospect: the need for advance notice surrounding […]
- James North Art Crawl: February
This blog entry owes something of a debt to the cold medication that’s been working to keep me relatively lucid through the better part of this week as well as the weekend’s ragged aftermath of having attended the Art Crawl in this condition. I probably would have given this month’s Crawl a pass, save for […]
- Friday Night Happenings
As much as it feels like a betrayal of The Cause, in all likelihood I will not be attending the James North Art Crawl tonight as I will be away in Toronto for the opening of Mis[place]d: Animals Lost and Found at XPACE. But only because I have work in that show, namely ‘The Plagues’ […]
- James North Art Crawl: November
The cold, miserable weather didn’t impact attendance on this month’s Art Crawl in the slightest, a fact that was both bracingly heart-warming and perhaps a touch obnoxious when I was trying to get a contextual shot of the Hamilton Artists Inc. Members Show - I actually have no idea who that guy in the baseball […]
- James North Art Crawl: October
Because I can be a bit of a plank at times, I ended up doing this month’s Art Crawl without the aid of my oft-maligned HP digital camera, and while it’s a piece of rubbish at least it takes pictures better than nothing. So, with nothing to hand, the images in this installment come courtesy […]
