- August at transit Gallery
August is a slow month for art, as much in Hamilton as anywhere. With many galleries closed for this month, the sure-fire options for good art-viewing are scarce; thankfully, transit Gallery has mounted a solid group exhibition for the summer, providing some refuge for those keen to ogle some art on those unexpected yet obnoxiously […]
- 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: 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 […]
- Matthew Varey’s Building on History
After the previous post on Allyson Mitchell’s Ladies Sasquatch, we’re moving right along to the McMaster Museum’s Panabaker Gallery and alumnus Matthew Varey’s exhibition Building on History, accompanied by an exhibition catalogue with an essay by another McMaster alumnus, Gary Michael Dault.
And for anyone scratching their heads going “Wait, didn’t we talk about Matthew […]
- Top Five Hamilton Hits of 2008
This past year, and the fact of its ending very, very soon, affords me a perspective I didn’t have at this time last year - 2008 is the first calendar year in which I have had the privilege of watching Hamilton’s ever-growing art scene from January to December (didn’t even get half that in 2007) […]
- More McMaster Artists at Show & Tell Gallery
It probably seems as though I’ve been on a Mac student kick lately, but the fact is that the busy little buggers have been downright prolific lately in their occupancy of James North Studio, henceforward to be referred to as Show & Tell Gallery (it’s a better name anyway). The addition of an exhibition requisite […]
- Fiona Kinsella at transit gallery
There’s something remarkably pat and self-assured, something of the orderly chatelaine, in Chapel (rose), Fiona Kinsella’s current solo exhibition at transit gallery. Her sculptural cakes are a familiar enough sight to even a recently-returned Hamiltonian like myself - her massive sheet-cake at this past spring’s TH&B exhibition was wonderfully huge - but here they are […]
- 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 […]
