- James North Art Crawl: June
This month’s report of the James North Art Crawl is a little more truncated and a lot more late than usual (a shame given the scarcity of blogging around here lately in the first place… I know, my bad) on account of the post-Crawl exhaustion of helping out with two separate fundraising efforts that night […]
- Allyson Mitchell Talks Sasquatches
Having already seen Allyson Mitchell say a few choice words at the opening of her Ladies Sasquatch exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art back in January, I knew her Artist Talk would be an event well worth witnessing - she’s easily one of the most open, droll and downright hilarious artists I’ve heard speak […]
- Allyson Mitchell’s Ladies Sasquatch
While there were two brilliant exhibitions of contemporary art opening this past Thursday at the McMaster Museum of Art, I’ve elected to dedicate a separate post to each rather than jam them together into some freaky hybrid of fun fur and oil paint. Consider this my attempt to make up for the lack of posts […]
- 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) […]
- 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 […]
- Feral and Flood
I had to wait for a break in the incessant rain before making my second trip down to Cootes Paradise to get a better (read: longer) look at The Urban Moorings Project, a presentation from Hamilton Artists Inc. and the Royal Botanical Gardens; in this case, the latter has the more comprehensive web-based explanation of […]
- James North Art Crawl: July
I now have to concede the point that art does in fact imitate life in its lazy lull through the summer months - a realization that I’ve been battling in my efforts to maintain a weekly habit of posting to this blog through the humidity, through the spiking social demands now that my non-art friends […]
- How to Review Toronto’s Art Scene in One Day or Less
While the pace of life slows for some in these lazy summer months, I’ve found myself so strapped for time that my only option for taking an overview of Toronto’s present art activity for an upcoming MAP Magazine article was to do all my gallery-going in the space of a single day. Several days after […]
- Andrew McPhail in thirds: ‘all my little failures’ at Cambridge Galleries Preston
The first time I came across Andrew McPhail’s work was during the arduous selections process last autumn with Hamilton Artists Inc. Somehow, in the midst of what can be a truly mind-numbing experience, I found myself completely riveted by these images of vaguely biomorphic shapes made entirely out of band-aids. Initially, it was simply the […]
