NEXT ART CRAWL FEB 12/2010 THIS FRIDAY!!!!

NEXT ART CRAWL FEB 12/10

STATE OF THE ART GALLERY-Valetines Art Crawl Party (301 James Street North, Hamilton)

Local hamilton artist Bryce Huffman,  Illustrator M.E.Walsh and Graphic Designer Billy Pozeg

And a live set by Beard Season http://www.myspace.com/beardseasonband
This event brought to you by Studio Aalona

http://www.studioaalona.com/

301 James Street North, Hamilton

Mixed Media-The End of the Century – photo exhibit featuring various artists

Loose Cannon Gallery- Hook Line & Needle

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Courtney Lakin-An exhibition of crocheted and knitted sculptures at Loose Canon
also Music from Vuarnet

The Printstudio- Tony Hafkenscheid -Life Models

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Life Models showcases the strange and toy-like images of Toni Hafkenschied. Employing a tilt-shift lens and film that saturates colour, the artist transforms real-life, unedited landscapes into vibrant miniatures that recall the model train sets that fascinated him as a child. The staged quality of the resulting images effectively proposes that human life is a game. At the same time, it demonstrates the power we assert over the natural landscape, and indeed constructing these images makes Hafkenscheid “feel like God, with power over the world.”

Hamilton Artists Inc- Laura Paolini-”Hello, Schrödinger?”
Continued till Feb26/10

Laura Paolini’s work is primarily conceptual and is expressed through media-based installations. An emerging artist and a recent graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Paolini’s work has been described as quirky, refreshing and seductive as well as subversively political.

Blue Angel Gallery- Claudette Losier-The Harvest

Also playing music is THE NO STAR ORCHESTRA featuring  Jannice Connors, Rocky Hill and Roxann

YouMe Gallery -Clarissa Inglis – Go Forth and Multiply

premiere presentations of installation-pieces based on travels in Mexico and Central America

free hot coffee, and appetizers from WILD ORCHID

Artword Artbar- Kristian Nesbitt – Starting Over
Kristian Nesbitt is a printmaker from Burlington, Ontario and a graduate from Georgian College’s four-year Fine Arts program. He is currently working towards completing his Bachelor’s Degree from Thompson Rivers University. He is a recent winner of the Emerging Artist’s scholarship from The Print Studio, Hamilton.
Kristian uses the techniques of etching to create one-of-a-kind layered monoprints.

The Factory-Rion Gonzalis -Rion

Rion Gonzalis a Director of Photography who emerged from Hamilton, endeavoured and continues to inspire.
Rion Gonzales has over sixty credits including music videos, short films, documentaries, lifestyle television commercials, and live performances.
His work has been screened around the world, including The Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, NSI Film Exchange and
The Worldwide Short Film Festival.

James North Studio -Glad Tidings
the Collective’s new exhibition “Glad Tidings”.  There were many compliments regarding the work, mood, energy of the gallery and about our Collective in general.  The exhibitons continues until December 31

Skydragon – Adrian Jeffery – The Nightmare Before Valentine’s Day

Description This exhibition consists of a series of figurative paintings in oil. The prevailing mood of the work is gothic and oneiric. That is, these images are motivated by themes touching on obsession, the haunting of the present by the past, power and submission in personal relationships, personal theatre, antagonism to the mundane and reasonable, transgression, irrationality, isolation, the mystery of the psyche, and identity. It has been said that “art is the unmasking of desire”. Perhaps too, it is the many masks that desire wears. The artist Adrian is the evil twin of Steven A. Jeffery, who lurks in the shadows, observing “life’s great pageant”. With music guests Martin Verrall and Raphael Keelan

Workers Arts and Heritage-Karen Tam -Chinese Fever: Liki-Liki
January 8 to May 8, 2010

Chinese Fever is an installation made up of gold paper-cutouts that would take over the gallery walls. Inspired by hand-painted export Chinese wallpaper, which was popular throughout Europe and North America in the 1700s, I hope to subvert some of these chinoiserie images with an undertone of indignation and violence, and to comment on current events and attitudes

Art Gallery of Hamilton-THE ULTIMATE JAM: KOBENA ACQUAA-HARRISON, BIANA BRAITHWAITE, HARRISON KENNEDY, MADAGASCAR SLIM and CHRIS WHITELY.  8PM.  AGH members: $16, Students/Seniors: $18, General: $20
@ ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON

OTHER COOL STUFF-  The Brain (a bar-Yellow sign right beside Hamilton Hotel) will be open and This Ain’t Hollywood has Scotty Campbell!

Casbah Lounge has POST-ART CRAWL PUNK ROCK PARTY ROUND 4
~~ feat. DJs Sick Buoy, Brewskie Problem, Tanner
~~ plus a live set from JUNE and JULY
@ Casbah Lounge — 9:30PM — 19+ :: FREE

(you may actually want to check out the main show that night if you like metal)

Also other random events happening!!!