ART SHOWS
ARTCRAWL THIS FRIDAY!!!! AUG 13/2010
White Elephant- Amy Kenny- Show and Tellshow
Come meet one of our handmade artists, the talented Amy Kenny at White Elephant during the James North Art Crawl.
Amy is Hamilton-based and specializes in leatherwork, among other creative endeavours. Original designs are hand-carved and tooled into full-grain, vegetable-tanned leather before pieces are stained, highlighted, finished and stitched by hand.
There will be demonstrations of how she creates her beautiful pieces, and s…he will be available to meet and speak with. There will also be a selection of both her leather accessories and paintings to view.
You Me – Eklipz – HipHop Homage
A talented bomber and true hip hop head, Eklipz recently merged two of his passions over the past few years to create “Hip Hop Homage” – a collection of 50 paintings showcasing many of hip hop’s icons and greats. This 9″ X 12″ art book is a self published piece of history that will be sure to impress all hip hop enthusiasts.
To celebrate the release come out and purchase a copy on Friday August 13th – Eklipz will be having an exhibition and book signing inside the You Me Gallery (330 James St. N, Hamilton). Come out and support, the book is incredible!
Sonic Unyon Building – Lyrical Ephemra – Group Show
Poster Art from various local and regional artists.
corner of Wilson & James North and performances by Joel Elliot, The Battleship, Ethel
Loose Cannon Gallery – Skateboard Art Show – Group Show
Various artists making art on skateboards, its gonna be epic stop by!
Mulberry Steet Coffee House-Grand Opening and Art by Kristen Bell
193 James St North (at corner of mulberry st)
SkyDragon – Chris Hogue
Works by Chris Hogue
Come see works by local artist and activist Chris Hogue for the August art crawl.
Read an interview with Chris in this month’s Mayday.
Artword Artbar- Doug Carter
Doug Carter Drawings and Paintings (Artword Gallery August 5 to 29). Artist present.
The Printstudio- Studio 12 -Four Corners
Four Corners represent the four corners of the room, wall, picture frame, image, and the view finder which enables the artist to take images from four corners of the world.
Studio 12 is a photographic collective is best described as a participatory group of artistindividuals who share in the common objective of developing and sharing their artistic skills through the confluence of differing conceptual and formal approaches that each member brings to the group
Studio 12 is: Sol Algranti, Eric Bosch, Shirley Dennis, Mary Gilmour, Todd Murray, Jhon Overmeyer, Martin Renters, Ruth Renters Paul Roth
Loose Cannon – Amy Friend and Katie Pretti – Psychic Space
An examination of the tension between representation and abstraction, through the work of photographer Amy Friend and painter Katie Pretti.
Curated by Brad Isaacs
Exhibition runs from July 7- 31.
www.loosecanongallery.com
Know Your Ghosts – Jason Lee – The Middle Ground
A Selection of prints and drawings
255 1/2 James Street North Apt. 3
(One night only)
HAMILTON ARTISTS INC – Teri Donovan – Half Life
Co-mingling wallpaper patterns and paint layers, Donovan layers the past with the present to foreshadow a future embedded with forgotten remnants. Old notions, styles, and behaviours, like old wallpaper, are replaced by the new, but are never really gone. In the guise of memory and desire they linger on in a spectral half-life projecting into the future where they emerge to be re-enacted, re-contextualized, and re-interpreted.
Donovan’s work addresses that tenacious desire for life that guarantees the past’s role in the present and the future, and simultaneously suggests how the present secures its own place as it moves towards its inevitable fate.
Exhibition runs until August 14, 2010
Hamilton Hotel- Various Studios Open
Paintings, Prints and other things for sale!
The Factory – Ashley Guindon – One Night Only A Great Mystery
Movie Screening, artist in attendence. Curated by Andrew Butkevicius
WAHC -Continuing
History and Heritage – Continuing
The fantastic selection of the past and present and discussions about urban issues…..
BikeHounds -TBA
Socald Studio Gallery 244 James St. N. 905.934.7690
Featuring the work of Bill Sherwood.
Blue Angel- Continuing Art from Various Artists
The Clay Studio 175 James St. N.
Featuring the work of Grazyna Ziolkowski
Melaine Gillis Photography and Sylvia Nickerson Illustration
126 James St. N. 3rd Flr. www.melaniegillis.com• www.sylvianickerson.ca
The Sonic Unyon Building 22 Wilson St.
Featuring the studios of Jenna Rose • Blackbird Studios • Silver Studio
On Going Events….
Drawing Classes-The Hollywood Sessions
Tuesday evenings starting April 6th in the leopard lounge at Hamilton’s sexiest venue, This Ain’t Hollywood.
7pm to 9pm
$10.00 per session
19+
Bring your own drawings materials – that includes a sketchbook or paper! Get there early to guarantee a spot.
Brought to you by ringleaders Dirty Mac, Ms. Lindsay Coyote, David “The Brains” Lilly and Ms. Amber Delaney.
Personal Interests:
Upcoming guest models include a variety of burlesque performers, musicians, and other worldly folks titillating your pencil in feathers, leather, victorian garb and much much more…
Storyboard themed: Each session tells a story. 6 poses.
This is NOT your average, stuffy life-drawing class…
This Ain’t Hollywood
Location:
345 James St. North
Hamilton, ON
Phone:
905-529-9500
Crafty Mondays at Skydragon
Come join in the fun on Monday nights! Bring your knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidery, or whatever crafts you enjoy doing. We can knit and bitch, embroider, cross stitch, etc. Learn a new skill and relax doing something you enjoy.
If you want to learn new techniques, host Angelika will be happy to help. You bring the materials, we bring the craftspertise. All are welcome.
27 King William St. – ground floor
For more information: 905-777-8102 or kevin@skydragon.org
White elephant is not a gallery. Why it is listed as a gallery
they actually do have the occasional art show and besides the site is about james st and not strictly galleries. yes its subjective, sorry about that
OK then, I’m wondering about all the other places on James in the Art Crawl District that ARE NOT included, three off the top of my head: The Tribal Gallery, The Woodpecker Handicraft Gallery and Linda’s Fashion Studio. Is this site totally personal, rather than either subjective or objective??
I have added woodpecker’s site to the listings, I was unable to find the other stores sites.
Great, thanks for the quick response.
Sorry to say I misspelled Olinda’s Fashion Studio in my last posting, oops. You’re right, she doesn’t have a site yet.
Here’s a short URL link to a page I built for The Tribal Gallery: http://thurly.net//3ba
I also added a link to your site from my Art Crawl Page: http://www.HamiltonArtcrawl.ca
I’m putting together a complex links page for everyone on the Street with a web site: http://thurly.net//3gl
I’m also building pages for people on the street without any web presence. For example the page I’m putting up for Gwen Duncan at the Tribal Gallery: http://thurly.net//3ba
I’m hoping to get to others like Olinda in the near future.
John
keep up the good work!
Please start including Artword’s new project in the James North arts district
Name: Artword Artbar and Artword Gallery
Address: 15 Colbourne Street, Hamilton ON L8R 2G2
cell: 905-912-9083
What: a neighbourhood bar, hang-out and live music venue, as well as a gallery on the lower level
Website: http://www.artword.net/artbar
Who: Ronald Weihs and Judith Sandiford of Artword Theatre
When: preview Friday Aug 14, 2009 during the Arts Crawl; official opening TBA soon
do you have a website?
Hi,
Apologies in advance if I am posting this in the wrong area.
Please help spread the word:
Closing sale at Friendship Giftshop @ 118-124 James St. North. Clearing out all items, up to 90% off.
Features: Japanese animation, oriental crafts and goods, flowers.
Think, Christmas gifts! Perfect time to buy and save money. Come soon before everything is gone. Closing by end of December.
Thanks!!
I ended up going Friday, but didn’t go to half of the galleries that were open. I was contemplating to go to Sonic Uynion, but it looked closed up. GAH. Ah well, hopefully next month it’ll be just as good or better, and not as cold. This thing we call, Artcrawl is what I call love.
Do any of the galleries, or places open for the artcrawl allow photography at all? We have to promote this stuff!
Can’t wait until it gets warmer out, it’s going to rock… Same with the next Supercrawl. Oh man.
And I just realized this was a 2009 post.
I have a red Hat group that would be interested in doing this friday night crawl now that it is
2010 will this still be on going in april may june ?
Yes, every second friday of the month, so Feburary would be the next one!
How can someone get involved in showing at one of these Art Crawls?
Well I would first suggest coming to the next one, see how it is, meet some gallery owners,etc. You know from downtown Hamilton its a 45min bus ride in non-rush hour times.
A new listing for this upcoming crawl.
Not Without an Audience
Join us on May 14, 2010 for the opening of an exhibition of paintings and block prints by Cornelia Peckart at Hamilton’s premier rock and roll bar: This Ain’t Hollywood.
Not Without an Audience is an exhibition created for a live music venue. The spotlight is focused on the audience as they interact before, during and after a show.
An audience is vital for the success and survival of bars, bands and the musical style of rock and roll. Without an audience there is no show.
Cornelia Peckart has created an imaginary audience that fills the wall space with people having a good time.
Block prints, applied to wood, glass, paper and steel sheeting show audiences dancing and enjoying themselves. The images have a gestural quality with bold lines, which give the work a comic book feel.
Originally from Hamilton, Cornelia resettled in Hamilton in 2008 after twenty five years away. She attended the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, with majors in Installation Art and Printmaking. She has lived, worked and exhibited in Toronto, Ottawa, Pittsburgh, Rotterdam and Berlin.
Recent exhibitions and performances by Cornelia Peckart include; A series of ten gouache paintings titled ‘One in Ten’ as part of the September 2010 Good Medicine Show at *Hotshot Gallery on Toronto; A performance of ‘Treat System: Part One’ October 2010 at Nuit Blanche in Toronto; A performance of ‘Treat System: Part Two, A line is a line…’ at the November 2010 James St North Art Crawl in Hamilton.
The exhibition runs from May 7 – June 2, 2010.
For more information on Cornelia visit her blog at http://www.corneliapeckart.com.
Why is the publisher of this blog unknown and never revealed?
Why is there no way to contact this blog via email? Despite repeated statements here that all anyone has to do is ask. ASKING AGAIN!
Why can’t I get anything about my new James North Gallery listed on this blog?
Why can’t I get my gallery’s web site listed on this blog?
I know this is not a public service but you purport to report on the Arts Crawl but it seems you only report on what you like about the Arts Crawl.
John Wilbur