Art Crawl this Friday Aug11/2012

Again rain or shine, also bring a canned good, as the food bank is collecting donations on cannon and james

Homegrown-The Amazing Skateboard Show- Group show

Painted/Mixed media boards made in a effort to promote beasley skatepark and annual skate contest

Havn-Quanta_L (26 Barton East, close to James N)

Somnambulism-a condition that is characterized by walking while asleep or in a hypnotic trance.

Polysensory wanderings through the unconscious;

•Movements by Ariel Bader-Shamai
•Visions by Amy McIntosh and Kearon Roy Taylor
•α-oscillations by Reg Moore

Mint Textile Studio, 22 Wilson St.(Sonic Unyion Building)

The Sheridan graduates who have taken over the space formerly used by Jenna Rose have been building & preparing the studio for use and have asked a bunch of makers to participate in their first craft show! Check out all the handmade goods from 7-11pm on Friday night, & 11-6pm on Saturday.

You Me Gallery-The Occassionally Annual Whirligig Ahow-Inspired, conspired, Motional & emotional
330 James St. N. 905.523.7754 • www.youmegallery.ca

Work on two parallel bodies of work under two different artist’s personas. Each body of works explores symbols, signs and metaphor in different ways … offering topics that relate to my own identity, intending to engage in a larger conversation about people’s individual identities and how they are shaped. Gallery Hours: Wed – Sun, 12-5

James North Studio-Sanee Ewasiuk-Learning to Fly
328 James St. N. www.jamesnorthartcollective.com

Exhibit of new paintings. Also see new work by the James North Art Collective’s members in the Kitchen Gallery and downstairs in the Photography Gallery.

This Ain’t Hollywood 345 James St. N. Live music venue • www.thisainthollywood.ca
CHAINSAW & MONKEY’S WEDDING with DJ DONNA LOVEJOY

Mulberry Defacto-Clarence A Porter-Steel View

Beutifully rendered pastel drawings of industrial landscapes.

Dave Gruggen Photography 326 James St. N. 905.522.1031 • www.gruggenphotography.com

Artword Artbar 15 Colbourne St. Multi-purpose venue & gallery • www.artword.net/artbar
Closed for the Month.

Christ’s Church Cathedral 252 James St. N. 905.527.1316
The vendors of the Makers’ Market make good use of the front courtyard showcasing and selling locally handmade goods and fabulous vintage finds.

The Factory Media Centre-Gregory Fenton-Experimental Video
228 James St. N. 905.577.9191 • www.hamiltonmediaarts.org
is a cross-platform video/photo experiential archival project that addresses issues of representation and experience, both personal and collective, when mapping and exploring a city. The project consists of six-and-a-half hours of video and 748 photographs, presented simultaneously and contrapuntally. The result is a distorted and challenging commentary on memory and performance in both familiar and unfamiliar urban spaces.
Curator: Andrew Butkevicius

Its a Food Thing (right by balitmore house)-Art Crawl Rock Steady

Live art by Isreal Crooks and Dj kojo on the ones and twos.

b contemporary 226 James St. N. 289.389.3949 • www.bcontemporary.ca
b contemporary will be hosting a portion of Qualia, or the Feel of Steel – artists exploring the steadfast imprint of steel on Hamilton. Curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer and featuring the works of:

JUDITH SCHWARZ
Steel Town

Judith Schwarz’s suite of three wall sculptures was fabricated by plasma-cutting hot-rolled steel. A response to the site visits and landscape of Hamilton, the sculptures compress imagined moments from the steel industry. Shipping and Receiving, Blast Furnace, and Smoke and Water comprise poetic shorthand that evokes the history and culture of steel town.

DELIO DELGADO
Corrosive (Through the footprint of another step)

The three floor pieces by Delio Delgado reference remnants of human passage. Works on paper, found objects, scrap metal and rust collected from steel processing, offer a diachronic narrative: piles of cut-offs form part of the installation, and so do their rusty imprints on paper. Delgado draws on transitions from past to present, from nature to abstraction, as a way of marking his own steps through steel town.

Hammer City Records 226 James St. N. (basement) Hardcore, Punk, Metal, Vinyl, Tapes, CDs • www.schizophrenicrex.com
JEFF BECKMAN’s art is well known by local hardcore music fans and tattoo art fiends. We’re thrilled to have he and some of his SINKIN’ INK artists show current work for our second birthday and what’s bound to be a wicked Art Crawl night.

Records and refreshments will be served, including awesome birthday treats!

On Art Crawl nights you can enter the shop via BContemporary Gallery on James Street North aside from the regular entrance off the alley that runs from Robert Street between Classic Cafe & Grannie’s Caribbean.

Grey Room Studio 195 James St. North (upstairs) • www.thegreyroom.ca
Featuring the art of Jesse Parenteau & Melissa Mostacci. New works every month.

Blue Angel Gallery 243 James St. N. 905.522.8735

The Brain 199 James St. N. 289.396.8508

Studios at Hotel Hamilton 195 James St. N.
Bernie Hudecki “Painted Ladies and Other Acrylic Tendencies” in the boardroom space.

The Clay Studio 175 James St. N. Featuring the work of Grazyna Ziolkowski

De Facto at Mulberry – Jason Lee Rhyno-Portraits 193 James St. N. 905.963.1365 •

Studios at Vasco da Gama 175 James St. N. 3rd Flr.
Featuring the studios of Victoria Pearce • Deborah Pearce • Jessica Roth

Centre3 for Print and Media Arts 173 James St. N. 905.524.5084 • www.theprintstudio.ca
The formerly named Print Studio will be hosting a portion of Qualia, or the Feel of Steel – artists exploring the steadfast imprint of steel on Hamilton. Curated by Ingrid Mayrhofer and featuring the works of:

SHELLEY NIRO
Wings and Things (Before Sunrise)

Shelley Niro’s recent photographic works question the meaning, space and time of power relationships. The icon of power lines, an electricity pylon, is placed in a pictorial corner, dwarfed by images of nature or symbols of significance to traditional Iroquoian knowledge. For Niro, “steel evokes a collision of thoughts about evolution of man and devolution of nature.”

SAMINA MANSURI
Steel Town and (steel)scrap

Samina Mansuri’s projection/installation speaks to the constructed realities and myths of the steel industry in Hamilton. The works were created following the artist’s interaction with the industrial space, which she describes as being rife with “tactics of subterfuge and blurring of boundaries.” Mansuri’s footage was shot at Hamilton’s Samuel Steel, an impressive family operation with a history of 157 years of steel processing in the area.

ANDREW MCPHAIL
Prick

Andrew McPhail’s armchair pincushion challenges our sensory modalities. An object that would normally invite an anticipation of repose bears a foreboding title. The artist states, “I know steel. i know its prick….” His reference to the everyday household object positions intimate personal experience at the centre of industrial relations.

18. Hamilton HIStory + HERitage 165 James St. N. 905.526.1405 • www.historyandheritage.ca
City.Life – Hamilton photographs by Michael Hrysko to Sept. 7.

19. Hamilton Artists Inc. 155 James St. N. 905.529.3355 • www.theinc.ca
In the James Street Gallery- Images: Graven and Perceived – Jarrod Hogeterp and Karen Suk July 12 – Aug 5, 2012.

Karen Suk is a multi-media artist with a BA (Fine Art Major) from the University of Guelph. She lived in Vancouver, BC for 12 years and was a member of the Vancouver Life Drawing Society, where she spent two years as the gallery co-ordinator.

Jarrod Hogeterp, a Dundas artist, specializes in working with metal, stone and reclaimed timber. He focuses on combining the natural world and the urban environment using recurring themes of birds and cityscapes.

In the Cannon St Gallery – Re:Structures
Roy Caussy, Paul Elia, Annie Fraser, George Rackus, & Irena Vormittag

*music for the opening reception on July 12, 2012 is provided by Mavis Moran*

Studio 12 Loft 126 James St. N. 2rd Floor Photographic artists’ collective • www.studio12.ca
Studio 12 is a photographic artists’ collective founded in 2009. July 2012: Don’t Shoot the Poet – The photographic sculptures of Todd Murray and Suzanne Kelly. Featuring the slam poetry of: James (P.O.E.) Brown, Beny Esguerra and Dan (aka Dan) Murray.

Melanie Gillis Photography 126 James St. N. 3rd Floor 905.297.1196 • www.melaniegillis.com

Sylvia Nickerson Gallery 126 James St. N. 3rd Floor 905.730.3288 • www.sylvianickerson.ca

Focus Gallery, 66 James St. N. 905.218.9557 • www.thefocusgallery.ca
Featuring the work of Sharon Matthews for the month of July.