Art Crawl This Friday Jan11/13

ART CRAWL January 11/12!!!
NEEDLEWORK- 174 James N-Textile Workshop
Check out the spot and drop off your can goods during artcrawl for foodbanks!

MANTA CONTEMPORARY-The Decemberists
Bradford Wilson, Madeleine Hellmers, Mark Mazurak, Sega One, Taras Ostapchuk

YOU ME GALLERY -End of Year Group Show
Lots of Artists/Lots of Art
Centre 3 Members Space-Ingrid Mayrhofer-Objects Subject to Change

MULBERRY CAFE-Jacqui Oakley Bestiary-cont’d
Series of masks and illustrations about animals, a must see show!

FOCUS GALLERY-TBA
66 James Street North (before Wilson)
Impressionist style paintings

B CONTEMPORARY-Picture Plane-Grid,Dot Matrix, Pixel
Michael Allgoewer, Don Jean-Louis, John MacGregor, Andre McPhail, Liss Platt
The grid entered art during the Renaissance as a way to depict a more realistic sense of space in a painting. In the Modern age of Abstraction and Non-representational Art the grid turned flat to the picture plane. The Pop movement turned to the world of commercial printing for ways to depict both an image and the flatness of the picture plane. The grid morphed into dot matrix. With the emergence of the digital age artists began to use the pixel as the new grid.
226 James St N (Old Ricca Furniture Building)

HAVN-Woven Still-26 Barton E
Video /Sound/Embroidered Photography

HAMMER CITY RECORDS -Super Friends of Hammer City Group Show!
Some of our most valued shop regulars are record fans by day/creative talents by night, and they’ve come together to put brush to canvas, pen to paper and xxx to yyy for a variety of individual and collaborative works. We’ll have fun art up in the shop from our SUPER FRIENDS-Mr.K/Shop Twins/RPM/Tighthead & MaryCathryn McCarthy, Stef Infection, Becky Katz, David O’Connor

WAHC-Steel Town Views
Eight studio participants created collagraphs, a printmaking method that works with textures and layers of surfaces glued together. The exhibition at WAHC’s Community Gallery (second floor) also includes the plates from which the prints were pulled. Gallery visitors are invited to use the plates to create rubbings and add their own visual comments on the topic of the “Feel of Steeltown,” for the visitor’s wall. A workshop with children from the ICAA art education program adds another newcomer perspective to the exhibition.

HISTORY AND HERITAGE-Luna Martinez-Virtual History
Oscar Luna Martinez is originally from Mexico City. He grew up in Montreal and now lives in Hamilton. He is a trained graphic artist with a keen interest in architectural illustration. Oscar is another example of the content for HIStory + HERitage’s exhibitions walking through the front door. Oscar showed me his illustrations of the Lister Block and that led to a discussion of a broader exhibition which includes Oscar’s fully rendered 3D illustrations of the Lister Block, the Pigott building, and an amazing re-creation of Hamilton’s old city hall that was located on James Street North that was demolished in 1962.

HAMILTON ARTISTS INC-Jack Butler-StoryBones
He explores concepts of money and economy in relation to his own life in the work My earliest memory of money is selling flower seeds door to door, as well as his visual observations as a member of Art and Cold Cash, an artists’ collective emerging from Qamanituaq (Baker Lake), Nunavut.

NEW HARBOURS MUSIC SERIES-TBA

BLUE ANGEL GALLERY- TBA
243 James St North 905-522-8735

ART WORD ART BAR -David Nemeth-Drawings
David Nemeth recently made his home in Hamilton, the city that inspired him to create his latest series, “Between the Hammer and a Hard Place”, an evocative study of Hamilton’s architecture and the people who reside there, as seen through the eyes of the artist

THE PRINTSTUDIO Aka Centre3–Shelley Niro-M:Stories of Women
Stories of Women is a series of 12 large-scale digital photomontages. The imagery incorporates elements of portraiture, myth and irony to contest prevailing stereotypes. Niro began the series with the legend of Skywoman, as she felt that the heroine’s predicament was not so different from the experiences of her contemporary counterparts
THE FACTORY-Speak
Youth Poetry Slam and video works.If words could engage the world around us, to which we explore and better understand culture, society, and ultimately ourselves, would you SPEAK?Speak combines documented footage and live performances of youth poets who compete in Hamilton’s first and only slam, Hamilton Youth Poetry Slam

RELISH, 6 Cannon St. E. • Relish on Etsy
O”S Clothes beside Relish-Men’s Clothes
(right beside Relish)
Chaises Musicals-Furniture, books, music, dvds
152 James St North
THE CLAY STUDIO- 175 James St N.
MELAINE GILLIS STUDIO -126 James St N. (above the Factory 3rd Floor)
SYLVIA NICKERSON ILLUSTRATION-126 James St N. (above the Factory 3rd Floor)
HOTEL HAMILTON STUDIOS – 195 James St N.
Between the Mulberry Cafe and the Brain