All Openings fall on the second Friday of the month from 7-10pm, as part of the James North ArtCrawl
February 12th-27th
Icons of Domestic Terror
Matt Pelletier
A few words for the curious…
Somewhere between the dream and the world of flesh sit these works.
Taken from memory, records of fact, and fiction, they are an attempt to bridge the space between the conscious mind and the submerged.
A good way to know someone is to draw it.
A good way to know the self is to extend it outside of the mind.
I believe in observation, I believe in craftsmanship.
The eye and the hand are gifts, when embraced they can open a door to new ways of seeing, and new way of being, ignored the result is the withering of the soul.
All these works are well traveled, inhabiting smoke filled rooms and riding the greyhound bus they were long in the making, sometimes the only conversations to puncture solitude.
That is the beauty of art, it talks all the time.
Look and see what you will.
Cordially yours,
Matt Pelletier (Feb12/2010) pelletier01@gmail.com
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March 10th-27
Re
vWear
RevWear is an environmentally friendly fashion show, inspired by issues ranging from globalization, anticonsumerism, GLBTQ, women’s rights, poverty, animal rights and many more. Created by the loving raging rebels who are the RevWear Committee.
Revolution Wear is an idea, an action, a lifestyle, a tool, a means to an ends, a starting point, a movement, a vehical, a message, part of something much bigger, the embodiment of love and passion, freedom and creativity. It is whatever you make of it and is as powerful as you allow it to be. It tares at definitions and replaces them with questions. Revolution Wear creates beauty from the abject using signfiers of consumer culture to deconstruct the machine.
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April 9th-30th
God Damn Circus
Following in the steps of ninjas, robots, cowboys and gangsters. Poster by God Damn alumni, Allen Swerling
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May 5th-29th
Behind the City
Audrea DiJulio and Matias Santini
This collaboration inspired by the ill perceived character of the surrounding area DiJulio and Santini team up to undermined these negative ideas and connotations and re-establish these areas as legitimate points of interests worth analyzing and re-contextualizing.
It is through the use of sculpture in order to make meaningful connections between people and the surrounding physical elements, and photography to capture the context and highlight areas of interest, that DiJulio and Santini are able to marry analysis and emotion in order to come up with something comprehensive and beautiful at the same time.
It is a way to draw attention to the beauties of the city which are not part of a BIA initiative and reframe them in order to offset the potential disillusion that many Hamiltonians feel being surrounded by the lack of care which in our opinion is the ultimate demise of the city.
Involving people in the process of art making is thought to be a way of disseminating these ideas even before the final presentation of the work.
On that note I would like to thank the volunteers in this project:
Kate Myers, Nageeb Twal, Bernadette Twal, Emira Bouhafna and Angela Morley
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June 2nd-26th
Cross Contamination
Lee Bondzio, curating
DFN: ……… The passing of bacteria, microorganisms, or other harmful substances indirectly from one patient to another through improper or unsterile equipment, procedures or products.
Cross Contamination investigates complex interpretation and problem solving. 8 individuals initiate an original work then are subsequently paired at random with one another. The unfinished pieces are then exchanged between each duo by a third party wherein the recipient become respnsible for the completion of the work recieved.
Participants
Dan Brandon and James lawson, Brigitte Huard and Michelle Doerner, Darren Dumas and Julie Amlin, Lee Bondzio and Laura Marotta
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For one night only Saturday June 12th
(to coincide with Cross Contamination)
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July 7th-31st
psychic space
Brad Isaacs, curating
Amy Friend http://www.amyfriend.ca/
Katie Pretti http://www.katiebondpretti.com/toc.html
An examination of the tension between representation and abstraction
through the work of photographer Amy Friend and painter Katie Pretti
Amy Friend, "Ebb"
Kattie Pretti "Bounty"
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August
Skateboard Show
curated by Paul Antic
1.amber delaney
2.bryce huffman
3.alex gorodskoy
4.anthony jenkins
5.darlene macneil
6.luis mora
7.chris brett
8.becky katz
9.mathew mcinnes
10.mark byk
11.bennett slater
12.carlier russelle
13.miles pasick
14.andrew patterson
15.darryl graham
16.victoria alstein
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September 1st-25th
Khalm
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October 6th-30th
leftandlight Will and Joel
Work that involves finding a common connection between distant places, capturing those spaces/places that have been affected by a human hand and how the objects left in those spaces/places signify a broader/collective human presence.
www.leftandlight.com
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November 3rd-27th
Ben Boranis
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