Salients is a solo exhibition of work by Hamilton-based artist and researcher Chris Myhr. The exhibition brings together photographs from an interrelated series developed by Myhr between 2016 and 2022, exploring themes related to water, the ecosystem, complex interconnectivity, and materiality through a photo-based approach. The notion of “salience” describes what is most prominent - […]
Fugue is a sculptural installation that materializes the artists’ shared and individual experiences of living through the COVID-19 global pandemic. Comprised of a large 6’ x 18’ suspended collaborative quilt made up of three 6” x 6” panels, the artists have deployed muted tones of blues/greys/blacks combined with abstract patterns to narrate their personal stories […]
Ferdinando Bilanzola (1956-2001), Judi Burgess, Raffaele Caterini, Paul Cvetich, John Kinsella, Janice Kovar, Paul Ropel-Morski and Lisa Wöhrle are The Contemporaries. All McMaster University art graduates, they formed the artist collective "The Contemporaries" in the late 1980s and exhibited extensively in the Hamilton region until the mid 90s. The Contemporaries: This Must Be The Place […]
Artists: Sally McKay and Von Bark Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners are high-tech medical instruments that use nuclear physics to aid in medical diagnosis and neuroscientific research. MRI scanners manipulate the tissues of subjects’ brains at the subatomic level to reveal anatomical structures or, as in the case of FMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging), they […]
The permanent collection–100 plus years in the making and numbering over 10,000 works of art in a variety of media–remains the cornerstone of the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Yet, at any given time, visitors to the Gallery are only able to view three to five percent of the collection physically on display in the exhibition […]
This exhibition of new work by Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Cree) at The Art Gallery of Hamilton explores the architecture of the Bishop Fauquier Memorial Chapel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, a small Gothic and Tudor style sandstone chapel built in 1881. The chapel is the last remaining original structure on the site of the former […]
My Grandmothers Dress, circa. 1955. Angela Aujla: My Grandmothers Dress February 17 – May 21, 2023 My Grandmother’s Dress tells the story of early diasporic Panjabi women making and remaking culture in Canada in the shadow of racist hostility, dislocation from homelands, and patriarchal traditions. Through engagement with material culture, archival documents, and family photographs, […]
In the Heart of a Wood, (detail). Julia White: In the Heart of a Wood February 17 – June 4, 2023 In the Heart of a Wood is an invitation to enter the archetypal forest, where tree-like columns serve as beacons of light and hope along an invisible path. A woodland soundscape beckons us into […]
Nichol Marsch, Subjects (2022), installation. Photo by Laura Lewis. Centre for Artistic and Social Practice Presents Nichol Marsch: Subjects Exhibition: March 3 – April 7, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, March 10, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Subjects is a multimedia installation exploring the relation between statistics and the body. In this solo exhibition, […]
March 3-29, 2023 Reception: Friday, March 3, 7-9:30 Artists Tour Sunday, March 19, 1-2pm The exhibition marks the first time this Hamilton mother and son duo have shown together publicly. Their work demonstrates an exploration of colour, geometry, shape relationships, and mark making through depictions of florals, landscape, and architecture. Gord and Kathy are also […]
March 3-29, 2023 Reception: Friday, March 3, 7-9:30 We are pleased to present this exhibition of new work by St Catharines artist, Sandy Middleton. Her fragmented and layered wall relief sculptures are created using deconstructed photographs and encaustic (hot wax). The result is a sensual and evocative reflection of stillness, solitude, and the passage of […]
The Gig Rolling World Première Written by Mark Crawford Directed by Morris Panych March 8 – 25, 2023. Opening night: March 10, 2023! Three drag queens have been hired to perform at a private function. The catch? Tonight’s event is a campaign fundraiser for a Conservative politician. As the queens struggle to agree on how […]
Portraits of Home installation view Grimsby Public Art Gallery presents Portraits of Home Soheila Esfahani, Travis Shilling, Jordyn Stewart, Diana Thorneycroft February 21 to April 22, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, […]
Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family whom her parents have never met. […]
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‘Color . . . is a kind of bliss . . .like a closing eyelid, a tiny fainting spell.’ – Roland Barthes The fall into color; a lapse, a descent, […]
Frederick Hagan, Fragment of a Legend, 1965, stone lithograph on paper, 26″ x 19″. Ted Fullerton, Nietzsche and Me, 2016, stone lithograph on paper, 30″ x 22″. Mentor and Me […]
Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family whom her parents have never met. […]
