Author: bryce

O M G @ Y M G January 12 – February 4 2024 HAPPY NEW YEAR ! paul cvetich,manfred urchak,janice kovar,paul enright,helen sovereign,Colleen O’Reilly,emma enright,jim chambers,Sandra Crisante,Grazyna Ziolkowski,Andrew McPhail,monica plant,chuck eelhart,Dean Gugler,fleur-ange lamothe,bryce kanbara,ted basciano,Ravinder Ruprai,callie archer,brian kelly,annerie van gemerden, melissa neil,maureen paxton,bernadine van renne,John Farr,patrick carson,Paul Ropel,Ingrid Mayrhofer,corinne duchesne,bob yates,brian johnston,Jill Letten,evelyn kelch,shelley niro,bethany kenyon,mike hansen,judi burgess,delio delgado

Sunday, Jan 21, 2pm Book Launch: Robert Clark Yates’ Now and Never Again , featuring an introduction by Yates, and readings from the book by Bryce Kanbara, Sam Robinson, Bernadette Rule, and Donna Yates.

Sunday, Feb 4, 2pm OMG artists walk&talkabout

MELISSA NEIL FLICKERING LIGHTS Feb 9 – March 17 2024 Flickering Lights is a series of paintings made in response to twilight, tidal bores, night skies, satellites, and electrical garden lighting. I began the early stages research and image gathering of this work in 2022 when I knew I was interested in creating a series of work based on night skies. I was specifically interested in the cosmos after reading Jo Marchant’s book: The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars (In this non-fiction book the author outlines the connections humans have made throughout history to their place in the universe in response to stars, constellations and the awe of the night sky).

These paintings come from images captured while spending time on the Minas Basin, an inlet on the Bay of Fundy, in Nova Scotia. I set up a tripod in a backyard overlooking the basin and took long exposure photographs at dusk and late night, capturing the sky, the stars, satellites, the tide in and out at various intervals, and the surrounding vegetation which was sometimes backlit by starlight and other times front lit with electric garden lights or the camera flash.

regina haggo’s spec review march 1/24 https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/visual-arts/art-of-darkness/article_ccee65bf-df1d-5f41-b57f-59178a7cb1ab.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

JOE OLLMANN FROM THE ARCHIVES Nov. 10 – Dec. 30, 2023. opening reception: Friday, Nov. 10, 6:30 – 9 pm+

Scenes from Joe Ollmann’s “Fictional Father” puppet show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ-30QtMabk&t=22s

Regina Haggo’s review, Nov 25/23: https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/drawn-to-life-see-cartoons-and-excerpts-from-joe-ollmann-s-graphic-novels-in-from/article_d09c70cf-ec7a-5181-a964-326816686872.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

“I don’t know what’s going on here, but I like it” “You impressed an engineer for what that’s worth!” -Scott from Brantford “This was soo cool, really sooo cool!” – S. N.

WHIRLYGIGS 2023 Opening SuperCrawl Weeknd Sept 8-10, continuing to Oct 21. Aly Livingston, Patricia Witiw, Ingrid Mayrhofer, Brian Kelly, Ted Karkut, Sandra Crisante, Eugene Schwetz, Janice Kovar, Paul Enright, Dawn White Beatty, Jim Tiessen, Carey French, Janice Jackson, Dean Gugler, Harold Sikemma, Dale Schustyk, Ed Kotanen, Bob Ezergailis, Helen Sovereign, Callie Archer, John Farr, Patrick Carson, Noriko Yamamoto, Greg Yates, Mike Hansen, Ted Haines, Maria Grande, Bryce Kanbara

https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/visual-arts/artists-rise-to-the-artistic-and-mechanical-challenges-of-moving-sculptures/article_7d402aea-a1ff-5fd7-9c1f-02c84875e05a.html#tncms-source=article-nav-prev

SHADOWS 2023 you me gallery

1. NORMAN TAKEUCHI “VANCOUVER STREET BANNER” 2007 silkscreen on nylon (one of 300 installed on Vancouver lamposts)

2. “1,000 CRANES” 2020 origami folded by residents of Momiji Health Care Centre Toronto, for a previous project by Lillian Michiko Yano. ROSE AIHOSHI, JENNY OYAGI, KAZUKO HOSOGOE, TAKAKO MOROSAWA

3. YOSHIKO SUNAHARA “VERTIGO – HIROSHIMA SHADOW” 2004 washi, styrofoam, wood

4. GEORGE FUNAMOTO a note about his aunt’s experience. 2014

5. Snapshot of Fumiko Kanbara in Hiroshima, 1992.

Opening Friday, June 30, 6-8 pm, continuing to August.

Playlist is a series of smaller works that remix sound into visual works and deconstruct abstract painting. These paintings are based on Classic Rock, as it known as today, was the music of my teenage years. No matter how much I want to ignore it, rock music is a large part of me. As I listen to nostalgia of my past, I can’t escape seeing it in colour shape and gesture. It generates strong feeling with in me from good times and the bad, love found and lost and parties that never seem to end. 

About: Mike Hansen is a senior Canadian artist who uses sound and noise to develop artworks in various mediums. He is well known as an established colourist painter, sound artist and experimental musician. His body of work explores the visualization of sound and noise. Hansen has exhibited globally in public museums, commercial galleries, and artist-run centres. 

paintings / sculpture Opening Reception: Friday, May 12, 6:30 – 10 pm. May 12 – June 25, 2023

https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/visual-arts/sculptures-spreading-their-wings/article_81e4b630-c501-59e7-91f5-09c557332a22.html

March 10 – April 23 2023 Robert Clark Yates Distant Landscapes and other observations

Paintings inspired by memories of travels beyond Hamilton and Dundas (Lithuania, Ireland, France, Italy & Algonquin Park)

https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/art/review/2023/04/03/robert-clark-yatess-paintings-reflect-observations-made-far-from-home.html

Opening: Friday, March 10, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Exhibition viewable through front window, 24/7, and inside by appointment or by chance. (905) 523-7754 bkanbara@gmail.com

Folded Pieces: Maps of a Blind Brush

January 13 – February 2023

The clean smooth surfaces, precise edges and angles of our world are slowly and constantly being tugged back into the reality of time’s dominion. Edges crumble; clean surfaces rust, pit and tear. Stains, drips and marks gradually accumulate and form patterns. Mould, moss and lichen colonize even polished surfaces. Does only one state have beauty or, if we look closely, can the transformation have a beauty of its own?

Different approaches to watercolour are comparable to this dynamic. Some artists start with a sheet of sparkling white paper and try to maintain its purity with vibrant applications of transparent pigment all the while struggling to keep the surface of the work as flat and smooth as possible. The finished art is then presented beneath glass.

In many ways, my style allows me to work in the opposite direction. My colours are muted and often muddied. The papers surface is sometimes heavily creased, torn and repaired. The resulting painting is generally larger than most watercolour and presented without frame or glass.

I want this series to reflect how time changes one attempt at perfection into something different but still pleasing to the eye.

Front window viewing 24/7, inside by appointment or by chance.

Kathy Renwald, The Bay Observer: https://bayobserver.ca/fold-soak-paint-the-art-of-the-discarded/

Regina Haggo, The Spec review:https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/visual-arts/uncharted-territory-warren-hoyano-s-maps-invite-exploration/article_5169c6d5-e19b-57ab-8a7f-f3a797077657.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share