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

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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

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“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

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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.

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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. 

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

 

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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

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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

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ABUNDANCE Artists of Redeemer College Leah Groskurth, Aarn Vvloo, Emily Bouma, Leah Routenburg, Henrietta Koonstra, Cloe Mitchell, Janalyn Arnold, Hanna Hack, Cecilia Salituro, Jessie Zantingh, Mackenzie Langendoan January 14 – February 20, 2022.

GORD ANDERSON PAINTINGS March 11 – April 10, 2022

Spec: https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/visual-arts/gord-anderson-s-paintings-reflect-his-lifelong-fascination-with-steel-mills-and-war-machines/article_5d600c13-85c8-59fb-87aa-cba228d64710.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

BRIAN JOHNSTON THE ANNOINTED ONE April 14 – May 8, 2022 Digital photo on brushed aluminum, 24″x24″. Easter month viewing  thru the front window, 24/7.

BERNADINE VAN RENNE She Laughed At All His Jokes. May 13 – June 8, 2022 Adam & Eve: a look at the ideas of guilt, vulnerability and redemption. 24/7 viewing  thru the front window, Or inside by appointment or by chance.

https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/art/review/2022/05/29/bernadine-van-renne-pictures-a-different-life-for-adam-and-eve.html

PAUL ROPEL MORSKI / PATRICK CARSON.  Peace and War responses to the war in Ukraine Opening Friday, July 8, 6:30 – 9 pm. Continuing to Aug 7, 2022

2022 SUPERCRAWL POP-UP Sept 9 – Oct.

John Farr Ted Basciano Ravinder Ruprai Brian Kelly Maureen Paxton Janice Jackson Chuck Eelhart Bernadine Van Renne Patrick Carson Paul Ropel Ingrid Mayrhofer Corinne Duchesne Cameron Kuntz Bob Yates John Kinsella Brian Johnston Tom Lowe Pat Kozowyk Janice Kovar Paul Enright Peter Karuna Jill Letten Evelyn Kelch Annerie Van Gemerden Cees Van Gemerden Keith Shearsby Bryce Kanbara Fleur-Ange Lamothe Dean Gugler (works on hand: Jim Chambers, Mina Ao)

OMG @ YMG 2022 Nov 11 – Jan 8, 2023

Chuck Eelhart,Dean Gugler,fleur-ange lamothe,keith shearsby,Cees & Annerie van Gemerden,John Farr,Ravinder Ruprai,ted basciano,brian kelly,maureen paxton,janice jackson,bernadine van renne,Patrick Carson,Paul Ropel,Ingrid Mayrhofer,corinne duchesne,bob yates,john kinsella,Brian Johnston,pat kozowyk,peter karuna,Jill Letten,evelyn kelch,Lesley Loksi Chan,Andrew McPhail,monica plant,Grazyna Ziolkowski,hitoko otaka,Karen Thiessen,Sandra Crisante-Crespo,jim chambers,Colleen O’Reilly,helen sovereign,jim riley,janice kovar,manfred urchak,paul cvetich,kimberly papp,bryce kanbara

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PATRICK CARSON : WALTER GRETZKY & FAMILY portraits Feb 12 – April 25, 2021 Patrick Carson worked up these paintings as a warm-up for the recent Brantford Public Golf Course competition to commission a portrait of Walter Gretzky. (He didn’t win.) He completed more than 20 versions of Walter, then turned his brush to Wayne, Janet, and their daughter Paulina — the latter two fetchingly clad in swimsuits. Walter Gretzky and family (Wayne, Janet and Paulina) is on view through the front window of you me gallery, a storefront gallery in Hamilton Ontario that during these times, has been converted to a window-viewing space, lit 24/7..

Walter Gretzky passed away Thursday, March 4. Patrick Carson dedicates the exhibition to the memory of Walter Gretzky and extends his condolences to the Gretzky family.

https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/art/opinion/2021/04/03/patrick-carson-scores-with-dynamic-paintings-of-the-gretzky-family.html

R I S E  Words & inspiration using salvaged letters (from a discarded store sign): M O A A S I L E R F May 3 – June 8, 2021

RISE Week 1 “Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew / Which in sleep had fallen on you / Ye are many-they are few.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy: Written on Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester (quote suggested by Regina Haggo)

RISE WEEK 2 DOUGLAS HAGGO (SMILE) “Smile, though your heart is aching.  Smile, even though it’s breaking.” From Smile, by Charlie Chaplin (music), John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons (lyrics and title)

RISE WEEK 3 BRIAN KELLY (LOSE) same, seam, seal, loaf, lore…LOSE One notable consequence of the lock-downs is the lack of consistent contact with other people and the lack of conversation. I find that leads to a diminished vocabulary … use it or lose it. My contribution to this project is a desperate grasp at unearthing the words I seldom use, the words I would otherwise lose.

RISE WEEK 4 ROBERT YATES (SAILOR FAME) … suggests to me the literary monument Moby Dick and its approximately infinite # of Herman Melville quotes, one of which is: “Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.” (All letters used.)

RISE WEEK 5 MANFRED URCHAK (AMALFI) “We are merely the stars’ tennis- balls, struck and bandied / Which way please them.” Quote from “The Duchess of Malfi” (1612-13) by John Webster. Amalfi—one of many beautiful, iconic destinations that none of us are destined to see any time soon. Perhaps our fate is, indeed, in the stars.

JIM MULLIN JAMES ON JAMES

June 19 – August 21, 2021 Jim Mullin was a visual artist, musician and theatrical scenic artist. After completing his studies at The Ontario College of Art in 1987 he began to exhibit his artwork locally and beyond, some noted exhibitions include: “Don’t Follow Leaders, Watch the Parking Meters” at Wilder Studio in Catskill NY, “Gauge” at Forrest City Gallery in London ON, and “The OH! Canada Project” at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Jim was the co-founder of The Hammer Gallery, a former board member of The Hamilton Artist Inc., a former member of The James North Art Collective, the drummer for Dingenerator Pump and Black Hart Metal, a charter union member of The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees – IATSE Local 828, and the past Head Scenic Artist for both Theatre Aquarius and Great Lakes Scenic Studios. The exhibition at You Me Gallery is a smattering of his artwork from OCA to his departure from this mortal coil in March 2021. regina haggo: https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/art/opinion/2021/08/07/jim-mullins-energy-helped-to-forge-the-visual-arts-in-hamilton.html

DELIO DELGADO AFTER A MINUTE HERE … ONE LESS Sept 10 – Oct 25, 2021

Spec Review: https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/visual-arts/how-delio-delgado-s-close-encounter-with-death-from-covid-19-changed-his-art/article_066c6b08-3482-57a7-b6f8-97e60ce164bf.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

TED BASCIANO GIVE ME SHELTER (New Mosaics} Nov 5 – Dec 31, 2021

Since 1984, I have been working mainly in 4 mediums.  Throughout high school and university, I worked on small soapstone and serpentine sculptures  ( 1984 – 1992 ).  Printmaking became my dominate medium at McMaster University ( 1987 – 1992 ).  I produced prints up to 2004; some lithographs and etchings but mostly woodcuts.  From 1995 to the present, I have worked on mosaic wall sculptures. In 2008, I started working on watercolour pencil drawings. Sculpture has been the main focus of my art career. regina haggo: https://www.thespec.com/entertainment/visual-arts/how-ted-basciano-transforms-bits-of-stone-and-glass-into-amazing-sculptures/article_389bb48e-2463-53d3-a62e-fcab1457fe59.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

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