“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
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
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.
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.
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 RENNEShe 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.
PAUL ROPEL MORSKI / PATRICK CARSON. Peace and Warresponses 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)
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.
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 MULLINJAMES 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 DELGADOAFTER A MINUTE HERE … ONE LESS Sept 10 – Oct 25, 2021
