“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
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.
Exhibition and workshops to commemorate World Pinhole Photography Day, April 30.
Sunday, April 23, 1-3 pm Bayfront Park Workshop for beginners and advanced. Created works to be exhibited @ ymg. All materials supplied. FREE. Register at: worldpinholeday@gmail.com.
Friday, April 28, 6:30-8:30 pm, Exhibit opening @ ymg
Sunday, April 30, 1-3 Downtown Hamilton Workshop for beginners and advanced. As above.
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.
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
