JIM CHAMBERS Face & Place Sept 13 – Nov 10, 2024

In 1967, Jim Chambers was working as a steel company draughtsman and making photographs in his parents’ basement on Hamilton mountain. He entered and won a Hamilton Spectator photo contest, and subsequently the same photograph (“The Best Man”) won second prize and $4,000 in the National Geographic’ National Snap-shot Contest. He quit his job, bought a colour TV for his parents, new Nikon camera equipment, and sucessfully applied to McMaster University as a mature student. He worked at the Royal Ontario Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario and taught at Humber College. He was a founding member of Toronto Photographers Workshop (TPW) and co-director, with Colleen O’Reilly, of James North Artists Collective.

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DONNA AKREY: S o l a August 22 – September 8, 2024

Exhibition opening and Book Launch, Thurs, Aug 22, 5-8 pm. Finissage/Artist’s walk & talk, Sunday, Sept 8, 2 pm.

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August 9 (Art Crawl) – Sept. 18 2024

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A CONVERSATION Doug Carter, Jon Cleland & Jim Mullin June 22- July 28, 2024. Opening Reception Saturday June 22, 2024 @ 7 PM, Birthday party for Jim Mullin, Sat. July 27, 1-4 pm.

Jim often said that he’d like to exhibit with Doug and Jon, whom he admired as artists, but the actual impetus was rooted in the twenty year gap between their ages, which inevitably informs their influences and practice. He’d already collaborated with Doug on a series of large scale found object works, and this kind of creative conversation continued many years later, while spray painting on urban rooftop walls with Jon.

I was totally amazed, slightly trepidatious and so grateful when these two artists, who had never met, accepted an invitation to collaborate on 3 paintings with their late friend. This exhibition marks Jim’s 60th birthday on July 27th, 2024.

Happy birthday Jim.

Denise Lisson

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This impaired vision, like looking through a blindness … M.P. Nice to meander through Bryce’s head. D.J.

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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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