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 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
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
