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
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
ROBIN ZEECOURTSHIP AND DECEITMELANIE SKENE sculpture LIAM GRAHAM sound
Feb 14 – March 8, 2020 ARTISTS TALK: SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2 PM.
build trust like fishing, hooked up baits used he’s holding my identification papers he threatened to hurt my kids, my parents, my family my friends he’ll tell everyone Im a whore, a slut i didn’t even realize i was being trafficked
MESKHENET AND THE TRIPLETS: Brian Kelly, Philip Grant, Bryce Kanbara March 13-April 5, 2020. (in conjunction with a corresponding exhibition with same title at The Assembly Gallery in Redchurch Cafe, Mar4-29, extended)
Opening reception Friday, Mar 13, followed by closure caused by Covid-19 pandemic. Exhibition viewable through front window.
PROTECTIVE RELAYS window installation by AARON MURPHY July 10th to August 9th, 2020, all hours. Watch the artist install the work: Friday July 10th after 5pm/ Saturday July 11th after 10am/ Sunday July 12th after 10am Protective Relays is an installation comprised of two cameras aimed at two different photographs and a televsion on which the images have been combined to create a digitized montage. Each camera is controlled by a micro-computer that relays video data through a closed network to a third computer that amalgamates the feeds for the television screen. Because the cameras are “live”, the montage on the television flutters and vibrates when their attached sensors and computers attempt to compensate for changes in the surrounding light caused by time of day and passing shadows.
W H I R L Y G I G S 2 0 2 0 Aug – Oct 4, 2020 Janice Jackson, Patrick Carson, Ted Haines, Cameron Kuntz, Janice Kovar, Emma Enright, Alan Peachey, Jim Tiessen, Ingrid Mayrhofer, Bryce Kanbara Ted Karkut, The Murphys (Aaron, Katherine, Samuel), Manfred Urchak, Aly Livingston, John Eagles
KIMBERLY PAPP Oblivious Follies INGRID MAYRHOFERBird bowls and Flower plates Oct 9 – Nov 8, 2020
More than ever, we flock together, sharing an on-line culture shaped by Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr, TikTok and more. The result? Flamboyant self-absorption. Like a flurry of birds — the ultimate social network. Every one revelling in his or her unique plumage. Each demanding to be seen and heard — undisciplined, exuberant, delightfully chaotic. Kim Papp
I intend to create a visual tension between forms that suggests the comfort of shelter or food, and a content that represents remnants of humankind’s intervention against nature…imagery references species that are listed as extinct, extirpated, endangered, threatened or vulnerable in Canada. Pottery is said to be the most common find at archaeological sites…shards of my pots may well endure the next great extinction. Ingrid Mayrhofer
BCL POP-UP November 13 2020 – February 7, 2021 peter karuna john farr aline alexanian Jim Riley Brian Johnston michael allgoewer shelley niro bill powell george wallace walter hickling alfred joyce Cees & Annerie van Gemerden robert yates sam robinson roger ferreira jim chambers colleen O’Reilly Sandra Crisante-Crespo José Crespo Bernie Hudecki janice kovar Lucy Erskine janice jackson john kinsella Lisa Wohrle Cameron Kuntz marla panko pat kozowyk Ravinder Ruprai Dawn Beatty claudette losier Alan Peachey Jane Adeney bryce kanbara doug macfarlane stephen arthurs william warwick diane cizek wayne allan judi burgess saundi vivian stephen altena gerten basom
