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Art Gallery of Hamilton: Atelier: Christianne L'Esperance
Rich patterning and exquisite forms that resonate with qualities of
transformation and metamorphosis are a constant in her work. The Atelier
Series is an ongoing programme at the Gallery that features recent work by
Canadian artists from Hami...
BANG the Gallery: Alex Hamilton: Mandals at AZARA
AZARA - the restaurant, is located in the same rooms where Hamilton first opened his own BANG the Gallery four years ago. AZARA has built a fantastic reputation for exquisite food and a striking contemporary interior and is an ideal location and b...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Contemporary Art Project Series: Millie Chen
In this project, conceived for the exhibition space at the Art Gallery of
Hamilton , Chen explores the relationship between seeing and hearing, the shifting from one sense to
another. Through hand constructed instrument-like ...
Art Ireland: Hamilton Sloan
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Art Gallery of Hamilton: Atelier: Carolyn Samkova, Tree of Life
Carolyn Samkova can easily be considered one of Canada's most innovative young artists, says AGH Senior Curator Shirley Madill. With an acute understanding of history and its ramifications, Samkova consciously pushes painting beyond traditional b...
Portland Museum of Art: Hamilton Easter Field Art Foundation Collection
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Art Gallery of Hamilton: Contemporary Art Project: Martin Creed
Creed is invited to produce an installation in residency for the AGH that will resonate in a space of his choosing. He will also be asked to talk about his musical compositions as expressed in his band Owanda. ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: California Pottery: From Mission to Modernism
Drawn
exclusively from California collections, the approximately 180 pieces in the exhibition
are a selection from producers throughout the state.
IMAGE:
May Hamilton de Causse and Geneviève Hamilton
Platter, Rippled...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Jade, The Ultimate Treasure of Ancient China
Bringing together over 120 individual pieces and sets of jade, the
exhibition - presented by JNE Consulting Limited and Turkstra Lumber -- is a
rare opportunity to experience firsthand the stone that has played such a
central and revered role i...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Marian Dale Scott, 1906 - 1993: Pioneer of Modern Art
This retrospective
exhibition brings together over sixty paintings and works from experiments in a
figurative modern language to pure abstraction. Particular attention is paid to
Scott's work from the thirties and ...
VISUAL BUILDING: BRIDGING THE GAP
Christian art, painted in a contemporary expressionist/realist style is
sometimes difficult to comprehend for both the religious and secular minds.
The painter tries by expressing his faith in composition and colour, to
bridge the gap between a...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: Horrible Imaginings of John Hamilton Mortimer
Mortimer depicted monsters, Shakespearean subjects, and picturesque banditti. He also produced imaginary portraits of famous artists and more conventional images, such as seascapes. Mortimer's interest in emotionally charged subjects, such as Deat...
McMaster Museum of Art: LANDeSCAPES: Simon Frank and Reinhard Reitzenstein
Simon Frank b. 1968, Glasgow, Scotland
Frank is a self-taught artist, poet and rustic furniture maker. He obtained his Honours BA in English from the University of Guelph in 1991. Recent exhibitions include Future Cities (2004 Art Gallery o...
Cambridge Galleries: Natural Constructions
Kevin Fraser is a native of Oakville, Ontario. He received his BFA from
McMaster University in 1997. Most recently Fraser's work has been
featured in a solo exhibition at the Dofasco Gallery at the Dundas
Valley School of Art. This past spri...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Humanity Refigured:
Henry Moore and Postwar British Sculpture
Dubbed Britain's New Iron
Age, the group - which included Kenneth Armitage, Lynn
Chadwick, Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows and Eduardo Paolozzi -
created expressions of anxiety and disquietude that stood in stark
...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Phenomenon of the Ukrainian Avant-garde, 1910 - 1935
Between 1937-39, some 2,000 works were confiscated by the Soviet government
and placed in the secret underground vaults of the Spetsfond (special
collection) created especially for works of art deemed harmful and
ideologically hostile. Countle...
Waikato Society of Arts: Waikato National Art Award, Summer 2005
Clay Bodvin's work was initially composed and rendered digitally for a limited-edition of inkjet prints and was the first of Bodvin’s work in 2004 to undergo a Maroflage-type process that transfers the digital image onto prepared panels. The proce...
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Surface Invention: Post-1945 Graphic Art
Visitors will be able to make connections with artists such as Joe Tilson,
Richard Hamilton, Henry Moore and John Salt who are exhibiting in both these
events. Tilson's Transparency, The Five Senses ? Taste, a stylised version of
Marilyn Mon...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Magnetic North: Canadian Experimental Video
Many of the tapes are very challenging, says AGH curatorial intern and independent video producer Steve Loft. They tell stories: some are very funny, others are hard-hitting and compelling. All are in a format that’s very accessible.
Acco...
Cambridge Galleries: Tom Bendtsen: Argument No.6 (b)
Initially, his book works may seem to be simply a pile of books,
skilfully arranged to create a sculptural, architectural form. Upon
closer inspection, however, one identifies the titles of the books, the
different types of books, the relations...
BANG the gallery: Words of Art
His first show, Indirect Confessions, was staged at The Coffee Lounge in early 1998 and he was then granted a sponsorship to perform the same show at the Grahamstown Arts Festival the same year. Indirect Confessions was voted one of the top ten sh...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Trevor Gould: Posing for the Public
The next time you enter a natural history museum, after experiencing
Gould's work, you may view it with a different perspective, a critical eye
perhaps and an acute understanding of the extent of post-colonialist
attitudes in these spaces, says...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Ann Hamilton at hand
The exhibition encompasses installation, video and photography, creating emotive
spaces through a combination of sight, sound and touch and spanning her practice
f...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Modern Woman: Women Artists between the Wars
Recently discovered but in serious need of repair, a stunning painting has been restored to its former glory and added to the Art Gallery of Hamilton's permanent collection. A Northern Railway Town, Lake Superior c. 1935 by Rody Kenny Courtice (C...
City Gallery Wellington: HOME AND AWAY: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND ART FROM THE CHARTWELL COLLECTION
The exhibition has been drawn from the Chartwell Collection, started in the
1970s by Hamilton businessman R B K Gardiner as a way of bringing
contemporary art to Hamilton at a time when the city was without an art
gallery. Now numbering aroun...
Detroit Institute of Art: POP ART: PRINTS AND MULTIPLES FROM THE DIA COLLECTION
By relying on humor, audacity,
color and several new technologies, these artists redefined and broadened the spectrum of
art. This exhibition surveys the accomplishments...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Reverence: Concepts of the Sacred in Contemporary Art
Included in Reverence are off-site installations:
* St. Pauls Presbyterian Church, located at 70 James Street South, will
host an installation by Christianne LEspérance. Members of the public are
welcome to view her work from 9 am - 4 pm on...
MASS MoCA: Largest Gallery to Re-Open with an Installation by Ann Hamilton
“Ann is probably the best known maker of site-specific installations in this country, if not the world,” said Joseph Thompson, Director of MASS MoCA. “Being in one of her evocative installations engages all the senses: they are experiential, immer...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Out of Senses: Seven Exhibitions where Artists Use the Museum as a Laboratory
Maurizio Cattelan
This enigmatic artist places a sculpture, which stands in direct confrontation with the permanent collection of 19th century art. Cattelan was recently present at the Venice Biennial with the pope knocked down by a stone and ...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Audubon's Wilderness Palette:
The Birds of Canada
Audubons Wilderness Palette presents an impressive and engaging cross
section of prints from the folio that focus for the first time on the artists Canadian
excu...
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