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January Exhibition Openings in the Cannon St Gallery: Jeff Nye – Abandon, by the Old Dirt Road
Exhibition dates: Jan 6 – Feb 4, 2012
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Reception: Friday Jan 6th 7 – 10 pm (the artist will be in attendance)
Art Crawl: Friday Jan 13th 7-11 pm
Sunday, Jan 8th 1-4 pm - Artist talk/workshop with Jeff Nye – an introduction to the use of charcoal drawing in stop motion animation, please RSVP to irene@hamiltonartistsinc.on.ca
Irene 905 529 3355 www.theinc.ca
Abandon, by the old dirt road is an installation involving a layered interplay between painting, video projection and sound. Abandon investigates rural spaces, lost and recovered memory, and the painter’s studio itself.
This installation appears courtesy of the Saskatchewan Arts Board’s permanent collection. The viewing of this work in Hamilton is made possible through the Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Section.
Jeff Nye is a Master of Fine Arts Graduate of the University of Regina. His interests include contemporary painting, interactivity, the social roles of artists, and the phenomenology of painting. He has exhibited his paintings and site-specific installations in Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec. He has received awards from the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and the Ontario Arts Council, and is a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship in 2005-06. He was a recipient of the University of Regina Scholarly Research Award, and the Canada Life Graduate Award in 2004. He is currently working on an on-line painting experiment located at www.livestudio.ca.
In the James Street North Gallery – the dedicated Members’ space
Hamilton Cityscapes works by Masoud Eskandari &
“What colour is your Revolution?” works by Roberto Lavidez
January 6 – Feb 4, 2012
Exhibition Reception: January 6th 7-10pm (Masoud Eskandari will be in attendance 8-10 pm, Roberto Lavidez will be in attendance from 7-8 pm)
Art Crawl open house: Friday, January 13th 7-11pm (Masoud Eskandari will be in attendance 8-10 pm)
Artist talk by Roberto Lavidez – Sunday Jan 15th 1-3pm
Masoud Eskandari
Eskandari’s photographs reveal impressions of the city the artist has lived in since his arrival in Canada. Both formal and narrative, the works function as a text, collectively revealing hidden meanings. Born in 1961 in Iran, the artist studied photography and worked as photographer, graphic designer, art director and photography professor and professor adviser at the university level. His work focuses on street photography using mechanical film based cameras ranging from 35mm to 5″x7″ large format and panchromatic black and white film, resulting in full frame prints on silver gelatin paper. Eskandari has mounted solo, two person and group exhibitions in Iran and Canada, most recently at the WAHC in the two person exhibition “Hammering Away” with Jim Chambers, curated by Bryce Kanara.
Roberto Lavidez
Artivist Roberto Lavidez is a narrative painter who candidly tackles socio-political issues ranging from the oppressiveness of colonialism to the continuing complicity of corrupted institutions which conceal historical injustices against defeated races in order to preserve the hierarchy of an elitist society. Lavidez’s ouvre criticizes the slavish concept of Western modern art that serves as a tool for tampering truth with illusions of aesthetic beauty and pretentious experimentations that alienate humanity. His aim is to reclaim the silenced voice of the damned by exposing the ‘brushstrokes’ of deception and scratching the surface of untold stories. Lavidez was born and educated in the Philippines. He teaches art to reflect on history and writes poetry with the same intent of unravelling outlines of truth behind layers of shameless depictions of reality.
This exhibition is made possible through the sponsorship of Doreen McGahey and the support of the OAC Exhibition Assistance Program.
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photo from workshop with artist Jeff Nye
photo from workshop with artist Jeff Nye
