The not to be missed exhibition Ingrid Mayrhofer: After All That Was Solid Melts Into Air is on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton until May 23, 2022. In this solo exhibition of recent works, Hamilton-based artist Ingrid Mayrhofer explores the image of a changing city. Video collages and digital photomontages document the altered … Continued
I want to describe a small frustration of mine that I’ve been carrying; one that I feel is worth sharing, if only because it so exquisitely wrought. During the week of March 9, I spent a chunk of time laying out an exhibition in our Upper Fischer Gallery, a space colloquially known as the Community Gallery, dedicated … Continued
Since the pandemic happened, I have felt very busy, but a very different kind of busy. A kind of busy where I am constantly unsure that I actually am busy. You see, while I try to continue my job in Programs and Education for this gallery, my wife works as the director of a shelter … Continued
It’s boggling to calculate the ways this major pandemic has altered our perspective on things. Art, for example, means something different than what it did three weeks ago. It certainly functions differently, because so many other things have fundamentally changed—the public sphere is now an exclusively virtual space, the economy is morphing into something unrecognizable—time, … Continued
A few weeks ago, anticipating the bloom of COVID-19 in this city and contemplating the possible public closure of this Gallery, I had the naivety to think that the process of doing so, painful as it would be, might also be relatively simple: cancel some events, make some apologies, put a sign on the door and … Continued
Early Snow and its companion exhibition The Contemporaries, curated by James King and Tobi Bruce respectively, presents a thrilling snapshot of the art production that orbited Toronto in the 1950s and 60s. Together these exhibits give context and then provide an unfolding of Snow’s emergent process: his early experiments with serialization, his mash-ups of sculpture, … Continued