Fall Arts Preview

In case you hadn’t noticed, Hamilton’s city limits are bursting at the seams with arts and culture. Whether it’s dogged musicians sweating it out in a downtown rock club or sumptuous operatic productions staged with all the trimmings, our city’s arts offerings has something for everyone.. To keep up to date on all of our community’s arts offerings, you can always browse our Events listings, but here are a few picks worth keeping in mind.

In the Galleries

James Street North Art Crawl
A monthly arts walk every second Friday evening of every month, the numerous galleries on James Street North fling open their doors, making the evening an outing for anyone and everyone. Expect the best in performance art and punk rock to traditional oils and string quartets and the many shades in between. Art newbies who don’t know their Modiglianis from their Massons, fear not: a welcoming, earthy atmosphere is actively encouraged.

Art Gallery of Hamilton
If you have yet to check out the AGH’s renovated gallery space, this autumn is the perfect time to make yourself well acquainted with its stunning in-house collection. Several new collections take a turn through the AGH this fall, including a modernist photo collection from the Art Gallery of Canada, a showcase dedicated to the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, and Canadian surrealist photog Jesse Boles. Check the website for their full run of exhibitions.

J.W. Bush Gallery
The folks at Bush’s are committed to fine art photography, specifically that which showcases Hamilton and its environs as its subject matter. September and October features a collection by Kushan Dave entitled Liminal Spaces: India Inside Out, presenting stark, compelling compositions of urban Indian life and its people.

Gallery on the Bay
Housed in a heritage space that once a housed steel factory, GotB counts in their collection exceptional local works as well as the international. This fall’s exhibitions include the dazzling mixed media canvases of Petra Zantingh and collage artist Marla Panko. Check out the website for artist profiles and full exhibition schedule.

The Print Studio
Always a popular stop on the monthly Art Crawl, this gallery showcases a variety of print-based media, including photography, collage and digital works. Opening Sept 11, Delio Delgado and Pavel Acosta explore the Cuban landscape, condition and diaspora through their combined efforts of sculpture, print and intervention. The exhibition is just one of many local site-specific projects – including shows at Hamilton Artists Inc. and You Me Gallery – that are the result of this spring’s Cuban Xchange. That initiative saw 10 artists from the greater Hamilton Area work with Cuban artists in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and exhibit alongside them in a parallel event at the Havana biennial.

Hamilton Artists Inc.
Hamilton’s foremost artist-run non-profit, the Inc. is notorious for beckoning the best of the fringe of the art world into Hamilton’s city limits. This fall’s exhibition lineup is no exception, featuring an exorbitant, challenging installation of prints, mixed media, intervention and performance by the ReMix Institute, beginning Sept 11.