Main Gallery

Peripheral Zones
September 10 - October 2, 2010

An exhibition of drawings, video and performance by: Gabriela Alonso, Nelda Ramos and Zonadearte gallery artists (Quilmes, Argentina)

Curated by Irene Loughlin

Location: Hamilton Artists Inc. 161 James St North Hamilton ON

Opening:  Friday, September 10th, during the James St. North Art Crawl, 7-11 pm, with a live performance by Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos at 9 pm

Gallery hours:  Tues-Fri 12-5, Sat 12-4

An exhibition of performance work by Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos, drawings by Zonadearte gallery artists, and a video compilation of Central and South American and European video/performance from Zonadearte Gallery.

Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos work with materials related to their experiences in Argentina and their encounters with the world as women. These materials include celebratory communal actions with balloons, the reinvention of symbols of militarism found in children's games, the use of icons of domesticity such as milk, and other resistant references to violence against women, children and animals.

"Our approach to performance is always linked with the feminine, to life and love." Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos

Gabriela Alonso is the co curator of Zonadearte Gallery, an artist run centre in Quilmes, Argentina. She has been an acting professor at the University I.U.N.A in Berisso, Argentina. She specializes in performance art, painting and drawing. She has exhibited and performed extensively throughout Latin America and Europe, including a recent intercambio (exchange) between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile. Gabriela Alonso has also presented her work in Quebec City with le Lieu.

Nelda Ramos is the co curator of Zonadearte Gallery, an artist run centre in Quilmes, Argentina. She has performed works in Spain, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Cuba. She teaches at the Art Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nelda Ramos has a long and extensive practice as an arts educator and a performance artist.

Supercrawl
Saturday, September 25th

Exhibition open during a day and evening of music and art on James St North, Hamilton, featuring three outdoor stages and gallery openings

12 noon  - 11 pm 

http://supercrawl.ca

Culture Days, sponsored by the Ontario Arts Council

Walk through of the gallery exhibition with the Programming Director, Irene Loughlin 

Sunday, Sept 26th  2-4 pm  Gallery open 12-5 pm

http://www.culturedays.ca and occurring during Open Streets Hamilton 
http://cms1.smartcommute.ca/hamilton/openstreets

The exhibition by Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos at Hamilton Artists Inc. is in community partnership with the Art Gallery of Hamilton International Film Festival,  www.aghfilmfest.com

Touring Programming:

Hamilton Artists Inc. and Articule present:

Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos
Tuesday, September 7th at Articule 
http://www.articule.org/

262 Fairmount O. Montréal Québec  H2V 2G3 Canada  tel: 514 842 9686

contact:  Julie Tremble, coordonnatrice à la programmation 

Hamilton Artists Inc. and Ed Video present:

Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos
September 11th, 2010
Nuit Blanche, Guelph

Performances:  8 pm and 11 pm 

Video compilation of South American and European performance projected throughout the night in the gallery

ED VIDEO

40 Baker Street
PO Box 1629
Guelph, ON
N1H 6R7
(519)836-9811

www.edvideo.org
scott@edvideo.org
Guelph Jazz Festival

Hamilton Artists Inc., aluCine and FADO present:

Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos (Quilmes, Argentina)
Thursday, September 16th, 2010 - 8 pm

Toronto Free Gallery
1277 Bloor St West
Toronto, ON
M4E 2J8

The evening will feature a reception and screening of performance/video compilations from the Zonadearte Gallery archives (Quilmes, Argentina), presenting the works of European and South and Central American artists, a performance art by Gabriela Alonso and Nelda Ramos, and an informal Q & A period, followed by a reception with the artists.

for more information, contact: 

Sinara Rozo, Executive Director, 11th aluCine Toronto Latin Media Festival

http://www.alucinefestival.com
info@alucinefestival.com 
ph:  416 548 8914

Shannon Cochrane, FADO Director,
info@performanceart.ca
http://www.performanceart.ca
ph:  416 822 3219

Urban Moorings Project Catalogue Launch
Friday, December 11, 2009 at Hamilton Artists Inc.
161 James St. North 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.,
during the James St North Art Crawl

Download Urban Moorings Catalogue

Essays by Nora Hutchinson (Curator), Irene Loughlin, and John Terpstra on the work of artists: Susan Detwiler, Tor Lukasik-Foss, Noel Harding and David Acheson, and Steve Mazza with a Foreword by Anna Bradford (Culture Division, City of Hamilton) and Tys Theysmeyer (Head of Conservation, Royal Botanical Gardens). Project management and administration by Donna Lee MacDonald. Catalogue design by Mark Byk.

Pick up your copy, meet the curator and the artists, and view video of the installation by Irene Loughlin and project photo documentation by Cees van Gemerden, as well as drawings by the artists.

The Urban Moorings Project consisted of four floating sculptures and gardens on the wetlands of Cootes Paradise. The project reflected on past communities that lived on and around Cootes  Paradise. These included Shacktown, the houseboat community that  was displaced before the 1940's. The sculptures were the artists' responses to this history.   As the sculptures interpreted our past, the gardens considered our future and reflected  on current restoration projects involving native plants and wildlife.

The Urban Moorings Project is planned to occur bi-annually at Cootes Paradise, RBG. The Urban Moorings Project was co-presented by Hamilton Artists Inc., the City of Hamilton and the Royal Botanical Gardens, and supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, The City of Hamilton, Turkstra Lumber, The Ontario Trillium Foundation, and The Hamilton Community Foundation.

The catalogue is realized through a project grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

For more information please contact: irene@hamiltonartistsinc.on.ca

Special Projects:

Doppelgangbanger
An installation by Mark Ainslie

Mark Ainslie was educated in Montreal, receiving a BFA from Concordia University in 2004, and completed an honours equivalent at McMaster University in 2010.  Exhibitions include SUMMA, McMaster Museum of Art 2010, and 23 works, Pearl Street Gallery, Hamilton ON.