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  Back Home is Trini to the Bone on a Toronto gallery wal l(s) By Stephen Weir It was a long time coming, but last week The Toronto Star published a full-page article about Kareem-Anthony Ferreira, the Hamilton artist whose work LeBron James owns. Ferreira has a new show at the Towards Gallery in Toronto called Back Home, featuring four massive works inspired by Trinidad and Tobago. The exhibition is on display at their Sterling Road location near Bloor and Lansdowne. Although Ferreira has achieved significant success across North America discerning art buyers —LeBron James purchased one of his early large paintings and installed it in his Akron dining room—the Trinidadian-Canadian artist has largely flown under the radar of Canada’s mainstream media. A first-generation Canadian with strong Trinidadian roots, Kareem-Anthony Ferreira is the son of renowned Hamilton artist and educator Roger Ferreira. Like father, like son, both artists often draw inspiration from the scenes and people o

  The Art Gallery of Hamilton Is Trini to the Bone  (at least until January)   Between being born in Winnipeg and now living in Hamilton, artist Roger Ferreira, had a long stop in Trinidad where he went to school and learned how to paint. He and his artist son Kareem are now being featured at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and some of  Roger’s water colours are best described in David Rudder terms – these Caribbean themed  canvases are “Trini to the Bone”. Watercolour above Their exhibition,  Gatherings: Roger Ferreira and Kareem-Anthony Ferreira,  opened last week and will hang in the downtown public gallery until January 8 th , 2023.   This major exhibition by Hamilton-based father and son artists Roger Ferreira and Kareem-Anthony Ferreira features over 30 paintings spanning Roger’s 35-year career and highlights the accomplishments of Kareem’s emerging practice.   Roger and his family left Trinidad and Tobago and moved to Hamilton in the late 1980s. He quickly established himself in th

  The delay in the game is over -  Esmaa Mohamoud 's sculpture   exhibition to stay open till October 24.    Play in the Face of Certain Defeat  re-examines understandings of contemporary Blackness. A sculpture exhibition by Black Artist Esmaa Mohamoud originally scheduled to open in Hamilton in March of this year was postponed just days after its initial launch date because of Covid restrictions. The show did reopen earlier this month just as it was originally scheduled to to close. Good news though for art lovers desperate to see this  wildly popular 30-year-old artist’s unique sports influenced sculpture show, the Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH) just announced that the Esmaa Mohamoud: To Play in the Face of Certain Defeat show has been extended until October 24, 2021. There is no charge to see the exhibition for the next 10-days - AGH has waved its entrance fee to the gallery for the month of August. "This exhibition will be temporarily closed on August 19 and the 20th so

Investing in Cultural Infrastructure in Hamilton  The Government of Canada supports the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the creation of a civic museum! HAMILTON, Ontario, February 11, 2020 The Government of Canada is committed to supporting the creation and renovation of cultural spaces to allow better access to the arts and heritage for everyone.  The Honourable Filomena Tassi, Minister of Labour, and Member of Parliament (Hamilton West–Ancaster– Dundas), announced $112,875 in funding for the Art Gallery of Hamilton today. She made the announcement on behalf of the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Heritage. The Honourable Filomena Tassi   This support, provided through the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund, will help fund a comprehensive feasibility study for a significant renovation of the Art Gallery of Hamilton. The study will explore improvements to the art gallery’s storage, displays and interpretation of its permanent collectio

. By Stephen Weir Edited version posted by Huffington Post Moscow. Jerusalem. Vatican City. São Paulo . Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc is is known and admired for his world vision.   His photographs of crumbling synagogues, badly decayed Torahs scrolls and discarded school books he discovered in a rotting   70-years locked Jewish school in Slovakia are seen as instruments of change in a battle against cultural genocide. Here in Canada little is known about his travelling exhibition of pictures of those holocaust books. That is because he is Canada’s most accomplished nude photographer. That may changes now that his Last Folio exhibition has finally arrived in Canada, and people in Ontario are seeing his passion and his dread of mankind’s darkside. The Last Folio is an exhibition, an art book and a documentary movie, based on the Slovakia pictures he has taken.   The exhibition that continues to tour in Europe, Israel, South America and the United States just op