ALTARED STATES
John H.U. Weiss
Opening Party on Saturday, October 6th at 8pm.
Everyone Welcome
This show continues through to Tuesday, November 6th.

This exhibition is an effort of curator Ian-Patrick McAllister to demonstrate the importance of the artists presence and how life and art are inseparable. Cultural memory and continuity in art has seemingly become less and less sacred as technological production overpowers the handmade.

John Weiss moved to North Bay 36 years ago after completing studies in fine art and art history at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Upon arriving in North Bay, he began a 30-year arts teaching career at W.J. Fricker Secondary School. He also worked as a supervisor for art teachers and taught many design applications during the era of extra-curricular night school courses. He was a favourite among students, who especially looked forward to his creative Halloween costumes. Now that he is retired, Weiss says, “The teacher is dead. The artist is reborn. The artist is alive and well.”

No longer in the public eye, or at least to the same extent, he feels liberated to explore homo erotic subject matter. In the past, he has helped with public awareness campaigns for safe sex and his present interest is in demystifying stereotypes about gay culture.

The art work of John H.U. Weiss explores the evolutionary arch of the ancient and modern society, running the gamut from the sacred to the quotidian to the anomalous. The exhibition demonstrates the fragile balance between the past and future, nature and civilization, war and peace as well as vitality and cessation. The experience will be one of an overall celebration of all that life has to offer.

TO BE DETERMINED

November 17 - December 23, 2007

 

SUBTERFUGE
Executive Encounters Collective

December 26, 2007 - January 30, 2008
Opening reception: Wednesday, December 26. 9PM -1AM
More info to come.