Tuesday, October 06, 2009

The Mill at the Young Centre, Tankhouse Theatre




Top, The Mill poster, performance schedule,
"Our Lady of the Blackbirds", 12 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas, (shown unframed) available by silent auction at the Theatre

I have donated the above piece to Theatrefront's production of "The Mill" a four play cycle that begins this week at the Tankhouse Theatre, Young Centre. Theatrefront has been working on this project for a number of years and I've followed it's development with great interest, I have included all the information you'll need to get to the show and I highly reccomend checking out the first two plays, "We Are Brody" by Matt MacFadzean, directed by Daryl Cloran and "The Huron Bride" by Hannah Moscovitch, directed by Christian Barry. Find all the information you need about "The Mill" by following the links below.

Tickets available through the Young Centre box office http://www.youngcentre.ca/productions/09_season/Now_We_are_Brody.html#calendaror phone 416.866.8666 to order your TWO PLAY PASS and see both shows for $60 ($35 for students/CAEA)http://www.theatrefront.com

A.S.Hahn

madcraftshoppe@live.com




Current Obsession


I do not hide my love of Dollarama, I always drop in to dollar stores to check on their stocks of plastic farm and jungle animals, I also have an obsession with the small kids letter blocks that are sold at Dollar Stores. I went in to a nearby Dollarama to see if they had any air hardening clay, I was thinking of just having some fun (for once) and sculpting some figures, when LO! what is this ? Tiny wooden airplanes and vehicles for one dollar each ? Don't bother looking for any bi-planes I got them all. The longer part of this story is that a guy I know gave me two large boxes FULL of wooden toy parts and they've been in the studio for a bunch of months gathering dust, what I hope to do is somehow combine these kits with the other bits I have to create some crazy hybrid wooden toys or as the other artists call it "sculpture". (file under; Stay tuned, Peter Pan complex)

A.S.H

madcraftshoppe@live.com

Coffee Dogs and Friends








Top, A Cup of Blackbirds, Gideon (commission), Lady with An Axe IV, Coffee Dogs
all images are 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas
$120.00- $140.00

I feel like I've been away from here for awhile, but really it's only been about eight days, I gave myself a couple of days to relax and do nothing (bloody impossible) , I was also down at "the Shop" for a day building more frames for the show at the Press Club in December. I suppose I should mention that this year, things are being done a little differently, I will NOT be having my yearly show at the Cameron House this November instead it WILL be in May, it's been moved due to some scheduling changes that involve everything from Nuit Blanche, to the refurbishing of the ants, and another Cameron House announcement that I'll save for a later date to talk about here. So The Press Club from, I believe the First week of December, (the Opening will be Saturday the 5th, hopefully this won't muck up your Christmas Party) to the end of January, the show will also be hung "salon style" and hopefully every piece there (under the 20" size) will be framed.
We are making great use of the stack of 12 x12's that I purchased some months ago in the summer (July?) there have been commissions for kids letters (see "the alphabet shoppe" in links) and also requested art. The piece "Gideon" is a character from a novel by a local author that hangs in her study as inspiration - very touched to be asked to do this. There were originally three "Lady with An Axe " pieces but this was the only one I liked, I'll have to fix the other two and post them, they will be joining their friends, "the Woman who Loved her Piano" and the "Woman with Wings" on vacation from here for at least at year, just to continue moving forward, I've been working with those images since last September, they deserve a break, unless commissioned of course. Coffee Dogs is a song by Kevin Quain that I woke up with stuck in my head, which was a great relief as I usually wake up with some strange song like, "From A Distance" or "Black Velvet" and then "Cup of Blackbirds" was done just to make me smile.
A.Shay Hahn
If you are interested in purchasing any work or commissioning a piece I cannot stress how much you should do this before December gets here, I cannot gurantee that any of the images you see here will be available for purchase at the Press Club, the displayed work vanished from the walls in minutes. If there is something you can't live without or would like to buy as a gift - buy now.