By Lisa Iesse Writer HAMILTON \/ SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND \u2013 Shelley Niro\u2019s \u201c500 Year Itch\u201d exhibit comes in like a \u201cvelvet hammer\u201d to open the Art Gallery of Hamilton\u2019s (AGH) winter exhibition. Shelley Falconer, AGH director, remembers the first time she came across Niro\u2019s work, \u201cit was like a gut-wrench,\u201d she tells the crowd. It\u2019s opening day, Saturday February 24, at the AGH, hundreds of people overflow from the gallery\u2019s halls for the special retrospective of Niro\u2019s work, which also includes new works by the internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker. \u201cThe way you could tap into female archetypes with this bemused radiant intelligence, it hit me and it stayed with me,\u201d Falconer told Niro and the gathering. Falconer quotes a friend who once said aptly, \u201cShelley\u2019s work is… <\/p>\n
By Lisa Iesse Writer HAMILTON \/ SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND \u2013 Shelley Niro\u2019s \u201c500 Year Itch\u201d exhibit comes in like a \u201cvelvet hammer\u201d to open the Art Gallery of Hamilton\u2019s (AGH) winter exhibition. Shelley Falconer, AGH director, remembers the first time she came across Niro\u2019s work, \u201cit was like a gut-wrench,\u201d she tells the crowd. It\u2019s opening day, Saturday February 24, at the AGH, hundreds of people overflow from the gallery\u2019s halls for the special retrospective of Niro\u2019s work, which also includes new works by the internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker. \u201cThe way you could tap into female archetypes with this bemused radiant intelligence, it hit me and it stayed with me,\u201d Falconer told Niro and the gathering. Falconer quotes a friend who once said aptly, \u201cShelley\u2019s work is... <\/p>\n