Best Aboriginal Art Gallery Hamilton Near Me

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Ben Navaee Gallery was estabilsh in 2001 in Yorkville- 29 Bellair Ave. in Toronto. In 2006 moved to the beautiful storefront in Leslieville at 1111 Queen st. East. 5 years later the gallery was relocated to 1107 Queen St East. In February 2017 another branch was opened in Hamilton- 47 Ottawa St North. The Toronto location was closed at the end of 2017. The Gallery is run by Ben Navaee who is a painter/sculptor/photographer and a yoga instructor specialized in relaxation and meditation. Ben had studied Civil Engineering and Theory and Composition of Classical Music (double major) at University of Nebraska at Omaha. After practising 10 years as civil engineer as concrete lab chief engineer in Germany, he changed his major to Networking and Telecommunication and became certified as Novell Engineer and worked in IT, in Toronto and later in San Francisco. While working in San Francisco, he started taking art courses, privately, at City College and University of California at Berkeley- not pursuing a degree though. In 2001 he moved back to Canada and started his professional life as an artist/gallerist. Ben has been teaching classical guitar and music theory since 2001. He has played some chamber music at the gallery at times. In Germany he played in a guitar quartet and sang with Koelner Philharmonie for several years in Cologne, Germany. He had also studied Bel canto in Milano, Italy as a soloist, which did not end up well, due to stage fright.