Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the winter’s best exhibitions in the GTA!
Mercer Union
The winter ARTbus begins at Mercer Union with Liz Magic Laser: Kiss and Cry. The exhibition presents a new video work commissioned by Mercer Union with leading support from Partners in Art. This is Laser’s first solo exhibition in Canada. Laser works across performance, video and installation. Emerging from an interest in movement and the body, her work explores the processes instrumental in forming opinion, engaging with the mechanisms of how we perform and how we are performed to through multiple modalities. She stages situations, dialogues, monologues or plays and uses the urban environment and its population as the context for her work.
Blackwood Gallery
At Blackwood Gallery, visit Maryam Jafri: The Day After. The exhibition takes root in the artist’s ongoing project Independence Day 1934-1975 (2009–present), an installation composed of photographs taken on the first independence day in former European colonies across Asia and Africa, between 1934 and 1975. Images are juxtaposed according to a broken grid around categories of events, emphasizing the generic character of the rituals and ceremonies that took place during that 24-hour twilight period when a territory transforms into a nation-state. The Day After takes this rare "collection of collections" as a starting point to question various artistic, historical, and political issues arising from these images and their historical and institutional backgrounds. The Day After was conceived by Bétonsalon - Centre for art and research, Paris, France and co-produced by Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain.
Oakville Galleries
Next, at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, visit the opening of The Green of Her. The exhibition features works that map out landscapes in unlikely sources—a fur muff, a floral carpet, the folds of a napkin—and imagine what new forms of life could be hiding within them. Like Loch Ness as described in Patricia Lockwood's “Nessie Wants to Watch Herself Doing It"—the poem from which the exhibition takes its name—these strange environments sustain their creatures, isolate them, and depend on them in turn, proposing new ways of understanding how we relate to the worlds we inhabit. The Green of Her is drawn from the permanent collection of Oakville Galleries.
Finally, at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens visit the opening of Sky Glabush: What Is a Self?, curated by Jon Davies. Glabush draws on a wide variety of practices—including painting, drawing and sculpture—to work through pressing questions of identity, history, faith, and the role of the artist. Charting a broad path through varying forms, materials and styles, Glabush's practice is anchored in ideas of autobiography, modernism and metaphysics. ForWhat Is a Self?, Glabush presents new mixed-media sculptures and dyed weavings. With each gallery in the show conceived as a distinct vignette juxtaposing the artist's 2D and 3D works, What Is a Self? explores architecture as a structure capable of ordering the self in all its manifestations.
SCHEDULE
12:00 pm: Mercer Union. Visit Liz Magic Laser: Kiss and Cry.
1:30 pm: Blackwood Gallery. Visit Maryam Jafri: The Day After.
2:30 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit opening of The Green of Her.
3:30 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Visit Sky Glabush: What is a Self?. Opening reception with refreshments.
5:00 pm: Drop-off at Mercer Union.
In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company and Whole Foods Market, Oakville
Oakville Galleries Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square: 120 Navy Street, Oakville Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens: 1306 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville 905.844.4402 www.oakvillegalleries.com
Images (clockwise from top left): Liz Magic Laser, Kiss and Cry (video still), 2015, single-channel video. Featuring figure skaters Anna MacKenzie and Axel MacKenzie and coach Marie Jonsson MacKenzie; Maryam Jafri,Independence Day 1934-1975 (detail), 2009–present. Installation photo at Bétonsalon, 2015. Photo: Aurelien Mole; Wendy Coburn, The Divers (detail), 2006, fur muff, figurines and plastic. Collection of Oakville Galleries; Sky Glabush, Local Colour, 2015. Cotton weaving stained with acrylic and ink. Courtesy of the artist and MKG127, Toronto.
ARTbus:
Exhibition tour to the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of
Toronto Art Centre, Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries
Sunday 18 January 2015, 12:00 pm–5:00 pm Pick-up and drop-off at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto)
$10 donation includes admission to all galleries and afternoon refreshments by Trafalgar Brewing Company
Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the winter’s best exhibitions in the GTA!
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre
The winter ARTbus begins at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and University of Toronto Art Centre with a tour of Sign, sign, everywhere a sign by guest curator Sarah Robayo Sheridan.
Drawing on the Hart House and UTAC collections, this joint-venue
exhibition considers how signs and symbols have been observed, adopted
and altered in the work of artists from early modernity to today.
Commercial graphics are an omnipresent feature of urban landscapes,
whether in the proliferation of billboards and screens, the identity
programs of nations and institutions, or the visual logic of window
display. In response, artists have initiated their own symbolic studies
and counter campaigns, progressively infiltrating signs and symbols to
their own ends. Featuring work by Berenice Abbott, Carl Beam, James
Carl, Ian Carr-Harris, Lynne Cohen, Robin Collyer, Greg Curnoe, Robert
Fones, Robert Frank, General Idea, Hadley+Maxwell, Richard Hamilton,
Jamelie Hassan, David Hlynsky, Luis Jacob, Will Kwan, Ken Lum, Kelly
Mark, Ron Terada, Jeff Thomas, and John Thomson.
Blackwood Gallery
The ARTbus continues to the Blackwood Gallery for a tour of Inside by guest curator John Armstrong. Inside
includes work by eight artists who use the various technologies and
traditions that painting offers to engage the Blackwood Gallery’s
exhibition spaces and reflect on the established genre of interior
painting. Several of the artists will paint directly on the Blackwood’s
walls or floor while other artists will exhibit mural-sized or more
intimately scaled easel paintings. All of these artists connect painting
in its many guises—from illusionistic or schematic tableau to a
celebration of paint’s physical nature—with built interior spaces in
order to ask us to reconsider painting’s longstanding critical and
poetic engagement with the rooms we inhabit. Featuring work by Mark
Bell, Pierre Dorion, Dorian FitzGerald, Sara Hartland-Rowe, Maria
Hupfield, Denyse Thomasos, and Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky.
Oakville Galleries
Next, at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square and Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, visit the opening of Depth of Perception.
What once seemed like a clear division between “real" and
“virtual”—tangible things/bodies and spectral images/platforms—has all
but broken down in recent years. The screen image—whether cinematic,
digital or otherwise—has proven to be transformative, readily altering
our perception of environments, objects and ourselves, while taking on a
presence and palpability akin to “solid” objects. Since at least the
1960s, artists have mined the relationship between sculpture and screen
to explore what Kate Mondloch describes as "objecthood and illusionism
in tandem.” Depth of Perception considers how one’s vantage
point on the world—and the integrity of physical, sculptural
objects—have been altered by the screen’s roles as frame, window,
mirror, and interface. Featuring work by Trisha Baga, Peter Campus, Alex
Da Corte, Anne de Vries, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller,
Hadley+Maxwell, Marisa Hoicka and Johnny Forever, Oliver Husain, Vishal
Jugdeo, Owen Kydd, Linda Quinlan, and Judy Radul.
SCHEDULE
11:45 am: Meet outside the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery for sign-in.
12:00 pm: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery followed by UTAC. Curator’s tour of Sign, sign, everywhere a sign.
1:30 pm: Blackwood Gallery. Curator’s tour of Inside.
2:45 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit Depth of Perception.
3:30 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Visit Depth of Perception. Opening reception with refreshments.
5:00 pm: Drop-off at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.
In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company.
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto 416.978.8398 www.jmbgallery.ca
University of Toronto Art Centre 15 King's College Circle, Toronto
ARTbus: Exhibition tour to the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries Sunday 8 June 2014, 12:00 pm–5:00 pm Pick-up and drop-off at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto) $10 donation includes admission to all galleries and afternoon refreshments by Trafalgar Brewing Company and Whole Foods Market For reservations, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402, ext. 27 by Friday 6 June, 4:00 pm
Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the summer’s best exhibitions in the GTA! Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
The summer ARTbus begins at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery with a tour of KWE: Photography, sculpture, video and performances by Rebecca Belmore, co-presented by Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Curated by Wanda Nanibush, KWE delves into the complicated and fertile relationship between Indigeneity, art and feminism. Kwe (woman) is a term of respect and marks out a territory of cultural resurgence. Belmore's photography, sculptures and performances assert what it is to be an Anishinaabe-kwe artist. Violence against Indigenous women as well as their power and perseverance has been the subject of much of her work. Belmore engages her family stories on the role of women while keeping Indigenous self-determination central.
Blackwood Gallery
The ARTbus continues to Blackwood Gallery for a tour of Incident Light: Gendered Artifacts and Traces Illuminated in the Archives, curated by Leila Pourtavaf and featuring work by Tara Najd Ahmadi & Hannah Darabi*, Ala Dehghan*, Maryam Jafri, Jumana Manna, Nahed Mansour, The Otolith Group, and Tejal Shah (*works commissioned by Azar Mahmoudian). In photography, the term “incident light” refers to both the source emitting the direct light which illuminates a subject, as well as secondary sources which redirect light onto it to reveal unseen details. Incident Light features a group of Middle Eastern and South Asian artists whose works focus on traces of gender and sexuality within various archives from the region. The exhibit questions the authority that nationalist historiographies hold in relation to their subjects through a repositioning of the cultural artifacts from various historical depositories. Building new stories from fragmented knowledge, the exhibition harnesses generative forces that anticipate, foresee and fantasize about what was and could have been.
Oakville Galleries
Next, at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square and Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, participants will visit the opening reception of the group exhibition You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me. On the occasion of her retirement from Oakville Galleries, Curator Marnie Fleming organizes a selection of works from the Galleries’ permanent collection that have moved her, challenged her and encouraged her to think in new and unexpected ways. While these pieces do not adhere to a simple unifying narrative, they do tell a notable story: not only of Fleming's two decades at the Galleries, but of the history of the institution and the diversity of art practices that have unfolded since the early 1990s. Featuring work by thirty artists, including Kim Adams, Stephen Andrews, Paterson Ewen, Angela Grauerholz, Susanna Heller, Micah Lexier, Ken Lum, Liz Magor, David Merritt, Kim Moodie, Paulette Phillips, Ian Wallace, Colette Whiten, and many others.
SCHEDULE
11:45 am: Meet outside the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery for sign-in.
12:00 pm: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. Tour of Rebecca Belmore exhibition.
1:30 pm: Blackwood Gallery. Tour of Incident Light exhibition.
2:45 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit opening of You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me.
3:30 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Visit You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me. Opening reception with refreshments.
5:00 pm: Drop-off at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.
In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company and Whole Foods Market, Oakville.
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto 416.978.8398 www.jmbgallery.ca
Oakville Galleries Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square: 120 Navy St, Oakville Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens: 1306 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville 905.844.4402 www.oakvillegalleries.com
Images (left to right): Rebecca Belmore, sister, 2010. Installation view: Audain Gallery, Vancouver, photo: Kevin Schmidt. Courtesy of the artist; Jumana Manna, video still from A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch's Last Masquerade), 2013. Courtesy of the artist and CRG Gallery, New York; Ken Lum,What is it Daddy?, 1994. Collection of Oakville Galleries.
