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

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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.

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Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
416.978.8398
www.jmbgallery.ca

Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga
905.828.3789
www.blackwoodgallery.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.

AGM BUS TOUR

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Contact: Jaclyn Qua-Hiansen – Communications
905 896 5131
jaclyn.qua-hiansen@mississauga.ca / agm.connect@mississauga.ca


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Art Bus

Saturday, October 26, 11:30 – 5 pm
PWYC, suggested donation of $5 | Buy tickets at artbus2013.eventbrite.ca
Pick up and drop off at the Art Gallery of Mississauga
300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga

Hop on the bus! Guided tours at:

  • The Art Gallery of Mississauga 
  • Macdonald Stewart Art Centre 
  • The Elora Centre for the Arts

ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA

300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga ON L5B 3C1
905 896 5088
M, T, W, F 10-5 Thurs 10-8 Sat, Sun 12-4

Hop on the bus and take a tour of the arts scene in the region!

GUIDED TOURS OF FEATURED EXHIBITIONS


Art Gallery of Mississauga

artgalleryofmississauga.com

300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga
Tour: 11:45 am | Depart: 12:30 pm

The Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) is a public, not-for-profit art gallery located in the Mississauga Civic Centre right on Celebration Square across from Square One Mall. The AGM is proud to admit people free of charge, serve communities, and provide positive visual art experiences for all visitors.


F'd Up!

The AGM is Fibre'd Up as contemporary directions in fibre-based art create a radical vocabulary around material invention and sculptural ambitions.

Franco Arcieri: Astral Noise

Arcieri employs sculpture, video and sound to create an unforgettable encounter with the viewer through an innovative fibre-based performance.

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
msac.ca
358 Gordon Street, Guelph
Arrive: 1:30 | Tour: 1:40 | Depart: 2:30

MSAC is Guelph and region's public art gallery. MSAC annually presents over 12 regional, national, and international exhibitions that explore contemporary visual arts and historical research. MSAC's collections contain over 7000 works, spanning three centuries of Canadian art including Canadian contemporary art, Inuit art, and public sculpture.


Artefact Artefiction

This exhibition examines the trend in contemporary art practice of using objects of material culture -- socially imbued artefacts, both contemporary and historical.

Beyond the Frame

Sound Check, The Jazz Photography of Thomas King

The first major exhibition of Thomas King's Jazz Photography.

À table!

Featuring new work by a collective of sixteen contemporary Canadian metal artists who represent a broad cross section of the country.

Bone, Stone, and Ivory: The Borins Collection of Inuit Art
Elora Centre for the Arts
eloracentreforthearts.ca
75 Melville Street, Elora
Arrive: 2:50 | Tour: 3:00 | Depart for AGM: 3:30 | Arrive at AGM: 5:00

The Elora Centre for the Arts is located in a restored, three-story limestone school building in one of Ontario's most picturesque villages. The Elora Centre for the Arts consists of 10 large classrooms converted to provide in total over 10,000 square feet of dedicated space plus additional service corridors and amenities. It is now considered a home where Art lives. The facility is envisioned as an enhancement to cultural life in the region through production and reception, and through the practice and presentations.

As Perennial as the Grass

This exhibition shares visual segments from stories about love in the form of textile, video and installation art.

About The Art Gallery of Mississauga

artgalleryofmississauga.com

The Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) is a public, not-for-profit art gallery located in the Mississauga Civic Centre right on Celebration Square across from Square One Mall. The AGM is proud to admit people free of charge, serve communities, and provide positive visual art experiences for all visitors.

Engage. Think. Inspire. This phrase opens the dialogue at the AGM. The Gallery connects with the people of Mississauga through the collection and presentation of relevant works from a range of periods and movements in Canadian art. Expressing multiple ideas and concepts, this visual art translates into meaningful cultural and social experiences for all audiences. The AGM employs innovative education, artist projects and other forms of dialogue to advance critical enquiry and community connection to the visual arts. The mandate of the Gallery is to "bring art to the community and the community to art."

Directions to the AGM, as well as transit routes and other information, can be found on the website.
For more information, please contact the Art Gallery of Mississauga at 905 896 5088 or visitartgalleryofmississauga.com.

ARTbus: Contemporary Art Bus Tour



ARTbus: Exhibition tour to the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Oakville Galleries

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Sunday 9 June 2013, 11:30 am–5:00 pm

Pick-up and drop-off at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto)


FREE; advance registration required. To register, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402, ext. 27 by Friday 7 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 Screen and Décor by the exhibition's curator Rosemary Heather. For Screen and Décor the use of pattern and ornament (in the sense of extended motif) in contemporary art is understood as an organizing principle in a world of excessive data. Artworks in the exhibition are resonant of a contemporary visual reality characterized by complex patterning. Within the frame of an all-over exhibition design created by Rodney LaTourelle and Louise Witthoeft, Screen and Décor proposes to look at this phenomenon through the work of six artists: Shannon Bool, Simone Gilges, Bernhard Kahrmann, Sanaz Mazinani, Kirstine Roepstorff, and Emmy Skensved.


Art Gallery of York University (AGYU)


The ARTbus continues to the AGYU for a special artist's tour of Sara Angelucci: Provenance Unknown, an exhibition featuring two fledgling bodies of work by Toronto artist Sara Angelucci. Inspired by found, anonymous (unattributed) photographic portraits that the artist purchased on eBay, The Anonymous Chorus and Aviary mark a distinct shift in the artist's practice. In these new works, Angelucci moves away from exploring the familiar to interrogating the anonymous; from investigating her own identity (and family lineage) to tracing the history of others. She mixes analogue sources and digital techniques, and combines artistic genres through collaboration with composers, singers and ornithologists. The Anonymous Chorus and Aviary open a temporally suspended space between past and present, where the subjects of these lost portraits may come to life, once again—in a transformed state of being. Provenance Unknown is curated by AGYU Assistant Director/Curator Emelie Chhangur, and is a primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.


Oakville Galleries


Finally, at Oakville Galleries participants will visit the group exhibition Auto-Motive: World from the Windshield in Gairloch Gardens and at Centennial Square. Auto-Motive brings together eighteen artists who examine notions of place, perception and emotional experience from the interior of a car. The artworks assembled here explore the material relations and sensations that coalesce behind the windshield. They speak to various outlooks, revealing the car as a driving force for urban change, a site of thought and reflection, and a place for new spatialities and imagined journeys. Artists include Roy Arden, IAIN BAXTER&, Stan Denniston, Christos Dikeakos, Susan Dobson, Fred Herzog, Geoffrey James, Jesper Just, Mara Korkola, John Massey, N.E. Thing Co., Marian Penner Bancroft, Leslie Peters, Martha Rosler, Jon Sasaki, Monica Tap, Jeff Wall, and Paul Wong.

SCHEDULE

11:15 am: Meet at the Barnicke Gallery for registration check-in followed by tour with the curator.

1:00 pm: Art Gallery of York University. Tour with the artist.

2:30 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit Auto-Motive.

3:15 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Continue visit of Auto-Motive. Reception with refreshments.

5:00 pm: Drop-off at the Barnicke Gallery.

In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company