ARTbus: Exhibition tour to Mercer Union, the Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries- JANUARY 17


Sunday 17 January 2016, 12:00 pm–5:00 pm
Pick-up and drop-off at Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto)

$10 donation includes admission to all galleries and afternoon refreshments by Trafalgar Brewing Company and Whole Foods Market, Oakville

For reservations, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402, ext. 24 by Friday 15 January, 4:00 pm

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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

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Mercer Union
1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto
416.536.1519
www.mercerunion.org

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 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.

AGM FREE BUS TOUR- OCTOBER 3



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Free Bus Tour
AGM | Hamilton Artists Inc. | AGH

Saturday, October 312 – 6 pm
Meet at the AGO (317 Dundas St W) at 12 pm sharp
Free | Registration Required | RSVP at agm.connect@mississauga.ca
artgalleryofmississauga.com

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The AGM is excited to partner with Hamilton Artists Inc. and the Art Gallery of Hamilton to offer a free bus tour to all three institutions, leaving from and returning to downtown Toronto.

First Stop | Art Gallery of Mississauga
Beyond the Pines: Homer Watson and the Contemporary Canadian Landscape
Jason Brown, Jennifer Carvalho, April Hickox, Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, Gavin Lynch, Reinhard Reitzenstein, and Monica Tap

Homer Watson is considered to be one of the founders of the Canadian landscape painting tradition. He aimed to give a ‘truthful representation’ of the Canadian wilderness in his work, as distinct from the more romanticized style found in depictions of the English and European countryside. Contemporary Canadian artists looking at landscape must also find a way to access the ‘truth’ of a subject that is not only strongly represented in our national artistic history, but one that is both deeply political and personal. Placing contemporary work by emerging and established artists alongside that of Watson illustrates the universality of the quest to appreciate and capture the landscape in which we live.


Second Stop | Hamilton Artists Inc.
Into the Wild
Sonny Assu, Jason Brown, Leisure (Susannah Wesley and Meredith Carruthers), Duane Linklater, Alex McLeod, Darren Rigo, Elinor Whidden, Daniel Young & Christian Giroux as well as select works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre’s permanent collections

Into the Wild explores expectations of Canadian wilderness— the fictitious narratives and mythology surrounding a hyper-aestheticized Canadian landscape—how it is romanticized, and its role in the construction and perpetuation of a unifying national identity. The eight artists in this exhibition contrast idealized representations of Canadian wilderness and northerness with charged works highlighting the affects of colonial, infrastructural and environmental interventions as well as Canadians’ continued efforts to domesticate and insert themselves into these constructed mythologies. Into the Wild illustrates the political and contested nature of landscape in this nation. Landscape is political. It is framed. And most importantly, it is never neutral.


Last Stop | Art Gallery of Hamilton
are you experienced?
Nadia Belerique, Jessica Eaton, Olafur Eliasson, Dorian FitzGerald, Hadley+Maxwell and Do Ho Suh.

The AGH strikes out into our next century with a massive contemporary art exhibition. Bringing together artists from across the globe, the show offers works that appeal to the senses, making a point that an engagement with art can sometimes occur more readily if one does not have preconceived notions of what it should be. In this exhibition, experience creates meaning. Through immersive and interactive installations, photography, video, painting, sculpture and sound art, the artists engage viewers and invite participation. Familiar objects and images are presented in new contexts, suggesting alternative modes of understanding. The artworks appeal to the viewer’s psychological and intuitive senses, or memory, with the goal of promoting visual and aural awareness and engagement.


ABOUT THE ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA

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 Shopping Centre. 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.”


CONTACT

Shellie Zhang – Communications
905-896-5893
shellie.zhang@mississauga.ca

CONTEMPORARY ART BUS TOUR
Sunday, May 24, 2015 | 12 – 5 PM | FREE

Tour starts at the Koffler Gallery (at Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street) and then departs for Blackwood Gallery and AGYU, returning to Shaw Street at 5 PM. Seating is limited.

Please RSVP by Friday, May 22, 2015 to: Sarah Munro | kofflergallery@kofflerarts.org | 647.925.0643 x 221

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KOFFLER GALLERY
Erratics
Martha Baillie | Malka Greene with Alan Resnick

April 16 – June 14, 2015 | Curator: Mona Filip

Featuring installations by Toronto author Martha Baillie and artist/curator Malka Greene with writer Alan Resnick, Erraticsexplores the tensions between memory and fiction, bringing together two archives where photography takes a central role in an attempt to uncover hidden narratives. Staged as museological displays conveying two personal stories, these collections of images, texts and records reveal both the impossibility of fully knowing the past and the effectiveness of literary imagination in grappling with history. A Featured Exhibition in the 2015 CONTACT Photography Festival.

kofflerarts.org


BLACKWOOD GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA
Sameer Farooq & Mirjam Linschooten, Artists-in-Residence

Residency: May 11 – June 14, 2015
Exhibition: June 14 – August 2, 2015

Talk with artists Sameer Farooq & Mirjam Linschooten

Artists-in-Residence Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten will talk about their exhibition in progress, which will take a step back from specific objects on display to reveal a complex space of social codes, ideological agendas, and decisions. Instead, the artists are assigning value to the places inside of the museum where an object is held: the vitrine, the plinth, the wall, the archival photograph, etc. These models of display provide a valuable glimpse into tactics of representation: the ideas and values of the exhibition’s arrangers, claims about what a cultural group is and ought to be, protocols of approaching an object, and an image of who the intended viewer is. Through a rigorous analysis of exhibition installations Farooq and Linschooten aim to observe the way knowledge is displayed, asking: What gets lost in the capture? And, Who is on display?

www.blackwoodgallery.ca


ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY (AGYU)
Rashaad Newsome: Silence Please, the Show is About to Begin
April 8 – June 14, 2015

Tour of exhibition by curator Suzanne Carte

Rashaad Newsome’s first Canadian exhibition, Silence Please, the Show is About to Begin, features recent video, performance, and collage works by this New York-based artist that explode constructions of gender, race, and class. With big, bright, and bold compositions, Newsome’s work bursts with light and colour; images drip with gold chains, diamond rings, and jewel studs. Through sampling, clashing, and choreographing the iconic works of hip-hop artists and the legendary moves of ballroom superstars with motifs from Baroque architecture, images of European heraldry, and tales from medieval poems, Newsome boldly proclaims a new vision of blackness and queerness.

www.theAGYUisOutThere.org

Image Credits: (clockwise from left) Malka Greene, His Father Over Time (installation detail – photo from the Estate of Morris Resnick), 2015; Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten, Something stolen, something blue, something borrowed and something new, 2013, courtesy of the artists; Rashaad Newsome, ICON (Video Still), 2014, courtesy of the artist & Marlborough Gallery, New York.

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Koffler Gallery
Artscape Youngplace
180 Shaw Street, Suite 104-105
Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
647.925.0643
kofflerarts.org

Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. N.
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
905.828.3789
www.blackwoodgallery.ca

Art Gallery of York University (AGYU)
Accolade East Building
4700 Keele Street, Toronto
416.736.5169
www.theAGYUisOutThere.org

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.

FREE CONTEMPORARY ART BUS TOUR



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FREE CONTEMPORARY ART BUS TOUR
Sunday, October 20, 2013
12 – 5:30 pm

Tour begins at 12 pm at Koffler Gallery Off-Site at Jack Layton Ferry Terminal (9 Queens Quay West) and continues to the Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of York University and Doris McCarthy Gallery. Guided exhibition tours will be offered at each venue. The bus will return downtown at 5:30 pm.

The bus tour is FREE, seats are limited. To reserve, contact the Doris McCarthy Gallery at 416.287.7007 ordmg@utsc.utoronto.ca no later than Friday, October 18.

Please note that light snacks and refreshments will be provided throughout the tour; guests are welcome to pack their own lunches.

KOFFLER GALLERY OFF-SITE
Jack Layton Ferry Terminal

Iara Freiberg
where I'm waiting from
June 13, 2013 – October 27, 2013
Curated by Mona Filip

Brazilian/Argentinean artist Iara Freiberg creates site-specific interventions that explore the ways in which urban spaces are used, playing with perceptions of the built environment. Intimately entwined with the structures they occupy, her spatial drawings rely on the rigors of geometry, revealing harmonious or opposing tensions within the architecture and soliciting the viewer's awareness. where I'm waiting from, Freiberg's first project in Canada, is a site-specific intervention engaging one of Toronto's main civic portals – the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal. This monumental yet minimalist vinyl installation responds to the complex architecture of the site, examining the public use of the urban environment.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY, U of T MISSISSAUGA

Red, Green, Blue ≠ White
September 18 – December 1, 2013
Curated by Johnson Ngo

Works by Golboo Amani & Manolo Lugo, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Aryen Hoekstra, Brendan Fernandes, Kika Nicolela, Jude Norris and Kristina Lee Podesva


Red, Brown, Yellow, Black, White: all colours used to describe people, somewhat contentiously, of culturally diverse backgrounds. Coined by Alice Walker, colourism, or discrimination based on skin colour, is the impetus to examine the relationship between race and colour. Red, Green, Blue ≠ White investigates this fraught territory through the formal considerations of colour offered by colour theory. But that is only its point of departure. The selected works share a sensibility for subtle performative gestures; the marking of bodies through the accumulation of light, the action of a lick, the construction of identities through the application of makeup, the gradation of the skin tone through light exposure, and the critique of white—white, the colour and the race. The performative elements of the works instill shifts in the relationship between the viewer's body, vision, and consequent understanding. As an ensemble, they encourage reflections (in both senses of the word) on the politics of colour. The symbol '≠' is not just presented as a negation here, it engenders a generative conversation about race, extending from an awareness of inequalities to the artistic presentation of shifting perspectives.

ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY (AGYU)

Wael Shawky: The Cabaret Crusades
September 11 – December 1, 2013
Curated by Philip Monk

Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades is the first full-scale exhibition in Canada of this Egyptian artist from Alexandria. The exhibition is comprised of the first two of a projected series of three films collectively called the Cabaret Crusades. At the AGYU, The Horror Show File (2010) and The Path to Cairo (2012) are shown.

The West knows the Crusades through its own history, and lore that has suffused our culture, but here the story is told from the Arab point of view, which spoke of the Crusades, beginning in 1096 and lasting two centuries, as "the Frankish invasions." The series is based on the book The Crusades through Arab Eyes, by Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, amongst other sources. Not only told from the Arab point of view (in Arabic with English subtitles), the story is performed by puppets. One soon realizes that a violent history actually can be told effectively and movingly through puppets and even be given the Hollywood treatment—in HD and surround sound.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY, U of T SCARBOROUGH

Wafaa Bilal
3rdi
September 3 – October 19, 2013

For the recent project 3rdi, Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal had a camera surgically implanted in the back of his head to spontaneously transmit images to the web, at the rate of one image per minute, 24 hours a day – a statement on surveillance, the mundane and the things we leave behind. Drawing attention to the mostly forgotten, or ignored, fact that cameras exist in most public and many private spaces. 3rdi serves as a reminder that it has become commonplace for our lives to be monitored. The project is also deeply personal for Bilal, arising from a need to objectively capture his past. As a refugee and immigrant, Bilal reflects upon the people and places he was forced to leave behind during his journey from Iraq to Saudi Arabia, to Kuwait and then the U.S. By documenting every moment with the 3rdi, Bilal is able to build an archive of memories, as he could not before.

IMAGE CREDIT (clockwise from top left):
Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Hourglass, 2010, photo: Toni Hafkenscheid; Iara Freiberg, where I'm waiting from (installation), 2013, photo: Toni Hafkenscheid; Wafaa Bilal, 3rdi, 2010-2011, courtesy of the artist; Wael Shawky, Cabaret Crusades: The Path to Cairo (video still), 2012, HD video, color, sound, 59:04 min, courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut / Hamburg.


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Koffler Gallery
4588 Bathurst Street
Toronto ON M2R 1W6
416.638.1881
*Exhibition off-site at Jack Layton Ferry Terminal, 9 Queens Quay West

Doris McCarthy Gallery
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto ON M1C 1A4
416.287.7007

Art Gallery of York University
Accolade East Building
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
416.736.5169

Blackwood Gallery
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. North, Kaneff Building
Mississauga ON L5L 1C6
905.828.3789