ARTBUS:SUNDAY, JANUARY 18!

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

For reservations, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402, ext. 24 by Friday 16 January, 4:00 pm

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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.

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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

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 (left to right): Robin Collyer, Crime Scene, 2000. University of Toronto Collection, gift of the artist, 2013 © the artist; Mark Bell, Preparatory Sketch for Reverse Obsolescence (Deerfield Hall), 2014. Photo: Mark Bell; Hadley+Maxwell, …Um, 2006. Courtesy the artists and Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto. Photo: Mark Woods.
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.

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

ARTbus- September 15

ARTbus

ARTbus: Exhibition tour to the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton and Oakville Galleries
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Sunday 15 September 2013, 11:30 am–5:00 pm

Pick-up and drop-off at MOCCA (952 Queen 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. 27 by Friday 13 September, 4:00 pm

Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the fall's best exhibitions in the GTA!

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA)
The fall ARTbus begins at MOCCA with a tour of David Cronenberg: Transformation. The exhibition features six new TIFF-commissioned artworks by leading Canadian and international contemporary artists who share pioneering Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg's inspirations from literature and philosophy—writers such as Marshall McLuhan, William S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard—and his fascination with biological horror, the human psyche and the merging of humans and media. Artists on view include Candice Breitz, James Coupe, Marcel Dzama, Jeremy Shaw, Jamie Shovlin, and Laurel Woodcock. Organized by MOCCA and TIFF, and curated by David Liss, Artistic Director & Curator, MOCCA; and Noah Cowan, Artistic Director, TIFF. Supported by the Government of Ontario, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Hal Jackman Foundation. Also on view is Camille Henrot | Grosse Fatigue, curated by Andréa Picard and presented in collaboration with TIFF Future Projections. Supported by the Hal Jackman Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH)
The ARTbus continues to the AGH for a tour of Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins: The CollaborationistsThe Collaborationists is an extensive exhibition of the multi-faceted works of Canadian artists Marman and Borins. Comprised of major installations and kinetic sculptures, as well as a selection of paintings and an audio station, this landmark exhibition highlights the recent production of this highly insightful artist duo. Drawing from the theories of mid-century modernist art, with a focus on information as a subject, the works explore intellectual subjects in a refreshingly playful manner. Co-curated by Melissa Bennett, Art Gallery of Hamilton; and Linda Jansma, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

Oakville Galleries

Next, at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square participants will visit the group exhibition Surface Tension, guest-curated by Jacob Korczynski. Over the past decade digital media has transformed how we take pictures and how existing images circulate in the world. While many artists have questioned where to locate images in our contemporary context, their ongoing presence in museums and galleries underscores that—alongside more dematerialized forms—images remain with us physically. Surface Tension presents recent works by Canadian and international artists that readily engage with this persistent materiality. Artists on view include Matthew Buckingham, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Youngmi Chun, Kelly Jazvac, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Jimmy Robert, and Mark Soo.

Finally, the ARTbus finishes at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens with the solo exhibition Kelly Jazvac: PARK, curated by Jon Davies. Over the past several years, London-based artist Kelly Jazvac has worked primarily with the medium of discarded adhesive vinyl, which she gleans from the printing industry. In PARK, her first solo museum exhibition, Jazvac will respond to the distinctive context of Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens with a suite of recent sculptural works, videos, found objects, and a new site-specific wallpaper installation based on a photo shoot in the Gardens.

SCHEDULE

11:15 am: Meet outside the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art for sign-in.
11:30 am: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Tour of David Cronenberg: Transformation and Camille Henrot | Grosse Fatigue.
1:15 pm: Art Gallery of Hamilton. Tour of Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins: The Collaborationists.
2:30 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit Surface Tension.
3:30 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Visit Kelly Jazvac: PARK. Reception with refreshments.
5:00 pm: Drop-off at MOCCA.
In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company and Whole Foods Market, Oakville

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

952 Queen Street West, Toronto
416.395.0067
www.mocca.ca

Art Gallery of Hamilton

123 King Street West, Hamilton
905.527.6610
www.artgalleryofhamilton.com

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): Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, Pavilion of the Blind, 2013, courtesy of Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto and Tierney Gardarin Gallery, New York; Marcel Dzama, Une Danse Des Bouffons (or A Jester's Dance) (film still), 2013, commissioned by TIFF, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery, New York/London; Kelly Jazvac, Salp, 2012, courtesy of the artist and Louis B. James, New York. Photo: Dave Kemp.

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