ARTbus: Exhibition tour to the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Oakville Galleries

Sunday 15 April 2012, 12:00pm-5:00pm

Pick-up and drop-off at OCADU (100 McCaul Street, Toronto)

$10 registration fee includes admission to all galleries and refreshments provided by Oakville Galleries and Trafalgar Brewing Company.

For reservations, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402, ext. 27 by Friday 13 April 2012 (5pm)

Ride the ARTbus and take in some of this season's most dynamic exhibitions west of the city!

The ARTbus begins with a stop at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, where participants will visit Mark Lewis: Rush Hour, Morning and Evening, Cheapside and Forte!. Since the mid-1990s, Mark Lewis's arresting films have documented everyday sites and situations to carefully examine the grammar and syntax of cinema. Two of Lewis's recent films-one capturing the shadows of pedestrians during rush hour, and another that offers a bird's-eye view of a Napoleonic fort in the Italian alps-will be on view. Visitors will also tour William Kurelek: The Messenger, a large-scale survey of the highly regarded Canadian artist's work. This exhibition, featuring more than 80 paintings drawn from across Canada, the United States and Britain, is the first survey of Kurelek's work to be mounted in thirty years.

The ARTbus continues to Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square and Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens where Keren Cytter: Based on a True Story is on view. With their hand-held camerawork, abrupt edits and nonlinear narratives, the short films of New York-based artist Keren Cytter evoke an uncertain, frenzied atmosphere. Wine at a birthday party turns into blood, and cake spontaneously combusts. A traumatic childhood piano lesson is re-enacted in a Greek restaurant. Characters bark at one another in languages they seem not to understand, mimic each another and morph into the same person. At once DIY in feel and impeccably crafted, Cytter's art borrows from sources such as avant-garde film, horror flicks and musicals. Shedding light on our mediated culture, her work suggests that our subjectivities are cobbled together from scenes in movies, novels, artworks, as well as from a mixture of our own experiences and those of others.

SCHEDULE

12:00 pm: Meet at OCADU.

1:00 pm: Art Gallery of Hamilton. Tour of Mark Lewis: Forte! and Rush Hour, Morning and Evening, Cheapside. Tour the exhibition William Kurelek: The Messenger.

2:45 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Tour of the exhibition Keren Cytter: Based on a True Story.

3:45 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Continued tour and reception for Keren Cytter: Based on a True Story.

5:00 pm: Drop-off at OCADU.

In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company.



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