Fall 2026 ARTbus Tour
Oct 24 2026

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Program Description

In partnership with Patel Brown and Art Gallery of Mississauga, Oakville Galleries invites you to join us for the Fall 2026 ARTbus.

The day begins at Patel Brown for the opening of Night Vision by Shary Boyle. From there, guests will continue to the Art Gallery of Mississauga for a guided tour of Electric Neon Clock by A.S.M. Kobayashi. The journey then continues to Oakville Galleries for Silent Songs by Aideen Barry presented across both Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens. Guests will visit the exhibition at Centennial Square before making their way to Gairloch Gardens to experience the exhibition and join the opening reception.

Bringing together three gallery destinations in one afternoon, ARTbus offers a unique opportunity to discover ambitious contemporary exhibitions, meet artists, and experience the region’s vibrant arts community.

ARTbus guests will be picked up and dropped off at Patel Brown, 21 Wade Ave, Unit 2, Toronto.

Schedules and Details

11:00 AM – Meet at Patel Brown Gallery for the exhibition opening of Night Vision by Shary Boyle

12:00 PM – ARTbus departs for the Art Gallery of Mississauga

12:45 PM – ARTbus arrives at Art Gallery of Mississauga to view Electric Neon Clock, by A.S.M. Kobayashi

1: 45 PM – ARTbus departs AGM for Oakville Galleries in Centennial Square

2:15 PM – ARTbus arrives at Oakville Galleries in Centennial Square to view Silent Songs by Aideen Barry

3:00 PM – ARTbus departs Centennial Square for Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

3:15 PM – ARTbus arrives at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens to continue viewing Silent Songs by Aideen Barry, refreshments and light bites served with remarks by the artist and Interim Executive Director Jenifer Papararo

4:30 PM – ARTbus departs Gairloch Gardens for Toronto

5:30 PM – ARTbus arrives to Patel Brown Gallery in Toronto

Aideen Barry: Silent Songs

Gairloch Gardens & Centennial Square

October 24, 2026 — January 23, 2027

This fall, Oakville Galleries is pleased to present Silent Songs, Aideen Barry's inaugural solo exhibition in Canada, featuring the world premiere of her enigmatic and ethereal film Embroidering the Earth's Mantle. The exhibition unfolds across both of our gallery sites, featuring recent films, a new body of intricately embroidered drawings, and a series of richly printed film stills.

One of Barry's defining concerns is the recovery of voices and histories that have been silenced. Through phantasmagoric narratives that weave together folklore, oral histories, ecology, and archival research, Barry reveals the persistence of cultural memory despite histories of erasure and repression. Her hallucinatory and fantastical works foreground languages and other forms of cultural knowledge that have been suppressed, building new cinematic worlds for these voices to resurface.

Barry’s films, The Song of the Bleeding Tree (2023) and the acclaimed ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ / Seachmalltacht / Oblivion (2021) will be presented as a hypnotic video installation in our Centennial Square gallery. Created in collaboration with Inuit throat singer Riit ᕇᑦ and Irish harpist Aisling Lyons, Oblivion brings together two distinct musical traditions that were once suppressed under colonial rule, exploring the resilience of cultural memory through sound, performance, digital technology and moving image. In The Song of the Bleeding Tree, Barry turns to the intertwined histories of landscape, ecology, and mythology, reflecting on the enduring impact of colonial violence while imagining possibilities for repair and renewal.

Throughout our historic gallery spaces in Gairloch Gardens, Barry presents a mythical world through film, animation, and drawing inspired by the life and work of the surrealist painter Remedios Varo, whose distinctive dreamlike works combine science, alchemy, mysticism, medieval imagery, engineering, and the occult into grand, fantastical narratives. Barry pulls on Varo’s themes of displacement, transformation, and survival, interpreting them into meditations on creation, labour, fate, and women's agency envisioning a collective rise from a dark world of constraint through the weaving of reality into existence.

Shary Boyle: Night Vision

October 24, 2026 - December 19, 2026

Shary Boyle was born in Scarborough, ON in 1972. Her multidisciplinary practice continues the human tradition of personal, social and political reflection centering the figure, rooted firmly in the personal and handmade. Envisioning deeply imaginative, idiosyncratic, and unsettling worlds, Boyle is an early innovator of live animation with overhead projectors and decorative ceramics in the contemporary art discourse. Boyle activates her practise through collaboration and community, with a spirit of curiosity, inclusivity and bridge-building. Her collaborative outreach has included musicians, artists, hobbyists, ASL performers and translators, tradespeople, mechatronic designers, writers, circus and theme park entertainment creators, dancers, mimes, puppeteers, costume designers, acrylic nail artists, community folk artists, and jewelry smiths. She is an A.I. objector, and centres the ethos of peer equality, crediting, and paying those she works with.

Shary Boyle represented Canada with her project Music for Silence at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, and her work has been featured at the 2017 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale in South Korea and the 2021 Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania. Boyle is the recipient of Canada’s Hnatyshyn Foundation Award, the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, and holds a 2021 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the Ontario College of Art and Design University. Boyle’s solo exhibition Outside the Palace of Me was organized by Toronto’s Gardiner Museum and toured seven North American museums, including the Vancouver Art Gallery (2023) and the Museum of Art and Design in NYC (2023/24). A survey of 25 years of her socio-political projects, How We Are, was presented in spring 2026 by the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Shary Boyle currently lives and works in Toronto and Tantramar, New Brunswick.

A.S.M. Kobayashi: Electric Neon Clock

On view until October 25, 2026

Electric Neon Clock is a hybrid, immersive exhibition by A.S.M. Kobayashi that mixes documentary, performance, and installation. Born and raised in Mississauga, and based in Toronto and New York City, Kobayashi is known for her performative projects that take deep dives into found archival material. This project began when Kobayashi first encountered the Canadian government’s WWII custodial file on her great-grandfather. and subsequently discovered case files belonging to other relatives, their friends, and a wider community of displaced people of Japanese descent. These historical documents detail inventories of their homes and
businesses, and include government correspondence, internal memos, and court transcripts.

Electric Neon Clock asks: How can the artist liberate forensic practices and state records to undermine their original intention and use them to reconstruct the community and families they were designed to dismantle? Relying on her great-grandfather’s custodial file as a guide, Kobayashi adapts this record into an installation detailing her family’s experience. Through performance, video, sound, archival documents, a substantial photo archive, and the innovative format of a “live”auction, Kobayashi welcomes audiences to delve into her family’s file and join her in assessing the inventory’s value and humanizing its contents.

Curated by AGM Senior Curator Shannon Anderson.

Art Bus participants will receive an exhibition introduction from Sabrina Boyer, Program and Education Manager at the Art Gallery of Mississauga.

TIME

11:00 AM–5:30 PM

PRICE

$20.00 | Online registration required.

CANCELLATION POLICY

We do not offer refunds on ARTbus tickets.

VENUES

Pick Up & Drop Off at Patel Brown

21 Wade Ave, Unit 2, Toronto.

PATEL BROWN