Sunday 21 January 2018, 11:30 am–5:00 pm
Pick-up and drop-off at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto
$10 donation includes transportation to all galleries and afternoon refreshments
Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the winter's best exhibitions in the GTA!
This winter, the ARTbus begins at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto with a visit to Figures of Sleep curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan. This major international exhibition considers the cultural anxieties around the collapsing biological function of sleep under economic, social and technological transformation. Is sleep in crisis? Exceedingly, artists have adopted the motif of sleep as a cipher for material, aesthetic, existential and political considerations of these urgent cultural concerns. Featuring work by Francis Alÿs, Rebecca Belmore, Louise Bourgeois, Chris Burden, Sophie Calle, Chris Curreri, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Rodney Graham, Tehching Hsieh, On Kawara, Hassan Khan, Liz Magor, Ron Mueck, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Jasmeen Patheja, Jon Sasaki, and Mladen Stilinović.
The ARTbus continues to the Art Gallery of Hamilton to visit Shelley Niro: 1779 and Abedar Kamgari: The Journey West. Shelley Niro looks to the year 1779, when 5,000 Haudenausaunee people arrived in Fort Niagara, having fled the state now known as New York. Forced from their homeland, many did not survive the migration. Poetic and understated, her works bring power to issues that lie close to the heart, in particular the role of women, and generational knowledge. The exhibition features new video, sculpture, prints, and photographs. In late-August 2004, Abedar Kamgari traveled with her mother by boat and train, leaving Iran for Turkey as a refugee; this was the start of the journey that eventually brought her to Toronto in 2006, and to Hamilton in 2012. The Journey West is a durational performance-for-video and creative retelling of Kamgari's experience as a refugee and immigrant, enacted on the thirteenth anniversary of her initial departure. The 30-hour video is shown alongside research materials that informed the artist's process, including historical artworks, and family archives.
Next, at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square and Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, visit the opening of Allison Katz: Diary w/o Dates. Reflecting the diverse range of Katz's production, the exhibition considers the unique character of each site. At Centennial Square, Katz reacts to the theatrical black-box design of the gallery and the concrete geometry of late 1960s civic architecture with a large-scale installation of new paintings “in the round." At Gairloch Gardens, Katz presents a series of new works—including posters, ceramics and a sand painting—that play on elements of circulation and repetition inherent to both her own process and the architecture of this former private residence on the shores of Lake Ontario. Allison Katz: Diary w/o Dates is organized in collaboration with MIT List Visual Arts Center.
11:30 am: Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Visit Figures of Sleep.
1:15 pm: Art Gallery of Hamilton. Visit Shelley Niro: 1779 and Abedar Kamgari: The Journey West.
2:45 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit opening of Allison Katz: Diary w/o Dates.
3:30 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Opening of Allison Katz: Diary w/o Dates continues, with refreshments.
5:00 pm: Drop-off at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.
Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery: 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto
416.978.8398
University of Toronto Art Centre: 15 King's College Circle, Toronto
416.978.1838
www.artmuseum.utoronto.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 (clockwise from top left): Gabriel Orozco, Sleeping Leaves (Hojas durmiendo), 1990, silver dye bleach print. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery; Shelley Niro, 1779 (detail), 2017, video still, mixed media sculpture. Courtesy of the artist; Abedar Kamgari, The Journey West, 2017, video still. Courtesy of the artist; Allison Katz, Giant (detail), 2013–2016, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and The Approach, London.
Diary w/o Dates is a solo exhibition of new work by Allison Katz stretching across both Oakville Galleries venues. Reflecting the diverse range of Katz's production, the exhibition considers the unique character of each site.
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