Sunday 24 June 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 season's best exhibitions in the GTA!
This summer, the ARTbus begins at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto with a tour of Robert Fones: Signs | Forms | Narratives. Governor General Award-winning artist and writer Robert Fones is widely celebrated for his exquisitely rendered paintings and hybrid photographic sculptures that make us puzzle over the forms that surround us in our everyday, zeroing in on the most engaging paradoxes of visual perception. This major retrospective, the most extensive survey to date of the artist's production, highlights his most influential artworks ranging from monumental letter forms, to lightboxes, to two-dimensional works that create the illusion of three dimensions.
The ARTbus continues to the Art Gallery of Hamilton to visit Speaking for Herself curated by Tobi Bruce. The longstanding exclusion of women artists from art history, exhibitions, collections, the art market and commercial gallery representation is not a debatable issue, it's a fact. When exhibitions consist of only the work of men—the norm in gallery and museum exhibitions and collections—they are not identified as such because they don't have to be. We don't see titles like Men Artists from the Collection. In an effort to bring the work of women artists back into the conversation, Speaking for Herself mines the AGH collection to bring together significant work by significant artists who identify as women.
Lastly, at Oakville Galleries participants will visit the opening of our summer painting exhibition An Assembly of Shapes. Moving between figuration and abstraction, the works in this exhibition emerge from an underlying curiosity about both form and content that reflects the stakes of creating and circulating images. Through thoughtful consideration of subjects such as perception, politics, technology, language, intuition, and humour, painting is positioned here as a site for inquiry. The exhibition presents works by Canadian artists working both locally and internationally, featuring work by Jason Baerg, Sascha Braunig, Rebecca Brewer, Sandra Brewster, Anthony Burnham, Julien Ceccaldi, Jane Corrigan, Patrick Cruz, Barry Doupé, Brenda Draney, Teto Elsiddique, Katie Lyle, Elizabeth McIntosh, Veronika Pausova, Jagdeep Raina, Beth Stuart, geetha thurairajah, Charlene Vickers, and Ambera Wellmann.
11:30 am: Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Visit Robert Fones: Signs | Forms | Narratives.
1:15 pm: Art Gallery of Hamilton. Visit Speaking for Herself.
2:45 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit opening of An Assembly of Shapes.
3:30 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Opening of An Assembly of Shapes continues, with refreshments.
5:00 pm: Drop-off at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.
Art Museum at the University of Toronto
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 (left to right): Robert Fones, Axe|Exa|Axi, 1997, casein on wood, plywood; Prudence Heward, Girl Under a Tree (detail), 1931, oil on canvas. Collection of the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Gift of the artist's family, 1961; Barry Doupé, Whaty (computer animation still), 2012. Commissioned as part of the Toronto Animated Image Society's HELLO AMIGA Project, in partnership with Trinity Square Video and Vtape.
An Assembly of Shapes brings together the work of nineteen Canadian artists—based both locally and internationally—working in and around painting. Moving between figuration and abstraction, the works in this exhibition emerge from an underlying curiosity about both form and content, reflecting the stakes of creating and circulating images in our current moment.
