ARTbus: Exhibition tour to Mercer Union, the Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries- JANUARY 17


Sunday 17 January 2016, 12:00 pm–5:00 pm
Pick-up and drop-off at Mercer Union (1286 Bloor 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. 24 by Friday 15 January, 4:00 pm

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Ride the ARTbus and discover some of the winter’s best exhibitions in the GTA!

Mercer Union

The winter ARTbus begins at Mercer Union with Liz Magic Laser: Kiss and Cry. The exhibition presents a new video work commissioned by Mercer Union with leading support from Partners in Art. This is Laser’s first solo exhibition in Canada. Laser works across performance, video and installation. Emerging from an interest in movement and the body, her work explores the processes instrumental in forming opinion, engaging with the mechanisms of how we perform and how we are performed to through multiple modalities. She stages situations, dialogues, monologues or plays and uses the urban environment and its population as the context for her work.

Blackwood Gallery

At Blackwood Gallery, visit Maryam Jafri: The Day After. The exhibition takes root in the artist’s ongoing project Independence Day 1934-1975 (2009–present), an installation composed of photographs taken on the first independence day in former European colonies across Asia and Africa, between 1934 and 1975. Images are juxtaposed according to a broken grid around categories of events, emphasizing the generic character of the rituals and ceremonies that took place during that 24-hour twilight period when a territory transforms into a nation-state. The Day After takes this rare "collection of collections" as a starting point to question various artistic, historical, and political issues arising from these images and their historical and institutional backgrounds. The Day After was conceived by Bétonsalon - Centre for art and research, Paris, France and co-produced by Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain.

Oakville Galleries

Next, at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, visit the opening of The Green of Her. The exhibition features works that map out landscapes in unlikely sources—a fur muff, a floral carpet, the folds of a napkin—and imagine what new forms of life could be hiding within them. Like Loch Ness as described in Patricia Lockwood's “Nessie Wants to Watch Herself Doing It"—the poem from which the exhibition takes its name—these strange environments sustain their creatures, isolate them, and depend on them in turn, proposing new ways of understanding how we relate to the worlds we inhabit. The Green of Her is drawn from the permanent collection of Oakville Galleries.

Finally, at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens visit the opening of Sky Glabush: What Is a Self?, curated by Jon Davies. Glabush draws on a wide variety of practices—including painting, drawing and sculpture—to work through pressing questions of identity, history, faith, and the role of the artist. Charting a broad path through varying forms, materials and styles, Glabush's practice is anchored in ideas of autobiography, modernism and metaphysics. ForWhat Is a Self?, Glabush presents new mixed-media sculptures and dyed weavings. With each gallery in the show conceived as a distinct vignette juxtaposing the artist's 2D and 3D works, What Is a Self? explores architecture as a structure capable of ordering the self in all its manifestations.


SCHEDULE

12:00 pm: Mercer Union. Visit Liz Magic Laser: Kiss and Cry.

1:30 pm: Blackwood Gallery. Visit Maryam Jafri: The Day After.

2:30 pm: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit opening of The Green of Her.

3:30 pm: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Visit Sky Glabush: What is a Self?. Opening reception with refreshments.

5:00 pm: Drop-off at Mercer Union.

In-kind support provided by Trafalgar Brewing Company and Whole Foods Market, Oakville

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Mercer Union
1286 Bloor Street West, Toronto
416.536.1519
www.mercerunion.org

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 (clockwise from top left): Liz Magic Laser, Kiss and Cry (video still), 2015, single-channel video. Featuring figure skaters Anna MacKenzie and Axel MacKenzie and coach Marie Jonsson MacKenzie; Maryam Jafri,Independence Day 1934-1975 (detail), 2009–present. Installation photo at Bétonsalon, 2015. Photo: Aurelien Mole; Wendy Coburn, The Divers (detail), 2006, fur muff, figurines and plastic. Collection of Oakville Galleries; Sky Glabush, Local Colour, 2015. Cotton weaving stained with acrylic and ink. Courtesy of the artist and MKG127, Toronto.

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THANKS!

 A huge thank you to everyone that joined us for the gallery crawl on Saturday as well as the galleries that hosted us: Mercer Union, Scrap Metal, Daniel Faria Gallery, Clint Roesnisch and Division Gallery.

 Thank you also to Kronenbourg 1664 for their continued support of our programming and livers.

 xo
Akin Collective




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Push and Pull presents a series of new works by artists Bridget Moser, Michael Vickers (*Akin) and Nikki Woolsey. The exhibition title refers to a constant tension, a position between moving in one direction, and into another; a perpetual state of struggle.

Bridget Moser’s performance and video work is suspended between internally voiced conundrums, stand-up comedy, experimental theatre, performance art, and prop comedy, with a continuous slippage from one state to another. In this in-betweenness a certain absurdity materializes, questioning a world of assumptions and belief systems.

Michael Vicker’s works sit between painting and sculpture, in prioritizing their object-hood physical struggle becomes manifest, highly industrialised materials are folded, pushed and beaten into other forms acknowledging the precarity of their formation and labour.

Nikki Woolsey coalesces distinct everyday found materials into sometimes seamless yet habitually unfamiliar forms. Broken vases, glass panels, and other quotidian objects seep into abstraction, questioning how we perceive objects and place value, and disrupting existent systems of knowledge.

Curated by Georgina Jackson

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Mercer Union is an artist-centred platform for contemporary art. Our main objective is to support the creation and development of new and site-specific work, often premiering artists’ work from Canada and across the globe.

Mercer Union is delighted to accept exhibition and curatorial proposals from artists, artist collectives and curators across all media for its Front and/or Back Galleries. The submission deadlines occur twice a year: 1 March and 1 October.

In preparing your submission please consult the extensive archive of Mercer Union’s previous exhibitions as well as the floorplan to give an indication of the gallery spaces available. We also consider off-site projects relevant to Mercer Unions’ vision.
All submissions must be electronic in form (documents on Mac-friendly CD/ DVD or USB stick), including:
  • An artist statement (PDF preferred)
  • An exhibition proposal specific to Mercer Union including technical/installation needs, time-frame, etc.
  • A numbered image list
  • Ten to twenty images of current work or work intended for exhibition. Images should be JPEGs (1024 x 768 pixels max.), named and numbered consistently (e.g. 01Smith.jpg, 02Smith.jpg, etc.)
  • Other support material such as reviews and catalogues (print examples accepted)
  • A current CV with full contact information
 (Please note: we do not return submissions–for material to be returned please provide a Self-Addressed and Stamped Envelope)

Mercer Union offers artists the opportunity to create new works, from conception to realization. We are committed to paying artist and copyright fees according to the guidelines established by CAR/FAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/Les Fronts des Artistes Canadiens), and provide curatorial support, installation assistance, insurance, promotion, documentation, and commission critical essays to accompany selected projects.

Mercer Union Project Submission Deadlines:
1 March / 1 October, yearly

Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance:
First Friday of January / 15 October, yearly
Please review the OAC Exhibition Assistance Program Guidelines

All submissions should be mailed or delivered in person. Mercer Union does not accept submissions by e-mail. Exhibition submissions which arrive after the due date will be held over until the next deadline. In order to present a cohesive yearly program, our committees review materials from both deadlines, and decisions are often not made for many months. Please be patient.



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