About this Event
Beginning with BLACK(cite), a group exhibition curated by Rinaldo Walcott at Gallery TPW, the ARTbus will continue to the Art Gallery of Mississauga to tour the solo exhibition of Jorian Charlton: Between Us. Then it’s off to Oakville Galleries, where participants will celebrate the opening reception of solo exhibitions Leisure: Having Ideas by Handling Materials at Oakville Galleries in Centennial Square and Timothy Yanick Hunter: Collapse and Incompletion and Julia Brown: American Vernacular at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Artists Leisure and Hunter will be in attendance at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens.
GALLERY TPW
Our summer ARTbus begins at Gallery TPW in Toronto with BLACK(cite) curated by Rinaldo Walcott and presented in partnership with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Too often Black art is understood solely through the lenses of identity, representation, and belonging—the works in Black(Cite) exceed these readings through citation, formalism, and abstraction. Exemplifying Black aesthetic traditions, the artists featured within this exhibition (Karina Griffith, Abdi Osman, Raquel Rowe, and Wayne Salmon) employ modes of working including poetic meditation on the sea, documentation of Black life, performance of Black living, and commentary on sexuality and gender, in dialogue with broader diasporic conversations.
ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA
Next, the ARTbus will visit Jorian Charlton: Between Us at the Art Gallery of Mississauga held in conjunction with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Charlton is a Mississauga-based artist whose work focuses on photographic portraiture, looking at Jamaican-Canadian culture through her personal experiences and community connections. Exploring contemporary modes of Black representation, her images emphasize the beauty and style of her subjects. Straddling the worlds of fashion photography and intimate portraiture, Charlton’s work has appeared in international fashion publications and on billboards across Toronto, been included in prominent art collections, and featured in exhibitions at major institutions. This expansive solo exhibition is all grounded in relationships and interpersonal connections, reflecting varied expressions of cultural and personal identity. Curator Shannon Anderson will lead a visitors’ tour.
OAKVILLE GALLERIES at CENTENNIAL SQUARE
Lastly, at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens and at Centennial Square, the ARTbus will visit the opening of Leisure: Having Ideas by Handling Materials, Timothy Yanick Hunter: Collapse and Incompletion, and Julia Brown: American Vernacular.
Leisure is a collaboration between Montreal-based artists Meredith Carruthers and Susannah Wesley. Working together since 2004, they use a wide range of media, including video, sculptural installation, and text. Their practice considers ideas of connection, collaboration, creativity, and relation, and in the past has often highlighted the work of overlooked women, such as the landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and playwright Lina Loos. For their exhibition at Oakville Galleries, they will draw on educational theories articulated by artist Barbara Hepworth’s son Simon Nicholson, to create an exploratory, participatory space for children and visitors of all ages. Particularly relevant is his Theory of Loose Parts, which advocates for children to have freedom over their play environments. Here this becomes a potentially transformative proposition with wider implications in society at large, asking us to rethink how we make, exhibit, and experience art—and ultimately how we lead our daily lives.
OAKVILLE GALLERIES in GAIRLOCH GARDENS
Working across painting, sculpture, video, performance, and installation, Toronto-based artist Timothy Yanick Hunter views media as a range of languages that can be drawn upon and experimented with to re-envision storytelling. For Collapse and Incompletion, his first solo exhibition in a public museum, Hunter will present a new series of installations that investigate historical material and synthesize physical and digital archives. A nod to notions of collective and diasporic memory, this exhibition will see Hunter evolve his work into new forms of multidisciplinary experimentation, such as multi-channel video installation, sculpture, and fabric prints, that respond to the space and setting of Gairloch Gardens by Lake Ontario.
Collapse and Incompletion is commissioned by Oakville Galleries with the support of Partners in Art.
In the Salah Bachir Gallery screening space, Oakville Galleries will be showing American Vernacular, a film installation by Baltimore-based artist Julia Brown. The single-channel film comprises six scenes; in each, a pair of actors perform the function of a “Black Americana” historical object. This act of personification makes visible the objects’ entanglements with race, class, and lived space. Set in period rooms of different eras, Brown’s film depicts the fantasies, desires, and violence embedded in the racial imaginary that persists to this day.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Time
11:30 AM: Gallery TPW. Visit BLACK(cite). Tour with Gallery TPW staff.
12:50 PM: Art Gallery of Mississauga. Visit Jorian Charlton: Between Us. Tour with curator Shannon Anderson.
2:00 PM: Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Visit opening of Leisure: Having Ideas by Handling Materials.
3:00 PM: Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens. Visit opening of Timothy Yanick Hunter: Collapse and Incompletion and Julia Brown: American Vernacular. Opening reception with refreshments.
5:00 PM: Drop-off at Gallery TPW.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Gallery TPW, 170 St. Helens Avenue, Toronto, Canada
CAD 0.00 to CAD 10.00