Closer, 2019, magazine paper collage cut and pasted to canvas, acrylic paint, 36" x 60"

putting things together
Cate McGuire

June 19 to July 13, 2019
Reception: Saturday, June 22, 1 to 4 PM
Extended Gallery Hours: June 21 & July 13, 12 - 8 PM

The Red Head Gallery is pleased to present putting things together an exhibition by artist Cate McGuire.

Ordering things, binding them, creating sets, assembling, or bringing things together and organizing them is a way of understanding them.

In our visually literate world, we are adept at reading pictures and making sense of them. Narratives are created when pictures are strung together in forms that we recognize. If there is not an obvious or familiar story, we tend to try to create one.

McGuire explores collage as a means to reshape the meanings of found images by changing the way that they are seen. In this new work, collaged images are built into larger arrangements or patterns. Putting the pieces together, to create a new form, generates connections between the individual images that might not otherwise occur. It creates something entirely unique that is a collection, but is a collection by design.

Because collage pieces are derived from cultural ephemera, such as magazines or catalogues, there is the residue of time in the fragments. Working with found images in this way involves compressing and overlapping time and the remnants of history, in a concrete and a literal way, and this is perhaps one of the most enduring and potentially meaningful qualities of collage itself.

Cate McGuire is a Toronto based artist who uses various media to build spaces that reference both the natural and the built world. In her extensive work with collage, her goal is to work with time and space to play with cultural ephemera through re-purposing, re-making and recombining existing images.

McGuire has an extensive background in both art and design, having a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Concordia, concentrating in both painting and film studies, as well as a post-graduate degree in Architecture from the University of British Columbia.

This is Cate McGuire’s first solo exhibition as an active member of the Red Head Gallery.


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Please join Oakville Galleries to celebrate our summer exhibition opening on Sunday 23 June from 2:30 pm–3:30 pm at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, followed by a reception at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens from 3:30 pm–5:00 pm. Need a ride to Oakville? Get on the ARTbus (details below).



Material Tells

23 June – 8 September 2019
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens & at Centennial Square
Opening: Sunday 23 June 2019, 2:30 pm–5:00 pm

Taking the politics of making as its point of departure, this group exhibition explores the cultural meanings that emerge from the materials artists use. Drawing on the writings of Édouard Glissant, guest curator Daisy Desrosiers assembles a selection of works that engage often-overlooked narratives within cultural histories, considering the itinerant and opaque legacies that surround everyday materials such as sugar, textiles, flowers and clay.

Alvaro Barrington | Kevin Beasley | Shannon Bool | Beverly Buchanan | Jesse Chun | Marie-Michelle Deschamps | Azza El Siddique | Ja'Tovia Gary | Felix Gonzalez-Torres | Iris Häussler | Kapwani Kiwanga

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ARTBUS: EXHIBITION TOUR

Sunday 23 June 2019, 12:00 pm–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

Our summer ARTbus begins at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto with a tour of their current exhibitions, including Carrie Mae Weems: Heave; Variations in Black, Queer, and Otherwise: Work by Abdi Osman; Common Place: Common-Place, and In & Out of Saskatchewan. The ARTbus will continue to the Art Gallery of Burlington to visit Jeneen Frei Njootli's exhibition my auntie bought all her skidoos with bead money and 150 Acts: Art, Activism, Impact. Lastly, at Oakville Galleries participants will visit the opening of Material Tells.

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FREE EXHIBITION TOURS

Saturday 13 July 2019
at Centennial Square, 2:00 pm
in Gairloch Gardens, 3:00 pm

Saturday 10 August 2019
at Centennial Square, 2:00 pm
in Gairloch Gardens, 3:00 pm

FREE FAMILY ART WORKSHOP

Sunday 25 August 2019, 1:00 pm–4:00 pm
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

Bring the whole family to Oakville Galleries for a free art workshop inspired by the work of Iris Häussler as seen in Material Tells. Take in a brief tour of the exhibition, then head into our Education Centre where participants will use fabric and other found materials to make collages, stickers and other artworks of their design. A parent or guardian must accompany children for the duration of their visit.

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AUTHORS ON ART: LAWRENCE HILL

Sunday 8 September 2019, 2:00 pm
Oakville Public Library, Central Branch Auditorium

Join us for our Authors on Art series with acclaimed writer Lawrence Hill. Held alongside Material Tells, an exhibition that looks at how cultural narratives are embedded in the materials artists use, this talk sees Hill describe the process of researching the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Black Loyalists for his award-winning novel The Book of Negroes. He will also discuss his current research into the construction of the Alaska Highway, and the novel he is writing about the 5,000 African American soldiers who built the 3,000 km highway through Northern BC and Yukon during the Second World War.

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ABOUT OAKVILLE GALLERIES

Oakville Galleries is a not-for-profit contemporary art museum located 30 km west of Toronto. Housed in two spaces—one alongside a public library in downtown Oakville, and another in a lakeside mansion and park—Oakville Galleries is one of Canada's leading art museums, driven by a belief in the singular power of art and artists to deepen our understanding of ourselves and our communities and move us toward a better world.

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens
1306 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville
Tuesday & Wednesday: 1:00 pm–5:00 pm
Thursday: 1:00 pm–8:00 pm
Friday: 1:00 pm–5:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am–5:00 pm
Sunday: 1:00 pm–5:00 pm

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square
120 Navy Street, Oakville
Tuesday to Thursday: 11:00 am–9:00 pm
Friday: 12:00 pm–5:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am–5:00 pm
Sunday: 1:00 pm–5:00 pm

Admission is free.

For more information about Oakville Galleries, our exhibitions or programs, visit www.oakvillegalleries.com or call 905.844.4402.

Oakville Galleries gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario and the Corporation of the Town of Oakville, along with our many individual, corporate and foundation partners.

Oakville Galleries' Public Programs are generously supported by Chubb.

Images (from top to bottom): (1) Kevin Beasley, Untitled (swoop), 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York. Photo: Jean Vong. (2) Carrie Mae Weems, Heave (installation view), 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Jeneen Frei Njootli, my auntie bought all her skidoos with bead money (installation view), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 13 July – 16 September 2018. Photo: Michael Love; Ja'Tovia Gary, An Ecstatic Experience (detail), 2015, film still. Courtesy of the artist and galerie frank elbaz, Paris.

A Blue and White 'Phoenix' Dish, Xianfeng Mark and Period (1851-1861)
The interior decorated with a pair of confronting phoenixes with their wings outstretched amongst cloud wisps, the underside similarly decorated with two phoenixes in flight, the base inscribed with a six-character Xianfeng mark in underglaze cobalt blue. From the Collection of Robert Murray Bell and Ann Walker Bell.
Estimate $18,000-$25,000

Waddington’s Auctioneers
Asian Art & Fine Jewellery Auctions – Spring 2019

Asian Art
This online auction starts Saturday, June 15 at 9 am and closes on Thursday, June 20 at 2:00 pm, EST.

Fine Jewellery
This live auction takes place Tuesday, June 18 at 7:00 pm.

Public Preview for Both Auctions
Friday, June 14 - 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Saturday, June 15 - 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday, June 16 - 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Monday, June 17 - 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Or by appointment.

Asian Art and Fine Jewellery Auctions at Waddington’s

Our Spring 2019 auction season continues with our Asian Art and Fine Jewellery auctions.

The Asian Art Auction includes superb examples of ‘blue and white’ porcelain from the Bell Family Collection. The Bell family began collecting Chinese porcelain in the 1930s, and continued until Robert Murray’s death in 1998. Dedicated and enthusiastic collectors, over time they formed one of Toronto’s finest collections of blue and white porcelain. Following Murray’s death, and under Ann’s careful stewardship, the majority of the Bell’s collection was generously donated to the permanent collection at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto. Also, of important provenance is a gilt and blue ground decorated medallion bottle vase, Guangxu mark and period (1875-1908), from an aristocratic Russian family. Acquired by the family in the late 1800’s when chinoiserie was highly fashionable in Russia, the vase survived the family’s escape from Russia and bombings in Berlin to be brought to Canada in 1947.

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Gentleman's Platinum Ring
Bezel set with a fine oval jadeite cabochon (14.38mm x 12.25mm x 6.69mm; 9.44ct.) flanked by two half-moon cut diamonds (1.00 ct. & 1.03 ct.)
Estimate $85,000-$100,000

The Fine Jewellery and Watches Auction features both contemporary and period jewellery including the work of some of the world’s most famous design houses such as Tiffany, Cartier, Chopard, Walter Schluep and Canadian icons Birks, Secrett and Karl Stittgen. The auction also includes significant pocket and wristwatches from Audemars Piguet, Rolex, Omega, Breguet and others.

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Body of Waters

July 12 – October 12, 2019
Opening: Friday, July 12th at 7:00 pm

When water accumulates it is called a body, a body of water. A human body is also a body of water. Body of waters and bodies of water, a conversation: encounters on ocean shores and river edges, accumulations and movements, gravitational pulls, generational pulls, history, geography, the stains of industry.

This exhibition brings together six artists—Barry Ace, Erika DeFreitas, Lindsay Dobbin, Merritt Johnson, Anne Riley, and Bear Witness—whose work brings the human body into contact with water where they consider the many ways water shapes and is shaped by human life.

Image: Erika DeFreitas, within the cut and slender joint alone, video still, 03:04 minutes, 2017.

Curated by Lisa Hirmer and Iga Janik

QUEEN’S SQUARE GALLERY
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Mon – Thurs 9:30am – 8:30pm
Fri & Sat 9:30am – 5:30pm
Sun 1:00 – 5:00pm

*Closed Sundays May 19 – September 8, 2019.

Admission is free and all are welcome.
For more information, visit ideaexchange.org/art, call 519.621.0460, follow on Twitter or on Facebook.

Cambridge Art Galleries | Idea Exchange presents contemporary art, architecture and design from three galleries in the City of Cambridge: Design at Riverside, Preston, and Queen’s Square.

Cambridge Art Galleries acknowledges that the place on which we gather is the traditional land of Indigenous peoples dating back countless generations. We recognize that it is part of the Haldimand Tract, the traditional land of the Six Nations of the Grand River and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

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