Exhibition
Un-home-ly
27 November 2010 - 20 February 2011
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens & at Centennial Square
Curated by Matthew Hyland
 
This winter, Oakville Galleries is pleased to present Un-home-ly, a group exhibition that considers the currency of the uncanny in contemporary feminist art practice. 
 
Working from the literal translation of Unheimlich, Un-home-ly assembles works in painting, sculpture, video, and photography to highlight the feminist tendency toward prodigious articulations of the domestic, the social and the corporeal as a means to reveal the architecture of contemporary culture. While the participating artists address subjects as diverse as politics, pop culture and art history, their works share an investment in mining the tension between the familiar and the strange, the attractive and the repulsive to produce a notion of the uncanny that is grounded in viscerality and criticality in equal measure. 
 
Exhibiting artists include Lucy Gunning, Mako Idemitsu, Suzy Lake, Liz Magor, Luanne Martineau, Shana Moulton, Valérie Mréjen, Paulette Phillips, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, Nicola Tyson, and Jin-me Yoon.
 
Un-home-ly is the first in a series of exhibitions at Oakville Galleries that address key themes in contemporary feminist art practices. The next, to be mounted in 2012, will explore feminist gestures towards utopia.
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Upcoming Public Programmes at Oakville Galleries

ARTbus: Exhibition tour to Oakville Galleries, the McMaster Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of Hamilton
Saturday 27 November 2010
11:30 am to 5:30 pm
Pick-up and drop-off at OCAD (100 McCaul Street, Toronto)
$10 registration fee includes admission fees and refreshments provided by Whole Foods Market.

At Oakville Galleries, Director Matthew Hyland will provide a tour of Un-home-ly, with a brief talk by exhibiting artist Luanne Martineau. At the McMaster Museum of Art, enjoy a tour of Scrapes: Unruly Embodiments in Video Art, co-curated by Drs. Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki of McMaster University and at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, participants will be guided on a tour of Valise Biographique, curated by Melissa Bennett. 

For more information, visit www.oakvillegalleries.com . For reservations, contact artbus@oakvillegalleries.com or 905.844.4402, ext. 30 by Wednesday 24 November. 

In-kind support by Whole Foods Market, Oakville.
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The Festive Collective of Selective Defectives
Saturday, 4 December 2010, 6 pm to 9 pm
The Studio, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

Oakville Galleries' Youth Council presents The Festive Collective of Selective Defectives, an exhibition that satirizes upper-class holiday traditions from the perspective of local youth. Taking aesthetic inspiration from cartoonist Dr. Seuss, the Youth Council will work collaboratively to create a lavish dining room turned upside down, animated by a cast of characters performing throughout the evening.  
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Youth Programmes
Art Classes & Camps for ages 6-12
In English and French
September 2010 – June 2011
 
Beat the winter blahs with Oakville Galleries’ winter art classes! Our after-school, weekend, PA Day and March Break programmes creatively engage the imaginations of children and youth (and parents, too!). Registration is currently open for all classes until June 2011. Visit our website at www.oakvillegalleries.com for more information and to register now.
 
Also, be sure to check out Oakville Galleries’ art workshops held at library branches around town in partnership with the Oakville Public Library.