Summer 2026 ARTbus Tour
Jun 13 2026

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Program Description

Pick up and drop-off in Toronto (66 Dufferin Park Avenue)

$20 registration fee includes transportation to all galleries and refreshments.

In partnership with the Art Gallery of Burlington, Oakville Galleries invites you to join us for the Summer 2026 ARTbus.

The tour begins with ARTbus pick-up at 66 Dufferin Park Avenue in Toronto, where guests will travel together to the Art Gallery of Burlington for a guided tour of Celina Eceiza’s A material called Earth, Volume 1: The life of corners, curated by Sylvie Fortin and Locutions: Fragments out of a Deluge by Chukwudubem Ukaigwe.

From there, the journey continues to Oakville Galleries, where participants will experience Ali Cherri’s To Fall, Patiently across both gallery sites: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens. Moving between Burlington and Oakville, the tour offers a unique opportunity to spend the day with fellow art lovers while engaging with ambitious contemporary exhibitions.

Schedules and Details

11:30 AM – Attendees meet at 66 Dufferin Park in front of St Mary’s Catholic Academy and departs for Art Gallery of Burlington

12:45 PM – ARTbus arrives at the Art Gallery of Burlington

Exhibitions: A material called Earth, Volume 1: The life of corners

Locutions: Fragments out of a Deluge

2:00 PM – ARTbus departs for Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square

2:30 PM – ARTbus arrives at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square

Exhibition: To Fall, Patiently

3:15 PM – ARTbus departs Centennial Square for Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

3:30 PM – ARTbus arrives at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

Exhibition: To Fall, Patiently

Refreshments and light bites served

Remarks by Executive Director Séamus Kealy

4:45PM – ARTbus departs Gairloch Gardens for Toronto (66 Dufferin Park)

6:00 PM – ARTbus arrives back in Toronto

Ali Cherri: To Fall Patiently

Gairloch Gardens & Centennial Square

June 13, 2026 — October 03, 2026

Ali Cherri (b. 1976, Beirut) is a Paris-based artist with three decades of artistic practice spanning across film, performance, sculpture, drawing, and installations. Awarded the Silver Lion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, and exhibited in leading museums around the world, Ali Cherri presents films, sculptures and watercolour paintings in both our galleries as well as in Gairloch Gardens.

At the Gairloch Gallery, Ali Cherri presents a series of sculptures, assembled elegantly between different materials, each a hybrid involving ancient artifacts found by the artist in auctions or marketplaces. Adjacent to the sculptures is a series of watercolour paintings and the film Of Men and Gods and Mud, which explores the relationship between humans, labour, and the environment in northern Sudan. Two sculptures by Ali Cherri will be installed outdoors in the sculpture garden of Gairloch Gardens: The bronze sculpture The Tree of Life re-interprets ancient Assyrian reliefs of a sacred tree, while the neon sculpture Les (Sur)Vivants poetically references the perils of surviving catastrophe. As part of our summer program, Ali Cherri also presents two evenings of his films as part of Sunset Kino. Stay tuned for an updated Sunset Kino program.

At the Centennial Gallery, the artist presents the film The Watchman. Set in Cyprus, the film features a soldier on watch at the edge of no-man’s land between the Greek Cypriot south and the Turkish Cypriot north. As much of Cherri’s work, the film concerns itself with questions of borders and the challenges they enact upon ideas of sovereignty, identity, and geopolitical realities.

Celina Eceiza: A material called Earth, Volume 1: The life of corners

May 16 – August 16, 2026

Celina Eceiza’s A material called Earth, Volume 1: The life of corners transforms the Art Gallery of Burlington into an immersive, textile-based environment that reimagines how exhibitions are experienced. Colourful, hand-dyed, stitched, and embroidered textiles, alongside large-scale drawings, cover walls, reshape ceilings, soften floors, and form furnishings—creating a radically soft space that invites visitors to linger, explore, and connect.

A material called Earth explores how exhibitions can move and evolve by foregrounding impermanence and place. Rather than simply adapting to each site, it engages deeply with its surroundings—circulating ideas, materials, and relationships. The project asks us to consider what is carried, shared, and left behind as it unfolds across contexts, offering a more intimate, responsive, and critically engaged exhibition form.

The exhibition includes ceramic works by Jacob Ahrens, Scott Barnim, Keith Campbell, Bruce Cochrane, Harlan House, Jim Hong Louie, Paul Mathieu, Denise McKay, Mary McKenzie, Mary Philpott, Kasia Piech, Karla Rivera, Barbara Taylor, and Donna Harris Wechsler.

Chukwudubem Ukaigwe: Locutions: Fragments out of a Deluge 

May 22 – August 30, 2026

In Locutions: Fragments out of a Deluge, Chukwudubem Ukaigwe explores what objects can hold—and what inevitably spills beyond them. The exhibition centres on large, sculptural ceramic vessels, built by stacking forms together, creating porous, evolving structures that feel both individual and communal. Embedded within them are sound recordings from Lagos, capturing the rhythms of everyday life—from markets to rain—bringing the city’s sonic landscape into the gallery. Blending sculpture, sound, and storytelling, Ukaigwe invites visitors into an immersive environment shaped by listening, accumulation, and connection.

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