We are pleased to offer complimentary shuttle service for guests attending our exhibition opening this Saturday. To make your visit more convenient, we encourage you to park your car at Centennial and take advantage of the shuttle service, which will run between both gallery locations.
Check the schedule below for details:
2:30 PM: Leave Centennial Square
2:45 PM: Arrive Gairloch Gardens
3:15 PM: Leave Gairloch Gardens
3:30 PM: Arrive Centennial Square
4:00 PM: Leave Centennial Square (Last shuttle back to Gairloch)
4:15 PM: Arrive Gairloch Gardens
4:45 PM: Leave Gairloch Gardens (Last shuttle service)
5:00 PM: Arrive Centennial Square
Parking at Gairloch Gardens is only possible at the public parking lot at 1308 Lakeshore Rd E or on a side street (Caincroft Road or Colonial Cres). Parking at the galleries is otherwise restricted due to our free shuttle buses, disabled parking and recent weather. We encourage you to please take the free shuttle. We thank you in advance for your understanding.
Saturday, Feb 22, 2025
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square
2:00–5:00 PM:
Exhibition Opening at Centennial Square
2:00–5:00 PM:
Exhibition Opening Reception and Remarks at Gairloch Gardens
All are welcome
Both artists will be in attendance
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens | Feb 22–May 10, 2025
Notions of trauma, loss, personal histories and matters of identity and labour all collide in the sculptural work of Karen Kraven. Her work explores the vulnerability and potential of the body through exertion, work, and grief. Accessing her familial background in textiles, her work emerges from a collection of objects, associations and poetic meanderings. Her work also explores neurological impairment caused by brain disease or trauma, dementia or stroke. Kraven’s sculptures move us through a politics of pleasure and pain, strewn with illness, grief, and delusions of redemptive productivity.
Kristan Horton: None of This Is In My Mind
Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square | Feb 22–May 10, 2025
Kristan Horton presents his endless drawing project as an exhibition. Perpetually extending, this singular work, rendered in black ink on craft paper, speaks to the primal, meditative, and ritualistic aspects of creation. At the heart of the artist's practice is a philosophy of accumulation. The exhibition is thus not merely a presentation of a finished product; it is an invitation to witness an ongoing, open-ended process that resists closure. The work is a meditative reflection on labour, materiality, and the negotiation between human agency and external forces. As Frederick Kiesler explored “endless architecture” as the antithesis of modern architecture’s dominance, Horton’s endless drawing suggests alternative thinking to our spectacle-laced world.
LOCATIONS:
Gairloch Gardens
1306 Lakeshore Road East
Oakville, ON L6J 1L6
Centennial Square
120 Navy Street
Oakville, ON L6J 2Z4
