2024 Summer Exhibitions Opening Reception

2024 Summer Exhibitions Opening Reception
 

Saturday, May 25, 2024 
1:30 PM to 4 PM 
Free | Registration not required

Kick off your summer season at the Varley with our Summer Exhibitions Opening Reception. Meet the exhibiting artists, join in guided tours, enjoy food and music, and get hands-on with family-friendly craft workshops and board games. Plus, don't miss the chance to meet a Star Trek-themed cosplayer as she roams the venue!

About To go boldly

Organized by the Varley Art Gallery of Markham
Curated by Anik Glaude
Exhibition runs from May 25 to September 2, 2024

To go boldly explores how contemporary artists look to science fiction to confront the past, make sense of the present, and envision the future. Through this genre, complex social and cultural topics, such as racial justice, colonial violence, gender identity, and ableism, can be explored. Employing worldbuilding as a key methodology, artists create their alternate realities with otherworldly elements to escape from conventional norms and establish new narratives.

To learn more about To go boldly, visit HERE.
 

About Summer Solstice

Organized by the Varley Art Gallery of Markham
Curated by Anik Glaude and Susanne Lee
Exhibition runs from May 25 to September 2, 2024

Summer Solstice presents an eclectic assortment of works from the gallery’s permanent collection, capturing the essence of summer with vibrant landscape vistas, colorful blossoms, and scenes of summer activities. Interspersed among these paintings are sketches by F. H. Varley, offering viewers an insight into the world beyond each frame.
 

To learn more about Summer Solstice, visit HERE. 

About the Varley Art Gallery
 

Location: 216 Main Street Unionville, Markham ON L3R 2H1 
Contact Information: varley@markham.ca; VarleyArtGallery.ca; 905.477.7000 extension 3261
Hours:
Tuesday to Friday: 12 PM to 4 PM
Saturday and Sunday: 10 AM to 5 PM
Monday: Closed

Admission is free. Our venue is accessible, with automatic door openers to enter the building and exhibition spaces. One accessible washroom is available.

Image credit, top to bottom:
1. Sonny Assu, The Away Team Beams Down to What Appears to Be an Uninhabited Planet, 2016, digital intervention on an Emily Carr painting (vanquished, 1930), archival pigment print, 55.8 cm x 83.8 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Equinox Gallery
2. Rosalie Favell, Voyageur, 2018, oil on linen, 121.9 cm x 121.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist
3. Agnes Johnson, Milne Country House, Markham, n.d., oil on canvas, 42.8 cm x 63.7 cm. Collection of the Varley Art Gallery of Markham. Gift of the Estate of Kathleen Gormley McKay, 1996.