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
The 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. This genre can explore complex social and cultural topics, such as racial justice, colonial violence, gender identity, and ableism. Employing worldbuilding as a key methodology, artists create alternate realities with otherworldly elements to escape 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
The 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.