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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Wednesday, May 7, 2014 | 14 Artscene Oakville Galleries exhibits Talking Cure until May 11 The Talking Cure exams the relationship between personal crises and social catastrophes through different forms of therapy. The exhibition, at Oaville Galleries' Centennial Square location on Navy Street, positions visitors as patients, analysts or simply flies on the wall during a series of psychoanalytic treatments. It runs until Sunday and features artists Marianne Flotron, Andrea Fraser, Melanie Gilligan, Jesse Jones, Stuart Ringholt, and Superflex. Addressing a broad affective and political spectrum after the global financial crisis in 2008, the exhibition provides space for hands-on audience engagement -- such as in Ringholt's group anger management sessions -- and time for contemplation and introspection in Fraser's self-scrutinizing Projection. The Talking Cure is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Culture Ireland, the Danish Arts Foundation and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. It's guest-curated by Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh. Meanwhile, Toronto-based artist Olia Mishchenko exhibits her drawings at Oakville Galleries' Gairloch Gardens location at 1306 Lakeshore Rd., also until May 11. The Expanded Gardens of Locus Solus is a new body of pen-and-ink work by Mishchenko that draws on the history of Gairloch Gardens, which has been made and remade many times over. It was also created to serve as a counterpart to Raymond Roussel's novel Locus Solus (1914), which resists conventional storytelling. Mishchenko's drawings depict the construction, modification and expansion of an imaginary park. For more information, visit www. oakvillegalleries.com. A outdoor exhibit of Zimbabwean stone sculptures is on display in the backyard of a Carrington Place home overlooking Lake Ontario until May 12. It features works by more than 20 artists. Bottom right is Chaka Chikodzi polishing one of his opal stone sculptures entitled Winds of Change. | photos by Graham Paine ­ Oakville Beaver (Follow on Twitter @halton_photog or www.facebook.com/HaltonPhotog) Zimbabwean stone sculptures by the lake An outdoor exhibition of Zimbabwean stone sculptures is on display by the lake until Monday, May 12. It features works by more than 20 different artists from Zimbabwe at the private gardens of an Oakville home on Carrington Place that backs onto Lake Ontario. Visitors are invited to view the exhibit, which showcases a range of styles and varieties of stone, between 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Organized by Zimbabwean-Canadian stone sculptor Chaka Chikodzi, the show is the third exhibition at the 2460 Carrington Place location. In the past, Chikodzi has also displayed his works at Maple Grove United Church. Zimbabwean stone sculpture has been hailed an important art form to emerge from Africa in the 20th century. Using only hand tools, sculptors work with natural formations of volcanic rock from the country's Great Dkye, an unerupted volcanic ridge that runs from the north to the south of Zimbabwe. A portion of the show's proceeds will support Chikodzi's Out of the City summer youth camp, which is a five-day workshop that brings together a diverse group of Canadian and new Canadian high school students to experience a week of arts immersion in a rural Ontario setting. Working amongst an outdoor display of Zimbabwean stone sculpture, each student is given a piece of volcanic rock from Zimbabwe that they in turn will sculpt in the tradition of Shona sculptors. For more information, visit www. dandarocentre.com or email chaka@ africville.org. Improv this Friday The top two improv teams will battle it out at the Oakville Improv's show this Friday (May 9) at the Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre's Black Box Theatre. Coarse Whisperers, comprised of Sue Illes, Christine Pillman and Maya Mohan will take on top spot team Kill the Messenger, made up of Lynnae Dudley, Robin Sadavoy and friends, beginning at 8 p.m. Additionally, the show will feature special guests Kerry Griffin (Second City), Jan Caruana (Second City), Herbie Barnes (National Arts Centre Ensemble) and Craig Lauzon (Air Farce). Entry costs $5. The centre is located at 2302 Bridge Rd.