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21 | Friday, January 15, 2016 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com At far left, artist Angela Grauerholz's Flowered Carpet piece is part of The Green of Her exhibit, which will be featured at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square until March 6. The show is a selection of works drawn from Oakville Galleries' permanent collection and showcases 11 artists. At left, one of the pieces, titled Euclid, in Sky Glasbush's What Is a Self? exhibit. The show features a new suite of works of large-scale weaving and mixed-media sculptures by the artist. It will be on display at the Oakville Galleries' Gairloch Gardens location until March 13. Both shows open Sunday (Jan. 17). | photo at far left courtesy Oakville Galleries; photo at left courtesy Sky Glabush and MKG127, Toronto A pair of winter exhibitions opening Sunday at Oakville Galleries Oakville Galleries is giving residents a chance to warm-up indoors with the openings of its winter exhibitions Sunday (Jan. 17). What Is a Self? What Is a Self? is a new suite of works by London, Ont.-based artist Sky Glabush and runs until March 13 at Oakville Galleries' Gairloch Gardens location, 1306 Lakeshore Rd. E. In his latest exhibit, Glabush takes over the former estate house of Gairloch Gardens with large-scale weavings and mixed-media sculptures. "Weaving appeals to Glabush as creative labour that is both meditative and time-consuming; often working with fibres still wet with dye, his subdued colours bleed into one another," stated a media release. "Woven swatches also adorn the surfaces of his modular sculptures, which are assembled from materials ranging from found wooden chairs to building materials, such as plaster, concrete, plywood, and tile." Born in 1970, in Alert Bay, B.C., Glabush currently teaches at Western University and lives in London, Ont. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta. "Over the past two decades, Sky Glabush has drawn on a wide variety of practices -- including painting, drawing and sculpture -- to work through pressing questions of identity, history and labour," according to the release. Glabush's work is in many public collections including the Canada Council Art Bank, McIntosh Gallery, Museum London, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, and the Bank of Montreal. The Green of Her The Green of Her, which is a selection of works drawn from Oakville Galleries' permanent collection, runs until March 6 at Centennial Square, 120 Navy St. It features the works of Valérie Blass, Therese Bolliger, Wendy Coburn, Angela Grauerholz, Isabelle Hayeur, Deirdre Logue, Liz Magor, Luanne Martineau, Naoko Matsubara, Tricia Middleton, and Paulette Phillips. "The Green of Her consider(s) the practice of camouflage, mapping out landscapes in unlikely sources -- a fur muff, a floral carpet, the folds of a napkin -- to imagine what new forms of life could be concealed within them," according to Oakville Galleries. "Throughout the exhibition, both the mundane realities of the home and the murky depths of the subterranean appear as strange and hybrid spaces, offering the potential for solitude and protection from external threat." The exhibits' openings will take place at Centennial Square from 2:30-3:30 p.m., followed by a reception at Gairloch Gardens members are welcome and all music is included in membership fee. Visit www. oakvillechoral.com. Fruit N Flowers Donna Grandin's solo show Fruit N Flowers is on display until Jan. 23 at the Whole Food Market's Allegro Café, 301 Cornwall Rd. The exhibit features acrylics on canvas by the St. Lucian artist. from 3:30-5 p.m. · · · Oakville Galleries is a not-for-profit contemporary art museum, reaching communities in Oakville and wider audiences regionally, nationally and internationally, and offers free admission to both of its locations. The gallery at Gairloch Gardens is open to the public Tuesdays-Sundays from 1-5 p.m., while the Centennial Square location is open: Tuesdays-Thursdays, from noon to 9 p.m.; Fridays, noon to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.­5 p.m.; and Sundays, 1-5 p.m. For more about these exhibits or gallery programs, contact Oakville Galleries by calling 905-844-4402 or visit www. oakvillegalleries.com. by Richard Harris Directed by David nash Produced by John Smissen 8pm Thursda y to Saturda y 2pm Sunda y JanuaRy 21­24, 2016 Oakville Centre for the Performing arts Box Office 905-815-2021 or 1-888-489-7784 or www .oakvillecentre.ca ProducedbyspecialarrangementwithSamuelFrench,Inc. In the Arts... Oakville Choral Society Choir Practices Oakville Choral Society, the town's oldest, non-audition choir, is holding practices until May 1 from 7:45-10 p.m. at St. Aidan's Church, 318 Queen Mary Dr. Practices take place every Tuesday. New Single TiCkeTS $30 HigH SCHOOl STuDenTS $5 with iD College students $20 with iD group Discounts a vailable Proud Member of