30 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday March 31, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com Oakville Galleries opens Burrow at Centennial Square on April 5 A show highlighting the human desire for comfort and escape opens April 5 at Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square. Contributing artists Janice Kerbel, Adriana Kuiper, Liz Magor and Samuel Roy-Bois investigate the need for shelter in their works, while alluding to its potential of becoming a barrier to the outside world. The works in this exhibition, which is curated by Shannon Anderson, speak to the need to reinforce our personal boundaries; to render ourselves invisible, and hence, safe and secure. The four artists in Burrow are intimately connected to these issues, each pulling out different referential threads. Kerbel's suite of floor plan drawings appear to be created by an obsessive character. The maps contain decisively marked locations for safe passage, suggesting they might be used for theft and crime, or even survival and necessity. Kuiper constructs sculptures that allude to the fallout shelters of the 1950s, investigating the practicality of human self-survival in the face of disaster. With a wry sense of humour, she explores becoming over-prepared or obsessively concerned with safety. Magor's focus is on the solitude and refuge of the woods. She challenges their romantic stereotype as an idealistic place of escape. Instead, in her photographs of abandoned shelters and her sculpture of a sleeping bag tucked into a tree trunk entitled Burrow we see the strangeness behind the human attempt to integrate into the natural environment. Roy-Bois focuses on the conditions of urban living, and the delicate point of transition between the choice of becoming the observer or the observed. His sculpture Ghetto enacts a powerful social condition that creates a state of discomfort between individuals. All of the works in Burrow move beyond the specificity of these topics to express a more universal, timeless and complicated human condition. They point to an individual attempt at refuge in the face of unknown threats. Burrow, which runs from April 7 to June 3 at Centennial Square, 120 Navy St., celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Canada Council for the Arts. The opening is Thursday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Centennial Square along with the Galleries' other show, Monica Napier's Mad, mad, mad, mad world. Adriana Kuiper, a contributing artist in Burrow, will give an artist talk at 7:45 p.m. at Centennial Square. A reception sponsored by Whole Foods Market in Gairloch Gardens will begin at 8:30 p.m. and Napier will give her artist talk at 9 p.m. in Gairloch Gardens. Don't let hearing loss prevent you from enjoying life! DOWNTOWN OAKVILLE COMMERCIAL CONDOMINIUM ON SITE HEARING TESTS BY OUR DISPENSING AUDIOLOGISTS The latest in digital technology 60 day trial period & more DVA, WSIB, third party insurers Ministry of Health/ADP approved Buy or Lease y Buy Lease $225 per ft. $14 net per ft. + $6 TMI per ft. 3,179 sq. ft. 2,578 sq. ft. $715,275 $4,300/mo. 0 Registered Audiologists HOST FAMILIES NEEDED! Red Leaf Student Program needs families in Oakville to host a student from Spain in July. ates East of Navy Street with 48 feet of frontage 4 Private Offices + Open Area C3R Commercial Zoning To view call John Vail Brokerage, Broker of Record Real Estate & Business Brokerage FREE Market Evaluation · Sale · Lease · Sublease OAKVILLE'S BEST BUY ON BATTERIES CALL TODAY TO BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT Students attend classes and activities Monday to Friday. Remuneration of $644.00 is paid to host family. 905-842-8690 Office, 905-301-9000 Cell JohnVail.com 5 For more information call Veronica at AVA I L A B L E 627 Lyons Lane Suite 203, Oakville 905-339-1397 905-637-0879 T THOMSON THOMSON METALS AND DISPOSAL SCRAP METAL RECYCLING DOING A SPRING CLEAN UP? THOMSON METALS OFFERS THE COMMUNITY A "FREE DROP OFF SERVICE" OF YOUR OLD METAL Mon. - Fri. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m. - 12 noon · TV towers · dryers, freezers stoves, washers · auto body parts · bicycles · lawnmowers · Barbeques · metal window frames · TV antennas · washtubs · metal tables · batteries · pots & pans · old wiring · wheelbarrows · aluminum lawn furniture · tire rims Top Prices Paid For Your Non Ferrous Metals: ALUMINUM, BRASS, COPPER, STAINLESS STEEL Sorry, we do NOT accept PROPANE tanks or hazardous waste. Zelco Dr. Appleby Line Metal Recycling Site 961 Zelco Dr., Burlington Harvester Road 905-681-8832