Art Bus for Jenine Marsh: HARBINGER at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

Marigold Santos: floral abstraction (somatic sibling), 2025. Vinyl mural installed at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, May 2025 – May 2026. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.

Opening Reception and Art Bus: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Spots are limited; please register by Friday, October 17 at 4:00pm.
PWYC – $10 donation suggested.
Register here

The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG) invites visitors to experience Jenine Marsh’s solo exhibition HARBINGER on Saturday, October 18, featuring an artist talk between Marsh and Curator Darryn Doull. KWAG is offering a complimentary return bus trip from Toronto’s Mercer Union, starting the journey with a tour of their Fall Commission, before continuing to KWAG to witness Marsh’s site-specific installation that transforms the gallery floor. Guests will also have the opportunity to view KWAG’s current exhibitions Auto-Biography: Vehicles of identity, community, and globalization and Kathleen Daly: Northern Exposures Revisited.

Itinerary:
11:00am: Meet at Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art, 1286 Bloor St. W.
11:00 – 11:45am: Tour of Mercer Union’s Fall Commission
11:45am: Bus departs from in front of Mercer Union
1:30pm: Estimated arrival at KWAG
2:30pm: Artist Talk with Jenine Marsh and Darryn Doull
4.00pm: Bus departs KWAG
5:30pm: Estimated arrival at Mercer Union for disembarking

Please note that this Art Bus does not fully accommodate the needs of all individuals, particularly those with mobility challenges.

Artwork courtesy of Jenine Marsh, 2025

Jenine Marsh: HARBINGER

October 18, 2025 – February 1, 2026

Curated by Darryn Doull

Jenine Marsh presents HARBINGER, a site-specific, immersive installation that centers on the alteration of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery’s existing gallery floor. Colliding modes of excavation and construction, her work will examine histories of sacrifice and utopic hope which emerge from the near-universal ritual of throwing coins into fountains and wells to make a wish. The installation will confront coin-wishing as a subtle yet illicit expression of post-capitalist desire, explored through a tactile and temporal alteration of public space.

Also on view:

Yan Wen Chang, Resolution Blue (detail), 2022. Oil on canvas, 106.68 x 127cm. Image by LF Documentation. Work courtesy of Susan Hobbs Gallery.

Auto-Biography: Vehicles of identity, community, and globalization

September 20, 2025 – January 4, 2026

Greg Curnoe
Jason Lujan
Lauren Fournier
Melanie Smith
Yan Wen Chang
and objects from the Ken Seiling Waterloo Region Museum

Curated by Darryn Doull

Auto-Biography: Vehicles of identity, community, and globalization look to the road as a connective infrastructure that grounds so much of modern life. It is set in relation to contemporary car culture and commuter life along the busiest stretch of highway in North America. The project isn’t just about cars, though. These are vehicles for a vast array of social, economic, and intercultural distillations of globalization. The invited artists explore aspects of self, hyper-specific communities, and the horizontality of animal, machine and human.

Opening Celebration: Fall Exhibition Cycle
Friday, September 19, 7:00 – 10:00pm with Special Guest DJ Charlie Star
Free | Cash bar available with light refreshments

Kathleen Daly: Northern Exposures Revisited

August 23 – November 23, 2025

Curated by Darryn Doull

Part I of this series, Northern Exposures, was held in 2024 and focused on a series of paintings primarily resulting from these trips starting in 1954. For Part II, Northern Exposures Revisited, we focus on Daly’s drawings and sketches. Many of these are from the same trips noted above. While Daly is perhaps best known for her paintings, much of the critical acclaim often circles back to an appreciation for the drawing and construction of the image – they way that Daly captures light falling on a subject, the economy and energy of her mark making, and the humanity that shines through her deep connection to the Canadian landscape and its people.

Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (b. Napanee, Ontario, 1898, d. Toronto, Ontario, 1994) is widely known for her portraiture and depictions of communities in northern Québec and Labrador. Her most iconic images convey a quiet warmth of humanity; an intimacy of close looking.

Land Acknowledgment

The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery respectfully acknowledges that we are located in Block 2 on the Haldimand Tract: land promised to Six Nations, which includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. This is the traditional home of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee Peoples, whose resilience we honor by offering this Gallery as a space to reflect and learn from one another. We are committed to reconciliation and ensuring that our Gallery’s programs and Permanent Collection demonstrate more diverse, culturally relevant Canadian art and artists.

About Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

As Waterloo Region’s leading public art gallery, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG) connects people and ideas through art. Its nationally acclaimed exhibitions and programs welcome all to be inspired and challenged through a deepened understanding of ourselves, our cultures, and our communities. It offers dynamic public programs that inspire creativity and an appreciation of the visual arts in the Region and beyond. Established in 1956 and incorporated in 1968, KWAG is a non-profit organization open to the public and administered in the public trust. Admission is free.

Accessibility: KWAG is an accessible venue. Visit kwag.ca/accessibility for more information.

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
101 Queen Street North
Kitchener, ON N2H 6P7
www.kwag.ca

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