MANIFESTO

Sebastian Butt
Cody Cochrane
Michael Drebert
Maggie Groat
Jesse Harris
Katie Heindl
Hanna Hur
Jeremy Jansen
Dawn Johnston
Laurie Kang
Jimmy Limit
Kevin Rodgers
Daniel Rocca
Brad Tinmouth
Aislinn Thomas

January 20 - February 20 1011
Opening Night, Thursday January 20, 7 - 11 pm

Maryanna Hardy - “So I’ve Been Told” Book Launch
107 Shaw Gallery
Opening reception: 16 December, 7pm - 11pm
Presentation at 8:30pm, followed by a live performance by Nordic Nomadic

We put so much energy into documenting our friends, we take pictures of them, we follow what they do, and their stories are more interesting than any banal afternoon television show. People are more interesting than they give themselves credit for. In So I’ve Been Told Hardy narrates their stories, drawing their asides, their inside jokes, cautionary tales, secrets, lies, and recipes. Through ink drawings, screen-printing, paintings, and embroidery she creates imagery from her imagination and immediate surroundings. Her practice is influenced by nature books, children’s stories, her friends, ornamental art, prairie churches, Quaker Art, Pennsylvania Dutch Hex signs, and the art of the order of Ursuline Nuns of Quebec. At one point Hardy takes a visual inventory of the events taking place on any given night. She uses her own personal mythos of nighttime as her guidelines; the park you should not walk through alone and the northern lights you should never whistle at… and what happens when you do.

This book collects a number of her recent book projects, including Jerry Springer Characters, So I’ve Been Told, At Night, and The Very Very Very Very Last Day. Mythical lake creatures, games, bullies, house fires and drownings all become part of her always evolving personal folklore.

Temple Bates - Ginger Beards
107 Shaw Gallery
Opening reception: 2 December, 7pm - 11pm
Running: 2 December - 16 December

“Ginger Beards” is the latest installment of furry oddities and bearded folk brought to you by local artist Temple Bates. Through a process of repeated sketching, Bates records subconscious ideas from memory and recreates them as organically and accurately as possible using oil on canvas/board. She draws the most profound inspiration from curiosities in nature, animals and astral experiences. Since graduating from Mount Allison in 1996 with a BFA, her work has been primarily narrative and/or figurative with a focus on fantastical dream imagery and animal/human hybrids.

Home made ginger beard cookies will be served at the opening reception.

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BIG NEWS FROM THE CHOSEN ONES!!

This month, as well as having our regular Toronto sale, we will be launching The Chosen Ones in VANCOUVER!

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The Chosen Ones Toronto:

Chosen
Stacked
LAB Consignment
Pretty Freedom
Andrew Gunn
Tomorrow Never Knows
Bobby McGhee
Leilanni Land
Lacey Surprise

Pre-sale Party
Friday, 12 November
6pm - 9pm
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Sale Hours
Saturday 13 November & Sunday 14 November

11am - 6pm EST

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Photography credits: Paige shot exclusively for 107 Shaw Gallery by Francisco Garcia (http://www.franciscogarcia.ca/). All clothing selected from “The Chosen Ones” and styled by Savannah Allmin.

Join Invisible Publishing on the second and greatest leg of the Fall book tour 2010.

‘Rememberer’ is an artful day planner littered with micro-fiction on the themes of dis-organization and befuddlement. Designed by YORODEO, Halifax poster magnates, and edited by Jenner-Brooke Berger, host of Halifax’s Allan Street Reading Series. This unique book is a compilation of stories that are honest, weird, important, and beautiful, from ten emerging writers in five different cities. Complete with task sheets, dream journal, friend diagram, and everything the creative/dis-organized person needs to map their thoughts and days.

With readings from:
Jenner-Brooke Berger (Halifax)
Katie Heindl (Toronto)
Teri Vlassopoulos (Montreal)

Readings to begin at 8:00 pm

Drinks and all the best in rap pleasures, guilty pleasures and regular pleasures DJed by Patrick McGuire to follow.

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Scott Cudmore - A Film for Ollie Gilbert
107 Shaw Gallery
10 November, 7pm - 11pm

“A Film for Ollie Gilbert is a scene from a movie that does not exist. It floats somewhere between a fragment and a whole. Despite the absence of a beginning or an ending, Scott Cudmore constructs a narrative that touches upon themes of horror, anxiety, and alienation, ultimately creating a dreamlike landscape of dread. This showing will combine the presentation of the film alongside a sound collage that is created for the gallery itself that brings the aural landscape of the film into the physical space of the gallery.”

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I’M NOT FORGET
Jimmy Limit

October 29th - November 9th

How do you use your own set of skills to remember stuff or make things you don’t know how to with the things you do know how to and make Estonian weaving with photoshopping photographs because I know how to photocopy but I don’t know how to weave I am disconnected from my heritage and grandparents and back patio frame it and air seal it in the frame forever and I buy beautiful flowers that are dead already and I take that photo to remember them but photo not always accurate in colour and scale and lighting and wall make list

107 Shaw is proud to present Norman Wong “Facialism”.

14-21 October 2010
Opening Reception - 14 October 2010
7pm - 11pm

107 Shaw Gallery
107 Shaw Street, Toronto
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FACIALISM

No two faces, no two images, no two models are the same. Even when they’re mass-produced they aren’t ever repeated. But repetition is the perfect form of imperfection. Repetition is a distortion. Repetition is erotic. When the exploitative function of the image is itself what is being exploited, then the aesthetics of perversion are turned back on the voyeur. It asks the question: what are you really watching?

Norman Wong brings the perspective as an industry fashion photographer to shed the light of 1970s closed circuit television monitors onto the subject of his craft. In so doing, Wong’s “facialism” allows his professional enthusiasm and critical analysis to combine, with at least some authority, to provide the answer: we are all perverts.

Norman has spent most of whatever time he has had away from industry photography since graduating from the University of Toronto in 2008 photographing the emerging icons of the Canadian independent music scene, because he feels it is important to glamorize them.

Design by Colin Bergh

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