The Chosen Ones—February

February is going to be a full on love fest here at 107 Shaw as we prepare for the first Chosen Ones of 2010!

It may be chilly outside, but we’re steaming it up in here with hot little numbers for your Valentine’s celebration. Whether it be a heavy night out (or in) with who (or what) ever you love (enter: lover, pals - with or without benefits, ice cream, rom coms, drinking sorrows like a free flowing import beer or whatever your favorite thing to do on this Hallmark holiday may be, etc) we’ve got what you need from this month’s hand-picked vendors, The Chosen Ones:

Sunday Girl
LAB
Leilanniland
Philistine Mens
Tomorrow Never Knows
Lacey Surprise
Vanessa Fischer
Erin Edge
I Heart Cake Lingerie
&
Savannah

Special video presentation by Adrienne Reid.

Exes and ohs!

The Chosen Ones: Holiday Edition

We’re getting ready for the final Chosen Ones (formally Take Your Clothes Off) of 2009!! We had such a successful year and we want to thank all of you for your continued support!

This month will be just as good as the rest so come out and find your holiday dresses and winter wear. There will be a men’s rack too!

This months vendor’s include:
-LAB Consignment
-Penny Arcade
-Sunday Girl
-Philistine Vintage
-Erin Edge
-I Heart Cake
-Leilanniland
-Tommorow Never Knows
-LBC and Baller

Hope to see you all before you head home for the holidays!!

They Shoot Videos, Vol 3

This is latest edition of our bi-monthly screening series, showcasing music videos, film and related art projects. Often premiering new works from prominent filmmakers, the event is curated by director Scott Cudmore. Focusing on the directors, the works will be presented on a giant screen as well as monitors within the gallery with headphones. Rather than with a formal screening, viewers are free to explore the work on their own terms, much like you would with other work presented in a gallery setting. The point is to present music videos and their counterparts as an artistic product and a unique medium of filmmaking.

See photos from They Shoot Videos…Vol 1

Read the piece that Eye Weekly did on our event

The Chosen Ones: A Vintage Sale

The Chosen Ones (formerly Take Your Clothes Off) is a once a month clothing sale hosted by 107 Shaw Gallery featuring rotating local vendors such as Philistine, Sunday Girl, Penny Arcade, Jillian K, Huxley General, Here Designs, Alynne Lavigne, Erin Anderson, Never Knows, Vanessa Fischer, LBC and Kristie Muller, I Heart Cake, Leilanni Land and more. This month, we’re popping up on November 21/22 from 11am to 7pm, both days. Thanks to all the repeat customers and a big welcome to the new. We strive to be your guaranteed source for the best hand picked vintage scores that the finest vendors have to offer. Come stock up on awesome Winter clothes to get you through the layering season.

The Chosen Ones - hand picked vintage by hand picked vendors for women and men.

Cave Mind
Book Launch and Print Exhibition

Printed drawings from the invisible depths…

Featuring:

Steph Davidson
Michael Deforge
Tomas Del Balso
Jesjit Gill
Reid Jenkins
Alex Mackenzie
Alicia Nauta
Fiona Smyth
Seripop
Ryan Duggan (US)
Noel Freibert (US)
Keith Herzik (US)
Chris Kline (US)
Tetsunori Tawaraya (Japan)
Brent Wadden (Germany)
Yannick Val Gesto (Belgium)

INNERFEAR
Work by Les Ramsay

To communicate is to struggle: to stutter, to stumble, to try – to cry and cry out, to shout – to whisper, to hint and ask then demand – to apologize, or compromise, to work. To communicate is to work. But, what kind of work?

For INNERFEAR, Vancouver artist Les Ramsay supplies a kind of answer as new, old, and new-old work.

Small in scale, the simple compositions of primary colours and elementary forms might be the present pasts of future works; as the apparently winning plans for effective illusions and affective monuments, they win you over – they work. How do they work?

Through an involved process of material exploration, historical appropriation, and self-reflexive evaluation, the works on display are gestures of confidence.

But, in confidence? In confidence they are whispered debates on uncertainty, impermanence, and the communication of work.

Les Ramsay is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. His diverse studio practice incorporates painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, photography, and printmaking. He received a BFA in visual arts from the Emily Carr University, and also studied at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. His work has been exhibited in Canada, Spain, and the United States; this is his first exhibition in Toronto.

Text by Francesca Bennett

Robert Dayton and Jean-Paul Langlois
Studio Visits

Both Langlois and Dayton are planning to have their work naturally interact with each other. Sit and immerse. Depictions of artists naked with no work adorn the walls as one sits on actual work. One Dayton’s text-based work directly comments on one of Jean-Paul’s sofas and the show as a whole.

Then using their DJ personae it’s a Studio Party!  Langlois is DJ P.L.A.N. and Dayton is D.J. Body Beautiful who will rock the studio into the wee hours for the show’s one night opening which perfectly coincides with Nuite Blanche - October 3rd. When you’re too popped to move, sit on or at the art.

Show & Tell Gallery x 107  Shaw Gallery

Show & Tell Gallery is set to open a Pop Up Print Shop the first week of October at 107 Shaw Gallery in Toronto. The show will feature affordable screen and lino cut prints from some of North America’s most cutting edge contemporary and street artists including Other, Labrona, Vladimir Kato, Rcade, Cody Hoyt, Alena Skarina, Jamiyla Lowe, Jon Todd, and Nick Fox.

The Pop Up Shop opens on Thursday, October 1
(7 - 11pm) at 107 Shaw and will be running till Oct 22nd.

More details can be found on the Facebook event page here.

The Video Word Made Flesh
A group show inspired by the films of
David Cronenberg

Bio-ports, bugs, exploding heads, deviant sex, mutant gynecological tools, and James Woods growing a vagina on his stomach. Given the endless amount of shocking and memorable imagery that David Cronenberg has captured on film, is there any Canadian artist more deserving of a tribute show? To coincide with the 34th Toronto International Film Festival, 107 Shaw Gallery presents The Video Word Made Flesh: A Tribute to David Cronenberg. Join us as we introduce Toronto to a number of emerging Canadian artists who have produced a series of affordable drawings, prints and paintings inspired by the work of Canada’s best filmmaker. This fusion of different media inspired by film is sure to be a retina scarring experience.

Artist whose works will appear in the show include:

Jason Ainsworth, Tomas Del Baso, Dennis Chow, The Dark, Jesjit Gill, Justin Gradin, Jeremy R. Jansen, Robert Mearns, Mr. Brown, Joshua Reichmann, Meghan Rennie, Ehren Salazar, Seripop, Tyler Quarles and a video by Middleschool w/ score by Parallels

The show has been co-curated by Mikey Apples (Toronto) and Michael Mann (Vancouver).

They Shoot Videos Videos Don’t They?, Vol 2

This is latest edition of our  bi-monthly music video screening series. The event is curated by Scott Cudmore. Focusing on the directors, the works will be presented on a giant screen as well as monitors within the gallery with headphones. Rather than with a formal screening, viewers are free to explore the work on their own terms, much like you would with other work presented in a gallery setting. The point is to present music videos as an artistic product and a unique medium of filmmaking.

Volume 2 in the series will be held on Sept 25th and will include recent work by:

Exploding Motor Car, The General Assembly, Tobias Stretch, Jérémie Saindon, Patrick Watson, Matt Daniels, Marc Ricciardelli, Micah Meisner and Salazar Motion Picture Collective

See photos from “They Shoot Videos…Vol 1″

Read the piece that Eye Weekly did on our event