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
www.1zero7.com

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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This months Chosen Ones are:

Curtis Santiago
Leilanni Land
Black Market // General
Bobby McGee
Pretty Freedom
Chosen (formerly Sunday Girl)
Lulu Again
Shoebox Vintage
Sarah McGivney
Stacked

Studies for possible futures: The Moon and everything else
Maggie Groat

“The compilation of work included in my MFA thesis exhibition Studies for Possible Futures: the Moon and Everything Else derives from my role as amateur cosmographer. The objects and images that I have included in this exhibition are the souvenirs of my cosmological inquiries, accidents, and wonderings. This work has the potential for addition, fluctuation, continuation or revision - gardens that grow, piles that get larger, impossible acts that are performed with incredible hopefulness. This collection is the residue of my research, a study for future actions.”

Maggie Groat is an artist that works primarily in performative gestures that are documented through photographs, objects, text, drawings and oral accounts. The remnants of these gestures resist non-linear methods of presentation, in an attempt to tell a story that, perhaps, has no ending. Maggie Groat received her BFA from York Univeristy in 2007 and is currently a Masters of Fine Arts candidate at the Univeristy of Guelph.

Opening Reception: Thursday August 5, 7pm - 11pm

Running: August 5 - 26, Saturdays & Sundays, 12pm - 6pm or by appointment, info@1zero7.com

The Chosen Ones
July 2010

Featuring Vendors:

Stacked
Tomorrow Never Knows
Philistine
Desire
Bobby McGee Vintage
Andrew Gunn
Sunday Girl
Savannah
Leilanni Land

Photography Credits: Mouna shot exclusively for 107 Shaw Gallery by Kristie Muller. Styled by Kristie and Lauren Burns Coady with clothing selected from “The Chosen Ones”.

While You Were Away
Illustrations by Maryanna Hardy

“While you were away, I stayed awake. I saw all the colors come together to become black. I could whistle up to the spectres, who float down and glide through us. ”

Working with paintbrush, ink and paper, Maryanna 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.

Nighttime carries its own set of emotions that evoke a different type of behaviour. It contains fear and curiosity, a tranquility that is almost violent, and a feeling of excitement for what you can’t see or possibly know.

“While You Were Away” is Maryanna’s first solo show in Toronto.

Linda Chalmers
Chromophobia

Linda Chalmers is an emerging artist who is interested in the visual fusion of the organic and inorganic; the gestural and the digitized. In 2009, she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, with a major in Drawing and Painting. This year, Linda was awarded the Award of Merit from The Ontario Society of Artists and DeSerres, and in 2008, she was the first recipient of the Catherine Daigle Award, a distinction that recognizes excellence in the arts by a female artist.

Chromophobia is Linda’s solo exhibition of paintings that is centred around artist and writer David Batchelor’s theory that Western culture has a fear of colour.

Opening reception Friday June 4, 7pm - 11pm
June 4 - 24, Saturdays & Sundays, 12pm - 6pm or by appointment, info@1zero7.com

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The Chosen Ones
It’s Spring!

Not only is it the beginning of Spring but this months sale also falls on Melissa aka Sunday Girl’s BIRTHDAY WEEKEND! We’ll be sure to have a special celebration planned, so sign up to our mailing list to get the invite. As usual, we have a full list of awesome vendors, who this month include:

Sunday Girl
Philistine Vintage
Tomorrow Never Knows
Erin Edge
Savannah
Andrew Gunn
Vintage Alter
Lacey Surprise
Mike Bennington

Photography Credits: Mara and Axel shot exclusively for 107 Shaw Gallery by Kristie Muller. All clothing selected from “The Chosen Ones”.

We’re so Much Alike, We Must Be Brothers
A solo exhibition by Canadian photographer Meghan Rennie.

Meghan is a Bachelor of Fine Arts recipient from the Massachusetts College of Art. She currently lives and works in Toronto.

More info at our FB page.
See some of Meghan’s work here.

May 6–26, 2010
Opening May 6, 7:00–11:00 pm

Get Well Soon group show
Curated by Thursday Friday.

Featuring new work by:

PA CUTTY
JIMMY LIMIT
KYLE SKULLY
SEAN ORENA
DAVID POTES
PHIL ELVERUM
GORDON BALL
WIZARD GANG
DAVID GEETING
NINA HARTMAN
DALLAS WEHRLE
DANIEL PELISSIER
KEVIN ROMANIUK
T. REILLY HODGSON
ALEXANDER BINDER
KRISTOPHER HELTON

Flyer by Jimmy Limit

April 8th-26th
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 8th,
7pm - 11pm

The Chosen Ones
One Year Anniversary Sale

Come celebrate 1 year of The Chosen Ones as we beckon spring with the raddest vintage. You will find your true love on our racks.

We’re planning something super special, we’ll let you know as soon as the details are worked out!

More info at our FB invite.

Photography Credits: Siena shot exclusively for 107 Shaw Gallery by Kristie Muller. All clothing selected by Siena, featuring pieces from “the Chosen Ones”