“Our Forgotten Ancestors”: Install View

Here are some shots that show what Cody Cochrane  has done with the gallery for “Our Forgotten Ancestors”.

If you haven’t had a chance, be sure to come by before the show closes.
Read the rest »

Cody Cochrane Opening

Here are some shots from the opening we did for Cody’s show, “Our Forgotten Ancestors”. Special thanks to Meghan Rennie for taking such great shots.

Read the rest »

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

Cody Cochrane Mural Now Up

Cody spent 5 days painting the gallery mural at 12 hours days in 32 degree heat with one 2 hour thunder rainstorm. Check these time lapse photos of process and come see it in person tomorrow at 107Shaw from 6pm to 11pm. There will be an after party at Odd Fellows with Chris Swims and Jon S from Teen Anger supplying the party jams. This night is bound to be one righteous summer throw down.
Read the rest »

Our Forgotten Ancestors
Cody Cochrane solo exhibition

107 Shaw is proud to present Our Forgotten Ancestors, a solo exhibition of new work
by Toronto based artist Cody Cochrane. Drawing inspiration from the aesthetic and traditions
of Native and First Nations culture, this first solo show in 2009 for Cody marks a year of
exploring new Mediums, as well as new motivations within the context of painting and illustration.

With the application of large and small-scale installation, sculpture and painting, this show
Strives to take things outside of the typical gallery format to create an environment that
Invites the viewer in, and elevates them from the role of a passive onlooker.

See more of Cody’s work here.

Take Your Clothes Off — Group Vintage Sale

Take Your Clothes Off and 107 Shaw are getting ready again for the best smelling, stink free sale ever!

Come by this weekend (Aug 15th and 16th) and check out all the awesomess we have in store for you!

Vintage = Righteous 

Portals
New Works By Eva Michon

Portals is a photographic series documenting puddles of water collected after a rainstorm. The water reflects images of the sky but often gives the impression of showing passage to another world. Eva Michon is interested in pursuing this suggestion in a playful way, but believes that one of these portals will reveal itself to be an actual doorway into another dimension.

Michon is interested in the supernatural power of everyday objects and situations. The documentation of commonalities in a series creates an evocation of other-worldliness in the objects.

Eva Michon is a South African-born, Polish artist based in Toronto. She graduated film school in 2008 and is also the co-founder and editor of Bad Day magazine, a quarterly arts journal.

See more of Eva’s work here.

So Depressed, Not Impressed: Install View

Jeremy came into the gallery and shot some awesome install pics of the show he did with Fran right before we took it down.

See more pics on Jeremy’s site here.

In addition to all the great photography and artwork at the opening, Jeremy had a zine he recent released called “Skuzzbucket” available.

“They Shoot Videos, Don’t They”
Vol 1. Event Photographs

‘They Shoot Music Videos, Don’t They’ is our bi-monthly music video screening series, curated by Scott Cudmore. Videos are presented on both a giant video screen as well as monitors within the gallery. Directors in this series included:

Bienvenido Cruz, Scott Cudmore, Patrick Daughters, Jesi The Elder, Jesse Ewles, Christopher Mills, Graydon Sheppard, Sean Starke, Martin De Thurah and Sean Wainsteim.

Here are some pictures taken from the event.

Read the rest »