01 Magazine Show at 107 Shaw

01 Presented by 01 Magazine in association with 107 Shaw Gallery opens tomorrow night. Be there. This show is so stacked and is sure to rule. Click on the really giant flyer for the facebook details.


Have fun!

Didn't Make It Two

Luke Ramsey just posted his zine Didn't Make It Two to his blog. Rad stuff as usual. Check it out (fullscreen)!

A couple words with Kristopher Keith Helton

Who: Kristopher Keith Helton, two angels he's met so far and other martyrs.


What: Mists and more



When: Doomsday or anytime 'til



Where: Places of slaughter and sacrifice



Why: Because it's so much fun



How: The way of the wilds



Helton's work is really great, you should go check his site out, he's got a lot of work on there.

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"TEMPORARY INFINITY"

HI OKAY
I have a show coming up (ON THURSDAY)
maybe you should come, it's going to be super okay and 'a party' and everything will be really cheap and cool and decent and there will be lots of zines. proud!
FACEBOOK IT!!

(SORRY REILLY!!)

Failure One

Who: FAILURE ONE

where- Texas

how- with love and respect

what- art(all kinds), graphics, photography,graffiti!

when- 10 long years, toyed around forever though.

why- its all I got. Graffiti and photography gave me the confidence to hold my head high.
STILL ALIVE, STAYING UP!!

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Massimiliano Bomba

WHO

Massimiliano Bomba and some kind of self printed stuff under the name of RAWRAW.

WHERE

in a tiny dampy cellar in east of rome full of woods paper and ceramics


HOW

pen
pencil
felt pen
laser jet
pantoone
LCD colors
tons of music
tons of paper and lights


WHAT

basically every kind of strange things from the nature, sliming balls, skate chicanos icons, Arecaceae universe, photos of friends, christmas songs.



WHEN

always in the morning, taking this like a fake job



WHY

why not ☯

SERIOUS STUFF!!!

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Foerster

I just came across this VBS Art Talk interview with Ryan Foerster. He is the man.

AJ Fusco

WHO: My name is AJ Fusco, I'm 26 years old.

WHERE: I live in Columbus, Ohio, where I'm from. I just moved back here after living in Chicago and New York for the past 8 years.



HOW: Manipulating graphite, ink, and digital information.



WHAT: Abstract images that incorporate visual phenomena of the natural world, anatomical and biological structures as points of reference to create a credible illusory space that is nonetheless inexplicit and nebulous. I am interested in the way inaccuracies and malfunctions of our visual sense inform our perception of the world, and in exploiting these weaknesses.

My digital work addresses the same concerns by aestheticizing digital corruption and artifacts in found images, drawing an analogy between glitches in digital files and the imperfection of human consciousness: the way our representation of the world is formed through the lossy compression techniques employed by our sense organs.



WHEN/WHY: I've been drawing and making things since I was a little kid, it's a compulsion.

Mr. Fusco is on top of shit, no doubt.

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Hunter & Cook 5

Hunter and Cook is a quarterly magazine and gallery here in Toronto. I have been reading through everything in this issue for the last few weeks. There's a lot in there.



Saying it's a magazine is sort of an understatement considering how big and nicely printed it is. These are just some of my favorite pages, there is a whole lot more in this thing.


Martin Kann


There's a really great feature about Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg in Detroit.


More Heidelberg


Valerie Blass


History of Art Part Four - The Modern World


I don't listen to Destroyer, but a lot of you would probably care about the really long interview they have in here.


Cool feature about Douglas Huebler


Niall McClelland is always always on point.


Jeremy Jansen


Neil Rough

HunterAndCook.com | They're having an opening this Saturday Feb 13th 2010 7-10pm "Hazy Lightning Being" by Kurtis Interruptus, 15 Ossington Ave.

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A couple words with Erik Osberg

Who: My name is Erik Osberg. I was born in Vancouver in 1983 and was raised in
Victoria, B.C. I received two BFA's, in film production and photography, from Concordia University in Montreal.



What: I mostly take pictures, but my practice also includes making films and videos. The series in question is an ongoing set of images that I have worked on steadily for the last two and a half years.



When: I started taking pictures in 2003 with a 35mm Pentax Spotmatic. Then I
learned of medium format and bought a Kalimar Six/Sixty. Concurrently, I had become interested in motion picture and had bought a Nikon R10 super to shoot rolls of super 8mm. At the time I was going to the University of Victoria and decided that I wanted to be an artist, so I transferred to Concordia and started art school in 2005.



Where: This series contains pictures taken in a few locations in Canada. I carry my camera with me if I travel, but don’t tend to take very many pictures. My partner is Turkish and I have visited there a couple of times and taken pictures in the town that she is from, but at this point consider those images a different set of work. I think this series could handle images taken anywhere and that eventually the Turkish pictures could find inclusion, but without a very particular balance, including signifiers from other cultures may generate a sloppy dualism.



Why: I think photography and writing are very similar, in so far as their various forms and traditions are simultaneously concrete and elastic. There are people who make genre-based work: romance, sci-fi, biography, portrait, landscape, journalism, etc. And there is an audience of people who expect these genres, as well (imagine yourself working in a used bookstore being barked at about the whereabouts of How the Scots Invented the Modern World, or going to your parent’s friends house who have a framed poster of the Avedon picture of the woman and the elephants). But there are also people who have ideas and proceed to work them out using one of the numerous known forms available, or an amalgam of various forms. All this to say that contemporary cultural production may be presented in a relatively unlikely package, which is probably pretty obvious. I have ideas that I want to make public and I work them out most commonly with pictures.



How: Usually I take pictures using a 4x5 camera, since I tend to make large prints. Upon exposing and developing, I scan the film and work digitally thereafter.



Erik doesn't have a website yet, but the internet sucks anyways so don't worry about it.

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Tim Barber at 107 Shaw

Seems like all I'm posting lately is flyers. There's a lot going on, I guess.
Tim Barber has a show at 107 Shaw Gallery in Toronto going up on Feb. 11th. Should be a good one.

Vancouver tomorrow

Antisocial has a new installation by going up tomorrow by Merida Anderson and Lindsey Hampton. Someone send over some pictures and let us know how it goes!



Antisocial also just posted some pictures from their last photo show and opened up an online shop for all of us out of province suckers.

Toronto Feb. 20

This is fairly self explanatory. Come party with us on the 20th at Dimitri's!



More info on the facebook event page.

A couple words with Olga Oblaco

Who: °|-}



What: Nature



When: In proper time.



Where: Between cold sea and pines on its shore.



Why: It is not always about the exact idea. My aim is to show what I really want to show, objects that impress me, the way I feel about smth or any person I meet.



How: Mental pictures. The image comes to my head and I project it to paper.



You can find more of Olga's work on her flickr.

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Two Shawn Kuruneru zines

Shawn Kuruneru is an artist from southern Ontario, Canada. We went to the same high school years ago. Since then, he's made a lot of great work and showed it across Canada and the USA. He sent me these two zines.





The first zine is called Shadowboxing.
I really love Shawn's drawings. These photos don't exactly do the contrast justice. They feel really, really heavy and intimate.




The centerfold is my favorite.





There is more figurative work in the Upside Down Girl zine than in the other one. All really nice pen and ink drawings. One time Shawn got a bottle smashed over his head by some thugs. The suburbs are hard.













Shawn's the best! thanks!

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