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Graven Feather / Contemporary Art
Graven Feather had piqued my interest long before I actually made it in to have a look around. A street-level door hinting at the staircase behind it in a plain...
44 Wide Gallery / Photography
44 wide is printing operation first and a gallery space second — but thanks to that skewed power dynamic, this might just be the perfect space for early-career photographers to...
Daniel Faria Gallery / Contemporary Art
Daniel Faria Gallery is a bright contemporary art space in Bloordale Village, found amongst a strip of industrial buildings in warehouse that was an auto body shop in its last...
Goodfellas Gallery / Contemporary Art
Goodfellas Gallery opened in Parkdale last month, featuring mostly large-scale abstract works well-suited for commercial spaces. The owners, however, don't want to get too niche. "We enjoy participating in things...
Cooper Cole / Contemporary Art
Cooper Cole Gallery isn't exactly a complete departure from Show & Tell, the gallery space that Simon Cole opened up over two years ago on Dundas West, but the decision...
VSVSVS Gallery / Contemporary Art
VSVSVS is a gallery in Toronto that doesn't rely on foot traffic or a board of directors to get things done. Instead it's an artist collective in the old school...
Gallery Bespoke / Contemporary Art
Gallery Bespoke exhibits the mundane as the exquisite. Take its gold lambkin and Teflon oven mitts as example. Or laser-cut brass plates on black twill canvas cushion covers, proudly displayed...
Hunter and Cook / Contemporary Art
The Hunter and Cook headquarters unveiled itself to the world on Thursday night. The launch party for the new home of the arts and culture magazine started by Jay Isaac...
Halo Halo Village / New Media
Halo Halo Village is a place I've been meaning to investigate for a couple of months now. Pronounced "Hollow Hollow", the unique space was founded by artists Jeff Garcia and...
Erin Stump Projects / Contemporary Art
Erin Stump Projects is a small art space in the heart of West Queen West, near Dovercourt. Having opened its doors in April 2011, it's definitely a newcomer in an...
Neubacher Shor Contemporary / Contemporary Art
Neubacher Shor Contemporary (NSC) is only officially launching this month, but it's already a hive of activity. When I visited late afternoon the Friday before the official launch party, there...
Galerie Lausberg / Contemporary Art
Lausberg Contemporary comes to Toronto by way of Düsseldorf, but in the five years since they opened their first space on Queen Street near Trinity Bellwoods park, their engagement with...
918 Bathurst / Contemporary Art
918 Bathurst is an eclectic community centre located at--you guessed it--918 Bathurst Street, just a few blocks north of Bloor. Though to some it may be a well-kept secret, the...
Clint Roenisch / Contemporary Art
Clint Roenisch Gallery, nestled in the hub of the West Queen West "Art + Design District," is a small gallery that packs a punch. Having opened its doors in 2003,...
General Hardware Contemporary / Contemporary Art
General Hardware Contemporary really did used to be an old hardware shop, but you'd barely know it from the chic interior. Gallery director Niki Dracos, a 20-year veteran of the...
Meredith Keith Gallery / Contemporary Art
Meredith Keith Gallery is located in a friendly clutch of artistic small businesses at the western reach of Dundas West. Although it's only been open since November 2010, Keith has...
Roadside Attractions / Contemporary Art
Roadside Attractions is a unique window exhibition space, located on a lonely stretch of Davenport Road at Christie Street. Programmed by artists Kate Vasyliw and Roy Kohn, under their collective...
Telephone Booth Gallery / Contemporary Art
Telephone Booth Gallery is an enthusiastic newcomer to the Junction. Representing up-and-coming artists, many of whom work in textile, clay, or other fine-craft media, the gallery fits well with the...
Gallerywest / Contemporary Art
Gallerywest is one of Parkdale's survivors, having risen from the ashes of the closure of gallery DK. Behind the space's resurrection is Saskatchewan native and multimedia artist Evan Tyler. As...
Whippersnapper Gallery / Contemporary Art
Whippersnapper Gallery has moved to a new space, and there's a brand new vision to go along with it. The gallery, now located at the southern tip of Kensington Market...
Lomography Gallery Store / Photography
The Lomography Gallery Store is an interesting proposition - a real world venue for a community of photographers who've shared, shopped and communicated with each other online. As the name...
O'Born Contemporary / Photography
O'Born Contemporary has all the poise and polish of a regular commercial art gallery, yet it's clear they're determined to do things a little differently. Exhibiting only contemporary works by...
Telegramme Prints (Ossington) / Lithographs
Telegramme Prints, with their new, second location on Lower Ossington, is a one-stop shop for all things art, framing, posters and printing. Without a doubt, it's the premier store for...
Loop Gallery / Contemporary Art
loop Gallery is not an artist-run centre, at least in the traditional sense - nor is it a commercial gallery. loop is a collective, and loop Gallery is its exhibition...
PM Gallery / Contemporary Art
p|m Gallery is tucked into a bright stretch of Dundas West, between a Portuguese café and Henhouse (a bar), a few doors down. I stopped by the other day to...
Site 3 coLaboratory / New Media
Site 3 coLaboratory brings back memories of 1984. If you recall, 1984 saw geek culture take a turn for the better when the archetypal 80's film Revenge of the Nerds...
Butcher Gallery / Contemporary Art
Butcher Gallery is a hidden space, off the beaten path, but its new location is just the start of its unconventional nature. The brainchild of artists Brad Tinmouth, Lili Huston-Herterich...
Twist Gallery / Contemporary Art
Twist Gallery is now officially open after finishing up some recent renovations. Taking over the space formerly occupied by SPIN Gallery, just above the Social, new owner, Nadia Kakridonis,...
Angell Gallery / Contemporary Art
Angell Gallery was one of the first to set up shop on the now art-centric West Queen West corridor. But having occupied its 750 sq. ft. space just southwest...
Analogue Gallery / Photography
Analogue Gallery is a newish Queen West gallery that aims to exhume from the annals of music history the unpublished images of noted photographers. For music lovers, the small...
Bau-Xi Photo / Photography
Bau-Xi Photo is a recent addition to the Toronto photography scene. Located just steps away from Bau-Xi Gallery -- which exhibits art in a variety of media -- it's...
Olga Korper Gallery / Contemporary Art
Olga Korper Gallery has a lengthy and fascinating history. Started in the basement of Korper's former apartment on Markham Street, after a few years the then makeshift gallery moved...
Georgia Scherman Projects / Contemporary Art
Located on Tecumseth just south of the Queen West strip, Georgia Scherman Projects is, as the name suggests, a project-based gallery. A circular sentence if I've ever written one,...
107Shaw Gallery / Contemporary Art
107Shaw takes the idea of opening a gallery in one's home to a certain extreme. Unlike those enthusiasts who cobble together makeshift exhibition spaces in small apartments that aren't...
The Department / Contemporary Art
Opened in November 2008, The Department is one of the few galleries I've visited that could accurately be described as a multi-purpose space. Sure, lots of gallery owners assure...
Art Metropole / Event Gallery
Art Metropole is a tough place to pin with a label. As is so often the case, the process of doing so forces one to make an either/or decision...
Studio Gallery
Studio Gallery isn't exactly the most conspicuous space I've ever visited. But, while the second floor location at College and Spadina may not be the easiest for pedestrians to...
XPACE / Contemporary Art
XPACE. XPACE. XPACE. This, my friends, is what is known as search engine optimization. The sooner I mention the name of what I'm profiling, the more...
Baitshop / Contemporary Art
The year is 1990. In between repeated viewings of Gleaming the Cube, my friends and I have managed to construct a quarter pipe ramp to help broaden our skateboarding...
Mercer Union / Contemporary Art
I've been meaning to check out the new location of the Mercer Union for quite some time. Although I live pretty close by, this was just one of those...
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