Hello hi!
We are having another day into night gathering here at the small gerald :-) Come early, stay late ‘cause we are going from 2pm - 2am!
The last ‘Sunday w/ Jerry’ was a TIME!! w/ @bohemianrafsody@janinamariejaninamarie@therealeddiec@d_strasse + @douglas_carter_to on record duty, a host of record dealers selling 🔥+ @karimgotinsta slinging delish morsels from the kitchen.
It was a true community partee + we can’t wait to do it again- this time with a food pop-up from @tondoutoronto , Japanese Sashiko workshop w/ @abcshiii + framing exhibitor @99.frames .
The inimitable @torontohustle (WOLF / FreeRange / Selections) headlines the party w/ @_masayuki_tomita_ on the early set- fresh off his brilliant release 物質依存 + resident @___j_o_d_i_e___ on support.
And GUESS WHAT??? It’s Happy Hour all day/nite long!
See you Sunday! 🍻🎉❤️
Event admin/conception/oversight by @takashi.alchemists
Cinematography by @seanlacdan
Another 🔴 sold piece from the @artistprojectto .
I kept thinking about the legend of the Minotaur. Not simply as a monster trapped in a labyrinth, but as a body carrying shame, exile, instinct, and desire all at once. A creature hidden away because it did not fit the structure built around it.
The labyrinth becomes psychological. A space of repression, identity, and inherited fear. We enter it thinking we are searching for the beast, but often we are confronting the parts of ourselves we were taught to conceal.
In my work, the Minotaur is not only violence or masculinity. It becomes tenderness distorted by isolation. A body too emotional, too instinctive, too excessive for the systems surrounding it. The figures embrace, collapse, merge into one another as if searching for a way out through intimacy rather than conquest.
“Enter knowing what you carry” speaks to that moment before entering your own internal maze. The awareness that we do not walk in empty handed. We bring memory, shame, desire, softness, rage, history. The painting asks whether the thing waiting in the center is truly a monster, or simply a neglected part of ourselves waiting to be seen.
@99.frames always pick the right frames. Love working with Lisa since day one.
#art #canadianart #canadian #artist #figurative
I also wanted to share the flyer I designed for Through a Tinted Frame, a photography exhibition featuring a group of talented artists.
Had a great time shaping the visual direction for this piece and really enjoy bringing ideas to life through design.
Also sharing a few ideation-stage versions as alternative directions.
#graphicdesign #flyerdesign #typography
“Through a Tinted Frame”: a group exhibition by Ladi Adekioya (@ladiadekioya ), Kian Gannon (@kiangannonn ), Mina Wang Zhou (@minawangzhou ), and Abdulganiyu Yusufu (@totte_moii35mm ). Part of CONTACT Photography Festival (@contactphoto ), this exhibition runs May 1-31 at 99 Frames (@99.frames ).
“Through a Tinted Frame” brings together stills exploring the emotions evoked by colour and light in photography. Colour holds the magic ability to paint layered depth to an image’s narrative, adding a weight that lingers beyond the visible subject.
In these works, the artists invite you to see how hues shape memory, tension, warmth, and distance. Each image considers colour not as decoration, but as atmosphere and insight.
How do the tints in a frame reveal the relationship depicted between its subjects, and between the photographer and their subject? How does colour guide perception and deepen the emotional register of a moment? We invite you to contemplate these questions as you form your own relationships between your body and emotions in interaction with this exhibition’s works.
Please join us for the opening reception: May 7th, 2026 7-9PM 99 Frames (527 Parliament St) Opening reception sounds by: Starseed (@starsvvd ) B2B Ogaga (@ejiro__og ) Ladi B2B Moii-Chan
We can’t wait to see you there!
Poster by @4ndreastudio
Within a Surface is now open in Gallery 44’s Members’ Gallery! 🌟
I have so many thank yous to give!
Thank you to The Gallery 44 staff for platforming this project and giving me the wonderful opportunity of Member in Residence!
Thank you to Heather Fulton @hfulton for supporting me in so many ways throughout this entire process. As well as Jackson for their amazing admin work.
Thank you to Sameen Mahboubi, Jordan King, Jeff Nye, and Peyton Keeler-cox for their helpful feedback and being a second set of eyes !
@99.frames for their expertise and hard work!
@samandesign Murat at Saman Design for the most perfect vinyls
My nana Elaine Steels who generously offered me our family archive to work with. As well as my parents for always keeping a huge pile of albums for me to pour through.
All of the amazing friends, family and peers who made it out to opening night or sent kind messages - your presence brought so much joy that I’ll be tapping into for years to come! And another shout out to all the amazing friends who gave me pep talks throughout this process.
And of course my amazing Fiancé Gillian who has listened to me endlessly yap about ideas, looked over countless drafts of writing, gave me infinite encouragement and helped me install the entire show ❤️
It truly takes a village to make any project come to life and I’m very grateful for my village ❤️
Check out Within a Surface, on until May 23! 🌟
There’s been a new branch in the journey for me as I move more intently into larger scale, one-off works.
This exploration is an evolution that gives me the space to create further in abstraction with more options for material, approach and hand finishing. Extending concepts into any direction that feels right.
Signifcant conversations with notable creatives who I consider mentors helped me see my approach from the outside and to reconsider scale and elements of the hand.
@tessarlo thank you for a long time friendship, late night dialogs, inspiration and leadership. @vivien.paul for your creativity, strategy and support. Hamid @commute thank you for your depth of conversation and experience.
This current post contains the process and work towards a group exhibition @theroyalhotelpicton with @countyarts PEC. 16 local and international artists will be showing on April 17, 18 and 19th. If you’re able to make the journey, it’ll be worth it.
To everyone else who’s been a witness and enabler of this adventure. Thank you. Life is wild.
This weekend’s mother putter highlight was the Women’s Day group show put on by @tacitcollective
The colours and energy along with this sunshine breathe life into this new week ✨
Also shout out to @99.frames who are my go-to for my own artwork 🤍
We’re up ✨ A little virtual walk-through of The Poetry of the Ordinary - Curio Atelier’s inaugural exhibition, blending contemporary works by Curio artists with vintage pieces from Curio Party Gallery.
If you’re drawn to art that feels lived-in, narrative, and full of quiet symbolism, take a closer look! The full show (with works + details) is now live on our website.
March 1–15, 2026 · 99 Frames, Toronto
🔗 Tap the link in bio to explore the exhibition.
