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Dear friends and colleagues,

After four years of programming, we are writing to announce that the gallery’s public program will conclude with our current exhibition, Soft Turns: PLANT/PIXEL which runs until April 22nd, 2018.

With the end of our lease, this feels like the right moment to embrace change. Affordable spaces in Toronto are increasingly difficult to maintain, and our gallery has not been shielded from this reality. As a primarily self-funded organization, we strove to exist between a commercial gallery and artist-run centre. We have operated with limited resources for the past four years and the time has come to acknowledge that this is not sustainable in the long term without a significant change to the collective-run model and non-hierarchical board structures to which we are committed to.

We are extremely proud of the programs and legacy that 8eleven has built. We especially want to acknowledge the founding members and all of our previous members that have contributed to this organization and allowed it to grow in the ways that it has. 8eleven has worked hard to give artists a space in which to experiment and take risks and from the outset we sought to be a space that challenged accepted gallery models, extending to our auxiliary programming as well as our gallery exhibitions, through a range of music events, readings, dance parties, and even schvitzes.

First and foremost we are extremely grateful to all the artists who have worked with us. We are also thankful for the support of various funding bodies along the way. Centrally, we are incredibly indebted to the rich community of artists, curators, volunteers, writers, and peers who have supported us as friends and colleagues over the years, we thank you for your dedication, generosity, enthusiasm and camaraderie. Without you, the immense project of 8eleven would not have happened.

A big shout out to our colleague spaces that make up the vibrant Toronto arts landscape. To Bunker 2, Franz Kaka, Little Sister, Towards, Y+ Contemporary, and all other neighbours who continue to program wonderful projects that we are always excited to visit!

We are all on to new endeavours and will surely see many of you in the near future. We look forward to continued opportunities to collaborate. We are available at the gallery’s email ([email protected]) over the next months. Also be sure to visit our website which will continue to be available as an archive of the project (http://8eleven.org/). Our gallery hours during this final week are Thursday - Sunday, 12 - 5pm, or by appointment.

All our love,
8eleven (is forever).

👀something is happening to the walls 👀 Soft Turn's PLANT/PIXEL opens this Wednesday 5-11pm

Come celebrate new work by Soft Turns Wednesday 7 - 11pm ~~~~~~~
https://canadianart.ca/must-sees/march-29-april-4-2018/

thanks Canadian Art :)

Must-Sees This Week: March 29 to April 4, 2018 Works by this year’s winners of the Governor General’s Awards go on view today at the National Gallery. Plus: Beau Dick’s retrospective debuts at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler.

Join us at 12:30 for an artist talk between Adrienne Crossman and Kaley Flowers moderated by Daniella Sanadar.

8-11 updated their business hours.

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✨Come celebrate Adrienne Crossman and Kaley Flowers new works tomorrow from 7-11pm! ✨

Must-Sees This Week: March 8 to 14, 2018 Adrienne Crossman’s neon will be included in the exhibition “‘°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸MeMe PoOl / DrEaM PoOl°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø” at 8eleven Gallery in Toronto, a duo

8eleven has a new website!

Thank you to all of the wonderful artists, collaborators and past members who have made this project possible for the last four years. We are especially grateful to Yuula Benivolski for her council and stellar documentation, and to Daniel Barber for his ongoing support, and impeccable logo and website design. We

8eleven: is 4ever! 8eleven

Congratulations Celia Perrin Sidarous, WINNER OF THE 2017 PIERRE-AYOT AWARD! In Minor Key, Celia's 16mm short film, is on view at the gallery until December 14th as part of the current group show The More I Look at These Images.

Celia Perrin Sidarous Lauréate du Prix Pierre-Ayot | Celia Perrin Sidarous Recipient of the Prix Pierre-Ayot

👀👀👀👀 Exhibition is up until Dec 14!

- Akimblog - The More I Look At These Images at 8-11 Gallery Canada's online source for visual art information, news and listings

A throwback to our old cavernous basement and the beautiful work of Azza El Siddique !!

"In her recent exhibition “Lattice Be Transparent,” Azza El Siddique tapped into the nostalgic properties of scent. In the basement of 8eleven, the artist used henna and burning pots of Bakhoor to point toward memories of her past, traits of her family and details of her diasporic experience as a Sudanese Canadian."

Read more on Canadian Art's website: http://canadianart.ca/features/a-national-survey-of-10-artists-whose-works-reinvent-history/

Sneak peak of tonight's exhibition! New works by Jennifer Murphy 👁🌿👏

Our upcoming exhibition is in the Must-Sees! Join us tomorrow to celebrate the work of Christina Battle, Jennifer Murphy, Zinnia Naqvi and Celia Perrin Sidarous

Must-Sees This Week: November 23 to 29, 2017 Turbulence (a dance about the economy) is an experimental hybrid of contemporary dance, improvised happening and political theatre happening in Toronto.

Last week to catch Jerome Havre's "Viene Cosi naturale out last vie immuable"

8-11 updated their information in their About section.

The gallery will be open by appointment only this weekend, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you!

💫Patrick Cruz & Julian Hou 💫

Vancouver Art Report: From One Body to Another References to bodies—human and otherwise—link a number of recent Vancouver exhibitions. Together, they offer passage to different realms.

💖👓 Maya Ben David👓 💖

The internet calls women fans 'fake nerds' — these unlikely superheroes are fighting back From 'Snake Girl' to a self-destructive air conditioner, Toronto-based artist Maya Ben David has created an empowering comic universe.

The gallery will be closed for the remainder of the day. We'll be open for regular gallery hours next week from Wednesday to Saturday, 12-5pm. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

Thanks to all who came out for the Canadian Art tour today! Special ❤️ to Alex Bowron for her insightful thoughts on Colin Miner's practice.

Come by today from 4-5pm for a guided tour of Colin Miner's Two Toed Lassitude with writer and critic Alex Bowron, part of Canadian Art's Gallery Day! Many other great stops along the way, see their full listing below.

Gallery Day Toronto - Canadian Art Join Canadian Art editors and contributors on Saturday, September 23, for a free day of talks in galleries all over Toronto.

Check out Alex Bowron's latest review in esse arts + opinions on Jacob Robert Whibley's exhibition dot-dot-dot!

8eleven Gallery, Toronto, dot-dot-dot, Jacob Robert Whibley

Day Tours into the Wild
Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko

“High levels of manganese, minerals, heat and pressure have produced metamorphic rocks in the Hualien-Taitung region of Taiwan. In what has been termed “stone slice art” enthusiasts of these rock formations choose their own masterpiece from nature according to their perception and experience of beauty. They will frame it, and share its beauty with others.”(I)

“In 1949, president Chiang Kai-shek fled the People’s Republic of China to the Island of Taiwan where he established a government in exile which he led for 25 years. To celebrate his government, he was sent a small replica of the bronze Capitoline Wolf as the symbol of Rome, by the Italian senator at the time. The statue is now housed in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei.” (II)

Stones are called to represent landscape paintings; urban symbols trot the globe as sculptures perpetuating myths. Meanwhile, Google Translate instantly reads all of this as sentences. Day Tours into the Wild explores the gaps in translation between images, languages, and realities. One by one three can be a bleeding people. A convex. A second leg. Used to one by one. Heart of a work. Copies of a large heart. Heart of a mountain.

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To be a thing at all – a rock, a lizard, a human – is to be in a twist.
Tongue twisters inclined towards nonsense.
Logic includes nonsense as long as it can tell the truth.
The logic of nonsense.
The needle skipped the groove of the present.
Into this dark forest you have already turned.
I take the present to mean for the last twelve thousand years. (III)

I. Exhibition Catalogue Exquisite Stones of Formosa, National Taiwan Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2017

II. Information Panel, The Gallery of President Chiang Kai-shek’s Office, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan

III. Dark Ecology for a Logic of Future Coexistence, Timothy Morton, Columbia University Press, New York, 2016