#toutoune gallery

[toutounegallery]

Front Cover, 3 spreads, Back Cover

This zine is 4 x 5 and 16 pages. There are 4 other spreads not shown here.

[petitescartes]

Chain Man & Lost Lady, Mullinville, Kansas

[etteette]

I'm currently showing a large collection of papier mache works along with several paintings on wood panel, whittled figurines, ceramic sculptures and jewelry at Toutoune Gallery in Toronto.

Pictured above is Hanging Hoop Tree (double sided)

Materials are : recycled cardboard, hot glue, papier mache, acrylic + gouache paints, fishing line, hoolah hoop, plastic findings, plastic chain, matte finish

[bubybubb]

A papier-mache piece constructed in fall of 2024, with its inspired counterpart, an ai image 'created' in fall of 2022.

Papier mache works currently on view at Toutoune Gallery, 998 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON, for the duration of January (2025).

[mewnette]

vintage furry brooches (197?)

[mewnette]

Brought a bunch of these pins from my personal collection to my store: Toutoune Gallery, 998 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON.

Maybe some of you have already bought and taken home a few of these?

[mogumu]

toutoune gallery in toronto has some of my things stocked! 🌷🌷🌷

[yogurtsnet]

we’ve got some things stocked at toutoune gallery in toronto!! 🏙️🍁💕

[patrickkyle]

Happy publication date to my new one from @breakdownpress, BABY. Visit your local comic retailer and demand BABY! BABY! BABY!!! TORONTO: This Friday April 28th at @toutoune.gallery - Join @joebaskervillekessler and I for a duo book launch and exhibition of art at Toutoune Gallery (@toutoune.gallery 998 Bathurst) starting at 7:30 pm. Art will be up through the weekend. Joe will be launching his fantastic new book from @nyrcomics The Gull Yettin. Sunday, April 28th - Snag a copy of BABY from The Beguiling's 2nd floor booth at @torontocomics between 1:30 and 2:30 and I'll be there to sign it. so THIS is what it's like being born!!!

[pithmemos]

march excerpts

"Or I could mention Merchard softly turning her pages." Eileen Myles, Bread and Water, page 107 in this edition or in the story Bread and Water

"I didn't do anything. You could have gone to any memory. Why are you letting yourself be defined by the bad?" the last few pages of a zine from Marisa Fulper Estrada from toutoune gallery

In attempts to offset losses of the weekend (rest, work, ASL class, a screening booked, Rachel's birthday party, 340 at the vet) I sleep late Sunday, get a chai (marginally better hot than cold from the terrible cafe I won't name) and a basque cheesecake slice (always soggy, but better than not having cheesecake), read an interview Jess has out in the world, knit more with stormy violets, see Daisies at the lightbox, finish Bread and Water on the train home. A woman came in right before the movie started and sat to my left, asked if that was a real book I was reading in such a precious format, told me she loves Eileen Myles, and asked which location I worked at and where she could get the book. I almost gave her my copy, but I'm precious about it, too, and also I felt bad there's a scuff on the front of it. And I know I have a copy hidden in my stock for online so there is one for her if she looks for it with us. Now I'm home and watching Nina breathe.

I have a doppelganger in my new neighbourhood, but I haven't seen them yet (and likely wouldn't realize). The woman who owns the pet store I get hay from always mistakes me at first for someone else, who she's told me about now. At the terrible cafe I won't name, the owner who I rarely see says "oat latte, right," when I go to order, which is not my order, and she seems confused when I ask for something else. She always asks me how I'm doing on my day off, like I'm supposed to have a different job where I often work weekends--which I used to, but she wouldn't know that, and so I think she sees this double when she looks at me, too. Note to self to return to the double and the uncanny--I've been a bit obsessed since I read that article to help my sister's friend Kayley on an assignment a few years ago, and have a book including those chapters, somewhere. Now it makes me think of Lovecraft's Henry Akeley, that shiny metal jar on the shelf, the mostly empty chair.

[toutounegallery]

Updated the website to include information and photographs of the new show : Buby Collection

[petitescartes]

Frosty Top, Long Jon and Trouble Maker from Little House on the Prairie Base, Hutchinson, Kansas

[etteette]

I just finished painting this new display card yesterday for Aaron Rossner's special figurine project which is now only available at my lil shop Toutoune Gallery on 998 Bathurst St. in Toronto, ON. *Blessed*

Aaron Rossner (also known as @wingnut_toys on instagram) is an avid toy collector, an amazing artist and tinkerer who lives in Victoria, BC. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting him in person yet, but I've been a fan from afar for many years.

Check out his instagram feed and visit Toutoune Gallery too to view some photographs of the figurines from this project. They are so fabulous! Every single one is so precious. Aaron is a master at recyling funny bits of wood, which you will surely notice if you view any of the figurines this painting is based off of.

Will share more about this project in the following posts. : o )

The image above was painted with acrylic-gouaches on watercolour paper. (A mix of Holbein Acryla Gouache, Turner Design Gouache and Turner Acryl-Gouache)

Prints of this image will be available as 5x7 postcards very soon and will be purchasable at the store and in my webshop as soon as I get them back from the printers.

[bubybubb]

(big dog head with dog eyes), 2024

Materials : recycled corrugated cardboard, hot glue, papier mache (flour, glue, water, newspaper, paper towels), acrylic + gouache, found plastic pear, gloss finish with metal hardware on rear.

On view at Toutoune Gallery in Toronto until end of January.

Below the photograph is an image created between myself x AI in 2022 that inspired the above piece. My views and concerns have changed a lot since my experiments in 2022. Even then I had some worries, but I was also incredibly curious and was given the access to play around for multiple months with free credits that replenished daily. (I thankfully didn't spend a dime)

I came out of it with a breadth of imagery that has continued to inspire me, not unlike how I am inspired by found imagery on the web, bootlegs and other odd and lost ephemera, toy design, novelties, mass produced objects like stickers etc.

I spent most of my credits on mixtures of words, textures, colours and shapes to create a world of miniatures. Eventually the machine was trying to make too much sense of my requests and the playful and creative aspects melted away for me. I am still curious about the image making uses of this type of tool but in the hand of corporations, no different in goal than the corporate art of popular mass culture films, music and gaming etc, everything is on a continuous soulless trajectory. Haha, sigh. There is a lot of art that I already ignore.. understand it's all incredibly subjective, but most art sucks (to me).

I enjoyed my results but I don't enjoy the context in which this all 'exists'.

I have remade these digital curiosities anew. From the unreal-state of this nightmarish tech, material works were eventually born from my hands. It did not feel dissimilar to me than how I used to enjoy utilizing photoshop to clash together found imagery. Being playful with things found online that didn't necessarily belong to me, but felt as though they belong to us all.

The art of appropriation through some extra 'filters' that can leave you blind. I wish one could access a reversal mechanism with AI, to see all the pieces of the puzzle that was used to construct a resulting image. Clearly a lot of what is concocted through AI are deliberate plagiarisms: can you imagine requesting 'work' in the voice or style of a specific artist and believing that what the machine has created is 'unique'? (Ahem: Paul Schrader lol)

Sorry to blab but I will have continued rambled thoughts about AI technology as we keep seeing all of this develop esp in mass culture. My feelings in terms of AI in the art world is that it probably will eventually be seen as a fad that has eaten itself. (Perhaps it already has. AI CEOs are already admitting that their algorithms have already scraped all there is to scrape.)

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[mewnette]

wild i first posted this on tumblr back in 2012...

i don't remember where i found this image but i was excited to see someone take a photo of their tiny cat sitting on this chair because i used to have this chair when i was but a tiny little girl myself and i loved it very much. i wish i could find another one, i would buy it for my cats to sleep on.

i recently printed a holographic sticker with this image. i don't have an operating webshop at the moment but i sell the sticker at my brick and mortar shop called Toutoune Gallery in Toronto at 998 Bathurst St. : o )

[mogumu]

i’ve got two pieces up for the group drawing show at toutoune gallery in toronto 🐹💛