Humber Galleries is launching a fresh new vision with our fall show. We are declaring our earnest affection for creative people who help us see to the world and ourselves differently.

Into You is a group exhibition presented across our two locations, Fall in Deep at North Space and On the Edge at L Space. Crushes can be confusing, exciting, and all-consuming—like being on the edge of a great void and surrendering to an intense feeling. The desire to be accepted by someone else can amplify self-conscious feelings of difference. And yet, as revolutionary poet Sonia Sanchez has written, ‘you can’t have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.’ Into You highlights artmaking as a meditative act of self-discovery. Like any great infatuation, the deeper one goes, the more there is to discover.

Featuring works by Omar Badrin, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Allyson Mitchell, Jagdeep Raina, and Xiaojing Yan, Into You dives deep into the compulsion to create variations of forms that are strangely attractive. They beg to be noticed. Through pastel drawings, crochet, sculpted paper, found textiles, video, and digital drawings on an iPhone, each artist tells a story about themselves, their communities, and how others see them. On the Edge at L Space explores visibility and invisibility at the margins. Who or what goes unnoticed, blends in, and stands out? Fall in Deep at the North Space houses cocoons and second skins. These are protective spaces for transformation, becoming, and turning inward in total surrender. Together, the exhibitions are about belonging on one’s own terms.

Into You: On the Edge
Omar Badrin, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Allyson Mitchell, Jagdeep Raina, and Xiaojing Yan
Curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland and Farah Yusuf
August 29 - November 24, 2017
Opening Reception: Tuesday September 5, 4 - 7 p.m.
L Space
Lakeshore Campus
Room L1002
19 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive
Toronto, ON M8V 4B6

Into You: Fall in Deep
Omar Badrin, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Allyson Mitchell, and Xiaojing Yan
Curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland and Farah Yusuf
August 29 - October 20, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday September 7, 4 - 7 p.m.
North Space
North Campus
LRC 1st Floor
205 Humber College Boulevard
Toronto, ON M9W 5L7

Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

For additional information please contact alissa.firth-eagland@humber.ca, visit humbergalleries.ca, or find HumberGalleries on social media.

^{Image credit: Omar Badrin, Cry Baby, soft polyurethane tubing, nylon industrial fishing twine and mason line, 2015
Image courtesy of the artist}