Good For Her is proud to support local artists working in a variety of mediums by showing off their work and talent on our store walls.  Please contact us if you are interested in exhibiting at Good For Her. 

Here is information about our current and past art shows and exhibiting artists. 

Running through to January 30 2011

Velvet Mae Photography - Room 501

Room 501 invites the viewer to become a voyeur. With surreal vintage motion and light, Velvet Mae celebrates the human landscape with diversity in age, size and identity.

Michaela Helliwell (Velvet Mae Photography) worked her way in the world as an art director before discovering her talent to encourage people to feel comfortable in their own skin. Velvet Mae is about celebrating the human landscape. Its about showing everyone how beautiful they are from angles they do not always get to see when looking in the mirror. Velvet Mae is fueled by the joy of watching a 60 year old woman squeal with delight at seeing her beauty in front of the lens, to watching a voluptuous goddess weep at seeing how beautiful her extra curves can be. Those moments, when the camera has been exhausted, and the model has a renewed energy of self confidence, is pure ambrosia for the soul.

Good For Her and Velvet Mae Photography invite you to the opening party for Room 501 on Monday, December 13 from 7:30-9pm at Good For Her (175 Harbord Street)

Running through to November 15 2010

David Findlay

David Findlay is a Toronto-based pornographer working in text, video, photography and other media. He's been creating explicit sexual material for about 25 years. David teaches the Grow Your Own Smut workshops in Toronto and showcases some of his work at http://dirtysurface.com. One of his interests in creating smut is the propagation of more content by, for and about people of colour, which prompted the selection of these images of people of colour shot over the last 5 years. David welcomes feedback, commissions, picture purchase inquiries and letters of interest from potential models (particularly men, who are still under-represented in his photos.)

Good For Her and David Findlay welcome you to the opening party for this show on Friday, October 8th from 8:30-10pm at Good For Her (175 Harbord Street).

Running through to September 27 2010

Ben Stirling

Ben Stirling trained as an interior designer, then ended up as a video game artist for some reason. His personal artwork covers a range of subjects, including (but not limited to) fetish art, life drawing, propaganda, Lovecraftian monsters, comics, Roman robots, steampunk contraptions and the occasional mash-up of any of the proceeding. His work can be viewed at http://attemptedartistry.com/

Ben's first series of Fetish Propaganda posters are a tongue-in-cheek celebration of the freedom we have to be open and honest about our sexual desires.

Opening Party - Wednesday September 8 2010 7-9pm at Good For Her.

Running through to August 15 2010

N Maxwell Lander

The Blindfold Project

Power and vulnerability are central to The Blindfold Project. In this ongoing series of images, artist Maxwell Lander confronts the photographer-photographed dynamic by mixing up the traditional 'gaze' and creative authority that is given to those holding a camera. When the project began, Lander herself was unsure of what to expect. She hoped to provide a safe space for models to explore relationships to their bodies, and encouraged them to let their guard down while the photographer's (creative) eye was removed from the scenario. What she didn't anticipate was her own vulnerability as she found herself pulled outside of her element.

Handing over setup and creative control to her models, Lander has spent each shoot sitting with a blindfold covering her eyes. Focus (and aim!) has been manual and intuitive, with only a voice or the occasional sound of movement as guidance. The results so far have been varied and wonderfully surprising: some shoots are funny and playful, some wild and artistic, some raunchy and intensely sexual. Everyone has taken the space in front of the camera to a new place

N Maxwell Lander is a queer photographer and website designer currently based out of Toronto, Canada. Her work ranges from cutting-edge fashion portraiture and flawless beauty shots to high-intensity hedonistic smut. In her quest for boundary-pushing perfection, Maxwell walks a thin line between decency and vulgarity that is sure to both intrigue and delight.

Running through to June 20 2010

Lori Klassen

www.loriklassen.com

My paintings come from a place of vulnerability, passion, joy, and mild terror. And I think they come from a place of physical and spiritual womanliness, a place I’m working to access.

I’m compelled to paint because it’s my way of reaching inward and outward simultaneously. And I paint because it feels good. As a classical and operatic singer, my first forays into expression were through music, but it was when I discovered painting that I found joy and, ironically, my voice. Nothing feels as right – in all the ways that matter – as the sensuality of oil, the richness of colour, the timelessness of hours at the easel.

My “Leaving Emerald City” series explores what it is to be seen, and to make oneself seen. The process of emergence. Of self-summoning. And the greater source of that wisdom. How much of it is cellular, physical, carnal? And what is borne of tradition, legacy, lineage? Does handed-down lace beautify or obstruct? Why are some parts of the body easier to reveal? What is the nature of true strength? What is it to be beautiful? To be bare?

I was raised in a Mennonite community in southern Manitoba, and the exploration of those traditions and definitions has inspired much of my recent work. As has the poetry of Tamara Franz, for which I’m grateful: