As a physical space Funktion Gallery is no more, and as a result we are all focusing on our own projects. This website has since been sporadically online and offline in the past months as we try and figure out what to do with it, but it will remain online in its current state. Sorry for any inconvenience.

See you on the streets!

Funktion Gallery attended the CBE Limited event on Saturday. The designs by all the artists were super fresh, the food and alcohol was very relaxing, and the CBE staff were all super cute and genuinely the nicest people we have ever met. Elly Green if you are reading this we want you to know that you got a great team, good friends, a freakin awesome product and you are going places farther than the places you’ve gotten at already. And whoever else is reading this checka chek the people who got down with this collaboration (Nicholas Di Genova, Braden Labonte, Judy Black, Joy Apparel and Funktion Gallery) Google that shit!

and look at these fricken hoodies! Surf that!!

www.clothingbrandexperiment.com

I recently ran into Anser while biking a box of CBE hoodies to a friends house. She was grabbing a coffee in the Junction and had seen me riding by and hollered me over. I was shocked to see her back in the city, last i had heard she was somewhere in Thailand trying to make her way to Haiti to help out after the devastating earthquake. We sat in Malta Park and she told me all about her travels, the places she had been, the extreme encounters she had while painting in Thailand, and briefly about the situation in Haiti. She had returned to Toronto because her money had ran out, and being away from home for almost a year was making her extremely homesick. She invited me over to her friends place,where she is staying temporarily, to show me photographs she had taken, mostly of paintings she had done recently. I was surprised how many “Painted Lady” faces she hadn’t painted and when i asked her what the deal was with the no facial situation she explained to me how her relationship with her own “Painted Lady” character had ended shortly after she had exhibited at Funktion’s previous space.  “It wasn’t working out” she explained,“our hearts were in different places and we decided to take some time away from each other”. I suppose all the attention and hype that surrounded the painted lady during the time of our exhibit changed Anser feeling towards her character. Either that or she is just moving on towards other mysterious acts of vandalism. Whatever it is, and knowing Anser, I’m sure whatever she has in store for the streets next is gonna be pretty fucking rad.

So here’s to that beautifully elusive face - that not only illuminated the streets of our city - but also helped Funktion Gallery get up. Thank you painty spraypaint lady face painted superfast woman, we hope you come back when the city needs you the most, like batman or some shit.

And if you missed the Anser interviews check them out here at The Varsity and Torontoist

And if you wanna see some faces before the buff we got them linked right up for you
Anser Pics #1
Anser Pics #2

XO from PLS crew, Sydney Australia, was in town a while back and hung out with the Funktion gang. We recently came across this sketch while going through one of the many portfolio bags of drawings that haven’t been looked through since our move from Lansdowne. Must have fell out of his very well kept blackbook.