Copypasta
COOPER COLE•Jan 31, 2026 — Mar 14, 2026
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COOPER COLE is pleased to announce Copypasta, the fourth solo exhibition by Jesse Harris at the gallery.
Returning to Toronto within his memory, Jesse Harris (b. 1981) recalls the formative and irreverent sentiment within a downtown shopping plaza Village by the Grange where he once originally discovered it at …it store! circa 1989–90.
At a recent online auction, Harris purchased the collection (of purchases) and surviving works of Toronto artist Beth S, age fifteen. Beth S assembled hundreds of small items of ephemera from …it store! and perhaps, as mythology, she even worked there. She included original artworks in their display, as if to personalize her collection and position it in totality. Totally participant in parody of trendy cliches of the period, her work is now regarded as prophecy.
With Copypasta, Jesse Harris exhibits contemporary works of iconoclasm. Using this ephemera directly, he recollects The Last Supper (Leonardo) with whitewashed memory ware sculpture as profane…
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Copypasta
COOPER COLE•Jan 31, 2026 — Mar 14, 2026
Press Release
COOPER COLE is pleased to announce Copypasta, the fourth solo exhibition by Jesse Harris at the gallery.
Returning to Toronto within his memory, Jesse Harris (b. 1981) recalls the formative and irreverent sentiment within a downtown shopping plaza Village by the Grange where he once originally discovered it at …it store! circa 1989–90.
At a recent online auction, Harris purchased the collection (of purchases) and surviving works of Toronto artist Beth S, age fifteen. Beth S assembled hundreds of small items of ephemera from …it store! and perhaps, as mythology, she even worked there. She included original artworks in their display, as if to personalize her collection and position it in totality. Totally participant in parody of trendy cliches of the period, her work is now regarded as prophecy.
With Copypasta, Jesse Harris exhibits contemporary works of iconoclasm. Using this ephemera directly, he recollects The Last Supper (Leonardo) with whitewashed memory ware sculpture as profane…
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