On February 12,
Corey Helford Gallery proudly presents “Contemptorary Art”, the highly-anticipated exhibition of new works by Los Angeles artist
Luke Chueh. This is Luke's second solo show at this gallery space and this time around his show is going to feature sixteen paintings based on his observations, experiences and studies of the art world. Also included in this show is going to be a six foot fiberglass sculpture of his “Possessed” figure... check that thing out!!!
For the opening night reception of “Contemptorary Art”, Chueh has crafted a social experiment where the audience will become part of the exhibition. Attendees will fill in a blank bear template with their own imagery, which will remain on display as part of the four-week exhibition. Open to the public, the reception for “Contemptorary Art”, will take place on Saturday, February 12 from 7 to 10pm, and the show will be on view until March 12, 2011.
Corey Helford Gallery 8522 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
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What's been in the making for over 2 years now,
Super7 has finally opened their loving arms and let
Leecifer come out and play :-) Set to debut at his 2 man show with Paul Kaiju on Saturday, February 26th is Leecifer's induction to the Monster Family (
his first production vinyl figure btw... yeah!!!) with his new vinyl figure called
"Honoo" The Flame! Standing at a little over 4.5" tall this little guy has wood stumps for legs and enough flame to make any forest shudder! This figure looks to be another epic character in the Monster Family line... and I am sure will be greatly sought after by all fans of not only Leecifer's, but of Super7 as well!
I sat down with Leecifer and asked him how he came up with the concept for this figure, and if there was some sort of story behind it... and this is what he had to say. "
The initial concept was that if you told a fireside story about any of the Monster Family critters including the Honoo (Flame) that there was a very good chance that one would appear in the fire - playing, dancing, skating on a board of flame etc. (whatever you were into) to keep prospective night terrors, weather real or imagined at bay. Protector of children, both young and old, Honoo loves a good story, a mulled beverage (cocoa, hot chocolate, sake, and mead are enjoyed with equal relish) and a warm fire. Honoos also appear in a wide range of colors and sizes depending on the nature of the story that's being told, the time of year, and what's being burned. Simple chemicals like Strontium = Red, Calcium Chloride = Orange, Sodium Nitrate = Yellow, Barium = Green, Copper Sulfate = Turquoise, Copper Chloride = Blue, Potassium = Purple, and Magnesium = White etc all summon different hued Honoos. But the story makes a difference too as regular old wood, a few pages from a trashy romance or a tale told of romance and unrequited love in the month of February can summon different shades of pink (authors note - I've NEVER called a pink one, ok well mebbe' once or twice). In fact I'm fairly certain the magic in the air from various holidays will also effect to color of the spirit called."
So does all of this mean that we are going to see many awesome colorways of this figure... you bet your bottom dollar we will! Congrats goes to Lee for getting his figure finally produced... who else is stoked for this?
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2011 is off to a fine start for Paul over at
Monster Workshop... not only did he move into a brand new workshop, but he just recently completed a rad new commission piece named "Ooljee"... who has a devilish grin along with some really long crooked arms. Also to note... the new location of their
Stitches and Glue workshop is now at Cockpit Arts, Room E2, Holburn in London!
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Posted up via the
Monster Taipei Facebook page is the full reveal of
Super7's upcoming very special Valentines Day Rose Vampire designed by
Josh Herbolsheimer! This RV appears to be cast in a translucent pink/purple vinyl with sprays of red, silver and blue making it yet another very sought after Super7 release. These are going to drop next Friday, February 11th... more details to come.
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[PRESS] Following in the success of Series One with Chungkee and Marcy, this new assortment spotlights the Skelanimal characters Dax, Jack and Kit! Working directly with the
Skelanimal creator Mitchell Bernal,
Toy2R has once again put together a collection of hot artists to reinterpret the look and theme of the cute little dead darlings and present them on all new Qee figure platforms. Series Two includes designs by designer art toy favs -
Voltaire, Lunabee, PO! (Patricio Oliver), Albert Art, Nick Z and Pocket Wookie. Also included will be classic B&W interpretations of Dax, Jack and Kit along with a couple of mystery chase figures. As always, each blind boxed Qee figure will include keychain attachment to carry your Skelanimal wherever you wish.
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Happy Friday Everyone... and here we go again, another Friday... and another awesome giveaway! This time around artist
Gary Ham has stepped up to the plate and donate an awesome prize package, and seeing as yesterday was the beginning of Chinese New Year, and more specifically... The Year of the Rabbit, our prize package is a Carrot Shake Jake set which will include
one vinyl toy, one "Singing in the Carrots" American Apparel shirt, and one keychain to a lucky winner. There are 2 way to enter... the first is to
leave a comment in this post telling us
what you are thankful for in this new year, and second you need to follow Gary on twitter,
@Garygepetto and tweet "
Happy Year of the Rabbit! Celebrate by hopping on over to www.superham.bigcartel.com for some rabbits treats. @GaryGepetto #SSGAR". You can just copy and paste the above quoted text, without the quotes of course :-) Gary will then randomly choose a winner at 12am MST Saturday Feb, 5th! Good luck and good fortune to all who enter, and please spread the word.
****UPDATE****
What a rockin contest!!! Thanks to everyone who entered and in a 24 hour period we had 112 total entries... so thank you sooooo much! Now come the fun part... and there could only be one winner from this, and picked at random via Random.org was Dustin N. aka
PlasticMinds, congrats man! I want to thank everyone once again and a HUGE thanks to Gary for putting together such a rad prize package! Oh, and if you didn't win you can still
head on over to his shop and snag up some goods!
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Just posted up on the
C&D forum is this wonderful picture above of Chris Ryniak's 4" Misfortune Cat vinyl test pull that is based on his larger 10" custom version (
posted HERE) that he created for the "Reconstructing Misfortune" show last year at
Munky King! It is truly amazing the sculpting work done to shrink this down... how spot on, and why does it make me giddy just looking at it?!?!
Chris Ryniak stated "
Having seen the sculpt (and doing a test paint on it) I can say that they nailed it. It's almost identical to the original...just 1/3 the size!" Seeing this photo means only one thing... it's really close to becoming released, and I have a feeling this figure is going to be a HUGE hit.
Playge does it again... top notch work guys and I can't wait to see some paint on it!
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