Bridget Rhee & Peter Kato's "Buddy's Den" group show at Toy Tokyo Underground!

The cute & adorable Buddy invites you into his house, offers you a cup of tea as you sit by the fireplace in his den. As you look at the walls, you quickly realize that Buddy is quite skilled hunter, having mounted trophies from a variety of… um, of… is that a unicorn head? Wait, all these animals, they don't actually exist!

Buddy is a hunter. A cute adorable one. But Buddy doesn't prize the ordinary wild animal, he seeks to collect the eccentric—fantastic, strange, and unique creatures and odds and ends from the likes no one has ever seen before.

Co-curated by Bridget Rhee and Peter Kato, "Buddy's Den" is a group show exhibiting fantasy taxidermy by New York-based artists. The show opens on May 11th (7-10PM) and will run through May 18th at Toy Toyko Underground, 91 Second Ave. Lower Level, New York, NY 10003. Participating artists include: Abby Denson, Amos Hemsley, Anney Fresh, Dark Waters, Healeymade, Jason Freeny, Jaz Harold, Koji Sakamoto, Kady Grant, Nicole Eckstrom, Mariangela Tan, Rob Benevides, Veronica Fuentes, Victoria Semarjian, Yoko Furusho, and Zoe Williams.