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Gallery 1988 presents: “Suspense & Gallows Humor: A tribute to Alfred Hitchcock”

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Gallery1988 (Venice) will open Suspense & Gallows Humor, a tribute to the all-time greatest film director ever, Alfred Hitchcock. 75 artists have been enlisted to create artwork inspired by his films, TV shows and iconography, all in tribute of the master himself. The show features many of your favorite G1988 regulars, and a slew of promising newcomers for your radar. The show will open with a reception at the Venice location, this coming Friday, April 13th, from 7-10 PM PDT. This show will run through April 29th now, rather than the May 5th date listed below.

***Remaining prints likely to go onsale the following day Saturday, April 14th at a random time HERE.

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Yosuke Ueno “The Specific Illusion” @ Thinkspace Gallery

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Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City, CA is honored to welcome back two exciting young contemporary artists hailing from Japan. Yosuke Ueno returns for his 3rd solo show with the gallery. The Specific Illusion features Ueno’s most powerful body of work having been strongly influenced by the changes in Japan since the Great Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11th, 2011. The resulting body of work traverses a wide array of human emotions that showcase just how much Ueno has grown as an artist in the past year and just how strongly the events of 3/11 have impacted him and the people of Japan as a whole. Showing concurrently in our project room will be Our Hands Will Eventually Destroy Everything Beautiful, featuring new works on paper from Fumi Nakamura in her second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Opening night is Saturday, March 31st from 5-8pm PDT and the exhibition is on view until April 21st.

***Prints will be made available at the show and online the following Monday, April 2nd at 2pm PDT HERE. See below for print details…








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Prints:

ueno Positive E no.6

"Positive E no.6" by Yosuke Ueno. 16" x 22" Giclee. Ed of 20 S/N. $100


ueno The Sound of efiL

"The Sound of efiL" by Yosuke Ueno. 16" x 22" Giclee. Ed of 20 S/N. $100

Ltd. Art Gallery & Emerald City Comicon presents: “MINTcondition- A Comic Book Inspired Art Show”

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Opening Reception: Friday, March 30th at 7pm

Ltd. Art Gallery is joining forces with Emerald City Comicon to bring over 35 artists together for one special show. Each artist will draw inspiration from their love of comics and graphic novels to create their own incredible interpretations of those worlds.

FEATURING THE ART OF:

Barry Blankenship, Chris Brett, Scott Campbell, Daisy Church, Steven Daily, Mr. Dan, Scott Derby, Emonic, Matthew Fletcher, Billy Fowler, Suzanne Kaufman,
Eric Kirchmer, Danni Shinya Luo, Karin Madan, Mike Maydak, Mikeatron, Calamity Jon Morris, Damon O’Keefe, Augie Pagan, Tyler Parker, Devi Pellerin, Reid Psaltis,
Tristan Reidford, Brian Rood, Wade Schin, Christopher Sheridan, Snaggs, Clarke Snyder, Steamcrow, Steve Thomas, Mark Thompson, Christopher Umiga, Cody Vrosh,
Andrea Wicklund, Andrew Wilson, and Wednesday Wolf.

Comic Book themed refreshments courtesy of JONES SODA.




Shell Game: An Art Show About the Financial Meltdown by Molly Crabapple

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Surreal-artist Molly Crabapple of New York witnessed and participated in last year’s Occupy Wall Street movement. That experience has inspired her to fund her own art exhibiton about the World Financial Crisis:

Shell Game is an art show about the world financial collapse, and the people who have risen up in protest against it. I’ll create nine giant paintings about the different parts of the collapse and the global movement fighting back (including Goldman Sachs, Greece, and Occupy Wall Street), but filter them through my lens of burlesque, surrealism, satire, and symbolic animals. Then, I’m going to rent a storefront in New York city, rig it out like a gambling parlor, and invite the city and the Internet to check it out for a week. -Molly Crabapple

And to circumvent Big Money support, Crabapple opened a Kickstarter site for this project last Tuesday and thus far, it has raised almost $45K. That’s $15K over the original goal being $30K. Pledges range from $1, all the way to $8000 and everything in between. Backers, depending on pledge level, get everything from access to live streaming of painting sessions, Crabapple pokerchips and play money, OG sketches, Giclee prints, and OG paintings. With great public support of this event, this looks to be a good one!

Right now, there is still time to jump in a make a pledge and reserve a spot for some good art (ends March 27th). Check out her Kickstarter project HERE.

Below is the first of nine giant paintings to be exhibited at the opening night sometime in early 2013 in New York City:

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"Great American Bubble Machine" by Molly Crabapple. 6' x 4' Acrylic on wood.


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Mondo Gallery Opening

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Tonight is a keystone night for the folks over at Mondo as they open their new gallery space in Austin, TX. The inaugural show tonight features over 30 artists that produced original art and Screenprints based on the Science Fiction genre. Below is a quick peek of some of the works featured there. Here’s hoping for an online release of some of these Screenprints yes? Congrats Mondo, looking forward to many more shows in the future!

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"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" by Tyler Stout. 24" x 36" Screenprint. Ed of 635 N.


stout star trek II the wrath of khan variant

"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" by Tyler Stout. 24" x 36" Screenprint. Ed of 280 N. (Variant)


tong forbidden planet

"Forbidden Planet" by Kevin Tong. 24" x 36" Screenprint. Ed of 225 N.


kako war of the worlds

"The War of the Worlds" by Kako. 24" x 36" Screenprint. Ed of 120 N.


horkey Fantastic Planet

"Fantastic Planet" by Aaron Horkey. 20" x 28" Screenprint. Ed of 332 N.


horkey Fantastic Planet variant

"Fantastic Planet" by Aaron Horkey. 20" x 28" Screenprint. Ed of 106 N. (Variant)


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"Duck Dodgers" by Tom Whalen


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"A Trip to the Moon" by Phantom City Creative. 18" x 24" Screenprint. Ed of 145 N.

Gallery 1988 presents: “Multiplayer x2: Posters inspired by classic video games”

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This week at Gallery 1988 in Melrose, CA is Multiplayer x2: Posters inspired by classic video games. Here, artists create inspired artwork on all your favorite video games that wore out your thumbs and got you in trouble by your parents. Opening this Friday, February 10th at 7-10pm PST and on display through March 3rd.

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One notable release will be “Super Mario” by Olly Moss. The regular grey edition will be available in limited quantities at the gallery, and the red variant (along with remaining copies of the grey edition) will likely see an online release at a later date. Stay tuned…

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"Super Mario" by Olly Moss. Grey edition of 150. Red variant edition of 80.

Gallery Nucleus presents “Line Weight: An Exploration of Line Work”

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Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, CA is thrilled to reprise 2008’s Line Weight: an exhibition featuring the work of a widely diverse and highly acclaimed roster of artists. With this exhibit, they continue to explore impactful and intriguing line work with pieces created by a group some of today’s most celebrated talent.

The opening reception will be Saturday, February 4th from 7pm-10pm PST and will be on display until February 26th.

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Exhibiting Artists Include:

Allen Williams
Brooks Salzwedel
Caitlin Hackett
Greg Ruth
Jaime Zollars
Josh Cochran
Leif Parsons
Lux Xzymhr
Raymond Lemstra
Robert Valley
So Youn Lee



Tim Doyle “Unreal Estate” @ Spoke Art Gallery

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Spoke Art Gallery is pleased to present Unreal Estate, the debut solo show by Austin-based serigraph artist Tim Doyle. In “Unreal Estate,” Doyle explores locations found throughout popular culture in a variety of limited-edition hand-printed screen prints and original art. Opening night is this Thursday February 2nd, 2012 6pm – 10pm. And the show is on view through Thursday February 23, 2012.

From Moe’s Tavern to the Bluth Banana Stand, Doyle’s realistic and illustrative reinterpretations of television’s most iconic places is a captivating voyage. In the artists words, “Unreal Estate’ is a collection of locations that many of us know and have been to on a weekly basis at times, but can never actually visit. These places are in our memories transmitted and entrenched there through a cathode-ray tube. Some of us have been going to these places for decades, some of these places were taken from us, way too soon.”

For these pieces Doyle moved away from his usually big bold colors and comic-book line quality to create a more illustrative style, with muted tones and colors that reflect a mood or time of day. He attempts to preserve and honor the non-physical spaces found in this show with the same care and intention given to iconic real world locations. This series is one artist’s intensely personal journey through a world which is universal to us all. Join the artist as pop culture tour guide this February 2nd.

As an added bonus, the artist will be in attendance for the opening and we are happy to announce that the first 100 guests will receive a complimentary limited edition screen print.

RSVP here – http://www.facebook.com/events/233654490049532/

The show will be all silkscreen prints, and the original pen and ink drawings used to create the pieces will be for sale as well. All prints will be limited in their regular edition to 100 copies, and the variants (be it glow in the dark or on wood) will be in smaller editions of anywhere from 10-35.

***Any prints unsold at the gallery will be available on the SpokeArt store Friday, February 3rd at 3pm PST.

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