ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

DrilOne is curating a custom vinyl show based off the Rocketworld I.W.G. figures. This is the first time a show like this has ever been thrown on this platform. 80+ artists are customizing blanks for the exhibit. Scroll down for a complete list of partipating artists and more info about the show. Humans Beware: The I.W.G. Custom Art Show opens April 10th at 6pm at Rocketworld Gallery in San Francisco. There will be multiple raffles giving away 17-inch  I.W.G. Rocket Ships donated by STRANGEco.
Beverages (alcoholic & non-alcoholic) and snacks will be served. See you there.

Participating Artists:
ADDEccentric, Angry Woebots, APina, AW177, Ayleen Gaspar (October Toys), brainstrikers ARTDENKA, Bert (gatchabert) Gatchalian, Betso, Bovinyl, Brandon sopinsky, Brian Colin, Brent Nolasco, Charlie Alan Kraft, Cris Rose, Ckaweeks, Clinton Reno, CoreRoc, CrEsToNe, Cyan Banister (Zivity), Daniel Elson, Dead Presidents Designs, D-Lux, DrilOne, Dustin Cantrell, El Maz, FAS, FOOX, Frank Kozik, George Gaspar (October Toys), GOCCODO, Grimsheep, Hellopike, IZ the WIZ, Jenny Wolf, Jeremiah Ketner a.k.a. small and round, Jeremy Regan, Jes, Jim Koch,  Joe, Jon-Paul Kaiser, Ka, Keith Noordzy, Keith Poon, Kelly Vetter, Lana Crooks, Leecifer, Lou Pimentel,  MADTWIINZ, Maku, Matthew Ryan Sharp,  Matucha,  Max Bare, Metal Man Ed, Mimic, MONSTREHERO, Motorbot, Nanan1, NEMO, Newkon, Okedoki, OsirisOrion, Paul Harding, Paulkaiju, Phu!,  Pretty Poopie,  Redhanded,  Reactor 88, Rebel SC, Robot Octopus, Rsin,Sade TCM, Scott Stulen, SpankyStokes, Squink!, Tan-ki, Toybot Studios, Trenton M., Trevor Zammit,  tyleR, willow408.  Click here for links to all of their respective websites.

About I.W.G. (Insurgents Wilderness Gruppo)
In the not too distant future, the mysterious Astral Overseers put into motion their master plan….an interstellar space vehicle returning to Earth unknowingly carries a specially designed cosmic retrovirus which soon spreads worldwide thru the jet stream. Completely unaffecting humans, this new retrovirus soon begins to find its way into certain animal species.  Quickly causing mutations, Earth begins to see a variety of animals evolve into self-aware or sentient life.  A formidable combination of all an animal’s strengths, an intelligence equal to humans, and some say new powers.  Immediately gaining a new and more profound understanding the danger humans presented to their kind, this new breed of sentient creatures stays hidden from human eyes for years as they develop their own society and culture, albeit somewhat loosely based and culled from observing humans and their media.  An immediate goal for these creatures was to organize, and begin resisting the human destruction and domination of what was once their “natural” habitat.  Strangely, as they increased in strength, numbers, and sophistication, their tactics, tastes, and habits were increasingly becoming more “human” in many ways.  Full of conflict, contradiction, frustration, anger and the desire to save themselves and their world, a resistance movement emerged.  The first of these resistance cells was the “I  n s u r g e n t s   W i l d e r n e s s    G r u p p o “….