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Need your daily fix of art and toys? Why not make your way down to Santa Monica on April 4th and “OVERDOSE.” The catchy title is for the upcoming group exhibition at the Copro Nason Gallery. Not only will HI*FRUCTOSE vol.11 be making its premiere, but there will also be signings by Attaboy, Joe Ledbetter, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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One of my first posts on ToyCyte was about Sketch Theatre, and now it shall pass that the folks who brought you behind the scenes looks at Gary Baseman and Luke Chueh are getting their first gallery art show. Sketch Theatre’s first gallery show collects the sketches filmed on SketchTheatre.com and puts them on display [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 13, 2009
This weekend, Giant Robot reclaims the “zodiac” from California’s Zodiac Killer and brings it all back home in the form of a group art show in Los Angeles. The Year of the Ox show celebrates the year 4707 on the lunar calendar. Pieces will include illustration, oils, pencils, prints, watercolor, sculpture, and other media “all [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 12, 2009
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The always-anticipated Luke Chueh and the always-interesting Thomas Han will get together for a joint-show opening March 20th at Corey Helford Gallery. Luke’s first solo show at the Culver City gallery features paintings and drawings that are “as sweet as they are vicious. Adorable bears, monkeys and rabbits find themselves in disturbing and ironic narratives [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 22, 2008
I’m kind of on the fence with this one. On the one hand, it’s a rabbit (good) by Luke Chueh (great), and on the other hand, it’s nostalgic to the Power Rangers (eh…) Response to this KFGU piece on some of the forums is luke warm at best, with Cypher Lazer of Vinyl Requiem adding [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 19, 2008
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Amanda Visell had one of the handful of sculptural pieces, which was in the company of a pair of swans by Scott Radke and a complex game of cat and mouse by Daniel Elson. Luke Chueh, Joe Ledbetter, Anthony Ausgang, Peek-a-boo and Thomas Han brought the familiar names and the big colors. Peter Gronquist and Alex Pardee upped the creepy ante...
Continue reading...Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Gallery1988 just announced its upcoming exhibition, a tradition at the venue: “The Vivisect Playset (Round 5).” For five years now, Luke Chueh and Gallery 1988 curated and hosted The Vivisect Playset, an art show featuring artists who regularly employed animal characters in their work to illustrate the human condition. The show has illuminated the talents [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 20, 2008
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Luke Chueh’s Shithead metal-cast figure by FullyVisual goes on sale tomorrow, Tuesday, October 21st at 11AM PST for $130 here. In spite (or perhaps because?) of this piece being a severed monkey’s head crowned with a pile of feces, there is a lot of interest in the figure. As with other FullyVisual releases, this is [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 17, 2008
Sketch for Change is a project comprised of sketches by Joe Ledbetter, Tim Biskup, Amanda Visell, Jeff Soto, Bob Dob, Gary Baseman, Thomas Han, Shag, Glenn Barr, Luke Chueh and about a dozen other artists culled from the 'lowbrow' scene. The idea was cooked up by a group of friends in Los Angeles looking for unique ways to help raise funds for Barack Obama's Campaign for Change. The 21 artists were affiliated with the recent Baby Tattooville art retreat.
Continue reading...Thursday, October 2, 2008
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Check it out. Gallery 1988 just got in a shipment of STRANGEco’s Vivisect Playset special SDCC ‘08 edition. The collector’s edition set features all ten figures by Anthony Ausgang, Luke Chueh, Peter Gronquist, Thomas Han, Joe Ledbetter, Greg “Craola” Simkins and Amanda Visell (including chases) in exclusive Comic-Con colorways. It comes packaged in a deluxe [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 15, 2008
So, it looks like you’ll be getting your new piece of Luke Chueh artwork at your local Amoeba or Virgin Megastore. Luke Chueh has graciously shared his genius with the lads from Fall Out Boy. He did the illustration for their new album Folie A Deux. Regardless if you are a fan of FOB, the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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I like a good art jam as much as the next guy, but when the players include such luminaries as Luke Chueh, Amanda Visell, Jeff Soto, Tara McPherson, Ragnar, Lolo, Frank Kozik, Jeffrey Scott, Gris Gimely, James Jean and Gary Baseman my level of like graduates to love. Up for sale on the mighty eBay is [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 8, 2008
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At my last trip to Munky King, I noticed that they had some new t-shirts on display. The new designs are part of Munky King’s artist series. I wasn’t one of the lucky ones who was able to purchase Luke Chueh’s Possessed, so I really like these designs. I’m not a fan of the Old [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The 4th Annual Blab! Show will take place from September 6th to September 27th at the Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. There’s a dedicated Blab! Show website where you can view details of fine art pieces by Tim Biskup, Shag, Gary Baseman, Travis Louie, Gary Taxali, Walter Minus, Sas Christian, Ron English, Luke [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 8, 2008
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Sunny first blogged Crazy 4 Cult 2 & Ain’t It Cool News’ collab contest here, and since then Gallery 1988’s blog has been packed with the kind of imagery that makes us film buffs and cult geeks remember why it’s OK to never leave the house. G1988 currently has two contests running: Though entry into [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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I love Herschell Gorden Lewis, Plan Nine From Outer Space and Office Space as much as the next guy. What do those things represent? Why the world of cult films of course. Gallery 1988 will honor all thing celluloid, cool and campy at their Crazy 4 Cult 2: This time it’s personal on Friday, August [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 28, 2008
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Signings here and signings there, signings were just about everywhere at the San Diego Comic Con. In my haste to try to squeeze in as much as I could on my daily rehashes of all things SDCC, I neglected to post a couple of photos I snapped of some hot sketch and autograph action [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 21, 2008
I’ve been waiting for Munky King to release their signing schedule for San Diego Comic-Con. The schedule is finally online at their Comic-Con page. The major dilemma is whether Hana and crew will be able to beat San Diego traffic and make it to Luke Chueh’s signing on time. Thursday 7/24 10:30am-12:30pm Pocket Full of Monsters 1pm – [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Munky King now has a San Diego Comic-Con page on their website. The page lists all of their Comic-Con exclusives, and now we have a better look at the Mecha Sad Bear: Clear that I spotted at Munky King [blogged]. (The picture doesn’t do it justice; the clear vinyl looks much better in real life.) Here [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 14, 2008
“His own art wasn’t enough anymore. Art itself wasn’t enough anymore. But he knew it was the answer…he needed a little help.” You can hit the jump and watch a stop motion animation primer on The Art Army or you can first read through as I pick Mike Leavitt’s brain. Mike makes art. Interactive art. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Vivisect Playset newbies and completists take note: Sunny reported that the original series is half-off here and STRANGEco has just announced a Special Edition for SDCC ‘08. The set, which includes ten new colorways of the figures by Anthony Ausgang, Luke Chueh, Peter Gronquist, Thomas Han, Joe Ledbetter, Greg Simkins and Amanda Visell, will [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 7, 2008
I’m back from a long weekend, and I have another San Diego Comic-Con exclusive for you. This one is from Munky King — Mecha Sad Bear: Clear Edition by Luke Chueh. Produced by In the Yellow, this “kaiju for grown-ups” is clear with silver eyes. Luke Chueh fans go crazy for anything he does, but [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Are you kicking yourself for missing The Mash-Up at Munky King? From the pictures seen on Vinyl Pulse, it looks like it was quite the party. More than twenty members of the Pocket Full of Monsters crew attended the event which included live paintings. If you scroll through the photos, you’ll see 2H painting on [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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We now interrupt the regularly scheduled SDCC ‘08 exclusive posting for a breakthrough from TTF ‘08. (There’s more to the world than America, don’t ya know?) One of my favorite overseas toy companies, Intheyellow has added a new Taipei Toy Festival ‘08 exclusive to their already impressive roster with Paradise Toy Land. This clear Goldie [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 20, 2008
ToyCyte believes that collectors can often be as enigmatic and interesting as the artists with whom they’re obsessed. Have you ever marveled at a high bidder on eBay and thought “Who IS that?” In this series, I’ll be interviewing some of those people. If we pick you and you share your story, ToyCyte will give [...]
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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