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The Vivisect Playset Series 5 Art Show

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...

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Luke Chueh and Gallery1988 Present Vivisect Playset Round 5

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 [...]

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Vivisect Playset SDCC Edition at G1988 for Half eBay Price

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 [...]

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Vivisect Playset SDCC 08 Special Edition

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 [...]

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Peter Gronquist: The Revolution will be Fabulous

The mixed media artist Peter Gronquist, creator of the Stella and Roo characters for the Vivisect Playset, states that the “Revolution Will be Fabulous”, well it will be at his “Weapons of Mass Designer Show” opening this Saturday at Los Angeles’s 1988 Gallery. The Bay Area artist has taken a variety of guns and weaponry [...]

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