Archive for July, 2008
God bless the Internet! It’s like a cosmic glue or whale spooge with everlasting elasticity holding the world together. Ideas get shared at light speed, grass-root organizations over throw corporate giants and chance meetings turn into life-long friendships.
Ding Dang Dong is about three friends who met back in 2004 while they were living in Japan. Their friendship grew through a love of art and exploring the streets of Tokyo together. Now four years later and continents apart they are reunited again through art. The show features individual works by each of the artists as well as collaborations by all three.
Aaron Piland (above) is a Portland based artist, illustrator, imaginator, creator. He believes art is a form of reality creation and that we all have the power to change the world with it. He also makes art with his wife Ayumi under the name Apak. www.apakstudio.com
Nao Harada (WRECKS) : A Tokyo-based-psuedo-hermit, a hater and an artist of the secret WRECKS crew. He grew up with crazy funny Manga and movies. He piles up illustrations with a negative and lazy indie-spirit combined with a design sense forged from years in Tokyo hell.
www.wrecks.jp
CUPCO! is the brain/lovechild of Lucas Temby. CUPCO’s deadly wonders include hand-made dolls, print-making, illustration character design and regular old doobywacker design. CUPCO! has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Japan, USA, and throughout Europe. I lived in Japan for 5 years from 2000-2005 where I met two people that I love; my beautiful wife Mayumi and my good friend Nao (wrecks). I like skating, vikings and penguins and I’m getting a new bike next week!
Hell-o all. Martinhead here, to inform you about somethin’…
Someone at Giant Robot likes me. I was asked to contribute work to a huge show, Crocodile Tears, at GRNY this Saturday July 19th. Painted 3 nice little ditties for it. You should go (or at least check it out online). Over 50 artists including me. I love it when I get to share company with some of the best out there, and in this case at least a few are extended Grass Hut family. The list is on the attachment here. I’ll try to post images of my work in it on my site as well, www.martinhead.com
Kick ass. Carry on.
M
If you’ve got an ounce of dork juice in your system you’re going to Comicon in San Diego next week. We’re going too and our booth number is #4936. Come say “heyo” and score new stuff that you can only get in person. We are going to rage and rumble this year!!!
Le Merde will have new figures everyday.
Bwana will have a whole new line of toys called Jelly Factory on Friday.
Martin will have new prints, tees, customs and originals.
Scrappers will have his book, prints, tees and originals.
Kiyoshi Nakazawa will have new prints and other ass kickers.
James Jean made these killer posters for an aids awareness ad campaign. They’re funny, smart, beautiful, twisted and f@cked up in all the right ways. Read more here!!!
“Black & White Freedrawings”, or if we got to title it “Dang Hippy Doodle Dangle Jangle Party” is pretty freaking awesome. It’s big, it’s Black&White, it’s beautiful and really hard to find in the US. We ordered a bunch from Jan on the other side of the planet to cut down on the shipping cost. It should retail for $80 because it was made all eco-groovy and has 132 pages of art, but we’re selling it for way less.
A lot went into the making of this book, so much so that you’ll have to click on this link to find out.
If you want to buy it look in the shop part of our site!
We only have a couple left, so…well, you know. Get’em while you can.
It was awesome, cute, fun and totally free.
While we were all tangled in colorful twine a thought hit me; Portland has an ever-growing artistic community and like all things that grow it’s growing apart. But this camp event brought artists and general public together to just make stuff and celebrate being alive. it was like a hip-hop party song, but everyone was a player.
Want in on any of our upcoming programs? Just show up and have fun. See whats next >>
What is America? As Independence Day nears once again and the most exciting election ever creeps just around the corner, many Americans may be asking themselves that exact question. It¹s a complex one to answer, but it may be easier to simplify in the language of visual art. Grass Hut has pulled over 30 different American artists together to explore what America means to them and share their love (and hate) for the good olO US of A in The Americans.
The group show features artwork from over 30 artists, all from the Pacific Northwest and many of whom are new to the gallery scene. When asked about the risk of showing completely new artists, co-founder Justin “Scrappers” Morrison said, ” we wanted to really encourage new artists with this show, a lot of the artists have never shown their work…ever. Of course, we have a few people who are old favorites, but this show is really about the new talent.”
The show should be quite the event, opening at NOON with barbecue, beer, and
art and ending with watching Portland’s 4th of July fireworks.
The show opens first Friday, July 4 and runs through July 27th.
Participating Artists: Dawn Riddle, Scott Barry, Ryan Jacob Smith, Claire Miller, Scrappers, Jesse Brown, Dr. Medz, Kim Scafuro, Justin Lovato, Nick doodles Art, Shawn Wolfe, Brad Simon, Ross McSweeney, Ryan Berkley, Pete Toms, Bwana Spoons, Brett Superstar, John Black, Ademar Matinian, Arbito, THE HANNA, BT Livermore, Dickbird, Jimm Lasser, Caley Feeney, Aidan Koch, Amy Morrison, Devi Pellerin, Niles Armstrong, Tripper Dungan, Reverend Benny Bob, Steve Mathews, Shayla Hason, Tom Webb, David Wein, Josh Herbolsheimer, Merideth Hamm, Mark Gunderson and many more…
