Bring The Walls Down

Back in the gallery installing our next show "Under The Influence: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" which will open THIS FRIDAY night, from 7-10 PM. And the entire gallery will be transformed into Castle Greyskull, which is most likely something that no one has ever said before. That whole process starts tomorrow. In the meantime, figured what better time to give you more previews.

First up, in addition to Alex Pardee's big Skeletor piece which was unveiled during Comic Con, the man himself created a handful of small watercolors depicting some of his other favorite bad guys. Here are 3 of my favs...



Triclops



Clawful



Faker

Fresh off her awesome 88point5 show, Allison Reimold depicts her version of the classic good vs. evil battle - He-Man vs. Skeletor. This one is incredible in person...



And fresh off his outstanding success during the LOST Underground Art Project with his Crash poster, Eric Tan switches up the style with an edition depicting Battlecat. This is an INCREDIBLE print and they'll sell out fast. TRUST ME.



For the first time at Gallery1988, artist Project Detonate delivered a fresh piece of everyone's favorite pest, Orko. We hope to work with Detonate more in the future, cause this is one of our favorite pieces in the show.



Kiersten Essenpreis is basically batting 1.000 at this point. Every piece is more witty than the next. here she shows us what He-Man and Skeletor might do on their days off, focusing on some major grooming tough spots...





Another new-to-1988 artist, Australian Meggs, has contributed a stunning piece - as this isn't the first time the artist has pulled influence from the toy line/cartoon.



Staring at these pieces, and MANY more, sitting on the floor right now, waiting for Greyskull to be built, is a pretty fun way to past the time. I tell you. All for this Friday! More news coming about this show, including a possible toy reveal that involves one of your favorite shows on a certain network that airs cartoons.

AND, one last thing. We want to thank everybody who voted and Kid Robot, as their 2009 Robo Award Winners were announced and Gallery1988 was named "Outstanding Art Gallery" of the year!



We are total flattered and stoked. Thank you guys and we hope to have 2010 not let you down (win, it won't, wink).

Jensen
G1988:LA

NOW LIVE: Allison Reimold solo show!

Be sure to check out Allison Reimold's brand new solo show at www.88point5.com! She delivered a perfect balance of paintings and drawings, and the most amazing part is they all under $200.00! Can't beat that!

See the entire show now at www.88point5.com.

Katie
G1988 SF

Back to work

I was out of the loop for these past few weeks travelling in Southern Africa. It's the first family vacation with both parents and all three sisters that we've taken in over 15 years. I've never been away from the gallery that long, so it was a little scary to leave, but I knew Irma had everything under control in SF. It was a long long way to go, with 21 hours of flying each way. We travelled to 4 different countries while we were there, which added up to 14 separate flights throughout our whole trip! I've always been terrified to fly, so that was a pretty huge nightmare for me, but it was 100% completely worth it. It was the most incredible trip and I seriously cannot wait to go back. It was so beautiful and I don't think you can find nicer people in the entire world.

It was hard being away for so long and I'm excited to be back (despite the horrible jet lag) because we have two shows coming up that I've been looking forward to. The first is Allison Reimold's solo show at 88point5.com. She has new paintings and drawings and here are a couple previews for you...


Post Monkeys
Graphite on paper
12.5 x 17 inches
Framed: 16x20
$175.00


Owl's Flight
Oil
10.5 x 16.5 inches
Framed: 16x20
$175.00

Allison's show opens this Saturday at www.88point5.com, so stay tuned!

And then we also have Re Up opening Friday, October 16th in SF! This show features new work from Angry Woebots, Scribe, Mr. Jago, Deseo, Dia and Gaia. Such an awesome lineup! Here are a couple images from the show...


Scribe
"Interruption of Paul"
mixed media on wood


Gaia
"Rhetoric of Peace"
linoleum block print on mulberry paper

Can't wait for this new show, which opens one week from Friday! I'll post more images, so stay tuned!

Katie
G1988 SF

With The Students

I jetted out to Chicago this weekend for work (more on that down the road), but before I took off, my girlfriend Chrissy and I were lucky enough to see the OTIS Illustration Senior Graduation show on Thursday night. For the past two years, I've been working with OTIS Illustration instructors Nathan Ota and Bob Dob, creating a project every year for their junior class that coincides with Crazy 4 Cult, and finds a few students every year participating in their first art show. This year's seniors include many of the artists you already find hanging on G1988's walls, as well as some new names - and I must say the atmosphere and experience that Bob and Nathan are creating at OTIS is both exciting and integral, focusing on both the world of illustration and the gallery scene for young artists. I remember when we first opened the gallery, everyone seemed to be talking about the Clayton Brothers' positive influence at Art Center and the artists graduating, but I can't help but think that torch has been passed since Bob and Nathan are helping create careers while the artists are STILL IN SCHOOL. Anyway, took some pictures of the show and wanted to share...

First up, Julian Callos. A super-familiar face to G1988, Julian is my favorite up-and-coming artist. I can say that easily. The pieces he created for his senior thesis were breath-taking. I absolutely loved them and was thrilled to find out that the pieces are all going to be featured in an upcoming show at G1988: SF. Didn't know that. Consider this a sneak peek - and even more proof that Julian is one to watch...

Julian also showed off some of his 3-D talents and created this sculpture to accompany the paintings...

Allison Reimold is probably the most improved artist in the class, when you compare the first time I

saw her work during her junior year Crazy 4 Cult project and what I saw at the Senior show

(as well as her recent Idiot Box piece). I can not wait to see more from her,

and she's got some shows at G1988, so I'll see it first-hand.

Jaw Cooper, who was in last year's Crazy 4 Cult, has also developed into a seriously incredible artist.

A new name to me, Chan Koak, had some adorable pieces on display.

An artist I will be emailing for sure.

I know we've posted about it on here before, but it's worth 2 postings.

Here's Mylan Nguyen's entire senior installation creating a pretty sweet little houseboat.

Although we missed them by about an hour, I hear Greg Simkins and his son Isaac

had a bit of sailing adventure in it.

And most of the pieces featured in the boat were actually all available on our website, 88point5.

You can see those by CLICKING HERE.

Thomas Lynch III has been featured at G1988 a few times already,

and excited to see more of his work now that he's graduated.

And on my way out I was totally impressed by Graphic Design grad

Kaoru Amy Shimsohige's posters about gender inequality.

This poster detailed her skills at Mario Kart (as Bowser) and how after winning

races on her DS Wi-Fi in high school, boys would find out she was a girl and

immediately have negative things to say. She on the other hand would

laugh and race again.

Good stuff.

Again, LOVED going to this show and it really was a fun experience.

And with a few juniors joining this year's Crazy 4 Cult show in July already,

next year's Seniors are gonna be just as impressive.

Jensen

G1988: LA

Gallery Starr

Actor Martin Starr took time out of his daily routine of stealing scenes in "Adventureland" and "Knocked Up" to stop by the gallery in order to meet artist Allison Reimold, who depicted a young Martin during his time on "Freaks & Geeks" for our recent "Idiot Box" art show. Always cool when someone illustrated and paid tribute to in one of our themed shows goes as far as wanting to meet the person they affected so positively. Allison has a lot more coming up with G1988, but first you can check her out at the OTIS Senior BFA show next weekend, as she graduates with flying colors. And check out Martin Starr in September's "The Invention of Lying" starring Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, John Hodgman, Jason Bateman, Jonah Hill, Rob Lowe, Louis CK and everyone else you think is funny.



Jensen
G1988: LA

And another one...

Freaks and Geeks is one of Jensen's favortive TV shows of all time, he loves it SO MUCH that he made us go to the Freaks and Geeks meet and greet/DVD signing at the old Tower Records on Sunset about three years ago. We waited in line for HOURS, but we did get to meet the entire cast.

So, you can imagine how excited Jensen was to see Allison Reimold's Freaks and Geeks themed piece for our Idiot Box show...



This piece is amazing and so perfect for this show! Stay tuned for more preview pics...

Katie
G1988 SF

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