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THANK YOU to everyone who came out last night to our [adult swim] art tribute opening reception! What an incredible night. We felt confident, even with customers lining up 28 hours before we opened doors, that the artwork would blow people away.

And now you can see, and purchase the art yourselves by CLICKING HERE.

Also, check out the video our friend Andrew Baik (andrewbaik.com) filmed of the wild opening reception by CLICKING HERE.

This show runs through Feb 4th, so make sure to stop by if you can!!!

Jensen
G1988

FIRST OFFICIAL CRAZY 4 CULT 5 PREVIEW

Click the picture above to see SlashFilm's exclusive art sneak preview of Crazy 4 Cult 5! The preview includes work from Matt Owen, Dave Perillo, NC Winters, Alex Pardee, Mike Mitchell, Jim Horwat and Eric Tan.

As you can see, this is going to be a sequel that rocks. Don't miss the opening, this Friday night, 7-11 PM at the Melrose location.

Jensen
G1988 (Melrose)

Thanks G4!

SOME REAL GEMS IN THIS ONE!

I say if you don't like art, you're a horrible human.
I compare the gallery to "Field Of Dreams" (???)
Kevin Smith calls himself a "Misha completionist."
Rich Pelligrino continues to be my favorite, super genuine interviewee.
Wait, maybe Ayami is my favorite, super genuine interviewee. OK, it's a tie.
Kevin calls it the best year yet. And "It's Jensen's world, he just lets me live in it" might end up on my tombstone.
Scott Listfield says super nice stuff...thank you, sir.
And YUP, we got a book deal. More on that down the road....

Video Games - E3 2011

Jensen
G1988:LA

WOW

Eric Tan's newest print for "Crazy 4 Cult 4" - opening July 9, 2010 at Gallery1988:LA.

Jensen
G1988:LA

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

Posted Up

One of my favorite elements to our upcoming Under The Influence: The Official Tribute to Beastie Boys show, which opens this Thursday night, 7 - 10 PM, is that there are a handful of insanely dope prints and posters created specifically for the event, all limited edition - hand signed and numbered by the artists. It's Sunday night, 11 PM, minutes away from my official vacation ending, so I'm hardly in a funny mood to write. BUT, why not just show you the images of theses posters in my pool of bitterness? Info to come later...



Eric Tan



MCA (Evil Design)



The Silent Giants (getting their Cooky Puss reference on!)



Ryan Hungerford

Shit. Back to work. Hurts.

Jensen
G1988: LA

New York Times, dude.

Mr. Nightime from clandestine on Vimeo.


A dramatic reenactment of how the piece "Mr. Night Time" was created in Pete Wentz's house with one Travis McCoy. Just the facts, ma'am. Here's the piece from our current exhibit "Without You I'm Just Me" that - like Billy Joel when I was in elementary school - did start the fire.



While on the subject...some more insane press mentions for you to click...

New York Times (!!!!!) Shouts to Jon Caramanica, a friend of the gallery since the early days and one of the few writers I can geniunely say I look up to.

Perez Hilton

An insightful write up from the friends at Toycyte And not just because they agree with me. OK, it is that too.

Next week starts publicity for Under the Influence: The Official Art Tribute To Beastie Boys, where I'll break down the whole G1988: LA exhibit opening Jan. 8, 2009 - which is in conjunction with the band themselves - and get you some insane preview sneak peeks. Until then, here's Mear One's contribution followed by Eric Tan's incredible poster.





Gonna be a wild ride.

Jensen
G1988: LA

Sneak Preview Part II

I'm in Hawaii right now, bout to celebrate the New Year - which you would think would keep me off the blog, but seeing that new Nathan Ota piece Katie posted, made me jealous. So here's some new peeks at pieces from the upcoming Stan Lee Tribute at G1988: LA on Jan. 9th:

Luke Chueh



Joshua Clay



And with that...Happy New Year and ALOHA!

Jensen
Hawaii/G1988: LA