WOW!!

We just finished the flyer for our next SF show and I'm so excited to show you because we used Jeff McMillan's piece from the show and it is insanely good...



I can't wait for this show! Stay tuned for more preview pics and also check out the show blog for in-progress shots and updates from the artists... http://1988movieposters.blogspot.com/

Katie
G1988 SF

And Boy, Are My Arms Are Tired

Back from a whirlwind trip to SF to catch The G1988/Luke Chueh fiesta "Vivisect Playset (Round 5)" and getting the space ready for what is sure to be an attention-filled exhibit, "Without You I'm Just Me," featuring the work of Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy) and Travis McCoy (Gym Class Heroes). Listen, getting preview email requests from Pharrell Williams just doesn't happen much in our parts. In addition to the Wentz/McCoy art skills, the two rock stars also did some collaborations with 1988 familiar faces like Greg Simkins, Luke Chueh, Jeff McMillan and Buff Monster. While long-time desired artist, Dan May, makes his G1988: LA debut, with a team up as well - seen below...



Fall Out Boy lead singer, Patrick Vaughn Stump is also rumored to be contributing a piece. Gonna be good times. And our homies at GelaSkins created dope iPod skins to celebrate the opening reception, which is this Tuesday night.



The public reception is 6-9 PM, Private Friends and Family jump-off is 9-11 PM. The gallery has a few spots for the VIP reception, so shoot over an email if I know you enough to expect that you won't be creepy.

Anyway, back to the grind.

Jensen
G1988: LA

The Day After...

So a nice Black Friday here at Gallery 1988, compared to the tragic insanity other places in the US, and some customers walked away with some super door buster deals. And now the Greg Simkins "It Wanders West" show comes down in LA, making way for Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz and Gym Class Hero Travis McCoy's "Without You I'm Just Me," which opens Dec. 9th to what we figure will be a lot of fanfare.

We made these with our friends at Gelakins for the event:



And here's a sneak at another collabo with LA artist Jeff McMillan and Pete Wentz:



Going to be a lot of fun on Dec. 9th, so make sure to swing by, as you blog readers will be stoked to see what other G1988 frequenters have teamed up with the rock stars.

AND, don't forget about Dan Goodsell's solo show opening up over at our online interactive gallery, 88point5, today. You can check out the show by CLICKING HERE. Lots of pieces have already sold, but lots of amazing paintings and drawings are still available for your Toast obsessed loved ones! And you can converse directly with the artist on the site's discussion boards. So you know, Dan is also the world's most complete collector of vintage food memorabilia (especially cereals), so that's always fun to talk about on a message board.



Jensen
G1988: LA

Prints Releasing - Jeff McMillan & Scott Campbell

This Friday, September 26th is print release day at Gallery1988. We have new prints from Jeff McMillan and Scott Campbell!


Jeff McMillan "Punchouts" at Gallery1988 Los Angeles...



Jeff McMillan
"Punchouts"
giclee prints on Textured Fine Art Paper
6 x 6 inches each
limited edition of 100
$30.00 each or $300.00 for set of 11

From top left... Von Kaiser, Soda Popinski, Mike Tyson,
Piston Honda, Great Tiger, Don Flamenco,
Glass Joe, King Hippo, Mr. Sandman,
Super Macho Man, and Bald Bull.

These prints will be released this Friday, September 26th at 11:00AM PST at Gallery1988 Los Angeles. For purchasing please email gallery1988@aol.com or call (323) 937-7088.


and four of Scott Campbell's "Friends With ET" series at Gallery1988 San Francisco...


Scott Campbell
"Friends With ET: Hungrying"
giclee print on Textured Fine Art Paper
10 x 8 inches
limited edition of 100
signed and numbered
$50.00 each


Scott Campbell
"Friends With ET: Jumping"
giclee print on Textured Fine Art Paper
10 x 8 inches
limited edition of 100
signed and numbered
$50.00 each


Scott Campbell
"Friends With ET: Sliding"
giclee print on Textured Fine Art Paper
10 x 8 inches
limited edition of 100
signed and numbered
$50.00 each


Scott Campbell
"Friends With ET: Soundwaving"
giclee print on Textured Fine Art Paper
10 x 8 inches
limited edition of 100
signed and numbered
$50.00 each

These prints will be released this Friday, September 26th at 12PM PST at Gallery1988 San Francisco. For purchasing please email gallery1988sf@gmail.com or call (415) 409-1376.

All of these fine prints are releasing this Friday, September 26th!

Roland Tamayo and Jeff McMillan News

Our friend, Kurt Barbee from 5280 Lasers was in town during the Roland Tamayo solo show back in April in San Francisco. He took some great footage of Roland's show and recently posted it on Vimeo. Thanks Kurt!!!

Check out the video HERE!

I also wanted to congratulate Liv and Jeff McMillan on their very recent wedding! I feel very lucky to have been there, as Jeff has become a very close friend over the past few years and I was so happy to celebrate with him and Liv!







Most memorable guest was the larger than life yeti in lederhosen, which Jeff actually made himself.

Katie
G1988 SF

Up and Early

Been at the Gallery since 8:30 AM as ABC is filming a nice little segment on the TOYS! exhibit...



Max Grundy is ready for his close-up. Look for this segment to run at 5 PM tonight on Channel 7 (unless we get bumped for breaking news like a 2 headed bird birthed in Switzerland. In that case, it would run tomorrow). I'll link it up when it's available online, as I may have been able to once again sneak the sentence, "...and you can tell by the results" into my interview (a practice I've tried to accomplish since our first coverage in 2005).

Oh, here's a long version of the news segment that's been running all week. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO, as this is the Channel 2 CBS version. Weirdly, in LA, our Channel 2 and Channel 9 are owned by the same people, making for a weird deja vu feeling when changing the channels during the news hour.

Shout out to Jack FM, who gave us the same thing during drive time the other day for the TOYS! exhibit. I also want to thank Seth Green for jumping into the press madness on opening night and saying such nice things about the exhibit and the gallery. Good people that Seth.

So, when we do big events like this, sometimes a photographer is hired to take photos of the night and try and get them picked up the Associated Press and hence, published all over the Internet. And they'll take a bajillion pictures, but only about one or two will be ever seen by someone outside of the show production. So I usually get a disc of all the pictures a day or two later, and this disc is always dependable for a dozen or so laughs, and this one is no different. Here we go...and we'll end with this show's winner, finding itself all over the web. These were all taken during the private 6-7 reception we had in the gallery for a Mattel only preview.



Greg has a serious stare down with his Hot Wheels illustration.



The Dangler HAD to smile, even if it just barely snuck in there. I mean, look at how cute that bear is. You have to grin a little. Making an angry face in front of that painting would be like meeting the person behind Hello Kitty and finding out they have a Swastika tattoo on their bicep.



Danielle Rizollo, a newcomer to 1988, not only sold her piece, but also took pictures of other artists' pieces in order to print them on her home Epson and sell them through Photobucket. I kid. She uses Flickr.

Since in my prior life I found myself on a stage a lot, I know that I usually look like a total moron with a microphone in my hand. While talking (or performing) I make faces that would make Peter North jealous. I'm like the John Mayer of gallery owners. Take these examples, as we had a small little presentation for the employees and VIPs of Mattel and our partner charity CAAF.







I mean, really? I look AWFUL.

I also had to introduce Greg Simkins, who did the whole dog and pony show for the press and such. He did a great job, as I know being put on the spot like that isn't exactly what you sign up for when you decide to start showing in galleries.



Here's a better picture of the real size Hot Wheel that was parked outside during the exhibit.



And then the photo guy makes you take a lot of posed pictures, pretending they are candid, which is always good for a laugh. Usually, during these shots, everyone involved is saying, "Man, this is awkward" and laughing, but to anyone looking at the photo on the web, it looks like someone either just told a joke or watched an elderly person fall.









Those are all mixes of me, Greg, the execs at Hot Wheels/Mattel and our representative from CAAF. Here's our 3rd grade class photo.



And as if they didn't get enough attention this week (I mean, it was the dude's first gallery showing EVER and now he has a commission waiting list)...The Browns.



Mark celebrated his first (and second) gallery sale ever and this dude has a future brighter than Ryan Seacrest's teeth.

Even artists got into the staged photo ops. Jeff McMillan and Greg Simkins present: "Amazement."



Which brings us to the TOYS! winner. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the winner, a picture now picked up my numerous sources and plastered throughout the WWW: Jeff McMillan asking you to touch his car.



Don't believe me? Check this out:

Breitbart

AN ARGENTINIAN NEWSWIRE!!!!

A JAPANESE NEWS SITE!

I mean, and that's three I found with a quick search. Congrats, Jeff, you're our Associated Press darling and we couldn't be happier.

On top of that, thanks to Hypebeast for the post, as well as GermanCarScene.com, Clutter Magazine, 4Kidsnus.com, German Welt Online, MetroMix, GoingLosAngeles.com, Flavor Pill, La2Day, The Guide at LA Times, LAist, All About Duncan, DUB, Thrillist and Vinyl Pulse for their coverage.

And there's still more to come. I'm looking at you, Wolf Blitzer.

Jensen
G1988: LA

Dick Clark's Ball Does It

We're in a countdown, folks. The weekend is here, marking a very fast approaching CRAZY 4 CULT show opening Tuesday night. We were mentioned in Variety today (as well as Campus Circle), so the press is building. But Variety? That's gotta be a first for an art show, right? Oh, I got this picture from the Film Freak the other day, which also will somewhat reveal the final piece from Jeff McMillan, which you see a rough draft of on the shows' postcard. It's Leo the Film Freak, Scott Mosier, Me and Kevin:



That piece is totally incredible. It has to be seen to be believed. And you'll see it soon.

Besides that, I'm more stressed that an Armenian man making an arm waxing appointment. For the record, I'm allowed to say that as I am half Armenian (but full hairy). The work is being dropped off as I write this, and each one is more impressive. Some obscure movies represented? How about Better Off Dead? Yup. TWO DOLLARS.

Don't miss this show.

Jensen
G1988: LA

BEST WEEKEND EVER

So this past weekend was especially fun because LA artists, Jeff McMillan and Brian Kesling, came to visit! Emily from StrangeCo and Pete Gronquist rounded up some friends and we took Jeff and Brian down to good old Zeitgeist. The night led to an art making pizza party not appropriate for children, a mild food fight and a house party with Cass, the three-legged dog.








All three of these artists are in our current show, The Onset and you can check out their websites here (click their names)...

Peter Gronquist
Jeff McMillan
Brian Kesling (unfortunately doesn't have a website, but you can see his work in The Onset)

Katie and Emily from StrangeCo
and Three-Legged dog photo courtesy of Jeff McMillan

Ill-us-tree-eight

Back to the artist's visits for you, Mr. Blog Reader. Today, Jeff McMillan swung by the gallery to not only study the red dots on ALL OF HIS Mike Tyson Opponents, but to just say hello. He had a schedule of galleries to vis...oh wait...here's the picture I took today:



So, anyway, he had a group of galleries to visit today, just to catch up on the LA scene, as he readies himself for a NY solo show, and figured he'd stop by (with his GF of two years....TODAY). Jeff will always be one of my favorite artists we show, as I even own his first I AM 8-BIT piece from 2006 AND employed him to illustrate my very first book (available from Abrams Publishing in October 07, thanks). He's whimsical, but at the same time can dedicate an entire show to angry rival horse jockeys or agressive Masonites. He's a good dude and a David Lynch fan, so you know he likes good shit.

Back to intern interviews for me. Talk amongst yourselves.

Jensen
G1988: LA