G4TV posted their video of the Idiot Box opening reception which includes interviews with me, Dennis Haskins, Devin Crane and Misha. Thanks to our friends at G4 and Attack of the Show for the coverage, but no love to Blair Butler for missing this exhibit. I will return her love status when she comes by to check out the art in person. Until then, here's the video...
Jensen
G1988: LA
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Upcoming show announcement!
(Click the image to enlarge)
Stay tuned for more info, and preview pics!
Katie
G1988 SF
LA is Open On Easter!
Stop on by the LA Gallery1988 on Easter, as we're open tomorrow 12-4. Maybe you can bring a Cadbury Egg to Aileen, who will be manning the fort, but if not, whatever.
Jensen
G1988: LA
Friday, April 10, 2009
In Da
Brandt Peters x House
Ask and you shall receive. The "Peacemaker Banner" from Brandt's 1988 solo show "Cackle Factory" is ready for it's close-up. Now that the character who owned this piece is dead, who's the beneficiary who inherits it?
Jensen
G1988: LA
Ask and you shall receive. The "Peacemaker Banner" from Brandt's 1988 solo show "Cackle Factory" is ready for it's close-up. Now that the character who owned this piece is dead, who's the beneficiary who inherits it?
Jensen
G1988: LA
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Go To Mars
We are proud to announce our newest Crazy 4 Cult 2 print from LA artist Jeff Ramirez!
Taking his four separate "Total Recall" inspired pieces, which were major highlights of the 2008 installment, and turning them into one print, we take the good Gov. Arnold and give him the 1988 treatment. Each giclee print is on archival paper and is 10 1/4 x 13 2/3 inches. They are hand signed and numbered by the artist, in an edition of only 25. These print are $60 each.
Since "Total Recall" is one of my favorite Sci-fi movies ever, I consider this a must have. And having all 4 images on one paper will look awesome on your wall, especially if you're looking to take a vacation to Mars in your head.
You can email us at gallery1988@aol.com, or call (323) 937-7088, to order.
Jensen
G1988: LA
Taking his four separate "Total Recall" inspired pieces, which were major highlights of the 2008 installment, and turning them into one print, we take the good Gov. Arnold and give him the 1988 treatment. Each giclee print is on archival paper and is 10 1/4 x 13 2/3 inches. They are hand signed and numbered by the artist, in an edition of only 25. These print are $60 each.
Since "Total Recall" is one of my favorite Sci-fi movies ever, I consider this a must have. And having all 4 images on one paper will look awesome on your wall, especially if you're looking to take a vacation to Mars in your head.
You can email us at gallery1988@aol.com, or call (323) 937-7088, to order.
Jensen
G1988: LA
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
About to fall over...
(Daniel Danger)
My life these past few days feels like a blur. We're talking non-stop, no rest for a week straight. It started when I flew down to LA for Idiot Box, which was so much fun! It was a GREAT show, so even though I had to wake up at 4am to fly back to SF the next morning, it was definitely worth going. Got back to SF on Friday and went straight to work on the Danger/McCarthy show, which opened last Saturday. This show is incredible. I have never heard so many people say this was their favorite show we've ever had. The opening went great, was a little hectic when we first opened the doors because a lot of people wanted to grab the new Danger prints that were released. But the real chaos didn't start until Sunday morning when I work up thinking, hooray it's the weekend!, but then reality set in when I looked at our inbox to find hundreds of inquires about the Danger and McCarthy prints from the new show. Ok, so this is a good "problem" to have, that so many people love these two artists, but it was a little overwhelming at first, I must admit. But in the end, hooray for a successful show and congratulations to Dan McCarthy and Daniel Danger because they worked their butts off for this show.
The show was picked up by Flavorpill, Hi-Fructose and Arrested Motion, which is so awesome! You can check out the articles, which also feature pics of the artists and interviews...
Hi-Fructose: http://hifructose.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=333
Arrested Motion: http://arrestedmotion.com/2009/04/openings-daniel-danger-dan-mccarthy-gallery-1988-sf/#more-17056
Flavorpill: http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco/events/2009/4/4/the-watcher-in-the-woods
A huge thank you to everyone who supported the show and spread the word!!
If you're interested in seeing all of the work, please visit the show blog here... http://1988watcher.blogspot.com. The show will be up until April 25th, so definitely check it out in person if you can.
AND THEN.....
(Kiersten Essenpries)
We have exciting news about the Seinfeldology contest. Yes, that's right! We have a winner....
Nistasha Perez from Chicago got every single answer correct from the reference key!! So, Nistasha's big prize for winning is an artist proof of Luke Chueh's "Disintegration" prints.
And coming in a very close second was G1988 friend and long time supporter, Cory Sontag! Cory got 98 of the 99 Seinfeld references correct! Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest. We will be releasing prints of Kiersten's piece in the near future, so stayed tuned!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Kidnapping Kathie
G1988 homies Jenny Mollen and Jason Biggs debuted their 10 minute film, "Kidnapping Caitlynn," on FunnyOrDie today and making a cameo is a painting by none other than Kathie Olivas...
It's even a bit of a plot point, which is awesome. Between this and her husband Brandt Peters having a piece from his last G1988: LA show, "Cackle Factory," on this week's "House" - they are definitely going Hollywood. Anyone got a screen cap of that for us? All I know is that the piece is seen in Kal Penn's room, and the press for this week's episode has been nuts (Kumar leaves show to join Obama's staff seems like a story from The Onion). Anyone wanna screen cap?
Anyway, check out Jenny and Jason's awesome short by CLICKING HERE. And vote Funny. Or we find you. And kidnap you.
Jensen
G1988: LA
Poppers
We got a nice little mention by one of our favorite bloggers, Whitney Matheson, over at USAToday.com today and wanted to share...
You can read the whole post by CLICKING HERE.
THANKS, Whitney, for the endorsement...we send one right back.
Jensen
G1988: LA
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Boys
Before last night's extremely successful opening reception for "Watcher In The Woods," the new 2-man exhibit at G1988: SF featuring artwork from Daniel Danger and Dan McCarthy, the homies at Arrested Motion sat down with both Dans and previewed the show, as well as got some questions answered. You can read the article by CLICKING HERE.
And you can see the entire inspiring show, as well as see what's still available (those first two Danger paintings are even tempting me), by visiting http://1988watcher.blogspot.com/.
Jensen
G1988: LA
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Recap In A Box
So the smoke has cleared, and we're catching up on paperwork from our "Idiot Box" 5-year Anniversary show, which opened last Thursday night. A total success, the gallery was busy from 7 - 11 PM - and we couldn't be happier with the artwork delivered for this show. And we couldn't thank our host, Dennis "Mr. Belding" Haskins enough. Dennis was more than happy to take photos and sign autographs (on headshots we made for the man, customized by artist Andrew Wilson). Katie's inner-geek was also happy to see Chelsea Handler stop by. Lots of incredible pieces are still available, as well as a group of show specific prints, and you can see these by CLICKING HERE. Here are some pictures from opening night...
The obligatory line/crowd shot.
And now the other angle. What I like to call the "Belding Perspective."
Here's Dennis with gallery assistant, Aileen.
Dennis meeting Andrew Wilson, the sneaky fellow who went to town on Haskins' headshot for the flyer and night's autograph opportunity.
Artist Mark Bodnar, who's LOST inspired piece was "tweeted" about earlier in the day by Kevin Smith, hangs with collector Aris, who left his normal surroundings of NY to hang.
In this bromance, I sort of feel like Andrew is Brody Jenner and I kinda won some crappy TV show to hang with him a few times.
Artist Mylan Nguyen with her TMNT inspired girls. She also got a rather incredible autograph from Mr. Belding that you might not expect a high school principal to partake in. Yeah, that happened!
Artist Brandon Sopinsky stands near his nerd dream mash-up of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" and "Watchmen."
A gallery patron stares into Rachel J. Wong's TV piece, and like an episode of Rock of Love, you can't change the channel.
This show will be open through April 23rd, so stop by!!!! We also want to thank all the places who covered the show including G4, LA Weekly, AintItCool, Flavorpill, JoshSpear.com, TheOriginalWinger.com, OMG Posters and everybody else I can't think of right before I get ready to go into the gallery.
Jensen
G1988: LA
The obligatory line/crowd shot.
And now the other angle. What I like to call the "Belding Perspective."
Here's Dennis with gallery assistant, Aileen.
Dennis meeting Andrew Wilson, the sneaky fellow who went to town on Haskins' headshot for the flyer and night's autograph opportunity.
Artist Mark Bodnar, who's LOST inspired piece was "tweeted" about earlier in the day by Kevin Smith, hangs with collector Aris, who left his normal surroundings of NY to hang.
In this bromance, I sort of feel like Andrew is Brody Jenner and I kinda won some crappy TV show to hang with him a few times.
Artist Mylan Nguyen with her TMNT inspired girls. She also got a rather incredible autograph from Mr. Belding that you might not expect a high school principal to partake in. Yeah, that happened!
Artist Brandon Sopinsky stands near his nerd dream mash-up of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" and "Watchmen."
A gallery patron stares into Rachel J. Wong's TV piece, and like an episode of Rock of Love, you can't change the channel.
This show will be open through April 23rd, so stop by!!!! We also want to thank all the places who covered the show including G4, LA Weekly, AintItCool, Flavorpill, JoshSpear.com, TheOriginalWinger.com, OMG Posters and everybody else I can't think of right before I get ready to go into the gallery.
Jensen
G1988: LA
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