STILL TIME TO SEE THE ROBOT CARNIVAL!

Just a few more days and the Robot Carnival leaves town.  The art will be available at the Gallery 1988 Website for a while after the show closes.

We had a great opening night, thanks for all who came down.  At one point the Robot Tightrope Riders took a fall, due to my faulty engineering.  After a little super glue and some pliers it was back up and running.

Hung out with some great people and artist!

Sean Chao

Brent Bushnell of Two Bit Circus

Photographer Frank Schaefer

Artists Shane Geil and Anthony Ausgang 

Artist Robbie Conal and his wife Deborah Ross

(I was telling them about how big my hair used to be)

Fixing the tightrope.

Robbie, Deborah, and my partner in the show Mark Bryan 

Young artists, with the old artist.

Women love robots.

Discussing the finer points of ridiculous cartoons with Tom Stern.

Everyone hoping it will stay up in the air.

The show officially closes on Sat Nov 7th.  I'll keep you all posted on more upcoming shows and  events!

SILK SCREEN POSTER!

The Robot Carnival limited edition silk screen posters have just arrived.  They look amazing, I based the design on those old carnival posters with just a few colors and a block of white to stamp the info of what ever town they rolled in to that week.   Mark Bryan and I collaborated on the characters. this is a limited run of 100 that will be signed a numbered by Mark and myself, and if you come to the opening I'm sure you can get some of the other artists to sign your poster.

WORKING ON THE ROBOT CARNIVAL!

Still more art to make before the big opening next week.  I'm at the point where I believe it will all come together but there's so much to do it's hard to tell.  This is the almost finished piece: "In The Future All Carnies Will Be Replaced By Robots."   No mater how futuristic we get someone has to mop up the vomit.

FRIDAY OCT 23RD!!!!

Finally we are getting close to the opening of Robot Carnival at Gallery 1988.   I have been painting, and building a couple of moving sculptures that are proving to be way more complicated then I expected.   Also there is going to be a collaborative limited edition Silk Screen show poster by Mark Bryan and myself.   We have 8 other amazing artists participating in the show:

David Chung

Joshua Ellingson

Geoffrey Gersten

Aaron Jasinski

Gabe Lanza

Shaunna Peterson

Wade Schin

Lawrence Yang

so there's going to be quite a bit of cool Robot art!

Old school freak show posters were my inspiration for two of my larger pieces- Mermaid-O-Matic and Automated Evil.  It seemed like the Mermaid and Devil themes were popular, sex and evil will always attract a crowd.

A little WIP shot of Automated Evil.

There will be a couple more posts  as we get closer to the show looking forward to seeing you all there!

ROBOT CARNIVAL IN OCTOBER!

  

Working on my upcoming Gallery show Robot Carnival at Gallery 1988 opening Oct 23.  I will have some automated sculptures hopefully a couple the mechanics are a little daunting, one day working fine test after test, the next day it's like it never worked.  More WIP pics on the way!

ASTRO SLOTH DEBUT THIS WEEKEND!

Also the Astro Sloth will be available this weekend at the MOAH show, then on my website Monday July 20th.

I'm finishing the painting this week and they will be boxed and ready to ship!  There are only 20 so don't wait!

THIS WEEKEND!!!

Proud to announce the opening of "The Art Of Toys" - A Left Coast Retrospective Of Designer Toys will be opening in Lancaster CA the is weekend.   Curated by Julie B and Heidi Johnson this is the first museum retrospective of the vinyl collector toys.   If the show is popular it may travel but we will see.  For those of you in Southern California I'm looking forward to seeing you all there.