artist's I like : APAK

APAK are Aaron and Ayumi, a husband and wife art making team!

If thats not cute enough, check out their art!

I have been a fan for a while, and I love the next piece more than the last it seems.

There is something about their work that draws me in a personal way.

A lot of their pieces remind me of dreams Ive had.

Like this one titled "pools of light".

I would have dreams of a garden surrounding a natural pool. 

The flowers and plants of the garden looked like  crystals, and they glowed a blue light.

its one of  my most favorite dreams. I havent dreamt of it in a while, but looking at this piece reminds me of it.

this is another favorite of mine

A piece they did for Gallery 1988's Crazy 4 Cult. 

"goodbye loompa land"

too cute!

Paging Mr Herman....

So Friday was the opening to the Pee Wee Herman tribute art show.

Sadly once again I could not go, but some fellow artist friends filled me in and it seemed like it was a great turn out.

heres my piece in its frame

and here are my favs from the show!

Dimitri Simakis "The Spirit of the Universal Illumination"

Jason Liwag "The Playhouse Gang Print Set" 

Ryan Snook "Pee-Wee"

Scott Derby "A Loner, A Rebel…"

Chris B. Murray "Mr.Breakfast"

So if you live in the Venice area you should go check it out!!!

But if you dont go check them out online!!

www.nineteeneightyeight.com

seriously?

who else can come up with stuff like this?

no one but Junko Mizuno.

look at it!

she never ceases to amaze me.

And once again she is having a show that I cannot go too.

want

All the pieces from Crazy 4 Cult are up and available online at Gallery 1988's website.

this is so perfect to me! I Love 64 Colors, and I Love Eraserhead!

I want it so bad!!!

awesome!

go check out all the pieces!

Ryan+Me = super rad show!

I met Ryan at an art fair we both did when I was first starting out. And instantly liked him. His work has a combination of chaos and beauty. And hes a super cool cat to boot. I had been wanting to do this series of work, and knew I would need someone with the same life ambitions as myself to partner up with, and Ryan was 1st in my mind.

heres some of his past works.

see more Ryan G Hill

Camille Rose Garcia @ Merry Karnowsky

I was lucky enough to find out that Camille Rose Garcia was having an opening while we were there.

So I called up my friend Irene, along with her friend Tristan and my Aaron we crammed out bodies in to the packed Merry Karnowsky. Camille was there signing her book, and the line for that was insane!

Irene and I, performing our perfected awkward photo

I finally got to get a Camille print, I got the one on the top .



On the other side of the gallery, was Miss Vans work.

Me and Aaron were attacked by a drunk girl named Tuesday, who proclaimed to us she thought the bathroom was in the corner and almost peed on the floor. She continued her weirdness and took our camera and made us let her take our picture. Picture not included in this post, due to the blur created by a very drunk girl.

Sticky & Sweet - June 20th

well I'm super excited to be doing a show with super rad Kill Taupe! !

There isnt anyone else Id rather do such a fun show with!

The show is themed with all things sweet and yes sticky!

I will even be baking cupcakes for the occasion!

the opening with be on June 20th 6pm-10pm

@ 323 East in Royal Oak

Kill taupe

Sir Kill Taupe and I are having a show together in June!

Its gonna be a fun one!

more info later..for now here is a tiny sneak peak.