FRANK KOZIK A Clockwork Carrot Release and Signing this Sat. at TAG!
Toy Art Gallery is proud to host the release and signing of Frank Kozik’s A CLOCKWORK CARROT in our Hollywood, California gallery space on Saturday, June 8th from 7-8PM. A Clockwork Carrot, produced by BlackBook Toy Japan and sculpted by T9G, is Kozik’s tribute to Kubrick’s seminal film. The figure is 11.25 inches of japanese soft vinyl, and interests include milk plus, a bit of the old ultra-violence and Beethoven.
This signing will also see the release of the ultra-limited A Clockwork Carrot “Pure Evil” edition, a shared exclusive between TAG and BlackBook Toy!
Frank will be at the gallery signing from 7-8PM on Saturday night, so join us at Toy Art Gallery’s showroom located at 7571 Melrose Ave. Hollywood CA 90046.
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ROCK ‘n’ ROLL UAMOU feat. Uamou, RealxHead, and Skull Toys opens Sat. night!
Toy Art Gallery is proud to present Rock ‘n’ Roll Uamou! Japanese artist Uamou (Ayako Takagi) is known for her various Uamou creature creations in a variety of mediums. With Rock ‘n’ Roll Uamou, she is joined by frequent collaborators RealxHead and Skull Toys to express their vision of Rock and Roll music with customized soft vinyl Uamou figures!
Rock ‘n’ Roll Uamou features a host of customs in various sizes from Uamou, RealxHead and Skull Toys as well as a series of mini prints and an exclusive poster. A highlight of the show is the Rock ‘n’ Roll Real Uamou, a 9” tall soft vinyl collaborative figure from Uamou and Realxhead which includes a handmade leather jacket!
Please join us for the exhibit opening on Saturday, May 11th from 7-10pm at Toy Art Gallery’s showroom located at 7571 Melrose Ave. Hollywood CA 90046.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Uamou runs through June 23rd.
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About Toy Art Gallery:
Toy Art Gallery is the first gallery of its kind to showcase and consult on high-end art toys and sculptures. Our goal is to showcase exciting, original, and new artists who use figurative sculpture as their primary medium of expression. We also focus on showing, collecting, and producing high end, limited edition, custom, and life-size toy sculptures. Our showroom and gallery is located in Hollywood, California. Visit us online at www.toyartgallery.com
About Uamou:
Ayako Takagi, creator of Uamou from Another Planet, graduated from Camberwell College of Arts and soon began creating Uamou products whilst studying in Europe. She exhibited in Collette’s “MY2007” exhibition, and has also produced various collaborations with BEAMS. She is currently working as a designer and artist on the international stage, whilst holding exhibitions at the Tokyo-based shop/gallery/atelier STUDIO UAMOU since 2011. Expressing the world of Uamou through various mediums such as picture books, figures and animation, Ayako is working to bridge the gap between the character movement and art/design.
About RealxHead:
Realxhead has called his works for this exhibition is “REALxHEAD NOT DEAD”. He started a career a an artist in 2003, and describes his journey since then as “I’m always struggling to be alive now!” His philosophy for everything that he created is “Don’t Think, Feel.”
About Skull Toys:
Japan-based artist Skull Toys began working as a professional artist in 2005. His name derives from his soft vinyl toys or sofubi and illustrations which exhibit a “SKULL” motif.
20% OFF Memorial Day Sale! Sat-Mon
Toy Art Gallery is having a huge Memorial Day Sale this weekend starting Saturday morning at 12:00 AM PST, with our entire online store* at 20% off retail price! This includes all Kaiju, Designer Toys, Blind Box and Mini-figures, Books and Magazines, Apparel, and even our Lifesize Fiberglass Figure Series! The TAG Memorial Day Sale will run from Saturday, May 25th through Monday, May 27th at 11:59 PST, don’t miss out! *Sale will exclude work from our shows
20% OFF at TAG SHOP!
We’ve been nominated! Designer Toy Awards 2013
We’ve been nominated in a multitude of categories in this year’s Designer Toy Awards! Many thanks to everyone who submitted our name for following the awards: Best Collection, Best Online Toy Store, Best Sofubi (Pollen Kaiser), Best Toy Store, and Outstanding Production (Metal Neo-Eyezon)! Click on the following link to make your votes!
Designer Toy Awards 2013
Mark Ryden’s YHWH Group Custom Show and Choco Moo Solo Exhibit Preview Now Available!
Toy Art Gallery is proud to be hosting two exciting events this weekend, Mark Ryden’s YHWH Custom Group Show and the Choco Moo Solo Exhibition! Both shows begin at 7PM and are open to the public.
Work from the YHWH Custom Group Show will be available for sale in our online shop starting tomorrow at 12PM PST on Saturday, May 11th: YHWH @ TAG SHOP
The preview is available to view at the following link: Mark Ryden’s YHWH Custom Group Show Preview
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The YHWH Custom Group show will run from May 11th – May 26th 2013. All sold work will ship within three weeks of the end of the exhibition.
Work from the Choco Moo Solo Exhibition is available for sale now through May 16th in our online store: Choco Moo @ TAG SHOP
Work can also be viewed at the following link: Choco Moo Solo Exhibition Preview
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The Choco Moo Solo Exhibition will run from May 11th – May 16th 2013. *Note: All Choco Moo purchases will include a free signed poster
Thank you for looking and we hope to see you all at the opening!
Choco Moo Solo Exhibition this Sat. 5/11!
Toy Art Gallery is proud to introduce Japanese illustrator Choco Moo in her first major
gallery showcase of artworks in the United States. Her solo exhibition in the gallery’s
project room coincides with Mark Ryden’s much anticipated YHWH Custom Group
Show in the main gallery, featuring original custom YHWH toy pieces by 30 international
artists and a special 6′ ft large scale box replica by Mark Ryden. Kyoto-based Choco
Moo is perhaps best known by American fashionistas for her signature black and white
tattoo tights created for Harajuku based brand Mam Avantgarde, which skyrocketed in
popularity in 2012. Since then, her designs have been worn by everyone from Japanese
celebrities like Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, for which she created her first word tour goods, to
American pop stars like Kreayshawn and Nicki Minaj, to big names in Kpop like Girl’s
Generation. Her artwork has attacted the attention of world famous artists like KAWS to
major brands such as Disney and A Bathing Ape. Coming up next for Choco Moo is the
Joyrich x Choco Moo collaboration which launches worldwide in May 2013. Her artwork
will be offered for sale by Toy Art Gallery, with a free signed poster for every online and
instore purchase, from May 10th-16th, 2013 only at shop.toyartgallery.com.
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For more information about Choco Moo and Sweet Streets artists, visit us online at
www.sweetstreetsla.com.
About Sweet Streets:
Sweet Streets is an artist management firm specializing in the representation of artists
of the kawaii movement. A Japanese concept often described as “cute”, our artists
define kawaii by one’s own feelings. Established in 2011, we aspire to the general
management of events and projects, and the production and promotion of artwork and
merchandise for our artists. With business based in Los Angeles and Tokyo, Sweet
Streets maintains relationships with international galleries and retailers to encourage
new trends in the art world. Originally founded to manage artists, Sweet Streets has
grown to organize collaborative projects with some of the industry’s top influential
brands spanning art, music, fashion, vinyl toys, and more. Our artists have participated
in such projects as in-store installations, animation and toy designs, to leasing their
artwork for music albums and celebrity fashion. By curating exhibitions for a growing list
of clients, we provide our artists with opportunities to work together while exploring the
relationship between American and Japanese cultures. www.sweetstreetsla.com
Mark Ryden’s YHWH Group Custom Show opens Sat. 5/11 at Toy Art Gallery
Toy Art Gallery is proud to present Mark Ryden’s YHWH Group Custom Show! Pop-surrealist godfather Mark Ryden’s first and only vinyl toy took three years of meticulous work to create, and with Ryden’s blessing we have assembled an extremely talented pool of artists to lend their vision and skill to one of the greatest designer vinyl toys to ever be produced.
‘YHWH is the unpronounceable name of god. My YHWH represents the indefinable nature of the divine and its unspeakable mystery, which can be represented by anything from a burning bush to a three eyed bunny totem. In creating my YHWH toy edition, I strove to elevate each and every individual figure from a mass produced piece of plastic to a magical object.
I very much look forward to seeing how each artist responds to the spiritual energies of their YHWHs.‘
-Mark Ryden
The YHWH Custom Group Show features the following artists:
Akira Kiriya/Chikuwaemil, Anthony Ausgang, Bob Conge/Plaseebo, Camilla d’Errico, Camille Rose Garcia, Cris Rose, Daniel Goffin, David Flores, DrilOne, Doze Green, Emilio Garcia, FFINC, Francesco de Molfetta, Frank Kozik, Isabel Samaras, Jessicka Addams, KMNDZ, Joshua Petker, J*Ryu, Julie B, Kathie Olivas, KRK Ryden, Liz McGrath, Lola, Marion Peck, Mark Ryden, Mark Dean Veca, Mia, Mikie Graham (Blamo Toys), Naoto Hattori, Nathan Hamill, Scott Hove, Sean Christopher, Yosuke Ueno
Highlighting the show is a beautiful amber YHWH by Marion Peck and a one of a kind 6’ foot long wooden YHWH package by Mark Ryden himself.
Please join us for the exhibit opening on Saturday, May 11th from 7-10pm at Toy Art Gallery’s showroom located at 7571 Melrose Ave. Hollywood CA 90046.
YHWH Group Custom Show runs through May 26th.
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About Mark Ryden:
Blending themes of pop culture with techniques reminiscent of the old masters, Mark Ryden has created a singular style that blurs the traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first garnered attention in the 1990s when he ushered in a new genre of painting, “Pop Surrealism”, dragging a host of followers in his wake. Ryden has trumped the initial surrealist strategies by choosing subject matter loaded with cultural connotation.
Ryden’s vocabulary ranges from cryptic to cute, treading a fine line between nostalgic cliché and disturbing archetype. Seduced by his infinitely detailed and meticulously glazed surfaces, the viewer is confronted with the juxtaposition of the childhood innocence and the mysterious recesses of the soul. A subtle disquiet inhabits his paintings; the work is achingly beautiful as it hints at darker psychic stuff beneath the surface of cultural kitsch. In Ryden’s world cherubic girls rub elbows with strange and mysterious figures. Ornately carved frames lend the paintings a baroque exuberance that adds gravity to their enigmatic themes.
Mark Ryden received a BFA in 1987 from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including a retrospective “Wondertoonel” at the Frye Museum of Art in Seattle and Pasadena Museum of California Art, and in the exhibition “The Artist’s Museum” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
http://www.markryden.com
