the Making of Emilio Garcia’s XL Bronze Jumping Brain!
Emilio was kind enough to share this thorough picture gallery of the making of his awesome and enormous XL Bronze Jumping Brain! Check out the link for the full set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lapolab/sets/72157627725704492/
Email info@toyartgallery.com for pricing and availability of this epic bronze.
Grand Opening Exclusives Preview: Splurrt, Abell, and Cris Rose
If you’re a resinhead, this round of TAG Grand Opening exclusives is for you!
First up we have the first vinyl figure produced by Splurrt, formerly known for his fantastic resin monsters. The Cadaver Kid measures 4″ tall and featured an awesome two-tone paintjob. Soft vinyl made in Japan!
Secondly we have an exclusive edition of the Barking Gun, created and produced by Abell. TAG’s gold and black colors adorn this little lethal pup.
Last and certainly not least, we have Cris Rose with a plethera of resin robo creations. Cris has produced a large number of unique robots, ranging from Mirrobots and Sprogs to Rotunds and Ruckuses and Ramparts and Rotunds and Roams and Rambles in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. If you’re a Cris Rose collector or are curious about his work, you won’t want to miss out on this assortment!
We will be handing out tickets at 12pm Friday afternoon for exclusives and Jumping Brain customs. This will take the place of the line so you don’t have to be standing outside all day! We will be limiting all exclusives to one per customer per style, no exceptions. There is no limit on Jumping Brain customs. Remaining customs and exclusives will be on sale in our webstore starting Saturday.
Grand Opening Exclusives Preview: PPPudding, Waotoyz, and Velocitron
We’ve been busy busy setting up our new store so please excuse the lack of exclusive toy previews!
First up is an adorable little made in Japan soft vinyl from PPPudding! Kinohel is available in extremely limited numbers in her TAG-exclusive metallic gold and black color scheme. We also have a large assortment of other adorable PPPudding toys with a wide range of Konekos, Nuts, UFOs, Yoorins, and Cosmicats!
Waotoyz is bringing the heat with TWO exclusive O.G Waodogs, “Mr. Gold” and “Mr. Pink Panther”! Two superhot soft vinyl toys, made in Japan.
Last but not least we have VELOCITRON, killing it with a huge selection of painted one-offs including his signature Larvagons, Bechigons, Ghouls, the new Tulu and Bokrugs and two epically massive Ghoul Lords!
We will be handing out tickets at 12pm Friday afternoon for exclusives and Jumping Brain customs. This will take the place of the line so you don’t have to be standing outside all day! We will be limiting all exclusives to one per customer per style, no exceptions. There is no limit on Jumping Brain customs. Remaining customs and exclusives will be on sale in our webstore starting Saturday.
Grand Opening Exclusives Preview: Paul Kaiju and PicoPico
We’ve got some awesome exclusives lined up for our Grand Opening this Friday night. For our first sneak peak we’ve got Paul Kaiju with a fantastic Boss Carrion edition. The Boss features pink, gold and green (and then some) spray on a black vinyl base.
For our second peal we have lots of goodies from PicoPico, including a handful of handpainted Beckos and Tsunogon one-offs (we’ll have some non-exclusive PicoPico vinyls as well).
These will all be available first come first serve on Friday, so get there early and grab a ticket to secure your place in line! Stay tuned to the blog for more sneak peaks all this week.
Arkiv’s “Escapist” opens Friday at TAG
Toy Art Gallery is proud to present “Escapist”, a solo show from renowned Indonesian artist Arkiv Vilmansa. The exhibit will feature new painted works, sculptures, limited edition prints and a special preview release and signing of the new figure “The Sumo”.
“Over the past several years, artist Arkiv Vilmansa’s iconic character ‘Arkiv Instant’ has made the artist a household name within the lowbrow art and toy culture scene. Arkiv looks to develop his signature image, while debuting new characters and continuing to explore his unique style of combining the surreal and theatrical with playful and whimsical caricature.”
Opening reception is Friday, Aug 5th 2011 from 7pm-11pm. Arkiv will be in attendance with a live painting session. A signing session will follow on Saturday, Aug. 6th starting at 2pm.
The Show Preview will be available on Thursday, Aug. 4th. The exhibit runs from Aug. 5th to Aug. 26th, 2011.
Toy Art Gallery
737 Seward St. #1
Los Angeles, CA 90038
New Prints and Original Art!
Tons of new Framed Prints and Original Art from our collection is now available. Check out what’s in the store here. Multiple prints and original drawings and paintings from Tim Biskup, Jeff Soto, Ron English, Josh Keyes, Alex Pardee, Amanda Visell, Andy Kehoe, David Flores and many others.
Thanks to the Sofubi Godfathers!
Congratulations to everyone who scored a piece from the show. The response to the preview list was overwhelming! Thanks to everyone who came out!
