Red Carpet Kaiju Preview is up!
The preview for our Red Carpet Kaiju show is now up, so head on over to the preview page to see all the amazing work, along with prices and ordering instructions;
Also, make sure to come out tomorrow night, Saturday Sept. 4th from 7-11 PM PST for our reception. We’ll have the Fresh Fries food truck out, as well as music, drinks, the works!
Red Carpet Kaiju Show opens next week!
Big show opening next week; RED CARPET KAIJU! Tons of amazing toys, customs, prints and paintings, all inspired by Japanese monsters! Here’s the all-star artist list: Akoart (Japan), Alimana (Mexico), Blobpus (Japan), Bob Conge/Plaseebo, Carlos Enriquez Gonzalez (Venezuela), Emilio Garcia (Spain), Lil Japan, Ilanena (Japan), L’amour Supreme, LASH, Mark Nagata, Matt Walker, Paul Kaiju, Pico Pico (Japan), Toshikazu Nozaka (Japan), Tulip (Japan), Uamou (Japan), Velocitron (Japan), Yamazakura (Japan) and more.
We’ll also be premiering our new toy brand TAG TOYS with releases by Carlos Enriquez Gonzalez and Mark Nagata!
The show opens Saturday Sept. 4 at 7PM, so come on out and show your KAIJU love!
Stay tuned to our show page for more info and sign up for our newsletter to be on the preview list.
Carlos Enriquez Gonzalez visits TAG
We here at TAG are very excited to be working with the internationally-renowned artist Carlos Enriquez Gonzalez on a variety of extremely cool projects. Carlos visited us from Venezuela this past week, bearing a bevy of his insane, pychedelic and beautiful kaiju-inspired figures including the Brain Mushroom, the Vagina Head and the Brain Vagina. One of the main focuses of Carlos’ trip was to work on the aforementioned very cool, very secret projects, all of which will be revealed on the blog in the coming weeks!
Here are a few shots of Carlos with his pieces around the gallery, including one of TAG’s very first acquisitions, the exquisite Belzor. Stay tuned to the blog for more Carlos Enriquez Gonzalez, including our recent trip to Japan and Carlos’ very first……??
Collection Addition: Cris Rose
Amidst the activity in preparing for his first US gallery show (see previous post), Cris Rose managed to ship this incredible assortment of beautiful toys to us! Cris is definitely one of the top customizers in the world. His work has a clear concept, top quality workmanship, and a respect for the original toy that sometimes is forgotten in custom work. His original resin designs are equally clever, with numerous embedded objects and artifacts that follow his omnipresent theme of environmental awareness and conservation.
Make sure you check out his work at Rivet, and keep checking back for some more cool Cris Rose news.
Carlos Enriquez-Gonzalez and “Toy Art” on BBC FOUR
Steve Agin talks about Toy Art at the Philips de Pury NOW auction for the “Man With The Golden Gavel” special on BBC Four. We see lots of our favorites in the clip, including work from Bob Conge, KAWS, Bwana Spoons, and more. Carlos’s “Brain Vagina” is featured, along with a short glimpse of his Astro Boy.
If you’re in the UK, you can view the whole program here. If you’re not, you’re out of luck like us. If anyone has a copy or can get a copy, please contact us at info@toyartgallery.com!
