Argus Show Customs Online NOW!
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Alien Argus Custom Group Show last night! We had a blast catching up with old friends and meeting new faces. Thanks especially to Mark Nagata for making the trip down with his family and being as personable and generous as ever.
The show turned out amazingly well, with over 70 customs in house, our largest amount yet! We’ll have our photos up shortly, but for now you can check out some great coverage (with tons of pictures and video) over at Spankystokes and VinylPulse
We’ve also secretly launched our brand-new online store to coincide with the event, as some of you have already noticed. Be sure to check out the limited run handpainted Alien Argus (painted by Mark himself) as well as amazing array of customs from the show (at very reasonable prices):
Alien Argus Group Show Customs @ TAG Store
Thanks again to everyone who participated and came out, and we’ll do it again really soon!
Video Interview with Carlos Enrique Gonzalez
Watch the interview with Carlos about his current show Sacred Trip at Toy Art Gallery.
Click here.
Alien Argus available now!
The first U.S. edition of Alien Argus is up in the webstore now. Get him here!
Alien Argus 1st U.S. Release This Wednesday!
Toy Art Gallery is proud to present the first U.S. release of Alien Argus! Alien Argus was designed by Mark Nagata and sculpted by Masami Yamada (of Toygraph), stands 10” tall (“Standard” size), and is ready to invade your toy shelf with 10 points of articulation and two sets of interchangeable eye-stalks!
This is the first U.S. release of the Alien Argus. He’s made in Japan and features a black vinyl base with over 8 separate metallic sprays and multiple paint masks.
Alien Argus will be available at 11am PST on Wednesday, February 2nd 2011, right HERE at store.toyartgallery.com!
Also,watch for the giant Alien Argus Custom Group Show (70+ artists) opening February 26th 2011 at Toy Art Gallery.
The Alien Argus Story :
The battle rages on in city after city, as Alien Xam and his hordes make an all out assault against Team Maxx and our hero, Captain Maxx. Its in a rare quite moment that one Team Maxx patrol member by the name of Mark finds himself able to finally put his ray gun rifle down and enjoy dinner and video games. While playing the game Mark notices an odd ripple in his video screen as a man passes by. Looking up Mark sees this mysterious person duck into a nearby alley.
Always on the look out for Kaiju and Aliens, this Team Maxx member decides to forgo the rest of his food and follow this person. Ray gun rifle at the ready, Mark turns the corner to find the man discarding his over coat and hat, to reveal his true form underneath it .. that of Alien Argus !
Suddenly Argus turns and vaults towards Team Maxx member Mark. In one swift move, Mark quickly brings up and aims the ray gun rifle towards Argus. The blast just misses one of his three eye stalks ! Realizing he needs back up, Mark calls in for more members of Team Maxx.
Argus bounds into the busy street, and starts to shoot random citizens from his fingers his melting beams. Within minutes the rest of the Team Maxx members arrive with enough fire power to put down this pesky alien. Just as they ready to fire , Argus begins to grow bigger before their eyes. Alien Argus now stands as tall as the buildings and begins his destruction once again ! Team Maxx knows it can not defeat Alien Argus in his new form. Using a special device they send a signal out to Captain Maxx to come to their rescue once again. Will Captain Maxx make it in time?!
SACRED TRIP – Carlos Enriquez Gonzalez opening Jan. 21st 2011
Toy Art Gallery is proud to present “Sacred Trip”, new work by Carlos Enriquez Gonzalez. “Sacred Trip” continues Gonzalez’s exploration of the divide (or lack thereof) between Man and God, man and woman, and toy and art. Gonzalez’s work challenges the viewer with an intermingling of grotesque, sexual, and childlike symbols, which together produce wholly original, substantially, and more importantly, beautiful works of art.
“The sacred trip, the light and the darkness.
Look up the universe’s mysterious unknown.
Nothing is like it seems. What is outside is inside, what is inside is outside.”
-Carlos Enriquez-Gonzalez
Among the materials used by the artist for his work are fiber glass, plastic, automotive paint, crystal, gold, platinum, diamond, metal and raw meat; connecting an aesthetic three-dimensional finish with more organic materials. Mushrooms, eyes, monsters, brains, human parts, sacred elements, and sexual organs are some of the symbols that refer to the artist’s world, as well as his concerns on energy, power, intuition, parallel worlds, multidimensionality, and tunnels of time, all reflected in his work in a provocative and transgressive manner.
Carlos Enriquez Gonzalez was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1968. He studied in the “School of Visual Arts Cristóbal Rojas” (1989, Caracas , Venezuela ), “Art Student League of New York ” (2001, New York , NY. USA), and a Master of Practice and Review of Contemporary Visual Representation Systems from the “University Institute of Higher Education on Plastic Arts Armando Reverón” (2002, Caracas , Venezuela ).
“Sacred Trip” opens January 21st 2011, from 7-11 PM, and runs through February 19th.
Toy Art Gallery
737 Seward St. #1
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323-465-8697
www.toyartgallery.com
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