“Bury Deep in the Ground”

“Globe Jungle”

Artist Bio:

Kenichi Yokono uses traditional woodblock methodologies to address the comic book horrors of contemporary Japanese culture. Manga, anime, horror movies, and other stereotypical aspects of Japanese pop culture merge to present iconic images of buoyant menace and cruelty, which serve to contrast startlingly with the sugary cartoon characters that are also common. Although functioning woodblocks, the works are only ever exhibited directly and prints are never produced. Such a method maintains the primacy of the hand made object and the artist retains a tangible presence. These multiple oppositions in Yokono’s work results in pieces that are highly relevant critiques that retain a pleasing irony. (via  Mark Moore Gallery)

“Dreamy Gaze: Girl Looking in the Ghost House”

“Girl and Bear”

See more of Yokono’s work here

posted by: Harold Johns III

According to Joey Roth the designer responsible for this witty letterpress print:

I created this graphic for “Hustle”, the first issue of 48 Hours Magazine. It captures my approach to design: giving form to objects and then clearing a path for them to enter the world. The paper is 32# Lettra text weight stock. It’s soft, fabric-like, and warm white. It was printed by Dependable Letterpress in San Francisco’s Dogpatch. The edition is limited to 1,000 hand-signed and numbered letterpress prints. $25 + free shipping, buy it here

The only question is which one are you… a charlatan, a martyr or a hustler? I’m pleading the fifth.

posted by: Brent Carter

Video courtesy of Gestalten.tv

“SWOON’s worlds are often populated by realistically rendered– and evocatively cut-out– street people, often her friends and family. Riding bikes, talking on a stoop, going grocery shopping– these people traverse a cityscape of her own unique invention. Bridges, fire escapes, water towers and street signs create crisscrossing shadows and spaces through which her figures move. Inspired by both art historical and folk sources, ranging from German Expressionist wood block prints to Indonesian shadow puppets, SWOON is a master of using cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets” (Deitch Projects).

SWOON is also a founding member of The Miss Rockaway Armada art collective, a group who built large rafts out of salvaged materials and floated them down the Mississippi River in 2006 and 2007. In the summer of 2008, SWOON presented a two-part exhibition with Deitch Projects called Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, which included a large installation inside the gallery space as well as the journey of seven handmade sculptural wooden rafts from Troy, NY down the Hudson River and up the East River into New York City.

See more work by SWOON here

posted by: Brent Carter

These impressive watercolor robots or CHOEBOTS by David Choe are so highly detailed that each one has its own specifications, set of skills and personalities, which are every bit as humorous as the paintings are rad. Ass napkins has to be the best super power listed.

Name: CHOEBOT :VERSION TS-UNKO HAPPY LEE
Age: 16 robot years (48,000,000,000 human years)
Sex: transsexual
Race: Korean
Weight: 2 megatons of pure dance music
Height: a little taller than the Beverly Center
Occupation: same as Denzel in Training Day
Alignment: aberrant/miscreant
Experience level: same as Denzel in Training Day
Favorite color: rape yellow
Phobia: Swing Dancing , Bette Midler, and Bats
Skills: destroys everything it touches, reverse pile driver, quivering palm, multiple orgasms, unbelievably flexible, can speak to rocks and vegetables
Special powers: Flight, Invulnerability, Invisibility, breakdancing, voice throwing and mimicking (crank calls) and mending broken hearts

Name: CHOEBOT: VERSION DATO-UNKO HAPPY LEE
(HEAVY LIQUID ARMOURED) aka K-TOWN SPECIAL
(it’s the same robot as above but armoured)
Age: 16 robot years (48,000,000,000 human years)
Sex: transsexual
Race: Korean
Weight: 13 megatons of pure dance music
Height: a little taller than the Nakatomi Plaza
Occupation: same as Denzel in Training Day
Alignment: aberrant/miscreant
Experience level: same as Denzel in Training Day
Favorite color: rape yellow
Phobia: Swing Dancing , Bette Midler, and Bats
Skills: destroys everything it touches, reverse pile driver, quivering palm, multiple orgasms, unbelievably flexible , can speak to rocks and vegetables
Special powers: Liquid swords, Sour Shoes, Ass napkins, Rhino stomp, Thunder clap, Rebel Yell, 10,000 regenerating heat seeking harsh language missiles, quadruple anal, Flight, Invulnerability, Invisibility, refrigeration, laser beams, plasma cannons, e-mail and video chat, burning forks and revolving hooks, voice throwing and mimicking (crank calls) and mending broken hearts.

Name: CHOEBOT: VERSION BBBJTCNQNS-MAD PARK
Age: 808 human years
Sex: female
Race: Korean/black/vampire
Weight: 99lbs (with silicone armor 4 tons)
Height: 5 foot 4 inches
Occupation: streetwalker
Alignment: scrupulous
Experience level: oldest professional in the oldest profession , hooking with a heart of gold
Favorite color: fuchsia
Phobia: Persians
Skills: ATM, DT, BBBJTCNQNS, BDSM, BLS, CIM, DATO, DSL, QP, FIA, GREEK, GS, MSOG, SOMF, TUMA
Special powers: the SHOCKER, breaking hearts and powerful Donkey Punch

All three of the CHOEBOTS are being made into limited edition prints which will be available for purchase no sooner then October 24th. For more information about ordering a print click here

See more of Choe’s work here

posted by: Harold Johns III