The “Small Stuff 3″ show opened at the Bear and Bird Boutique and Gallery last November 22nd, the show will run up until January 9, 2010. The feature of this show is that all of the work is cash and carry, so you buy it and then walk out with it. If your buying the work online it immediately gets shipped to you. Great idea and perfect for those still shopping for gifts, or happily being a Scrooge and just buying stuff for yourself. The show features work by Ana Galvan, Danielle Estefan, Danny Brito, Dékal, Erik Jones, Naoto Hattori, Phil Noto, Shannon Bonatakis, Skot Olsen, Bill Carman and many more. The majority of the art is small, so you won’t find too many outrageous prices save for the Naoto Hattori. He commonly makes smaller works and the detail levels are skill is well worth the price. Here are a few examples of what can be had. For the full show chck out the gallery’s site.

Bear and Bird Boutique & Gallery

The Lunch Bunch project that I posted about earlier is now going on. If you head over to Ebay yo can bid on a variety of prints, originals and even collectibles from such artists as: Tim Biskup, Gary Baseman, Nuoar, Natalie Shau, Amy Sol, Glenn Barr, Amanda Visell, Daniel Elson, Shannon Bonatakis, Dominique Fung, N.C. Winters, Morgan Slade & Liz McGrath, Chet Zar, Scott Musgrove and many more. Ana Bagayan, one half of the Lunch Bunch has added a print of her painting “Carolina” (shown). This 18″ x 24″ is only one of three artists proofs of this image.

Check out the auction here: Lunch Bunch Auction

Freshly opened this August 1st at Rivet Art in Colombus, OH is a group show entitled “We’ll Be Right Back… After These Messages” . All the pieces from the show are inspired by cartoons from the 80’s and 90’s, which in my humble opinion had some truly amazing cartoons. There are some really excellent artists participating in the show, Andrew Bell, Charlie Owens, Daniel Elson (co-curated the show), Scott Campbell, Thom Glick, Shannon Bonatakis, CJ Metzger and more.

I was already becoming a huge fan of Scott Campbell’s work, then he goes and makes an amazing Thundarr the Barbarian inspired work “Feelin Super Similar”, perfect. I also really like Jason Limon’s “Ooze got the Snorks”. I was never a fan of that cartoon, but if it looked like what Jason has created I would have never missed an episode. Along with the original works, there is also a couple of prints to be had. Charlie Owens has a print of his piece, “Somewhere over the Rainbow” limited to 38. Chris Lee has “Mr. Villain’s Class of 1983″, which is 19″ x 13″, limited to 50 and can be framed or not.

“We’ll Be Right Back… After These Messages” @ Rivet Art

Here is the rundown of the shows that will be opening up this weekend.

Friday:
CAVE Gallery will be opening the group show “Just Because” with new works from Anne-Julie Aubrey, Cherri Wood, Juri Ueda, Lesley Reppeteaux, Megz Majewski, Shannon Bonatakis and many more.

La luz de Jesus will be showing new works from Miles Thompson and Dale Sizer.

Eclectix Gallery will be opening “This Town”, a group show featuring work by artists from the Northern California area. Artists: Don Albonico, Joanne Corbaley, Alicia DeBrincat, Maria DeRoy, Paul Graf, Joe Hayama, John Howard, Aaron Johnson, Larry Jones, Eric Joyner, Joanna Katz, Boris Koodrin, Polly Mania Sonia Melnikova-Raich, Patricia Mitchell, Crystal Morey, Fletcher Oakes, Christopher Peterson, Kurtis Rykovich, Andrew Jay Schlussel, John Seabury, Laurie Search, Strephon Taylor, Cynthia Tom, Peter Tonningsen & Katherine Westerhout

Gallery Nucleus will host “Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7″. There will be original art from Kevin Dart, Bill Pressing, Don Shank, Scott Morse and more. The latest book from Kevin will also be released.

Saturday:
Flatcolor Gallery will opening their latest group show with new works from Timothy Karpinski, Matthew Ryan Sharp, Jeremy Ehling, Sohaila Adela, BASO, CHIP7 & Julian Duron.

Rivet Gallery will open “Curiosities”, with new works from Jake Waldron, Amanda Louise Spayd & J. Shea.

The “Toys!” show that is going on at the Gallery 1988 in LA is now online for your viewing pleasure. All art inspired by the toys of our youth, if your that old, and also some customs celebrating Hot Wheels 40th.

Some really great art is in this show. I’m particularly fond of Camilla D. Errico’s paintings and those by Scott Scheidly, Johnny Crap, Davey Wong, Casey Weldon and of course those artists that were shown on the Creep Machine at one point such as Jim Harker, Allison Torneros, Lindsay Carr, Mark Brown & Shannon Bonatakis.

It’s a great show that brings up a lot of memories. I really hope they make a print of the Anthony Clarkson “Playtime’s Over” painting (shown). That “My Pet Monster” looks like he’s ready to bring the pain.

Check out the show here: Toys @ Gallery 1988