Posts Tagged ‘prints’
Turbulence Leap
Jon has created this original “Turbulence Leap” print for Boxbird Gallery’s A to B exhibition, which opens tomorrow, Friday, May 7th!
Boxbird Gallery & Studios is proud to present ‘A to B’, an exhibition of contemporary printmaking & Illustration inspired by travel and foreign adventures! Join Boxbird and over 30 artists from across the globe for one of the Brighton Fringe Festival’s most eagerly anticipated exhibitions with new and exclusive work by some incredible talent including Jon Burgerman, Graham Carter, Lidia de Pedro and the Peepshow Illustration Collective. The show will be jammed full of affordable limited edition prints and original art works all of which are hand-made or hand-printed.
The exhibition will be open from Friday, May 7th through Thursday, May 27th from 11AM - 5PM at Boxbird Gallery, 14 St Johns Road, Hove, BN3 2FB
Brain Drain at the Winchester Discovery Centre
Wow, there are a bunch of great appearances to catch if you’re in the UK in May. This one, particularly, stands out as a Jon Burgerman event not to miss. Brain Drain will feature new paintings, prints, drawings, digital animations and soft sculpture, along with key works from the last 8 years.
Jon Burgerman’s work often deals with the modern world, disquietude, mental phenomena and irrelevant minutiae. These themes are taken as starting points for the creation of often flowing and interconnected hand rendered works that are simultaneously painting, design and mass communication.
Brain Drain is a new exhibition by the UK artist. The show will involve the squishing, twisting and wrenching of Jon’s meagre brain to elicit revelational truths and insights through the medium of pens and paint. Augmented reality, dualism, twin earth theory, the pineal gland and the perfect sandwich are current concerns being wrung out.
Brain Drain runs from May 14th – July 11th, and smack in the middle, on May 26th at 8PM for a £5 sum, you can meet the man. This all takes place at The Gallery in the Winchester Discovery Centre, which, I kid you not, is located on JEWRY Street. Loves it! Someone send pictures! RSVP for the 5/26 talk here.
Poster Cause Print Collab With eBoy Now Available
Close Your Eyes Until It’s Over
While I was over at Wondercon, and some of the rest of you were celebrating Easter, Jon was working on this tall order he called, “Close Your Eyes Until It’s Over.” Ironic title considering he invited us along for the ride through Twitter and Flickr!
Posse Spotting: Saturn Cafe, Santa Cruz, California
If Jon ever manages to make it out to Northern California, the Posse has staked out Saturn Cafe in Santa Cruz for a great lunch. This place really is my “favorite space age vegetarian diner.”
Saturn Café offers traditional comfort food with a healthy twist. Stepping into the Saturn Café, you know you have arrived on another planet. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff strives each day to exceed your expectations, and engage and delight your senses. This is a place where dressing up in a costume can happen on any night of the year, where the foods of childhood fantasies are even more delicious than you remember, and magic might just lie around the corner of every sparkly, pink booth.
Also, the staff are cute punk kids, the tables feature dioramas and the restrooms throw gender to the wind, instead offering you the options of robots vs. aliens.
Tags: posse
Posted in: Display It | stickers
Customized Lomography Camera
Jon has customized a Diana camera for a traveling exhibition arriving in London this week to celebrate the Lomography camera.
‘Lomo’ cameras have gained cult status in recent years thanks to their ‘imperfectly perfect’ images, which are typically colour-drenched, low-fi and with unpredictable contrast, giving a retro, authentic feel. The manufacturer, Lomography, has capitalised on the cameras’ hipster status, releasing a slew of special editions and customised versions.
The Diana World Tour started in Hong Kong and has travelled to Tokyo, Seoul, Porto, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, New York and now London. It is at the Lomography Gallery Store April 2-30.
A nice excuse to add “cameras” to the list of canvases in our tag cloud! Thanks to Digital Arts for the head’s up.
Custom Vinyl Rody
Everybody at Doodlesplatter is always excited when there’s the potential for a new Jon Burgerman toy. We think that the rumored collab with Amanda Visell may have been just that (a rumor), so the current fate of new JB toys lies in the hands (hooves) of an Italian horse named Rody. Rody was licensed by a Japanese company called Jammy, turned into a vinyl toy by intheyellow and is now the subject of a group custom toy show sponsored by the great folks at Paradise Toy Land in Taipei. Jon is representing all of England amongst an excellent roster that also includes Bwana Spoons, Uamou and Tim Biskup (and Tim Biskup’s daughter). The show is currently up and running (trotting) in Taipei.
For those of you keeping count, this is actually Jon’s SECOND custom horse toy. The first was Pizza Face Pony for the My Little Pony Project in 2008. Perhaps if Rody is successful overseas, we’ll eventually get a production version. But let’s not put the cart before the horse. OK I’ll quit horsing around with the puns now!
Tags: group shows | toys | vinyl
Posted in: Collect It | Figures | See It | Shows
Small Favors at Giant Robot
Small Favors, a show of about 70 artists working in mini-size, opened tonight at Giant Robot in New York. Jon’s pieces (particularly when viewed together) have a much more definitively downer tone than the My American Summer work he did for GRNY less than a year ago. This tends to make me think that it’s the chilly Nottingham air that is rendering Jon–much like the color of the paper in the work shown above–blue. Come back to America, Mr. Burgerman! (And will you bring your solution to standard-sounding indie music, aka Anxieteam, too?)
Nokia Nseries Hong Kong Campaign
Jon Burgerman is big in Hong Kong! These giant adverts are for the Nokia Nseries phones previously seen in Rome, Italy here. Images care of Debut Art.
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Posted in: Advertisements | Read It
Lowriders and Columbots
Looks like someone let Jon watch TV again. You know what happens when pop culture meets Poscas? This sort of goodness. Leave a note on Jon’s Flickr to support seeing Lowrider or Columbot perhaps make it into a print.
Battle Series Collab with eBoy for The Poster Cause Project
The Poster Cause Project has launched their previously announced Battle Series, a week early. The print is limited to an edition of 100 and is signed by both artists. It measures 11 x 17 and is full color on high-quality 100# stock. 100% of the profits go to the Children’s Cancer Research Fund. The charity is dedicated to finding a cure for childhood cancer by providing funds to the University of Minnesota for research and training relating to the prevention, treatment and cure of childhood cancer. The organization also educates the public about childhood cancer and supports quality-of-life programs for pediatric cancer patients and their families.
The prints are available now for $50 each (shipping April 15th) here.
Battle Series Collab with eBoy for The Poster Cause Project
The Poster Cause Project announces their upcoming Battle Series, scheduled for an April 15th launch, featuring 4 prints with 2 artists collaborating on each print. Artists participating in the Battle Series include collabs between: Sket One & Jesse Hernandez, eboy & Jon Burgerman (shown above), Angry Woebots & Pixel Pancho, Dalek & Scribe. All profits will go to Children’s Cancer Research Fund. The eBoy collab follows up Jon’s Haiti Earthquake Relief poster for the PCP, which is still available for just $15.
Paralysis of Choice Screenprints
Three prints from Jon’s Paralysis of Choice solo show at Elektrik Sheep in Newcastle have made their way to Burgerplex. The black & white I Am In Paralysis print is a digital print with vegetable inks on recycled paper. It’s an edition of 50 prints, signed by Jon, measuring A2 / 42 x 59.4cm / 16.5 x 23.4″ for £40. Over Stimulated (Pink) is a three-color hand-pulled screenprint. It’s an edition of 75 prints, signed by Jon, measuring 35 x 50cm / 13.8×19.7″ for £45. Over Stimulated (Blue) can be seen in progress in the photos below as well as by those who attended the show. It is is a three-color hand-pulled screenprint. It’s an edition of 25 prints, signed by Jon with white spraypaint and additional unique hand-drawn element, measuring 35 x 50cm / 13.8×19.7″ for £75.
Digital Dogs Print
A place called Designer Toy Store has this Digital Dogs Print. Everyone knows Burgerman favors cats, so clearly he’s throwing a bone to all your dog lovers:
This print is a limited edition of 50 and will never be re-printed. Print on 200GSM Art. Size: A3 (11”X 17”). Price: 19.99 UK 22.98 EUR 32.31 USD 35.53 AUD
Found by Jeps. Available while supplies last here.
Haiti Earthquake Relief Poster
Jon Burgerman joins The Poster Cause’s Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort with a full-color 6″x11″ print for $15. ALL PROCEEDS go to Doctors Without Borders. By now, everyone has seen the devastation and heard the televised requests for medical personnel and supplies. Maybe you’ve already texted 90999 to give $10 to the Red Cross and are able to give just a little bit more. For $15, you can get a poster by Jon and also help provide post-op care in Haiti (currently one of the most pressing medical needs).
Affordable Prints on Amazon
Looking to top off your shopping cart to qualify for free shipping on Amazon? The 2008 prints and notecards Jon licensed to NINETEENSEVENTYTHREE have shown up on the mega-site courtesy of Vigo. For just $4.50, you can get a 19.5 x 27-inch poster. For under a hundred, you could seriously Burgerize a room. (Don’t forget the gigantic $12 print you can get at IKEA, too, budget Burgerfans.) Here’s the Amazon link.
Silkscreened Burp Print
The Burp! Boutique has an exclusive Jon Burgerman ‘burp!’ silk-screen print available signed and numbered in an edition of 25. It measures 42cm (16.5 inches) x 59cm (23 inches) and sells for £35 here.
Printed Matter 7
I must have completely missed the memo on this one, but I was over at Giant Robot in San Francisco tonight for the Buff Monster book signing, and lo and behold, Printed Matter 7 is up on the walls, including two pieces: Voices 2 and Together Alone by Jon. The pricelist doesn’t indicate that they’re sold out, and both are listed at $99. Call GR-SF for availability. Closeups after the jump.
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