The denizens of this mind-bending island include sweet whale-gators, boozy super-cicadas, arrow-slinging, basket-weaving bearded love tribes, an ex-hobo mushroom farmer, and one brutally intense bat who plays drums in a proto-metal band and would do just about anything to make a bagel relinquish its jelly filling! Rendered in swaths of psychedelic fluorescents in a flurry of wild yet delicate brushwork, the explosive pages of Welcome to Forest Island establish Bwana Spoons as the cuddliest art-monster around, whose furious imagination is matched only by the intimacy of his handskills. All 144 full-color pages- including paintings, maps, sketches, comics, and more- are dedicated to Forest Island: the wild, hyperchromatic paradise Spoons has been constructing with his art for several years. (at SE 8th st.).īwana Spoons: Ayumi Piland is my favorite, but I really dig up-and-corner Mark Warren Jacques, too.Top Shelf presents Welcome to Forest Island, the flagship monograph by Bwana Spoons, a painter, designer, screenprinter, zine rocker, and toymaker whose work has been featured on a dizzying array of shoes, skateboards, apparel, baby strollers, art toys, and gallery walls throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. That’s why I made this shirt with Paul Bunyan on the front and on the back it’s a tree stump that says “Tourist Go Home.” Scrappers It’s kind of a joke (since many people here are from somewhere else), but kind of not. We’re lucky enough that a lot of our friends send us special things to sell in our store, either things they have left over from their art openings or stuff that they’ve made especially because they want something in here. The color of his head is supposed to resemble a piece of orange plastic that’s been sitting on the beach for a long, long time. Part of the charm of toys manufactured in Japan is that the base color doesn’t have to be white–it can be anything you want. They are waiting to be individually painted. This is a series of Globby: His mommy is an octopus and his daddy is an ice cream. He’s a bearded owl dwarf, handmade in Iceland, and he’s standing next to a Star Wars figure from my childhood. I found him at an antique market where everything was way overpriced but he was like… two dollars. Otto, Trish Grantham and Amy Ruppel, and Tim Biskup and his daughter, Tigerlily. Every first Friday at the gallery we have an art opening at Grass Hut this year we’ve had shows by J. When our show Ding Dang Dong (featuring work from Wrecks, Cupco, and Aaron Piland of APAK) started going up it seemed like ping-pong was the logical next thing. Bwana has his works featured on just about anything imaginable, from cars to. He is a painter, illustrator and art toy maker. Bwana Spoons is an artist all the way thru the brain and into the guts. We used to be big into foursquare but our ball got ran over by a bus. Kidrobot is excited to bring to life the art of Bwana Spoons with three Dunny designs in the new Kaiju Dunny Battle Mini Series. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. They make another one that looks exactly the same but the brush is different! Bwana Spoons Join Facebook to connect with Brandon Spoons and others you may know. There was one grouping of them and I bought them all–now I can’t find them anywhere else. Bwana Spoons is known for Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (1996), Gary & Mike (2001) and The Vinyl Frontier (2010). I got this locally at a shop over on Hawthorne. This week is Skate or Die Trying, and next week we’re riding around to all of Portland’s parks with a bag full of equipment and trying to play every sport we can think of. Summer is really short here, so we designed this summer camp for our friends to hang out together, but it’s open to the public so all these people have been coming along! You get a bandanna and a patch for being a camp scout, and then we have these special badges you can earn, like “Fire-Maker” or “Wild-Life Feeder” (last week, we went to feed these large orange rats called nutria). We turned up in time to catch ping-pong, morning coffee, and a quick tour. Operated by the resplendently bearded duo of Bwana Spoons and Justin “Scrappers” Morrison, Grass Hut is a respite from cold collector emporiums and doubles as a clubhouse for local artists like APAK and Martin Ontiveros. But walking or biking, it’s hard not to be lured in by this art space’s lime green walls, driftwood sculptures, and population of wild, wonderful characters. If you’re driving, you might skip right past the tiny Grass Hut, situated on Burnside across from the Union Jack strip club and Grendel’s coffeehouse. A tour of the tropical cartoon landscape Bwana Spoons calls home.
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