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What do you get when you cross this classic SNL sketch with this totally rad film??? My “Toonces” piece for the secret/surprise Saturday Night Live show at Gallery 1988. Not even sure how to describe what illustration style I used here … kind of a mashup between modern CGI and really lame ’80s movie computer animation (the glowing cliff scene at the bottom, etc.) which sorta fits for a DRIVE spoof. (If you haven’t seen the film, you should!) Incidentally, I am shocked SHOCKED out of my mind that no one did either of the first two ideas I was going to spoof for this show … I thought for sure someone would do the same thing, so I picked Toonces instead. But since we weren’t allowed to share our artwork before the opening, it was a total surprise what anyone else did! I think I’ll finish those ideas up to post here later just for fun.  Thanks again to Gallery 1988 for inviting me to be in this fun show and congrats on the new location! The SNL artwork will be up at their new space — 7308 Melrose Avenue, LA — until April 20th. My tumblrized copyright doesn’t appear on the actual print.

What do you get when you cross this classic SNL sketch with this totally rad film???

My “Toonces” piece for the secret/surprise Saturday Night Live show at Gallery 1988. Not even sure how to describe what illustration style I used here … kind of a mashup between modern CGI and really lame ’80s movie computer animation (the glowing cliff scene at the bottom, etc.) which sorta fits for a DRIVE spoof. (If you haven’t seen the film, you should!)

Incidentally, I am shocked SHOCKED out of my mind that no one did either of the first two ideas I was going to spoof for this show … I thought for sure someone would do the same thing, so I picked Toonces instead. But since we weren’t allowed to share our artwork before the opening, it was a total surprise what anyone else did! I think I’ll finish those ideas up to post here later just for fun. 

Thanks again to Gallery 1988 for inviting me to be in this fun show and congrats on the new location! The SNL artwork will be up at their new space — 7308 Melrose Avenue, LA — until April 20th.

My tumblrized copyright doesn’t appear on the actual print.

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My piece(s) for the Woody Allen tribute show that opens at Gallery 1988 (Venice) next Friday the 11th. I did a pop art homage to this scene in ANNIE HALL. The pair come together in a set, and I could not be happier with how the final prints came out. The colors really look great in person. (For starters, the faces aren’t as pink when the dots are full size.) Anyway, I laughed when I saw the show poster, because Jason Liwag and I are twinsies for this show: he spoofed Andy Warhol for BANANAS, I did Roy Lichtenstein. Click the hi-res link for the larger (clearer) preview.

My piece(s) for the Woody Allen tribute show that opens at Gallery 1988 (Venice) next Friday the 11th. I did a pop art homage to this scene in ANNIE HALL. The pair come together in a set, and I could not be happier with how the final prints came out. The colors really look great in person. (For starters, the faces aren’t as pink when the dots are full size.)

Anyway, I laughed when I saw the show poster, because Jason Liwag and I are twinsies for this show: he spoofed Andy Warhol for BANANAS, I did Roy Lichtenstein.

Click the hi-res link for the larger (clearer) preview.

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OK so here’s one of two pieces I have in the Judd Apatow show next week at 1988. An homage to one of my favorite lines in THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, it also honors many other favorite things: Apatow, ’50s cookbook illustrations, Steve Carell, vintage toys, wanking, and egg salad. I tried to fit as many suggestive images in all while making it look possibly very innocent to the casual onlooker. (Although as usual, I always spot something I forgot to do … in this case, I meant to squirt the mustard. D’oh!)

So pick one up at the show next week (or online sometime after the opening). It’ll really jazz up your kitchen!

Hey, hey now … I said jazz.

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“Oh man, Friday, I really wanted an egg salad sandwich and I was just obsessing about it and I was like, ‘Man, I’m gonna make one of those.’ So Saturday, I went out and got, like, a dozen eggs and then I boiled them all and I just, I spent, I dunno, probably three hours, like three and a half hours making, you know, the mayonnaise, and the onions and paprika and, you know, the necessary accoutrement. And then, by the time I was done, I didn’t really feel like eating it. And I didn’t have any bread.” Sneak peek at an upcoming piece. :)

“Oh man, Friday, I really wanted an egg salad sandwich and I was just obsessing about it and I was like, ‘Man, I’m gonna make one of those.’ So Saturday, I went out and got, like, a dozen eggs and then I boiled them all and I just, I spent, I dunno, probably three hours, like three and a half hours making, you know, the mayonnaise, and the onions and paprika and, you know, the necessary accoutrement. And then, by the time I was done, I didn’t really feel like eating it. And I didn’t have any bread.”

Sneak peek at an upcoming piece. :)

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Do you love STEP BROTHERS?? Do you love tattoos?? Yep! My full piece(s) for Gallery 1988’s “Step Brothers” show that opens tonight! 214 Pier Avenue, Santa Monica … opening reception 7-10pm. This is an actual pack of temporary tattoos … you get an 8.5x11 sheet of 18 tats (all shown here) plus this 8.5x11 print on 100lb cover stock. All comes in a resealable archival bag. These were so hard to manufacture(!) so I hope folks like ‘em. :) Signed/numbered edition of 50.  So if you want to wear your love for Dr. Angelface on your sleeve, or hey … make a full sleeve of moments from your favorite film, well now you can! So rub one on the next time you’re gonna ride a majestic, translucent steed, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale. POW!

Do you love STEP BROTHERS?? Do you love tattoos?? Yep!

My full piece(s) for Gallery 1988’s “Step Brothers” show that opens tonight! 214 Pier Avenue, Santa Monica … opening reception 7-10pm.

This is an actual pack of temporary tattoos … you get an 8.5x11 sheet of 18 tats (all shown here) plus this 8.5x11 print on 100lb cover stock. All comes in a resealable archival bag. These were so hard to manufacture(!) so I hope folks like ‘em. :)

Signed/numbered edition of 50. 

So if you want to wear your love for Dr. Angelface on your sleeve, or hey … make a full sleeve of moments from your favorite film, well now you can! So rub one on the next time you’re gonna ride a majestic, translucent steed, shooting flaming arrows across the bridge of Hemdale.

POW!

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Ugh. Haven’t been online much the last few days … so busy running around. Forgot I wanted to start posting these this week. Maybe I’ll post TWO today, who knows??? :) Preview #1 for my piece(s) in Gallery 1988’s “Step Brothers” tribute show that opens this weekend. Bonus points if you can figure out what this is … hint: it’s not a traditional print. :D

Ugh. Haven’t been online much the last few days … so busy running around. Forgot I wanted to start posting these this week. Maybe I’ll post TWO today, who knows??? :)

Preview #1 for my piece(s) in Gallery 1988’s “Step Brothers” tribute show that opens this weekend.

Bonus points if you can figure out what this is … hint: it’s not a traditional print. :D

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jensenkarp: Tomorrow night we open our 6th annual Crazy 4 Cult show, our favorite annual exhibit where artists are creating pieces based on their favorite cult movies, but this year it’s obviously a little different. We’ve decided to take the biggest step in our gallery’s history, and by far our largest investment, and move the show to New York City, in a beautiful space in the middle of the busy Meat Packing District. A lot of our loyal local buyers have expressed some sadness in us moving it clear across the country, so I wanted to just give a quick paragraph on what this temporary move means specifically to me. My father was born in Brooklyn and lived in NY, until his 30’s - the age I’m at today. He WAS New York. He sounded New York. He looked New York. He always told me how easy I had as I floated in a swimming pool during 74 degree heat in the San Fernando Valley. He was right. I knew about Nathan’s, Macy’s front windows, Coney Island’s Cyclone, the Russian bath houses, how you get ripped off from three card Monte and the peep shows in Times Square (then how Giuliani didn’t understand the city when he banned them). I knew the candy store where my father hung out in Flatbush as a rough teenager, the Catskills where he had his first job, and the building where he learned his eventual profession in his 20’s - sales. My dad was my hero and NY was his land. Doing business here was his thing and it seemed hard. That’s how I got to live in the nice weather he couldn’t as a kid. I never saw it for 8 year old Jensen in his floaties going to school with celebrity’s kids. My dad was able to see the first 5 years of the gallery before he passed. He just was barely able to see what this weirdo little pop culture art gallery idea had become. Moving this show to NY was to share this concept with a new coast - but it was also for my father. He worked so hard for me and he did it in New York. That’s where he learned it all. He did it in actual streets, with actual seasons and real people. I didn’t really, but I wanted to. I’ll probably live in LA my whole life to be honest, but doing business where my father did the same thing, is a BIG DEAL to me. He would be so fucking proud of Katie and me. He wouldn’t even believe it if he saw it. Everyday I genuinely imagine what his face would look like if he could walk into the NY gallery and it makes me smile so big. I ask that you come by tomorrow night, not just because we’re investing so much into this (BUT THAT’S A HUGE REASON, DUMMY) - but because the art is so good. The artists all made amazing pieces to debut in a city where they’ve never shown before. In the email where we invited our group of artists, we asked for our first “favor” ever, and we can’t thank them enough for what they’ve delivered. I’ll be at the opening reception, with many of the artists, Thursday night, August 9th, from 6-9 PM (but 10 PM really). It’s at 64 Gansevoort in the Meat Packing District, where the Highline ends basically. And you’ll see all the pop culture goodness tomorrow. In a real city. With real seasons. With real people. For my dad. Yes, I’m a total sap anyway, but this CHOKED ME UP SO BAD. What a lovely, lovely tribute. Guys, I’m so honored to be a part of these guys’ world … come check out our show. Jensen (and Katie and the rest of the gang) are the sweetest people ever. Seriously so supportive of artists, patient to a ridiculous degree (especially amazing considering they have to deal with us artists who can sometimes be FLAKES), and funny and imaginative as hell. I don’t think they know this, but Jensen & Katie inviting me into 1988 — a fantasy of mine — changed a lot of things for me. Not just in getting new customers and clients, but it (and this is going to be SO CHEESY, but I’m already all choked up over here) made me really fall in love with drawing again. After my life’s work — everything, including TONS of unpublished work — was stolen with my computers over a year ago, I’d started to give up on art. I was so heartbroken at the loss that I literally didn’t even know how or what to start on again. A very successful friend talked me through many days of why-the-hell-am-I-an-artist?? misery, but it was in starting to work on these pieces for movies and TV shows and stuff that I had a passion for (and already found so much comfort in), that got me back up on the horse and made me realize I didn’t want to give it up. Now I can’t even imagine doing anything other than what I do now. I’m so blessed to have such a fun job where I get to express so much of my geekiness. And to be among so many other pop culture nerds like myself. Seeing everyone else’s work in each show is so inspiring and encourages me to up my game. :) Those who know me personally, know that I had a really tough year last year … a lot of very painful things happened and I lost several beloved friends and family members. Getting to make what essentially amounts to professional “fan art” — for 1988, for private commissions, etc. — got me through a lot of that. I may be kinda the new kid on this block after all those years as the anonymous artist behind someone else’s brand, and I may not have the attention of the hardcore collectors — yet — but I’m enjoying every step of my climb up that hill. SO COME OUT THIS WEEKEND! I hope this is their hugest show ever — they so SO deserve it. My tiny, simple piece will probably be overwhelmed by everyone else’s awesomeness*, but I’m just proud to have it in there. Now excuse me, I have something in my eye. :) ridge. xxxx *Clark Orr’s WILLY WONKA piece wins the show. Hands down. BEST. PIECE. IN. THE. SHOW. And I haven’t even seen everyone’s submissions yet.

jensenkarp:

Tomorrow night we open our 6th annual Crazy 4 Cult show, our favorite annual exhibit where artists are creating pieces based on their favorite cult movies, but this year it’s obviously a little different. We’ve decided to take the biggest step in our gallery’s history, and by far our largest investment, and move the show to New York City, in a beautiful space in the middle of the busy Meat Packing District. A lot of our loyal local buyers have expressed some sadness in us moving it clear across the country, so I wanted to just give a quick paragraph on what this temporary move means specifically to me.

My father was born in Brooklyn and lived in NY, until his 30’s - the age I’m at today. He WAS New York. He sounded New York. He looked New York. He always told me how easy I had as I floated in a swimming pool during 74 degree heat in the San Fernando Valley. He was right. I knew about Nathan’s, Macy’s front windows, Coney Island’s Cyclone, the Russian bath houses, how you get ripped off from three card Monte and the peep shows in Times Square (then how Giuliani didn’t understand the city when he banned them). I knew the candy store where my father hung out in Flatbush as a rough teenager, the Catskills where he had his first job, and the building where he learned his eventual profession in his 20’s - sales. My dad was my hero and NY was his land. Doing business here was his thing and it seemed hard. That’s how I got to live in the nice weather he couldn’t as a kid. I never saw it for 8 year old Jensen in his floaties going to school with celebrity’s kids.

My dad was able to see the first 5 years of the gallery before he passed. He just was barely able to see what this weirdo little pop culture art gallery idea had become. Moving this show to NY was to share this concept with a new coast - but it was also for my father. He worked so hard for me and he did it in New York. That’s where he learned it all. He did it in actual streets, with actual seasons and real people. I didn’t really, but I wanted to. I’ll probably live in LA my whole life to be honest, but doing business where my father did the same thing, is a BIG DEAL to me.

He would be so fucking proud of Katie and me. He wouldn’t even believe it if he saw it. Everyday I genuinely imagine what his face would look like if he could walk into the NY gallery and it makes me smile so big.

I ask that you come by tomorrow night, not just because we’re investing so much into this (BUT THAT’S A HUGE REASON, DUMMY) - but because the art is so good. The artists all made amazing pieces to debut in a city where they’ve never shown before. In the email where we invited our group of artists, we asked for our first “favor” ever, and we can’t thank them enough for what they’ve delivered.

I’ll be at the opening reception, with many of the artists, Thursday night, August 9th, from 6-9 PM (but 10 PM really). It’s at 64 Gansevoort in the Meat Packing District, where the Highline ends basically.

And you’ll see all the pop culture goodness tomorrow. In a real city. With real seasons. With real people. For my dad.

Yes, I’m a total sap anyway, but this CHOKED ME UP SO BAD. What a lovely, lovely tribute.

Guys, I’m so honored to be a part of these guys’ world … come check out our show. Jensen (and Katie and the rest of the gang) are the sweetest people ever. Seriously so supportive of artists, patient to a ridiculous degree (especially amazing considering they have to deal with us artists who can sometimes be FLAKES), and funny and imaginative as hell.

I don’t think they know this, but Jensen & Katie inviting me into 1988 — a fantasy of mine — changed a lot of things for me. Not just in getting new customers and clients, but it (and this is going to be SO CHEESY, but I’m already all choked up over here) made me really fall in love with drawing again. After my life’s work — everything, including TONS of unpublished work — was stolen with my computers over a year ago, I’d started to give up on art. I was so heartbroken at the loss that I literally didn’t even know how or what to start on again. A very successful friend talked me through many days of why-the-hell-am-I-an-artist?? misery, but it was in starting to work on these pieces for movies and TV shows and stuff that I had a passion for (and already found so much comfort in), that got me back up on the horse and made me realize I didn’t want to give it up. Now I can’t even imagine doing anything other than what I do now. I’m so blessed to have such a fun job where I get to express so much of my geekiness. And to be among so many other pop culture nerds like myself. Seeing everyone else’s work in each show is so inspiring and encourages me to up my game. :)

Those who know me personally, know that I had a really tough year last year … a lot of very painful things happened and I lost several beloved friends and family members. Getting to make what essentially amounts to professional “fan art” — for 1988, for private commissions, etc. — got me through a lot of that. I may be kinda the new kid on this block after all those years as the anonymous artist behind someone else’s brand, and I may not have the attention of the hardcore collectors — yet — but I’m enjoying every step of my climb up that hill.

SO COME OUT THIS WEEKEND! I hope this is their hugest show ever — they so SO deserve it. My tiny, simple piece will probably be overwhelmed by everyone else’s awesomeness*, but I’m just proud to have it in there.

Now excuse me, I have something in my eye. :)

ridge. xxxx

*Clark Orr’s WILLY WONKA piece wins the show. Hands down. BEST. PIECE. IN. THE. SHOW. And I haven’t even seen everyone’s submissions yet.

(via g1988)

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“EDDY MAKES A FRIEND” My submission for Gallery 1988’s epic “Crazy 4 Cult” show which is in NYC this year!! (Opens next week). I LOVE Edward Scissorhands and wanted to imagine him younger … with fresh cuts despite starter safety scissors. :)  This wasn’t my original piece, but due to recent tragic events (you know what I’m talking about), I decided to pull my first concept (for another film) and do something happier and more hopeful. I was going for “painfully sweet” with this, so hopefully I’ve achieved that. :) I love the other piece a lot, so I’ll use it for another show or something in the future. Also, I’ll get back to screenprints soon … the printer I love has just been booked all summer, so I’ve been focusing on fun full-color digital pieces. I love how these prints came out … so crisp and bright and gorgeous. Can’t wait to see this show … 200 artists! And so many favorite films!

“EDDY MAKES A FRIEND”

My submission for Gallery 1988’s epic “Crazy 4 Cult” show which is in NYC this year!! (Opens next week). I LOVE Edward Scissorhands and wanted to imagine him younger … with fresh cuts despite starter safety scissors. :) 

This wasn’t my original piece, but due to recent tragic events (you know what I’m talking about), I decided to pull my first concept (for another film) and do something happier and more hopeful. I was going for “painfully sweet” with this, so hopefully I’ve achieved that. :) I love the other piece a lot, so I’ll use it for another show or something in the future. Also, I’ll get back to screenprints soon … the printer I love has just been booked all summer, so I’ve been focusing on fun full-color digital pieces. I love how these prints came out … so crisp and bright and gorgeous.

Can’t wait to see this show … 200 artists! And so many favorite films!

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Yes!!!! So excited to be a part of this awesome show! 200 ARTISTS, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally something for all my NY pals to enjoy in person.  Will post my image closer to opening night. The “invades NYC” is hilarious … hadn’t thought of that angle, but my piece fits right into that theme … :) g1988: And here it is, New Yorkers. Crazy 4 Cult is coming to NYC. Outstanding image is by Jason Edmiston. Something else you should know: There’s somewhere near 200 artists in the show. More on this later, but mark your calendars. August 9th. NYC.

Yes!!!! So excited to be a part of this awesome show! 200 ARTISTS, WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally something for all my NY pals to enjoy in person. 

Will post my image closer to opening night. The “invades NYC” is hilarious … hadn’t thought of that angle, but my piece fits right into that theme … :)

g1988:

And here it is, New Yorkers.

Crazy 4 Cult is coming to NYC. Outstanding image is by Jason Edmiston. Something else you should know: There’s somewhere near 200 artists in the show.

More on this later, but mark your calendars. August 9th. NYC.

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