Cast in Plastic: Art from the Designer Toy Revolution

(Photo credits: Cast in Plastic artists, Valerie G, TOYSREVIL)

(Credit: Abe Lincoln, Jr.)



Cast in Plastic opened this past Saturday night @ Domy Books. Marie Ung curated an amazing show with a packed house- finally, a custom vinyl toy show in Houston! Several pieces were sold opening night, and it would appear that many Houstonians bought their very first designer vinyl toys on Saturday as well. It was all very exciting! Hopefully the peeps around here will understand my custom vinyl critters a bit more now...

Marie, Anville and I were interviewed by the Houston Press:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/05/cast_in_plastic.php

Marie was also interviewed by Andy, of TOYSREVIL: http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2011/05/event-images-for-cast-in-plastic-domy.html

I've included just a few photos of my favorites:
(Photo credits: Valerie G)

Cast in Plastic
Artist: Ack!

Abe Jr.'s Pal, Nooka Olsen
Artist: Abe Lincoln, Jr.

Hill Monster
Artist: EvokerOne

Gears
Artist: Squink!

Prepare for Glory
Artist: Mr. Den

Monkey Bao Bear
Artist: Martin Hsu

Don Diablo
Artist: Chauskoskis

Rabbit in Respite
Artist: Andrew Shondrick

Claude
Artist: Ack!

Hynobot
Artist: Fried Gold Productions

ty-po dunny ex. 8ab - bold future
Artist: Ryan The Wheelbarrow

And of course... Manbearpig! He looks quite happy...

If you missed the opening, be sure to stop by and visit Manbearpig and his new friends- Cast in Plastic runs through 23 June 2011.

30 Artists at Watson Galleries

Watson Galleries is hosting a show with 30 artists both on Friday night (1/21) and Saturday night (1/22) this week, from 6-10 pm! I switched out the critters this past Sunday, so there will be a new bunch for this show. I was very impressed last time with the huge crowd that attended, even in the freezing weather! Hopefully they will return...

This will be Count Frankenbunnyskullyrollie's Watson Gallery debut. The Count was created with the concept in mind of what would happen when a vampire, Frankenstein, bunny and skeleton all become fused into one critter. He was originally created for the Rollie Show at Tenacious Toys in New York, where the artists all created pieces built upon the body of a plastic roll-on deodorant! Yesiree, that would be correct- inside his body, the Count has a pink, plastic Ban roll-on base! The other materials that were used for the Count include a vinyl Skully, vinyl Munny accessories, acrylic paint and ink, varnish, modeling clay, Fimo, Sculpey, and genuine hematite and onyx. He even comes with his own rubber rat comrades to keep him company. The Count would love it if you'd stop by and say hi tomorrow night...

Watson Gallery
716 W. Alabama St.
Houston, TX 77006