The ShadowPlastic Label

$30 Open Bar All Night! or $4 well drinks, wine, beer.
Complimentary Appetizers
Costume Contest!
Live DJ: Music and Dancing

NO COVER!

It all goes down at Figaros (26 West 44th Street b/w 5th & 6th Aves. New York City) on Friday October 30th, starting at 8 and ending mad late. Last year we killed it. This year we’re resurrecting it. Be there or be scared.

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On 8/06/09 Collective Arts will be having their third artists group showcase. This one will be extra special as SPL cohort and collaborator Jelsen Jargon will presenting samplings from his upcomig book with the lovely Stephanie Land entitiled A Major.

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If you are in the Sydney, Australia area and interested in fashion, I highly recommend you check out Fashioning Now running from July 28 – August 28. Part fashion show, part symposium, Fashioning Now brings attention to the realm of sustainable fashion and the efforts being made by some designers and others in the textile industry to help create more eco-friendly solutions to waste management and production that works in accordance with creativity as opposed to stifling it.

Investigating the way in which clothing is produced, used and discarded, Fashioning Now is an exhibition and accompanying symposium featuring innovative research projects from Australian and international practitioners.

Visit fashioningnow.com for more info.

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Tonight, Japanese artist Tomori Nagamoto aka Tomo Lennon will be having his first solo show in New York at Ouchi Gallery. Be sure to stop by and check out his latest series Foreign Soil.

Tomori’s collection of portraits, Foreign Soil, features five major figures in today’s contemporary art/music scene. Artists who had left their native country of birth and are blooming in a foreign land.
(Tomolennon.com)

Tomori Nagamoto -Foreign Soil-.

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Club Europa
98 Meserole Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11222
$8 1/2 to Chanty+5% of register
Special Guest:
Miz Metro
Music By:
DJ ILL P
A short film:
“Married Girl” by Alexandra Lopez
Performances by:
Eyeris with Radio Rose, Bless Roxwell. Jeanette Berry, Linda Laporte, Dama Nilz, Jasmine Solano
JUST ADDED: HER VIRGINS & DIVA from CYM
LIVE ART AND DISPLAYS BY MARTHALICIA
MAKE-UP AND DESIGN BY LAUREN WEAKLEY
LIVE PAINTING BY DANIELLE MASTRION
RAFFLE FOR A VINTAGE GUCCI RAIN JACKET

Friday July 10th (After Europa)
STAY
244 E Houston Btwn Ave A and Ave B
www.stay-nyc.com
11pm-4am
NO COVER
Music by: DJ T.Elle Jamine Solano and Radio Rose

*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ***

On July 14th, Norweigen artist Bard Hole Standal will debut the first five pieces of the Deinos series as well as displaying a selection of his giclée canvases and prints at Ouchi Gallery in association with The ShadowPlastic Label.

For a little over a year, Bard has been working on the creation of Deinos, a 5 inch resin figure which he modeled, cast and hand-painted himself in his Oslo studio. The figure comes in five colors: black, red, yellow, orange and purple. The numbered 1 of 5 editions of each colorway will be available for the first time ever at Ouchi Gallery through The ShadowPlastic Label. This will be the only opportunity to purchase these figures until the casting of the numbered 2 of 5 editions in two months.

Bard’s work will be on display from Wednesday 7/15 to Sunday 7/19, 12-6p.m. by appointment only. There is an Opening Reception on Tuesday 7/14, 7-10p.m. open to the public.

For more information or to purchase any of Bard’s work, please email The ShadowPlastic Label at info[at]shadowplastic.com.

Download the show press release HERE.
Download Bard Hole Standal’s press kit and price list HERE.

Ouchi Gallery
170 Tillary St, Ste. #507
Brooklyn NY 11201 (MAP)

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More info to come. Save the date.

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Join us at Ouchi Gallery for this month where we have declared the month of July The International Toy Month.

Ouchi Gallery in association with The ShadowPlastic Label presents the first annual:
Toy Monogatari – Where Eastern pocket monsters meet Western pocket monsters.

July marks the first (of many) month-long showcases dedicated to the world of collectible toys. Recently toys have grown up beyond the realm of just “kid stuff” to an accepted art form and a viable business for designers looking to take their art to a 3rd dimension. With companies like Kid Robot, Medicom and Tokidoki, the collectible toy market continues to expand and the phenomenon does not seem to be stopping anytime soon.

For the first annual “Toy Monogatari” (“Toy ‘Story’”) we bring you two emerging artists/toy designers from the East and the West. First on June 30th we present Makoto Kitazawa, a Japanese artist hailing from Tokyo that uses basic techniques of crochet to create wonderfully complex and unique kaiju inspired monsters. Then on July 15th comes Bard Hole Standal from Oslo, Norway. Not only will this be the first time Bard shows his artwork in the U.S., but it will be the first time ever that his new toy “Deinos” will be on display for the public to see. This show will be co-curated by The ShadowPlastic Label.

We look forward to your attendance for these and other historical events at Ouchi Gallery. Ouchi Gallery is located at 170 Tillary Street Suite #507 in downtown Brooklyn, New York, just East of DUMBO by the Manhattan bridge. For more information please visit our website http://www.min-gei.com/ouchi_gallery.

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Check out the next show at Ouchi Gallery. Makoto Kitazawa crafts monsters and aliens out of crochet patterns. If you’re a fan of kaiju (strange beasts) or collectables, then this show is a must

Makoto Kitazawa lives in Tokyo, Japan. He started the creation of the crochet dolls in 2006.
“The joy of my life is to create a form from a single string. Every once in a while, unexpected new forms emerge. Creating forms is not difficult; I only use basic techniques of crochet. But, by combining simple ways, I create something unique.”

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Make sure you check out this sick exhibition at Ouchi Gallery. The opening reception is on Tuesday, June 23rd from 7-10 p.m. with the standard free wine, tea and Japanese snacks. All of the art is created by positioning Chinese characters (kanji) in a way to create new shapes and figures.

Ouchi Gallery- 170 Tillary Street Suite 507, Brooklyn, NY 11201

No, not “ouch”. Pronounced OOH-WOO-CH-I, Ouchi is Japanese for “home” or “house”. Our gallery has this name because it displays works by contemporary Japanese artists in a home-like setting.
Art should be more than a business commodity. It should transform all of our daily lives, awakening new thoughts and passions each day. The best art teaches that there are no limits to individual pursuits; that our own possibilities are infinite.
So when you visit Ouchi Gallery, we hope that you feel both at home and inspired. Perhaps you will feel something exhilarating—a positive “ouch!”

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