MR BRAINWASH ART SHOW (PART 2)

continued from part 1....

We explored the further 4 floors and the exhibits got progressively more extreme!!! By the time we got to the top, there was a pile of abandoned stuffed animals and writing all over the walls and windows....creepy much? But impactful - yes.  More and more famous faces had popped up along the way including numerous icons from Madonna to Leonard Nimoy printed in a faux Warhol / Marilyn Monroe esque look. Michael Jackson, pre-surgery era, was re imagined out of vinyl records, and some of our licenses, Kiss and Grateful Dead also featured. It was a who's who of Junk Food Clothing with Batman, Star wars and even Felix popping up in art works...lots of great inspiration though...

Vic befriending Mr Potato Head

The man himself, signing posters and posing for photos

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WASHINGTON IS AN NBA FAN....

Who knew?
Washington is in the office today looking extremely preppy with his stripey shirt on - he's really stepping it up since Peanut arrived on the scene with her leather jacket.  He chose to cuddle up to this LA Lakers shirt today to show his support for our local team.

The Lakers take on the NY Knicks tonight, so here's hoping they can build on Tuesdays win against the Jazz! Go Lakers!!

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MR BRAINWASH'S 2011 ART SHOW (PART 1)

One of the great things about working in the creative industries in L.A. is how much amazing art and inspiration we are surrounded by...there is ALWAYS something going on.  With that in mind the Junk Food art and merch department left work early (always great!!) to drive into Hollywood to catch Mr Brainwash's, otherwise known as L.A. based filmmaker and street artist Thierry Guetta, 2011 art show.  The show took over 80,000 sq. ft of an otherwise abandoned building on La Brea Blvd, and displayed five stories full of Mr Brainwash's original works for a limited time.

Mr Brainwash is a somewhat controversial figure in the art world.  The star of Banksy's "Exit through the Gift Shop" documentary/film, which followed MBW's pursuit of street artists work and eventual evolution into an 'artist' himself, MBW has been called a copy cat and even a Banksy stunt.  The jury is still out on that one but everyone definitely has their own idea or conspiracy theory about MBW's rise to fame in the art world.  Nevertheless, the show gains significant press interest and we were intrigued to see for ourselves.

The exhibition began before you even step foot in the door - the whole of the outside of the building has been covered in stencils and graffiti, including a huge Beatles mural, and it only served as a taster for what is inside.  Inside we found an exhibition space over run with art...it was pretty overwhelming! Not an inch of the interior has been spared...transfers, tags, artwork & stickers COVER the walls, windows and visible surfaces!  As if that wasn't incredible enough the actual exhibits were amazing, capturing references from all your favorite pop icons and nostalgic characters with paint and stencilling splashed all over it.  It was collage gone mad!?  As soon as we walked in we were greeted by a huge buffalo sculpture covered in collaged pop art images such as Micky Mouse and Obama dressed as Superman!? Miss Moss (my fave) also seemed to continually pop up in schizophrenic collage works.  There was a lot of recurring imagery and a real theme of art is love mixed with 20th century icons...

John and Yoko

Always great to see people out wearing Junk Food star wars tees!

With the amount of art around me it was hard not to get snap happy with my iPhone...so you know...i didn't hold back... ;)

To be continued tomorrow.....


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