International Beauty Saloon has two new screen printed posters up for sale, as well as reduced prices on older stock that has got to move (mostly, The Breeders and Liars posters we made for Sled Island 2009). Get it while it’s hot!
Above: One of Genevieve’s posters for sale. 50cm x 70cm. Edition of 12.
Where are you from? is a poster show being put on by good pal, and designustrator, Gabe Wong, along with around 15-20 other artists revolving around the idea of, well, where we all come from. It opens September 4th at The ARTery, here in Edmonton. Each artist has been asked to make an image in poster-form that relates to the theme of the show, where do we come from?
SO, I drew from a memory where I was driving my father’s truck at the tender age of 5 or so, sans seatbealt, with my dad smoking 10 sorts of cigarettes at once. Sure, I was only sitting at the wheel for a mere few seconds, but the memory really stuck. It also struck a chord about a childhood where the duty of discovery, exploration, and most importantly, danger, are placed upon the shoulders of the child his or herself (maybe with the slightest amount of ‘adult supervision’). The poster is titled “Are we dead yet?”, alluding to the classic childhood roadtrip saying “Are we there yet?”, but with a good disregard for safety and well-being: two ingredients for a good time, something that seems to be slowly disappearing in today’s overexposed Facebooked, GPS’d, cell-phone saturated culture…
The poster is a 2 colour screen-print with only 12 copies printed in total, measuring 50cm x 70cm. If they don’t sell out at the show (most likely) I’ll throw them online for your purchasing pleasure!
The LIARS posters that I was babbling about in the last blog post are now up for sale at the International Beauty Saloon online store. They are being sold as a set.
Also up for purchase on the site are Genevieve’s lovely posters she made for The Breeders (as seen below).
Happening tonight at the ARTLIFE Gallery in Calgary is the Sled Island Music Festival Poster Show. Every year a select number of artists are asked to design posters for some of the festival’s “bigger” acts, and this year I was lucky enough to be asked to do the posters for one of my favourite bands of recent times, Liars.
These are three colour serigraph prints made by hand by yours truly. These are printed on lovely 15″x 20″ Stonehenge paper. Sexy!
Liars’ first show is an early evening show on the 26th of June, where they play at about 8pm at an outdoor venue, thus the orange sunset / hue in the print. The next night they play a more “all ages” show, on the 27th at 1 am, therefore a night scene. Each of the posters come in editions of only 50. I will be at both Liars shows with these posters for sale. They will be going for $20 a pop! If you can’t make it to the concerts themselves, go to the ARTlife gallery tonight and scoop one up. They are selling at the gallery for $30 per print, and they only have 5 of each, so there’s a chance that they won’t last long!
Now that the Royal Bison is done and over with, it’s time to unveil the new stock at the International Beauty Saloon Store.
Firstly, the brand new issue of our IBS zine, IBS3. It is more than twice as thick, and is jam packed with great content from about 11 contributors. It’s going for the same low price as it always has… $5 plus shipping.
I also made a few prints. One being this 2 colour Horse Coq print seen below…
Genevieve and I finally got our butts in gear and have our mini-store site up and running. It’s at International-bs.ca. It’s Pay Pal friendly, and if you buy more than one thing, shipping costs (could) go down, down, down! (Duh)
Our selection of goods is currently pretty small. But keep your eyes open. It should be updated on the exact moment we have something for new sale… and every now and then you might even find some authentic Original Art pieces as well.
Buy something. We have left-overs from the Royal Bison Art + Craft Fair.
Once again, we’ll keep ya posted.
Check this image out. It’s about fatness, and it is aptly titled “Texas, Alberta”.
There are only 14 of these hand printed, three coloured, silk-screened delights in existence! Buy one at the Royal Bison Art + Craft fair November 29th+30th! If they don’t sell out there (which I’m sure they won’t) then buy one off of me through the internets. E-mail me about it.
Waaay Rad!
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