On February 24th, Spoke Art will be releasing a brand new limited edition giclee print with iconic painter Caia Koopman. The new print, “Escape,” is 18″ x 24″, comes in a signed and numbered edition of 100, will be only $50 and will be available in our online store starting February 24th at 3PM PST. To receive a reminder, please be sure sign up for our mailing list as we do expect these to sell out quickly.
On Thursday, February 16th, I will be representing Spoke Art and Hi-Fructose Magazine for a speaking engagement at the University of Hawai’i alongside a stellar lineup of speakers and friends such as Boooooooom’s Jeff Hamada, Hypebeast’s Eugene Kan, the one and only Suitman, and Frank Liew. The talk is being held in conjunction with the seminal art event POW-WOW and definitely worth checking out.
Last year I was invited to talk at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (see here) and couldn’t be more excited to follow that talk up with this one! Hope to see our Hawai’ian fans and collectors at the discussion and POW-WOW event afterwards! – Ken
A very big congrats to Tim Doyle, and a big thank you to our friends at the San Francisco Chronicle for the great two page spread in Thursday’s newspaper!
We’ve been hinting at this for a while now, but happy to announce that our custom garment tags have landed! We’re in the process of switching them out with the American Apparel ones, so stay tuned for our first t-shirt release in a few weeks!
Tim Doyle – “Unreal Estate”
Opening night Thursday February 2nd, 2012 6pm – 10pm
Show on view through Thursday February 23, 2012
Spoke Art Gallery is proud to present the debut solo show by Austin-based serigraph artist Tim Doyle. In “Unreal Estate,” Doyle explores locations found throughout popular culture in a variety of limited-edition hand-printed screen prints and original art.
From Moe’s Tavern to the Bluth Banana Stand, Doyle’s realistic and illustrative reinterpretations of television’s most iconic places is a captivating voyage. In the artists words, “Unreal Estate’ is a collection of locations that many of us know and have been to on a weekly basis at times, but can never actually visit. These places are in our memories transmitted and entrenched there through a cathode-ray tube. Some of us have been going to these places for decades, some of these places were taken from us, way too soon.”
For these pieces Doyle moved away from his usually big bold colors and comic-book line quality to create a more illustrative style, with muted tones and colors that reflect a mood or time of day. He attempts to preserve and honor the non-physical spaces found in this show with the same care and intention given to iconic real world locations. This series is one artist’s intensely personal journey through a world which is universal to us all. Join the artist as pop culture tour guide this February 2nd.
As an added bonus, the artist will be in attendance for the opening and we are happy to announce that the first 100 guests will receive a complimentary limited edition screen print.
RSVP here - http://www.facebook.com/events/233654490049532/
About the artist:
Tim Doyle is an illustrator and print-maker working out of Austin, Texas. Growing up in the suburban sprawl of the Dallas area, he turned inward, only finding joy in comic-books, television and video games. He has run a small chain of comic-book stores, designed t-shirts and self-published. Doyle was also the creative director for The Alamo Drafthouse’s Mondo Posters until 2009, when he built his own studio, Nakatomi Print Labs.
Spoke Art is pleased to announce the release of a new fine art print by artist Casey Weldon. Almost three months in the making, this limited edition fine art giclee is a museum quality reproduction of Weldon’s painting of the same name, which recently debuted at the “I Want My Music Video” art show at Meltdown Comics in LA.
The print is an 18″ x 24″ archival giclee printed on our luxurious house stock, a 300# Italian produced cold press textured watercolor paper. The print comes signed and numbered, with a Certificate of Authenticity and is limited to a tiny edition of only 30 copies. It’s available now through the Spoke Art store, check it out here.
EDIT: This print is now officially sold out. If you’re in San Francisco, swing by the gallery as we often keep a couple extra copies of each print behind for local collectors. Stay tuned for our solo show with Casey Weldon at Spoke Art in just a few months!
Spoke Art is proud to announce the release of a brand new and exclusive limited edition print by artist Emory Douglas. From 1967 to the 1980s, Douglas served as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party and was responsible for the majority of visual imagery created in support of the party and was featured in most issues of the Black Panther Newspaper, which reached a peak circulation of 139,000 per week in 1970. “My Daddy’s Gun” first appeared in the Black Panther Newspaper on November 14th, 1970 and is an 18″ x 24″ two-color screen print, available in an edition of 100 signed and numbered copies.
On Friday, January 13th, Spoke Art will host a book release party for Sean Stewart’s (of Babylon Falling fame) “On the Ground: An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press in the US,” attendees will receive the first chance to purchase the print in person at the event. A general release of any remaining copies will be available online at the Spoke Art store the afternoon of Saturday, January 14th.
View our selection of available Emory Douglas prints here.
A very big thank you to everyone who came out to the opening of the First Annual Supersonic Electronic Invitational show this past Thursday night at Spoke Art. The show will be on view until January 26th, so be sure to check it out in person if you haven’t already! More opening night photos can be found here.
The 2011 Spoke Art Holiday Print has landed! This stunning serigraph was designed by our very own Joshua Budich, lovingly hand printed by Tim Doyle’s Nakatomi Inc. and was produced in a tiny edition of only 100 signed and numbered copies.
The annual Spoke Art Holiday Print is a special gift print created just for Spoke Art’s friends, family and our biggest collectors. This print will unfortunately not be available for sale.
