Wednesday Jan 25, 2012 by mike
Extracurricular Screenprinting
We've been feeling creative and crafty lately as we've been working on pieces to include in our ongoing, everchanging Working Title art show happening right NOW at CO Exhibitions. Wes and Ben were looking through our hallway and found an old screen we exposed, what, like 5 years ago? with an image I put together of Jim Belushi rockin' an Ol Dirty Bastard tribute version of his famous COLLEGE sweatshirt. We ended up printing a run of those sweatshirts and they were awesome.
Friday Jan 20, 2012 by mike
Working Title at CO Exhibitions
Tomorrow night is the first of four opening nights of Working Title, the new group art show in CO Exhibitions, the gallery space run by Permanent Art & Design and ourselves. We've invited about a dozen local artists to bring in their partially-finished artwork, trade them with each other, and add their own creative touches to everyone else's pieces. The results of this creative experiment will be going on display Saturday January 21, 7-10pm at CO Exhibitions.
All unsold artwork from the opening night will go back into the hands of the artists, who will continue adding / subtracting / cutting / pasting in preparation for the second opening. This will continue for four weeks and will offer Twin Cities art lovers four different opportunities to come experience four different variations on the original Working Title art show.
Opening night: Saturday January 21, 7-10pm
Music by DJ Mike Cina
Night two: Friday January 27, 6-9pm
Music TBA
Night three: Friday February 3, 6-9pm
Live collaborative beatmaking performance from BrodR and Mike 2600
Night four: Friday February 10, 6-9pm
Live music from Bloodnstuff
More information at coexhibitions.com Read More
Friday Dec 9, 2011 by mike
Busy weekend!
Lots of exciting things going on this weekend. Here's where to catch us...
FRIDAY NIGHT: After the Doomtree Blowout in the First Avenue mainroom, come upstairs to the Record Room as our own Mike 2600 (me) welcomes Doomtree's Paper Tiger to the turntables. Expect a full night of classic hip hop, funk, and bass-heavy dancefloor-filler-uppers, all expertly sliced up for your listening and dancing pleasure.
$5 at the door, $1 crossover from the mainroom.
SATURDAY: We will be selling all sorts of BRLSQ goodies all day alongside a generous handful of local artisans and craftspeople. Check out that monster lineup! This is the perfect place to knock out a bunch of your holiday shopping while supporting hardworking local artists. That's like killing 10 birds with one stone... but not if you're not into killing birds... or whatever. Anyways, the point we're trying to make is that there is gonna be a ton of cool shit here for you to buy for yourself or for your loved ones.
We'll even be debuting a few brand new items as well as selling a wide variety of our (drumroll please) Scratch + Dent prints!
Admission is FREE and all ages are welcome. That's 10am-6pm at CO Exhibitions!
Tuesday Nov 29, 2011 by mike
123Klan prints on sale this Thursday!
This Thursday, we'll be releasing two brand new prints designed by Scien & Klor of 123Klan. These two prints, "Dirty French" and "One Love," were originally created for their Rien Comme Les Autres show which opened November 19th at CO Exhibitions. While we strongly recommend coming to see the show in all its glory, if you can't be here to experience the graffiti & graphic mayhem firsthand, we do have prints available!
We printed two different color versions - brown and metallic gold, available through our online store starting Thursday December 1st (at 2pm Central) and a blue & fluorescent available through 123Klan's Bandit-1$m online store beginning Thursday as well.
All prints are signed and numbered in editions of 100.
18 x 24"
4 color screenprint on Cougar brand 100lb acid-free paper.
$30 each + shipping
We also have a limited number of uncut sheets (both prints together on a 40 x 26" sheet for $75 + shipping
123Klan's blue edition:
Thursday Nov 17, 2011 by mike
123Klan opening this weekend
We are getting super excited for the opening of "Rien Comme Les Autres," the new exhibition of graphic art from Montréal's 123Klan at CO Exhibitions this Saturday. Mr. Scien and Mrs. Klor have been in town all week puttin' in work on a huge new graffiti mural and hanging some brand new prints as well as a selection of their classic prints, vinyl toys, Bandit-1sm clothing, and original drawings. Along with the gang from Permanent, we've been showing our French-Canadian friends around town and helping them get situated in the gallery.
Things are looking really good and we highly recommend you come check out the grand opening of "Rien Comme Les Autres!" It all goes down this Saturday, November 19 at CO! Check out more photos after the jump...
Thursday Oct 20, 2011 by mike
Closing Ceremonies for "Things You Carry"
Vincent Stall's "Things You Carry" show will be running through Friday November 4th at CO Exhibitions. Still plenty of time to come check out Mr. King Mini's fantastic installation of prints, paintings, drawings, and more. If you can only come by once, we recommend you save it for the grand finale closing ceremonies:
On Thursday November 3rd from 6-9pm, CO will be hosting an artist talk with Vincent Stall. Read More
Friday Jul 29, 2011 by mike
Adam R. Garcia: TRUST ME
Check out this interview with our friend Adam R. Garcia talking about some of the collaborative art pieces in his "Trust Me" exhibit, running NOW through August 6th at CO Exhibitions.
