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Although it appears as though he’s sticking with his signature pink characters, backgrounds and animated landscapes, the ever growing Buff Monster goes Beyond the Pink at Culver City’s Corey Helford Gallery.

From CHG:

“For “Beyond The Pink”, Buff Monster creates a new series of acrylic-on-panel works that radiate with his signature pink neons, Superflat style, and disarmingly subversive characters. The artist’s futuristic playgrounds bounce with creative expression as multi-hued argyle pyramids intermix with melting facades and floating faces.

Presenting his works in a larger and more detailed context than before, Buff Monster revisits his classic ice cream and maraschino cherry imagery with an eyeful of fresh inspiration. Returning from his recent travels to open the “Art From The New World” museum exhibition in Bristol, England, the artist adopts a more experimental approach, blending his iconic graphics with new landscapes, as well as introducing portraits for the first time.

“This new body of work is influenced by the history of Western art that I saw throughout Europe. My time at the Louvre viewing Renaissance paintings was truly inspiring. The National Gallery in London had some amazing pieces as well. And then visiting the Tate Modern was a bit of a shock after seeing nothing but classical paintings, but the pop stars like Lichtenstein and Warhol still get my pulse racing,” Buff Monster adds.

Upstairs in the loft, a vibrant series of flattened metal spray cans customized by Buff Monster will be on display. Open to the public, the reception for “Beyond The Pink” will take place on Saturday, September 4 from 7 to 10pm, and the show will be on view until September 22, 2010.”

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Ghostbusters, and Goonies, and Gremlins! Oh, my! Fresh off their ultra successful and thriving Crazy 4 Cult 4 group art show, Los Angele’s Gallery 1988 brings another inspired group show to their Melrose gallery with The 3G Show which features artistic odes to the aforementioned Ghostbusters, Goonies and Gremlins. Co-presented by the always artistic Autumn Society.

Click here to see more of what’s in store from Gallery 1988’s The 3G Show and much, much more from Slash Film here.

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Los Angeles’ (via Austarlia) up and coming painting/graf power duo Dabs Myla continue their quest for world dominance with their Japanese inspired show Tokyo Deluxe at Culver City’s Thinkspace Gallery.

Check a preview of Dabs Myla’s Tokyo Deluxe here as well as their recent Juxtapoz interview here.

Also…showing in Thinkspace’s main gallery is Sarah Joncas’ with her latest solo show Siren.

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The good chaps at Secret Headquarters answer the age old question, “what happens when you ask a bunch of cartoonists, artists and assorted weirdos to do one panel comics?” as they’re one-of-a-kind comic book shop in Silver Lake hosts the group show Bound & Gagged. “Comedy, horror, navel gazing, abstraction and more” curated by Tom Neely and I Will Destroy You featuring the artists listed below and, of course, comics and booze!

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From HVW8:

“HVW8 presents Celestial Beings a solo exhibition by Alvaro Ilizarbe / Freegums. For this show Alvaro painted large wooden pieces portraying large forces that lie in the space around us. With a variety of finely painted lines Alvaro draws upon space and shapes to transform the gallery into a portal to a parallel dimension.

please rsvp at celestial_beings@hvw8.com“

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The epic oil paintings of Eric Joyner reveal the secret domesticated life of robots in his solo Donut Logic show invading the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City.

From CHG:

“For his third solo exhibition at the gallery, Eric Joyner unveils a bold new twist to his decade-long odyssey of donuts and robots. Exploring new territories, Joyner’s metal humanoids reveal the secret life of robots: they sport tattoos, balance careers and families, and expose their hidden desires. “Donut Logic” will also debut the addition of cupcakes to Joyner’s signature glazed landscapes.

“I think the robots in my paintings reflect how a lot of us act and feel”, explains Joyner, and for “Donut Logic” his robots are more domestic than before, enjoying life’s comforts and small pleasures in a post apocalyptic world, such as gardening and bicycling.“

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Pasadena’s master painter Mark Ryden heads north to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to sign copies of his book based off his sultry Snow Yak Show which opened in Tokyo, Japan last year.

From Ryden’s Porterhouse Fine Art Collectibles:

“Mark Ryden will be signing copies of his new book “The Snow Yak Show” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The book signing is free and open to the public.

The Snow Yak Show will be available for purchase at the SFMOMA Museum Store during the book signing.”

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After a series of international shows in Australia, Germany, Italy, and Los Angeles, artist/skateboarder extraordinaire Ed Templeton heads home to Orange County for an artist talk with Juxtapoz co-founders Greg Escalante and Craig Stecyk at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach.

Also…footage from Kevin Barnett’s doc Primer featuring Ed will be screened as well.

From OCMA:

“Exhibiting artist and professional skateboarder Ed Templeton talks art, life, and inspiration with Juxtapoz magazine co-founders Greg Escalante and CR Stecyk III, moderated by Joseph Dugan. Director Kevin Barnett will also present footage from his upcoming documentary, Primer, featuring Ed Templeton. Following the panel, Ed will be signing copies of his books Deformer and The Cemetery of Reason, both available at the Museum Store.”

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The inspiring little art documentary I was lucky enough to edit, Beautiful Losers starring Barry McGee (TWIST), Ed Templeton, Geoff McFetridge, Margaret Kilgallen, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers (ESPO), Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Thomas Campbell, Mike Mills and Shepard Fairey among others, premiered on the Sundance Channel last night as our film begins it’s weekly run through the month of August.

Click here for more from Sundance Channel.

Beautiful Losers air dates:

Good lookin’ out awesome lover of pinstripes Jenn Yoo!

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Inspired by Marco Brambilla’s video masterpiece Civilization (mentioned last year here and can be seen at the NYC Standard), hip hop’s resident artiste Kanye West decided to commission the genius video artist to power up his latest music video for “Power“. Oh excuse me, my bad, according to Kanye, “It’s not a video…it’s a painting!!!”

“Power” Single available now on iTunes.

Also…watch Brambilla’s process behind the scenes below and read details from the New York Times Vulture blog here.

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