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The art from tonight’s Upper Playground and Quentin Tarantino’s Lost Art of Inglorious Basterds art benefit for Haiti’s earthquake victims has been released and can be viewed in it’s entirety at Upper Playground’s website and in person at their downtown LA gallery. Details of the show’s extremely limited print run and show info can be found here.

*All proceeds donated to the American Red Cross to help victims of the Haiti Earthquake.

Here’s a look at 4 of the 13 prints that will be available tonight:

David Choe

Estevan Oriol

Alex Pardee

Grotesk

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Quentin Tarantino’s Nazi scalping masterpiece Inglorious Basterds gets the Upper Playground art treatment at their downtown Los Angeles gallery for the Lost Art of Inglorious Basterds benefit for Haiti’s earthquake victims. Limited edition prints inspired by the film will be on display and for sale and consist of original art by David Choe, Sam Flores, Estevan Oriol, Alex Pardee, Grotesk, Jeremy Fish, Patrick Martinez, Dora Drimalas, Munk One, N8 Van Dyke, Rene Alamanza, Morning Breath and Skinner Davis.

*All proceeds donated to the American Red Cross to help victims of the Haiti Earthquake.

From the Upper Playgrounders:

“Each print will be numbered and signed by Quentin Tarantino. Only (6) of each amount will be made. The prints can be viewed at www.upperplayground.com beginning on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.”

Read or click flyers below for more details.

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Dancing, fighting, opening, auctioning, speaking, signing, arting. Many a great things happening this weekend, but for me and my Friday the 13th birthday weekend, the best present I can receive would be an exciting Manny Pacquiao victory. Hope you have a fun filled Filipino weekend!

• The weekend begins with a Friday the 13th full of Wonder as New York’s DJ Spinna and Bobbito bring their traveling Stevie Wonder tribute to Hollywood with Wonder-Full LA4 at The Vanguard.

• Giant Robot boldly follows Deth P. Sun’s lead as his melancholy cat-like characters come to LA in his new solo show Please Be Brave at GR2 on Sawtelle.

• Juxtapoz celebrates their 15th year of existence by throwing The Big Payback, a group art show and charity auction held in conjunction with Upper Playground and Power House Project of Detroit at the Factory Place Arts Complex in downtown LA. Proceeds from the auction will support the goal of purchasing five homes and employing local Detroit contractors, electricians, plumbers, and carpenters to perform the renovations. See the pieces by some of the urban art world’s best being auctioned off on Juxtapoz.com and bid on them at Charitybuzz.com.

• The main event of the weekend for fight fans and Filipinos everywhere: Manny Pacquiao fights Miguel Cotto for the Welterweight championship and a record setting seventh title. Nike Sportswear graciously hosts the fight at the Montalbán Theater in Hollywood. RSVP required.

• Spend Sunday with Family, the extraordinarily eclectic bookstore on Fairfax that is, as they host a very special speaking and signing engagement with Spike Jonze to celebrate the release of Heads On & We Shoot a “unique collaboration behind Where the Wild Things Are-the combined work of Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, and all the cast and crew.”

• And finally a weeks worth of free admission to the MOCA and the Geffen Contemporary as they both open their doors to bring their acclaimed collection of postwar art to the community with complimentary admission during the opening week of Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years.

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A bit of International flavor as two of my favorite artists open firsts with their respective shows overseas; old school Miami graffiti writer come New York fine artist José Parlá in his first solo show in Hong Kong, and Southern California’s robot vs. nature painter Jeff Soto’s first solo show in London.

• Having hang out with José Parlá (Ease) at last years Art Basel in Miami, I found out why his old buddy and my editing mentor Fernando Villena calls him one of the “nicest guys with good taste you’ll ever meet”. José brings that taste to Hong Kong with his signature graf influenced canvases in Reading through Seeing at the Ooi Botos Gallery. Check a preview of the show here (via Arrested Motion).

Also check out José breaking down his method for Cool Hunting:

• Having seen and appreciated his work since he was grad fresh out of Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design, it’s been a pleasure to see Jeff Soto become one of Southern California’s most well known pop artists. Now London gets to see and appreciate his work too with his latest works in The Inland Empire at the StolenSpace Gallery. Check another fine interview and preview of the show here (via Arrested Motion).



The Inland Empire

StolenSpace Gallery
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL, United Kingdom
+44 (0) 207 247 2684
Show runs from May 14 through June 6, 2009

And here’s a clip of Jeff citing his childhood influences from FIFTY24SF Gallery and Upper Playground’s art doc The Run Up:

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Art, music, shopping, fundraising, and dancing your ass off (especially if you made it to see the awesomely creepy Michael Jackson collection in Beverly Hills before the Gloved One called off the auction). Get your soul uniquely stoked fusioning around Los Angeles this weekend:

• Soul Slam IV Prince vs. Michael w/ DJ Spinna at the Echoplex. How can this not be fun? Via Going: “This event centers around a battle between two of the most eclectic and innovative artists to date, Michael Jackson and Prince! From the inception of this concept back in 1999 the response for SOUL SLAM has been enormous. This event turns into a DJ battle with one DJ, DJ Spinna and an audience of hardcore MJ and Prince fans. DJ Spinna sets the tone of this event as he lays down track after track from both MJ’s and Princes extensive music catalogues along with tracks of their cohorts, i.e.; Jermaine Jackson, Vanity, Janet, Sheila E., J5, The Time etc.”

• Multi-talented and hyphenated fellow pop culturist Sonja Rasula brings back LA’s unique shopping experience with Unique Los Angeles. Featuring over 230 independent vendors for all your shopping needs and wants. For you, the people to support you, the people.

• A festival of Baseman characters come to life, hula hoops on fire, carnivale games, and new art by Gary Baseman converge for his latest show La Noche de la Fusión. Opening at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City Saturday night.

• Do some good with Upper Playground as they present the art auction and fundraiser Stoked Sessions 2009 “I Love LA”. Every year Stoked teams up with the best artists in action sports, street and fine art to produce original pieces, with 100% of the sales benefiting Stoked Mentoring, a non-profit action sports organization for at risk youth. With this year’s lineup including Estevan Oriol, The Hit+Run crew, Jesse Spears, and Chase and many more, how could you not be stoked? Read more from the press release here on Fecalface.

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