CHOEGAL IN NEW YORK

See you guys
back in new york!

David Choe signing at Giant Robot NY

Choegal release event and signing
Saturday, January 3, 2009 - 4:00 - 7:00

Giant Robot NY
437 E. 9th street
New York, NY 10009
(212) 674-GRNY
grny.net

Giant Robot is proud to host a "Choegal" release party attended by artist David Choe.

Raised on comic books, affected by street art, and inspired by crime, women, and music, Choe has developed a unique and restless style that is effortless yet meticulous and focused yet dirty. Since the artist contributed his first illustration to Giant Robot magazine in 1997, he has exhibited in solo shows around the world (at all three Giant Robot galleries as well as in Paris, Tokyo, and London) and also been featured on VBS-TV's popular Thumbs Up! series. Choegal is his first wood figure: extremely detailed, totally hand painted, and featuring a head that rotates to expose three facial expressions. This piece is strictly limited to 1,000 pieces.

From 4:00-7:00 on Saturday, January 3, 2009, Choe will be on hand to sign Choegal figures, as well as the brand new issue of Giant Robot. In addition to writing his regular column, he provided cover art and design elements found throughout the magazine.
Upperplayground NEW YORK is also right next door to GIANT ROBOT , and here' some of my stuff they carry

so if you want it signed ,then get it

here's a cool video eric made from the signing in L.A.

I GOT WOOD

GOOD TIMES ROLL

it was cold, and the line was long but the fans came out in full force,
i get so many emails from haters, douche bags, cowards, and miserable venomous people , so i almost forget that people even like my art, thanks everyone who came out, thank you for all the beard papa cream puffs, comics, scarves, sweaters, self-help books,oranges,sushi,food, paintings , and all your love and support and driving through the shittiest traffic, you might actually make me care about life again, i know its only a wood toy but i hope it made your holidays happier, thanks again everyone for coming out. here's some photo's from bobby, eric.

ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL

hey fuckers your in for a real treat, my friend rob sato, from my old art school days, is gonna unleash his first solo show in los angeles at giant robot, i got a painting from him almost a year ago, it's so warped and drenched in details im still finding new shit in it everyday, here's the details:
Giant Robot is proud to present Dirty Paper Machines 3 by Rob Sato at GR2.

Paintings and illustrations by Rob Sato have been known to mix animals and humans in strange yet appealing ways. In addition to participating in numerous group and solo art shows since 2001, he received the prestigious Xeric Grant awarded to up-and-coming comic-book artists in 2004, allowing him to publish Burying Sandwiches.

"When I heard this show was actually going to happen, I made plans to drop all projects and cut my hours at my day job," says Sato. "This situation has produced work which digs deeper into themes I usually try to stuff into pictures. It's a rich mix of humor, mayhem, sadness, horror, adventure, heavy metal, science fiction, history, pastoral beauty, questionable behavior, and true love . Of course, some of it is just silly."

For Dirty Paper Machines, Sato is preparing about 60 pieces. Sizes range from tiny one-inch paintings to 30" x 44". In addition, he will have one new mini-comic, some small screenprints, and a large Ultrachrome Giclee print.

A reception for the artist will take place from 6:30 to 10:00 on Saturday, January 17


GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
gr2.net
(310) 445-9276
giantrobot.com
robsato.com

THANK YOU!!

thanks everyone who bought and supported my new print, in this shitty economy, i know shits ugly out there, hopefully you will love this print and make you feel better. here's what the boys at
burlesque
had to say

"We’re finished! We did it! After weeks of ink mixing, computer screen staring, printing, printing, printing, poster staring, printing, and also printing, the print crew here has wrapped up work on David Choe’s Exodus From the Land of Play. Dave came to town over the weekend to watch the last colors go down (oh, by the way, did we say it was going to be 13 colors? Cause it is now 18 colors!), sign and number the prints, and then draw and paint on all of them, making each print truly one-of-a-kind!

It goes on sale Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 2:00PM (central time).
Print Details

33 x 30″ (image size 28 x 23.75″)
Printed on 100% Cotton, Acid-Free Stonehenge Rising 250gsm paper
Signed and numbered edition of 76 prints (see details below)
Each print hand-detailed by David Choe
Price: $909.00 plus insured expedited shipping.
We will also be selling a very limited number of Exodus prints printed on 1/8″ thick maple veneer plywood. These have been sprayed with a UV clearcoat and will be mounted onto 1/2″ medium density fiberboard. They will also be 33 x 30″ (image size 28 x 23.75″). There are 8 total wood prints with 6 being made available to the public. Price: $1984.00 each plus insured shipping. These prints will ship out approximately one week after the standard prints as we need some extra time to make sure they are packed and shipped in the safest way possible.
Complete Edition information:

Main Edition: 76
Wood Print (WP): 8
Artist Proofs (AP): 10*
Printer Proofs (PP): 10*
Make-ready / Test versions (signed with fake names (Tommy Chong, Davis Thong, Jeet Kun Jong, etc.) by David Choe): 20*
Blue Dog version (16 of 18 colors were printed, David editioned this one because of its unique look): 1*
*These editions are not being offered at this time. If and when they are, we will send out a new notification. Please do not write asking to purchase or reserve any of the asterisked prints.

Burlesque’s online store is the ONLY place selling this art print. The sale button will be added to our webstore at 2:00pm central time. Prints will be sold lowest number to highest in the order that payment is received. If you have further questions, please direct them to: orders@burlesquedesign.com

photo's of work in
progress

the original painting 5 by 6 feet

finished product

NOW IT'S 18 FUCKING COLORS

CHOEGAL IN LOS ANGELES

Choegal release event and signing
Tuesday, December 23, 6:00 -8:00

GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
gr2.net
(310) 445-9276

Giant Robot is proud to host a "Choegal" release party attended by
artist David Choe.

Raised on comic books, affected by street art, and inspired by crime,
women, and music, Choe has developed a unique and restless style
that is effortless yet meticulous and focused yet dirty. Since the
artist contributed his first illustration to Giant Robot magazine in
1997, he has exhibited in solo shows around the world (at all three
Giant Robot galleries as well as in Paris, Tokyo, and London) and
also been featured on VBS-TV's popular Thumbs Up! series. Choegal is
his first wood figure: extremely detailed, totally hand painted, and
featuring a head that rotates to expose three facial expressions.
This piece is strictly limited to 1,000 pieces and $45.

From 6:00-8:00 on Tuesday, December 23, Choe will be on hand to sign
Choegal figures, as well as the brand new issue of Giant Robot. In
addition to writing his regular column, he provided cover art and
design elements found throughout the magazine.

OBAMA WATERCOLOR COVER

ever since i did the obama poster, i get emails every week asking me to explain, the importance of art in this last presidential election, and how i think the art effected the campaign, and why i decided to paint this image, and why so many other artists are painting obama, all these questions are answered and covered in the newest issue of GIANT ROBOT, it's an awesome in depth article covering all the key players in the art campaign from shepard fairey, to upper playground, so if you ever wanted to know, get it
here's what eric had to say ,
"New issue of GR. Behind the scenes just a bit: Yes, it's an Obama cover, by David Choe, most of you may have seen his other image, but this is actually a water color that was almost like a study, but sometimes, the studies turn out to be great. This is one of those examples. Upper Playground worked with this image as well, in their huge quest in helping the ascension of Barack Obama as a candidate and President.

Why an Obama cover? Perhaps some of you are sick of seeing pop culture images of the President-Elect. I honestly was getting to that point, and that's when I thought maybe I could learn more about it, and explain it to others who maybe felt the same way. I happen to have the access, so I actually wrote an article about how Street Art worked with the Obama movement. I tried to explain the story of how artists like Shepard Fairey, Date Farmers, David Choe, Ron English, and many many others, with the help of brands like Upper Playground, Obey Giant, and an artist friendly PR dude, Yosi Sergant helped make street art play a role in this election.

It's one of my longer articles, and I did the best I could to construct stories from different angles.

Part two, we have an exclusive interview with Barack Obama's sister - I guess "The First Sister" Maya Soetoro-Ng. Her words are great too and we have a couple of cool photos of her and her brother in his old crib. Yep, he eats cereal just like us. Hope you like it."

L.A. to MIAMI, artfagged out

this shit looks like photoshop, you cant really tell in this photo, but the entire thing is needlepoint

probably one of the most influential images from my childhood, i finally got to see the original robert williams painting, that graced the Guns'n'roses appetite for destruction album,i used to stare at this art while listening to both sides of the tape, over and over, the original was going for $350,000

if you read giant robot magazine and ever wondered what the creator looked like, here he is

i went to LACMA with my mom, mike, jenny, and their baby maya, Maya liked the andy warhol camoflauge but immediately started crying when she saw MJ

FRENCH, me, Kenton Parker, at SCION self portrait show in miami

i still have never eaten white castle, but i guess KRYSTAL burgers is the southern counterpart to it, and much tastier, sam took me to the one in fort lauderdale after we got comics at TATE's , we ate 17 burgers each(sam refused to hold the burgers for this picture)

Mac and Retna have done some epic pieces together in the past, but this black and white banger, they were working on in miami, is the best one yet

the FRIENDS WITH YOU continue with their world domination of fun

this german art collective called GELATIN make all kinds of weird shit, they made a tube you look through, so you can look right at your butthole while your taking a shit, so you can see the shit come out, of course they had to be german right?, anyways they also make cool things like this, which was coin operated and actually worked , until Tury sat in it and broke it.

Hiro's Yaku-san, best japanese tapa's in miami

the entire FRIENDS WITH YOU family , at the victory dinner after fart basel

DRUM TRACK

A few years ago when i lived in san Jose Joe to recorded me fucking around on my drums in my kitchen and used the audio to animate some of my drawings.

a few years later when me and pete were fucking around on some short films, he grabbed my drum track from the animation and looped it, and played crazy organs over it

i love fucking around!

BATCUNT

i started stealing spawn toys when i was 15, a few years too old to be doing that, but i loved todd mcfarlane and i loved the toys and i didnt have any money so i stole them, It got a little worse, i got a job at toys'r'us as the guy that assembles the bikes when you purchase them, it was me and this older black guy, he got pissed at me because i was working too quick , he said as i recall,"hey chino , slow down, we gonna get paid either way, whats the rush?" he complained to management that i was playing heavy metal devil music (KORN,deftones,sonic youth)too loud, and it was affecting his work so they moved me out to the floor, where i was deemed too unfriendly to customers (he never smiles), so i was moved quickly to stockroom, where no one spoke english and every single toy'r'us safety rule was broken and suicidal tendencies could be played loud, and where i was in charge of guess what? stocking Spawn toys!!! i would dump boxes of toys in the dumpster, and then keep all the rare , one-to-a-box chase figures and sell the rest to local comic shops and nerds(this was before ebay). soon i had every toy in the world at my house, it was starting to get quite embarrassing, (a few years later i got a job in porn so i had nothing but porn,comics,toys, and an electronic drum set in my house, it looked identical to the dude's house in the movie 40 year old virgin), once i had everything, i needed more! i needed the rarest of the rarest , so i started to collect misprinted,discolored and mispackaged toys, i'd scan every box, and once in a great while, i'd find that hidden treasure,i got a nathan summers aka: cable where they forgot to paint his face,i got a X-force strong guy that they packaged upside down, soon it grew into collecting all things fucked and fucked up, i had bootleg transformers from Bangladesh(an orange and a purple soundwave) and counterfeit GI JOES, but like all boys , after i got a taste of pussy all that foolishness faded into the background.
until!!!
the newest issue of BATMAN #10 written by Frank Miller, art by Jim Lee with alternate cover by Frank Quitely , had just come out to great controversy, it was the first time in the entire BATMAN and mainstream DC comics universe that the word CUNT was used in a mainstream super hero comic, three of my favorite comic book people in one comic with cuss words, i had to fucking have it , only to find out on the news: "destroy all copies of Batman & Robin #10 this week was apparently made at DC’s request because the black boxes used to cover obscenities deemed too extreme in the dialogue were not dark enough to make the words illegible in all cases" so DC destroyed all the copies and then had to reprint them again using darker boxes, So the inner nerd hunter in me came out once again
Recently i had the great honor of having Jim Lee ,one of the best super hero artists of all time, purchase my painting EXODUS IN THE LAND OF PLAY, i knew jim had to have a copy or the unrated version, so i had to ask , and all my nerd urges were satiated when i got the CUNTED up issue of batman in the mail today . thanks Jim

FRESNO AKA: FREZZZNATCH AKA: DOGBATH AKA: NUTS IN YOUR BUTT

FRESNO my favorite place in the world
here's a lost episode of "thumbs up!" from season #2 enjoy
and watch the rest here

Thumbs Up 2 Lost Footage from Daniel Freedman on Vimeo.

BLACK DYNAMITE

this is my second time going to sundance
the first time was for doing art and voices for we are the strange,
this time it's for doing some art for the fucking funny film
BLACK DYNAMITE
here's some flicks and posters from the movie
we might realease some special edition poster for the movie stay tuned
watch the preview below, but don't wake the other bitches
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GREY WATERCOLOR

watercolor i did of sasha grey a few months back, during a painting session with james jean

WHIP IT GOOD

about a year ago, when i cruised through the shitty city of sacramento, i ran into a mulleted menace named
jacoby jorgensen, i pretended to film a reality show about him and his friend, using a cardboard videocamera,
he's on the staff of a correctional mental health facility, and should probably get some help himself, unfortunately the show never aired, which i s a shame because it ended with a cambodian war criminal that had all the underground tunnels tattoed on his back, kicking jordy's ass with a bicycle chain, that episode only lives on in virtual reality, speaking of, in this day of emails and facebooks it's nice to get cool shit in the mail, unfortunately it's usually the worst shit ever, and then i feel like shit for throwing it away, however , just the other day i recieved a handmade "CHOE'S BEFORE HOES" leather belt in the mail from jacoby jorgensen,
it's shaped like my whale with the guts spilling out, and the holes for the belt loop are in the exposed ribs, NICE!!
anyways if you want to beat your kids, Jacoby has some quality belts here

WATERCOLOR BAMA

hey did you know we have a black president? i did this watercolor of Obama on
my jetblue flight home after the election, i was sitting in the exit row so i had extra
leg room, this annoying lady next to me kept bugging the shit out of me, so
i never filled in the face details, but i didn't need to everyone can still tell who it is,
he's already a demigod.

FUNNY BROWN MAN

new live dvd by russell peters is out, i painted a watercolor of russell as unko sam for the cover,
go check it out.

FROM SKULL TO FINISH

i painted a skull, a face over the skull, a mask over the face, and then i turned the lights out and shined a light down on the masked face, i painted this in about 2 hours at you tube live with alex pardee, sam flores, and jeremy fish, check out the flicks, and video

DARK CIRCLES (get some rest)

I will be releasing , my first watercolor print, DARK CIRCLES (get some rest), with outeredgestudio, this tuesday, DEcember 2nd.
I just flew to monterey and signed them all, and they look better than the original ,
it will be $350 and limited to an edition of 150 ,
contact Andrew Jackson at outeredgestudio.com for more details.

for more affordable stuff, get my new book, it is my first hardcover book,
and my first one in years, after dragging my feet for over a year,
the book that was supposed to coincide with my show in london, just
got released,It has super high res reproductions of almost every
watercolor and mixed media painting that I did for the entire show,
mixed with photo’s and all the murals I did in the U.K. and new
york. they are limited to only 500 copies and are almost gone
, They are £25 each. Please call the print shop on
+44(0)2032380108 to place an order or order online at
http://www.lazinc.com/contact/

also
A wooden toy figure with hidden moving parts is almost finished,
hopefully they’ll be here before x-mas ,they’re making about 1000
of these and I’m not sure how much they’ll be but check with ningyoushi


and if you speak german you can understand this video

13 COLOR SCREENPRINT!!!

CLOSEUP DETAIL

After working with the world famous burlesque team on my obama print, we are teaming up again once more like wondertwins, to produce my most ambitious print to date ,
EXODUS FROM THE LAND OF PLAY

in the land of play ,the sky’s rain fried cheese bread, there is non-stop fun and unlimited freedom, children are encouraged to commit acts of vandalism, fight, drink beer out of unicorn horns, smoke cigars that turn into bubblicious, and gamble and never lose, nuns show you their shaved vaginas and preach, up all night , sleep all day, where everyone plays and never works, where a kid can be a kid, and also where a man can also behave like a kid, do what you want, whenever you want there’s no responsibilities, no cops, no rules, no repercussions, and no consequences to any of your actions, but all good things must come to an end, I won’t tell you what happened, but everyone has to leave immediately, get the fuck out now! So Our heroine and androgynous vamp, donning royal robes and axl rose gear , leads a parade of donkey eared miscreants and ne’er –do wells armed with customized super soakers filled with gummy worm juice and milk from coco crispies(I won’t name them all , but Darth Nihilus,razorback, and Beta ray Bill are up in the mix), out of Cockaigne, maybe to wander the earth forever?

This print will be a whopping 13 color screen print, on Rising Stonehenge 250gsm, it's 100% cotton, the Image size will be : 28x23.75. and the Finished print size: 33x30 (the original is 5 feet by 6 feet and every tiny detail has been captured), THERE WILL ONLY BE 76 copies of this print made, many have already been reserved for friends and family, so be warned , if you sleep on this one, don’t bitch to me later, I’m flying to Minnesota in December to inspect, sign and maybe draw or paint on some or all of these prints. We will release this before Christmas, the price is $909

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and you will be updated with all the current info about this print
here's a photo in progress

to see more photo's of the printmaking process of this print go
here