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ryan berkley at grass hut tonite tonite tonite


This Thursday at grass hut presents-  *Spectacularcade * new works by Ryan Berkley. Ryan will be taking over with his first solo show at GH. Berkley has become a portland icon. If you have seen a sloth in a business suit you may have seen his work before. Or maybe your nuts. Either way us portlanders love his work and I am particularly stoked to have his art on our walls. Hope you can make it down. Preview will be online Wednesday eve.

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munktiki takes over grass hut this month


Cocktail Oddities.
New ceramic works my Munktiki.
At Grass Hut Portland Oregon.
Opening reception- Thursday February 3rd from 6-9pm
Munktiki has been a part of the tiki surf coctail scene for quite sometime.
It fills our hearts and tumblers with glee to have him here at the hut.
Munktiki created brand new sculpts, one off and some exclusives just for the show. Including a gorilla that kicks ass, a masked wrestler, severed hand, and more.

I think this month we will change the name grass hut to Munktikihut in honor of the radness and volume of IT, that Munktiki is ba-ringing.
Hope to see you at the hut this Thursday. The artist will be at the show, just look for the 6foot plus gentleman in the Hawaiian print.
Everything will go online as well so if you can’t fly in from Fiji for this one you can check it out online.

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le merde and martin ontiveros tonite


at grass hut. Can’t think of a better more awesome combo. le merde is probably somewhere on I-5 right now driving down to portland. Almost everything is a secret mystery cept these two bits of rad.

Le Martin Promo 1

Le Martin Promo

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mushroom magic


Mushroom magic featuring new works by arbito, snaggs, oliver hibert, spencer hibert, apak, muju, bwana spoons, pinky, lonny pop and fawn gehweiler all taking on the fantastical world of mushrooms. if only every month could be like this.
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Bad Strength and Some Ghosts I Have Known


Our second Tim and Tigerlily Biskup show- BAD STRENGTH! and Portland’s very own Theo Ellsworth- Some Ghosts i have known.
At- Grass Hut here in Portland Oregon. Some of you at Daily might not know we have moved. Downtown to 5th and couch inside Floating world, way smaller even more packed. These two shows open Thursday night July 1st from 6-9pm

Here’s the first two images from Tim and Tigerlily. Sorry probably no preview sales this time. Our web guy Greg the hungryeyeball is on vacation. So just little ol me here this week, and sara our shipper today. From wha tI understand theo will have woodcut cut outs, and tim and tigerlily have a huge pile of rad drawings and a few paintings too. All three artists will be in attendance, so we hope you can come out and celebrate with us. It’s Summer!
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the more the merrier… balls out that is.


here’s a few more arrivals for the balls out show.

Oliver hibert

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brendan monroe- this one is super tactile yummy

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kristin cammermeyer

cramsballs 1-e

cramsballs 2-e

eric inkala

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scott c

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tim biskup- it’s extra big and me thinks a developement in the art of biskupness, also beautiful

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judit navratil

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Balls out line up is here.


here’s the magic.

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BALLS OUT at GRASS HUT


Hi dujourers. On April 2nd the first friday of the month GH will be hosting Balls Out. A full on giz into the eyeballs of the viewer with over 50 artists doing square panels. The theme- Go Balls Out. Put all your art love and juice into one piece of work. The line-up is… well, it’s flipping awesome. I’ll post that soon. First let’s start with the gold medal winner for getting in their first image via digi, Appropriately titled “Goo”.. Thanks Evah Fan. You are a winner and a champion.

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friday is my day and then some


This Friday at noon pacific on my site I will be releasing the last of the two Fancy Haircut Earth Restroyer Pupu Bros. Little Bandit.
Another long name, but we can just call him Little Bandit.
He is Glow green vinyl with pearl white, black, yellow, and my most favorite color right now for vinyl- deep dark turquoise.
He will come with a silk screened header. Handmade by bovine press here in portland.

Same day later that day Kicking Ass and Taking Names opens at GH. Le Merde, Itokin Park, Tim Biskup, Scrappers, Martin Ontiveros, Uglydolls, and me. New works by all. Customs and paintings and GH runs.
Opening Reception is 6-9pm this Friday September 4th.
We will be here and ready for some good times.

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off to london and paris


Hi peeples.
I’m off to London and Paris for the next leg of my WTF Summer tour book signin’ and li’l parties.
First stop Thursday eve, June 25th at-
Concrete Hermit
5a Club Row
London
E1 6JX
Tel: +44 (0)207 729 2646
More info here soon- concretehermit.com

Second stop Tuesday eve, June 30th at-
ARTOYZ PARIS
45 rue de l’arbre Sec
75001 PARIS
Tel : +33 (0)1 47 03 09 90
Metro : LOUVRE ou CHATELET

I will have exclusive killers, earlybird Stevens, customs, og art, prints, tees, my new book Welcome to Forest Island, and we will have pencil fighting championships!!! Winner takes all. So if your in in the area, hope to see you there. If you know peeps that might enjoy these kinda shinanigans, then give them a hollar ok.

WTF NYC report


New York was loads of fun. left for NYC totally stressed out still packing my suitcase during the Warmholes show at grass Hut. This was a major bummer as some of the artists drove down from seattle and the place was hoppin and I couldn’t play. But… got to the airport in time friday night. My friend Jimbo met me in town and helped me all day at the MoCCA arts fest. It was at teh Armory, beautiful, old, humid place. Lotso f great artcomics, smelly nerds, and a chance to be recruited into the military. Joy. Had lots of fun signing books, selling art and toys, and the biggest joy. John kerschbaum’s table was right next to mine. His comics rule the earth. Sunday at KR was good too. the pencil Fighting was awesome, cept there was a 10 minute plus match where the fighters couldn’t even snap their own pencil’s just to end it. Where did i get these pencil’s. Maybe the steel shank factory. Jimbo remained champion. Beyond al lthat goodness, ate lots of good food. Ate rice pudding, flan, korean jelly tea, and good BBQ and risoto.

massive pile of cassette tapes. what are these, ehh I'll just throw them all in the street. williamsburg

massive pile of cassette tapes. what are these, ehh I'll just throw them all in the street. williamsburg

massive pile of barf in NYC

massive pile of barf in NYC

all the right parts

all the right parts

sunny brooklyn

sunny brooklynpencil fight aftermath at KR

new kicks, thanks converse

new kicks, thanks converse

jimbo works on his dinosaur. we took our dinosaurs all over town the next day

jimbo works on his dinosaur. we took our dinosaurs all over town the next day

dinosaur attack

dinosaur attack

setting up ye olde dinos in the rain. just like portland eh.

setting up ye olde dinos in the rain. just like portland eh.

jimbo and his giant cardboard ultraman

jimbo and his giant cardboard ultraman

WTF Steven is coming


maybe maybe not for New York so I might need to do some star wars earlybird print or coupon or something. But a brand new steven the bat sculpt is coming for the WTF tour. He’s a little mini produced by Super 7 and sculpted by gargamel. here’s the wax sculpt of his fat little feet.

In other magic of all magics the first books have arrived at Top Shelf in georgia where the company is based. This is super flippin’ dooper as we were a little uncertain whether er not they would arrive in time for MoCCA and Kid Robot this weekend. I can’t wait to see my new baby book.

testing 1,2,3. Is this WTF on?


Hi. Let me introduce myself. My name is Bwana. I am a man, not a girl for those of you that haven’t met me. Jack let me come play here for the summer to tell you about my travels and the WTF summer tour. It’s a brokeback bucked up into a few dif segments. First I go to New york for the mocca artsfest june 6th, and then the next day. that’s a sunday a party at Kid Robot. they call that place KRNY as well. Then late June i go to Concrete Hermit in London, and Artoyz in paris, then when iget back the west coast leg of the tour is on. Starts in seattle at Schmancy, Grass Hut in portland (my homebase), Super 7 in San Francisco, GR2, also known as Giant Robot in Los Angeles, and San Diego Comic Con, then I take a well needed break for a month and in september finish it all off in Tokyo at my favorite place- Thrash Out.

Errr, anyway. What is the WTF Summer Tour about. Well i have this book coming out. it’s my first artbook titled- Welcome To Forest Island. It’s a nice little full color hardback swab of lovelyness. Forward by mr Tim Biskup, and some kind words on the back by mr. J. Otto. So that’s the bit that starts the engine. But in case you never went to a book signing. they are f’ing boooo-ring. Wow, can i stand in line for an hour in this quiet room and have this dingdong sign my book. So that’s why I’m bringing it. New killer, og art and customs, a brand new Steven the bat sculpt (thanks Super 7), some rootbeer, and depending on where party is- 4 square or pencil fighting championships. So- hoping

killer tail

killer tail

the mess on my floor

the mess on my floor

to meet you there and have a good time.

Jack is that long enough? Does this meet the 500 word count minimum requirements?