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Enlightened Chou Golden Book (2009) Gary Baseman United States orange-acrylic on ephemra 6.5" x 7.5 " 17 x 19 cm
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Page 190 (2006) Gary Baseman United States pencil on ephemera 9 " x 6.5 " 23 x 17 cm
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Page 197 (2006) Gary Baseman United States pencil on ephemera 9 " x 6.5 " 23 x 17 cm
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Page 200 (2006) Gary Baseman United States pencil on ephemera 6.5" x 9 " 17 x 23 cm
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The Suffocation of the Ooga (2009) Gary Baseman United States acrylic on canvas 12" x 16 " 30 x 41 cm |
The Acceptance of the Ooga (2009) Gary Baseman United States acrylic on canvas 12" x 16 " 30 x 41 cm |
The Remembering of the Ooga (2009) Gary Baseman United States acrylic on canvas 12" x 16 " 30 x 41 cm |
Pervasive Artist. Painter. TV/Movie Producer. Toy Designer. Curator.
The LA Times describes his art "adorably perverse." One of the leaders of the Los Angeles underground art movement, who coined the term “pervasive art,” Mr. Baseman blurs the line between toy culture and fine art with his strong iconic images, both playful and dark, childlike and adult, id driven and thought-provoking. Mr. Baseman’s work is surreal. Innocent. Lustful. Honest. Dripping with Desire. Creamy. Gooey. Everywhere.
Mr. Baseman has exhibited around the world in Rome, Los Angeles, NYC, Taipei, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, Berlin, including an installation at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, paintings and sculptures in MOCA Shanghai, and a two-man show at the Laguna Art Museum titled Pervasion. Mr. Baseman's previous incarnations include the three-time Emmy award winning creator/executive producer of the animated seires and film "Teacher's Pet;" The New Yorker, Time, and Rolling Stone artist; and designer for the best selling game "Cranium." Entertainment Weekly Magazine named Baseman as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Entertainment. Baseman's newest book "Dying of Thirst," based on his work from his solo exhibition "I Melt in Your Presence," at the Moderism Gallery in SF has been published by Last Gasp.
For more information, please visit www.garybaseman.com
Born: Los Angeles, California
Education: BA UCLA Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude
Selected Solo Exhibitions
“La Noche de la Fusion,” Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, 2009
“Knowledge Comes from Gas Release,” Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona 2008
“Hide and Seek in the Forest of ChouChou,” Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2007
“I Melt In Your Presence,” Modernism Gallery, San Francisco CA 2007
“Manifestations of Desire,” OX-OP Gallery, Minneapolis MN 2006
“Bedtime for Toby,” Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville VA 2005-2006
“Pervasive Art,” Mercado Gallery, Barcelona Spain 2005
“Dumb Luck in Asia,” Taipei 2005
“A Moment Ago, Everything was Beautiful,” Installation, Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2005
“Garden of Unearthly Delights,” Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NYC 2005
“For the Love of Toby” Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, 2005
“Rites of Spring Fever” Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome Italy 2005
“Dunces,” La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, 2004
“Happy Idiot” and Other Paintings about Unattainable Beauty, Earl McGrath Gallery, NYC 2003
“Open Wounds” and Other Paintings about Vulnerablity, OX-OP Gallery, Minneapolis, 2003
“Modular Populous” Baseman & Biskup, Tin Man Alley Gallery, Philadelphia, 2003
“I am Your Piñata” and other paintings about Love and Sacrifice, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, 2002
“Dumb Luck” and Other Paintings About Lack of Control, Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles, 1999
“Nervous Twitches” Illustration Gallery, New York, 1992
Selected Group Exhibitions
True Self, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, NY 2009
Clowns, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2008
? The War, Gorey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007
Made In America, Choque Cultural Gallery, Sao Paulo Brazil 2007
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA 2005
Circus Punks Show, ToyTokyo Gallery, NYC
The Blab Show, Track 16, Santa Monica, September 2005
Drawing Hand, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, September 2005
Everywhere Show, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena CA 2005
I am 8-bit, Gallery 1988, Los Angeles, April 2005
Man & Beast, Emily David Gallery, University of Akron April 2005
Krampus, Copro Nason Gallery Los Angeles, December 2004
Parallel Universe. SRX Gallery Miami, December 2004
Toy Show, MF Gallery NYC November 2004
Tag the System,Toy Tokyo, October 2004
Characters at War, Zentralbuero, Berlin, Germany Oct 2004
QEEDROPHONIC Art Exhibit, Subliminal Projects Gallery LA August 2004
One Hundred Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton, CA July 2004
Hollywood Bowl Art Sphere Project, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica June 2004
Juxtapoz 10 th Anniversary Show, 111 Minna Gallery, April 2004
Modern Love, M Modern Gallery, Palm Springs, February 2004
“Above the Brow.” Earl McGrath Gallery, New York City and Los Angeles, 2003
“Greatest Album Art Never Scene” Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, 2003
“Beauty Stripped Bare/LA Black &White” BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, 2003
“Robots Have Feelings Too” Culture Cache Gallery, San Francisco, 2003
“Personal Responses In A Public World”, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 2003
“Sci-Fi Western Show” 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, 2003
“Hello from Los Angeles” Collaborative show with Mark Ryden & Tim Biskup, Toyko/Kyoto, Japan, 2002
“DECIPHER version 1.0” NY Arts Gallery, New York, 2002
“Dime Bag” New Image Art, Los Angeles, 2002
“Picture Mechanics” 69a Gallery, San Francisco, 2002
“Bubble Bath” 3 Person Show, Roc La Ruq, Seattle, 2001
“Invitational V” La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles, 2001
“The Art of Mickey Mouse” Japan, 1999
“America Illustrated”, Museum of Modern Art, Rome, Italy 1998
“Wisegeist II” Clay Doyle Gallery, Los Angeles, 1995
“New Pop” Venice & Milan, Italy 1994-1995
“Wisegeist” Clay Doyle Gallery, Los Angeles 1992
“New World Exhibition” Tokyu Bunkamura Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo 1992
Selected Articles
Swindle, Septmeber 2008
UCLA Magazine Spring 2005
Coagula Arts Journal, Cover Story, Oct. 2004
Los Angeles Alternative Press, Cover Story, Sept 2004
Los Angeles, Times Magazine, Feature, August 22, 2004
Rift Magazine Feature Summer 2004
Rafu Magazine Spread June 30, 2004
Juxtapoz Magazine, July/Aug. 2004
New York Times Arts&Leisure, April 18, 2004
Super 7 Magazine, Cover Story, April 2004
WYWS, April/May 2004
Angeleno Magazine, April 2004 Pg. 128
Flaunt Magazine, March 2004
Fast Company, April 2004
Bark, Spring 2004
Rough Magazine, March 2004Juxtapoz no.49, March/April 2004
Disney Magazine, “Head of the Class,” Spring 2004
Animation Magazine, February 2004
New York Magazine, January 19-26, 2004
Women’s Wear Daily-January 15. 2004
Los Angles Times, Sunday Feature, January 11, 2004
Boston Globe-Sunday Feature January 11. 2004
Entertainment Weekly-IT List, 100 Most Creative in Entertainment 2002
NY Arts Magazine October 2002
Los Angeles Times October 17 th, 2002
Flaunt Magazine No. 38 October 2002
Animation Blast No. 8 2002
London Sunday Express December 2 nd, 2001
Juxtapoz Magazine no. 30 January/February 2001
Variety November 10, 2000
Los Angeles Times September 9 th. 2000
Bikini Magazine December 1999/January 2000
Communication Arts—Cover Story March/April 2000
Los Angeles Magazine August 1999
Blad No. 5—Cover Story Amsterdam 1996
Lectures
American Center: Moscow, Russia, September 2008
Boom! Comics Festival: St. Petersburg, Russia, September 2008
International Animation Festival: Cyprus, August 2008
Urban Art Festival: Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 2008
Collaborative Series: MOCA, March 2005
Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto January 2005
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston December 2004
AIGA Nashville November 2004
Hallmark, Kansas City November 2004
Pictoplasma Conference, Berlin October 2004
AIGA SF, San Francisco October 2004
Art Center College of Design, Key Note, Pasadena, CA October 2004
Art Director’s Club Houston, Houston Zoo July 2004
Comic Con, San Diego July 2004
MOCA, Museum of Contempory Art, Los Angeles, April 2004
Creative Summit, San Marcos, TX March 2004
DSVC Dallas TX, March 2004
TDCTHTPIPC, Park City, Utah, February 2004
Art Directors Club of NY, NYC October 2003
Jack Davis Distinguished Artists Lecture—University of Georgia, Athens April 2003
GAG-Atlanta Georgia April 2003
Creative Summit, San Marcos, TX March 2003
Tech, Media,&Design Conference, Madison, WI 2002-KeyNote Speaker
Artalk-GAG Skirball Center, Los Angeles CA 2002
California State University, Northridge CA 2002
Otis Art Institiue, Los Angeles CA 2001
National Cartoonist Society, Boca Raton FL 2001
Art Directors Club of Denver 2001
Royal College of Art, London, England 2001
Colorbites, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2001
Illustration Conference, Santa Fe, NM 1999
Art Center, Pasadena, CA 1999
DSVC Dallas TX1999
AIGA Phoenix AZ 1999
Communigraphics, Memphis TN 1998
California State University, Long Beach1998
AIGA Salt Lake City 1998
Advertising & Design Club of Canada, Toronto 1997
Louisville Graphic Design Association, Louisville KY 1996
CSCA Charlotte, NC 1996
Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1995
University of Kansas, 1995
Creative Forum Nashville 1993
Visual Arts Alliance, Iowa 1992
AIGA Minneapolis 1992
School of Visual Arts, NYC 1991
Art Directors Club of Tulsa 1990
Graphic Communications Society of Oklahoma 1990
Honors –Partial List
Emmy Award---Best Daytime Animated Television Series—Teacher’s Pet 2003
Emmy Award—Individual Achievement in Production Design—Teacher’s Pet 2003
Emmy Award--Best daytime Animated Teleivision Series- Teacher’s Pet 2002
British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) Award-- Best International Childern's Program-Teacher’s Pet 2001
Nomination for Best Animated Program and Best Production Design--Annie Awards 2001
World Animation Celebration—Best Daytime Animated Television Program—Teacher’s Pet
National Cartoonist Society—Rueben Award/ Best Animated Television Program—Teacher’s Pet
American Illustration 7-22
Art Directors Club of New York
AIGA
The 100 Show, Chicago
Communication Arts Annual
Step Inside Design
Society of Publication Designers
Society of Illustrators—Humor Award Funny Bone
Selected Published Work
The New Yorker
The New York Times
Time
The Los Angeles Times
Rolling Stone
Sports Illustrated
The Atlantic Monthly
Entertainment Weekly
Esquire
Forbes
The Washington Post
Blab
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