October 2016

2016 Stranger Factory Halloween Contest!

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Contest Time!

Ghosts and ghouls, in celebration of Bewitching 6, and our favorite time of the year, we have an epic Halloween Contest with the most spooktacular guest judge Dark Town Sally!

Stranger Factory wants to see how you decorate for Halloween!!!!

The rules are simple: Show us your Halloween decorations!
We want to see any pumpkins you carve, house decorations, setups of toys with a spooky theme, cupcakes you make, and so on. You get the spooky idea right? BUT you must use the hashtag #StrangerFactoryHalloween so we know you have entered.

The prizes are awesome: Two winners will receive a custom Halloween treat bag filled with goods so awesome the Great Pumpkin is jealous!

The deadline is Wednesday, October 26 at 9pm CST to give our captivaiting judge Dark Town Sally time to pick a winner.

Only TWO will win, but all will have a blast participating.

The contest is open to EVERYONE and each contestant is allowed as many entries as they want!

Good luck and Happy Halloween.

Three brand new exhibitions opening in November at Stranger Factory!

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Stranger Factory is pleased to announce to three exhibitions in November: What Lives in the Attic, featuring new work from Dave Pressler, Neofeudalism with new work by Lori Field, and Out of Thin Air with new sculptures from Simon Boses, A.K.A. Mudmonkey.

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Dave Pressler is an Emmy-nominated television producer with more than twenty years of experience as an illustrator, character designer, sculptor, and painter. With his combined skills, Pressler is also known as one of the most prolific robot artists and believes it’s easier to draw and explore all aspects of the human condition with flawed sentient machinery.

Pressler considers himself a blue collar artist and finds time for some robot creation, or another, each day. He has worked for Nickelodeon and DreamworksTV while creating his own designer toys, sculptures, and paintings, which have been shown and sold in galleries across the world, including Titmouse Studios, Copro, Mighty Jaxx, and Toy Art Gallery, as well as many others.

For What Lives in the Attic, Pressler will offer more than 20 pieces, of various sizes and mediums from pen and ink sketches, acrylic paintings, cast resin sculpture and original pencil drawings. A limited edition of giclee prints will also be available. Pressler will also be hosting a workshop at Strange Factory on Sunday, November 6th (details below).

WORKSHOP
VISUAL STORYTELLING

With Dave Pressler

With over 20 years of experience in character design, art direction, and animation, Emmy-nominated artist/animator Dave Pressler is excited to announce his upcoming seminar Visual Storytelling alongside his exhibition at Stranger Factory. If you have ever wanted an in-depth look or introduction into character design, visual storytelling, and storyboard techniques then this workshop is a must!

Dave will outline the basics of character design, its relation to story telling through pose, gesture, and visual development while relating back to his professional experience. He will additionally teach basic storyboarding techniques: the cornerstone of good visual storytelling.

An excellent introduction for anyone interested in animation, illustration, or character design, Visual Storytelling will be held Sunday, November 6th from 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm)

Workshop: Sunday, November 6th
Workshop is 3 hours long (12:30 PM – 3:30 PM)
$50 per student
Space is extremely limited
Students 18+ only
Bring your own sketchbook, and drawing supplies / A limited amount of sketchbooks, storyboard books, and drawing supplies will be available for purchase, day of event.
To book your spot, contact the gallery by emailing strangerfactorysales@gmail.com or calling 505-508-3049

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Lori Field explores the border between reality and dream, past life and present, and invokes subliminal, mysterious worlds through her mixed media drawings, paintings, and sculptures.

Submitting to an obsession with obsessiveness, materializing the concept of “other,” Field’s work is deliberately intimate, containing fetishistic figures that are emotionally charged, and perhaps confrontational in their exaggerated “otherness.”

With more than 15 years experience, Field’s work is known in galleries throughout the world and her raw and primitive symbolism is manifest in shape-shifting archetypes as she creates an intuitive narrative surrounding internal and external struggles of what it means to be human through themes of loss, rebirth, identity, fragility, and vulnerability.

For Neofeudalism we can expect to see a variety of one of a kind mixed media pieces from bronze sculpts to hand-painted wearables.

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Simon Boses of Mudmonkey Studios has been sculpting for 20+ years. His ceramic sculptures range from small “toy” sculptures known as TerraNauts to larger pieces, each unique and individual from start to finish. Mudmonkey figures look like they’ve just stepped out of the pages of your favorite children’s book with a softened, vintage finish, reminiscent of tribal tricksters, mysterious but more kind-hearted and inviting than mischievous.

Boses is working on 20 original, hand painted sculptures for Out of Thin Air, which is appropriate as he is used to being at sea level, but recently moved to New Mexico, creating his latest narrative figures at an altitude of approximately 7000 feet.

All Exhibitions will run November 4th – 27th, 2016.
Opening Reception on November 4th (6-9 PM)

All artists will be in attendance on opening night.

Stranger Factory
3411 Central Avenue NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
505-508-3049