Stranger Factory Gallery presents OLD GROWTH Two man exhibition featuring new works by Tim Lee and Joe Scarano FEBRUARY 2017

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OLD GROWTH
Two man exhibition featuring new works by Tim Lee and Joe Scarano

FEBRUARY 2017
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Coming to Stranger Factory in February 2017 is a new exhibit called “Old Growth“, featuring new works by visionary narrative artists Tim Lee and Joe Scarano.

Tim Lee’s work combines music, Americana, pop-culture, and bits of Southern Gothic, entwined together in nostalgic worlds and imagined time. With elements of cubism mixed with an Eastern European folktale feel, Lee’s multi- media work evoke a distictivly bold graphic style and flavor. He will be presenting new drawings, paintings, and 3-d sculptures.
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Joe Scarano’s characters and environments recall the odd early days of animation and the dingy despair of the 1930s. With their popsicle-stick bucktoothed grins, hollow heads, and dead eyes, his characters often straddle the lines between funny, tragic, grotesque, and comically depressing. Scarano will be featuring new 3-d wood cutout paintings that create a new inner-dimensional vision of his 2-d characters.

OLD GROWTH will run from February 3rd – 26th 2017

Opening Reception: Friday, February 3 from 6-9pm
(The opening is free and open to the public.)

Both artists will be in attendance for reception.

The Gallery and its gift store are open 6 days a week (closed Tuesdays). Please check strangerfactory.com for updated hours
during Albuquerque Rapid Transit Construction.

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

 

Stranger Factory’s Made in New Mexico Group Exhibition

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Stranger Factory’s
Made in New Mexico Group Exhibition

JANUARY 2017
Stranger factory is so pleased to announce our January exhibition!

For the first time in our 6 year history, Stranger Factory gallery will host an exhibition of new works featuring a diverse group of artists from the land of enchantment. “Made in New Mexico” will feature almost two dozen local artists from throughout the state. Many of the artists are expected to attend the opening reception on January 13, from 6-9pm.
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The exhibition will run through January 29.
Participating artists, include: Ryan Singer, Stephan Webb, Karl Deuble, Joel Nakamura, Peter Hague, Johnpaul Gutierrez, Sandi Pierce, Stan Harada, Dorielle Caimi, Travis Black, Al​ Na’ir Lara, Jason Andrew Smith, David Santiago, James Black, Nikki Zabicki, Bubzilla, Rita Riggs, Chris Erickson, John Sumrow, Chris Grill, Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters!

Made in New Mexico will run from
January 13th – 29th, 2017

Opening Reception: Friday, January 13th from 6-9 PM
Many artists will be in attendance for reception.

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

Stranger Factory’s Sixth Annual Winter Salon

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Stranger Factory’s Sixth Annual Winter Salon
Stranger factory is so pleased to announce our sixth annual group winter exhibition!

Our small works annual group show is an end of year celebration and one of our most exciting exhibitions, featuring new artwork from many local and international artists. This year’s talented line up promises to provide a variety of enticing alternatives for the upcoming gift-giving season including original sketches, paintings, sculptures, plush, and jewelry!
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Participating artists, this year, include Horrible Adorables, Dark Town Sally, Anna Tillett, Fika Art, Creeptoons, Danita Art, Michele Lynch, Carisa Swenson, Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters, Karl Dueble, Stephen Webb, Vanessa Ramirez, Stan Manoukian, Kelly Tunstall, Kelly Denato, Genevieve Greer and more!
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Winter Salon VI will run from
December 2nd 2016 – January 1st, 2017
Opening Reception: December 2nd from 6-9 PM
Many artists will be in attendance for reception.

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

 

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

 

 

Two brand new exhibitions opening in October at Stranger Factory!

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Stranger Factory is pleased to announce our Halloween group exhibition Bewitching VI in our main gallery. Bewitching is the annual Halloween group show featuring an eclectic and diverse group of artists creating their own personal versions of iconic Halloween-related imagery in a wide variety of styles and mediums. Halloween is an incredibly special holiday for Circus Posterus and Stranger Factory, and our favorite time of year. We hold many shows and events each year, but Bewitching is always one of our favorites, and we hope you’ll join us for this celebration of all things dark and spooky.

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kBewitching VI runs October 7th – 31st, with an opening reception on Friday, October 7th from 6 – 9 PM.
Bewitching VI runs October 7th – 31st, with an opening reception on Friday, October 7th from 6 – 9 PM.

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What remains when all is said and done? 21 Artists translate the phrase “All That Remains” in this bone, fantastical anatomical, “remains” themed exhibition. From ink to thread, from stone to bone, a variety of specimens will be unearthed inside Stranger Factory on October 7th.

With guest curation by Lana Crooks
Featuring new works by:
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Jeremy Bastian
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Jessica Dalva
Kristina Drake
Matt Hall
Stephanie Inagaki
Darla Jackson
Jessica Joslin
Jennifer Joslin
Mahlimae
Lauren Marx
Caitlin McCormick
Stephanie Metz
Christina Mrozik
Forest Rogers
Virginie Ropars
Sinan Soykut
Tyler Thrasher
Jake Waldron
Katherine Walsh of FearsomeBeast
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Both Exhibitions will run October 7th – 31st, 2016.
Opening Reception on October 7th (6-9 PM)

*Several artists will be in attendance as well as Curator, Lana Crooks

 

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

 

Release News: Pink GID Swirl Stingy Jack and Calliope!

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The next installment of the Tomenosuke x Circus Posterus Sofubi line is here and they are a sight to see and ultra limited!
Pink GID swirl Calliope by Kathie Olivas and Stingy Jack by Brandt Peters
 dropping this Friday, September 9 at Stranger Factory and www.CircusPosterus.com at Noon PST!
Pink GID Swirl Stingy Jack and Calliope JackalopeThe release date will be:
NON North America at September 10th 2016 at 11AM JST.
North America September 9th 2016 Noon Pacific Standard Time

Pink GID Swirl Stingy Jack (edition size 32 world wide)
Pink GID Swirl Calliope Jackalope (edition size 32 world wide)

Good luck!


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Stranger Factory Gallery September Exhibition: Chris Ryniak & Amanda Louise Spayd (Harvest Moon)

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Stranger Factory is pleased to announce contemporary character artists, Chris Ryniak and Amanda Louise Spayd will be joining forces once again for their fifth collaborative Stranger Factory show, entitled “Harvest Moon.” Drawing from a mutual fondness of Halloween, the two have crafted a show that celebrates crunchy fallen leaves, crisp autumn air, and the spooky darkness of a moonless night.

Chris’s detailed sculpting brings iconic characters into his own signature style. Friendly pumpkins, black cats, bats, and other creatures of the night will come out to play.

Amanda’s vintage-inspired Dust Bunnies recall a nostalgic Halloween from days gone by. Festooned with garlands, Trick-or-Treat bags, witch hats, and other festive touches, they eagerly await the witching hour with wide-eyed wonder.

About the Artists:
Amanda Louise Spayd’s mixed-media work combines the textures and colors of antique domestic objects, the natural world, and an obsessive attention to detail. Her aesthetic is influenced by her love of antiques and textiles, as well as a deep nostalgia for the innocent curiosity and emotional attachments of childhood. Creating objects that evoke strong emotions – pity, love, or a feeling of protection over them – is at the core of what inspires her artistically. She has been published internationally, and is highly sought after by collectors around the globe, as well as having recently entered the toy market with both Japanese sofubi and vinyl blindbox toys, as well as cast-resin collectible figures.

Chris Ryniak is an American artist born in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. He spent his childhood basking in the warm glow of Saturday morning cartoons and flipping over rocks in search of insects, reptiles and ghosts.

A sculptor and painter of all manner of creatures both large and small, he has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world. His work has also been published in numerous books and periodicals in the US as well as in Europe and Asia. Chris is a toy-designer and sculptor of numerous instantly sold-out editions of designer art toys and figures. He is also well-known for his series of daily monster drawing project entitled ” Morning Scribbles” in which he has created and shared over 800 original creatures.
The show will run September 2 – October 2nd, 2016.
Opening Reception on September 2nd (6-9 PM)
*Both artists will be in attendance

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

The OUTER LIMITS gallery tour comes to Stranger Factory this August with Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters!

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The OUTER LIMITS gallery tour comes to Stranger Factory this August

with Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters!

Internationally recognized fine artists and toy designers Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters launched their highly anticipated OUTER LIMITS gallery tour earlier this Summer of 2016 across three cities from the “mile high” city of Denver, Colorado (Sally Centigrade Gallery)… to Old Route 66 in New Mexico (Stranger Factory Gallery), to across the pacific ocean to the capital city of Manila, Philippines (Secret Fresh).
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Stranger Factory is pleased to host the second stop for their OUTER LIMITS TOUR at their flag-ship gallery in Albuquerque, NM. Outer Limits opens On August 5th with an opening reception with the artists from 6-9 PM (both artists in attendance).

Outer Limits presents the most recent collaborations and individual new works from this artist couple. Often known for their hand made art toys and limited edition vinyl figures, both Peters and Olivas have also spent the last 20 years developing their careers as narrative painters. This current series of work is inspired by cosmic travelers, psychic healers, futuristic utopias, and a potential zombie apocalypse.

This exhibition tour marks the first time Peters and Olivas have shown together as a two-person exhibition in over 6 years.
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About the Artists:
Kathie Olivas is an internationally exhibited multi-media artist from New Mexico. Through her current body of work she explores society’s insatiable desire to assign ‘cuteness’ and our discomfort with the unknown. A dark blend of early American portraiture set in post apocalyptic times, her paintings and hand-made art toys are a satirical look at how fear affects our sense of reality.

Brandt Peters is an award winning internationally recognized and accomplished visual artist, designer, story developer (animation-film), illustrator, character and toy designer. His work hearkens back to the earliest days of comics and animation, with a seeming simplicity that hides layers of intricate back story. His humor and unerring sense of composition, combined with a strong narrative thread that has consistently woven through all his work for the past decade, has made him a favorite of art and toy collectors the world over.
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The show will run August 5 – 28th.
Opening Reception on August 5th (6-9 PM)

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