Scene: New Moon 2010 from IHCS on Vimeo.

Last week Friday, was the 2nd annual New Moon show at MyPlasticHeart. I’ve been waiting for this show for a while, especially when I began to overhear the names of some of the participating artists. Lou Pimentel, Andrew Bell, kaNO, Stella Im Hultberg, Yumiko Kayukawa, Leontine Greenberg, and many more of my favorite artists and people were in one single exhibit. And!!! I scored a sketch from Stella, this time for real– not the whole I’m so excited and I’m holding my sketchbook ready to ask you for your soul and in my excitement have forgotten to ask you for a sketch kind of way. hahaha. >___<

As you can tell from my run-on sentence, the night was a blast and I even took cupcakes to the opening. They’re too rich I’m told, so I will work on my recipe… in the meantime, hit the jump to check out my favorite pieces and some photos from the ultra-packed gallery.

Scene: When Hell Freezes Over from IHCS on Vimeo.

Last Friday MyPlasticHeart, located in downtown New York, hosted their first show of the year: When Hell Freezes Over. The show featured 15 customized Cranston Fellows Jr., created by Lou Pimentel. We were personally excited for this show, because we’ve witnessed the journey of Cranston’s creation. We instantly fell in love CFjr, and really didn’t expect to fall in love with any of the customs since the original is so damn great.

Well, we were proven so wrong. I suppose since the 15 invited artists were already working with a great platform, they really just went above and beyond. In an effort to make you feel more present at the shows we attend with our videos– we not only caught up with Lou before the show– but caught up with kaNO during the show. It was pretty awesome and laid-back and you get to witness some of the craziness that goes on during an MPH show. Hit the jump to see pictures from the event, and my favorite customs!

Lookie here! While we’re on the subject of shows… I’ve just realized that myplasticheart has posted the flyer for their upcoming New Moon: Interpretations of the Chinese Zodiac show. First, congratulations to John again (I assume he curated this show too, since he curated last year’s New Moon show). Second, wow! Do you see the list of participating artists?! Some are returning artists, and it’s a pleasure to see some of the new additions. Stella Im Hultberg, Yumiko Kayukawa?! Both female artists do some amazing work.

From the postcard, I can see Yumiko chose the tiger? I wonder what Stella chose– this is the year of the tiger, and it’s also my zodiac sign, so it would be awesome if she got my sign too. If only. I’ll work on winning the lottery before the show so I can purchases several peices. I know I’m going to love what Leontine delivers. ^__^ Can’t wait to see what these artists offer up. The show will be held February 5th, 2009.

The year 2009 has been one that has delivered a plethora of amazing art shows and toy releases. Last night I was looking through my Flickr, and I realized that I attended at least 26 events this year. Well, with the announcement of When Hell Freezes Over, a custom show featuring Lou Pimentel’s Cranston Fellows Jr. resin figure at MyPlasticHeart, 2010 already seems to be delivering the goods.

I saw the line-up of participating artists, and it’s really got some of my absolutely favorite artists! Wow. I’m very lucky to live a few blocks from MPH, because I wouldn’t want to miss this show. More information and sneak peeks as they’re released. By the way, Doktor A fucking rules! Yeah!

I am so excited for the latest news release MPH has released. I love, LOVE the works that Leontine Greenberg produces and I cannot be more excited to know that she’ll be part of a duo show with Scott Campbell at MPH this November.

If you don’t know who Leontine Greenberg, you can look back at my post on John’s first curated show: New Moon. The group show at MPH was the first time I’d been introduced to her works, and I’ve been internet stalking her ever since. I’ve made sure to bookmark posts that include sneak peeks of her work, over the summer she had a solo show in Gallery 1988’s online gallery (and had I not been so broke due to the SF trip, I would’ve purchased a piece), and she’s been in a couple other group shows. Needless to say, I really do adore her soft watercolor palette and her creatures have this very calming effect on me. Keep reading to see Scott Campbell’s side of the postcard…

Tomorrow, is the BEST DAY EVER!! I know most people have negative connotations since the tragedy in NYC, but for the past 3 years, I’ve woken up super happy and excited on September 11th. September 11th is my anniversary, and this year my Mr. and I will be celebrating 4 years of us. Crap! It’s time to upgrade. ^_^ How will we be celebrating? Well, we’ll be at My Plastic Heart’s show An Idle Robot featuring works by Dino Alberto. I’m not very familiar with Dino Alberto’s works, but if the feature cute and plumpy little robot characters, than I have a strong inclination that I’m really going to enjoy this. See you tomorrow, say hi if you spot us. =D

I love waking up to a buttload of good news and emails. Today’s good news included the upcoming release of the much anticipated Cranston Fellows Jr. figure by Lou Pimentel. If you’re familiar with the site, then you know that the Mr. and I are both huge fans of Lou’s– and it helps that he’s such a friendly person.

I am so glad that MPHLabs has teamed up with him to bring one of his characters to life and Cranston is one of my favorites. To celebrate his release, MyPlasticHeart (another set of people who I hold dearly to my heart) will be having a release party on August 28th at their shop in Lower Manhattan.

Thanks to My Plastic Heart, I got the opportunity to meet Dust for his solo opening “Surreal Minds.”

Before I go into my thoughts about the body of works, I feel like I need to reflect on something. I’ve mentioned time and time again, that MPH is my favorite shop EVER. A lot of it has to do with the owners of the place, but mostly, I appreciate that they’ve introduced me to many artists I wouldn’t have known about if they didn’t feature their works at their gallery.

This show took place over a month ago, and yet, I am just getting to uploading my photos and whatnot. Sorry about that. Many things piled up during that month. I won’t go in depth, which sucks since it was John Wong’s first curated show and I always love to support friends. 

The show payed homage to the Chinese Zodiac. Artists were assigned an animal and they had to create a piece which represented the animal they were given. For the most part, I thought 90% of the pieces were amazing– the few I didn’t like were just not my style. If you check the slideshow above you’ll see all of the pieces that were on display [or hit the link to see the original sizes]. I did however forget to take pics of 3 pieces though, two of which belong to Nemo.

I said I wasn’t going to go into details, simply because it’s been almost a month I think. But I did want to share some of the highlights along with the piece I picked up. If you want to see what pieces are still available, check out MyPlasticHeart’s site. Hit the jump if you’d like to continue reading.

GID Koguma w/ all Black Prototype

MyPlasticHeart really did have the hottest offers at this year NYCC. The hottest of them all, in my opinion of course, was the GID Koguma brought to you by TokyoPlastic. I joined the designer toy network too late to obtain the original 3″ geishas that TokyoPlastic released in 2005[?]– and though now, I do own one of the three 3″ geishas, I’m determined to complete my TP collection. This latest addition to an already stellar line up, really is one of the most exciting for me. The baby Koguma’s are already very cute in their oversized speaker chairs being lazy bums– and now, he has a hunter’s face and GID action. Now, MPHlabs x TokyoPlastic, what’s next? I want more!!