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1xRUN: A Print A Week by 323East

This week, 323East debuted 1xRUN, which will bring you one super limited edition print each Monday. A few weeks ago, we happen to stumble into the gallery while they were working on the site, and from the sneak peek we were given, we knew right away it was going to be awesome.

Matt Eaton’s print “Loaf” (above) kicked things off and also made us look forward to his first ever solo show opening this Saturday. Coming up, they’re going to release prints by Bask, Glenn Barr, Audrey Pongracz, David Chung and Adam Batchelor.

Not only will 1xRUN make great pieces of art more accessible to everyone, but it also lets people outside Detroit enjoy the extremely well curated work that we get to see in person. We suggest that you like 1xRUN on Facebook or follow @1xRUN on Twitter so you can nerd out with us every Monday.

Bad Dads Preview

This coming weekend, LoPo Gallery in San Francisco will host Bad Dads, a tribute to the films of Wes Anderson. A few of the artists in the show have Detroit ties, including Audrey Pongracz, Kevin Beehner, and CSS grad Serge Gay, Jr. Here’s a little preview that encompasses everything the internets would give me.

MUCH MORE Bad Dads work behind the cut…

People’s Art Festival 2010

We had great time at this years People’s Art Festival. It was amazing to see how much the festival has grown over the past three years, both in quality of artists exhibiting as well as the amount of attendees. Below are some of the artists whos work really stood out.

Chad Davis

Laura Macintyre

Much more behind the cut.

The People’s Arts Festival and An Announcement!

Perfect Laughter will be at The People’s Arts Festival all weekend! The PAF is pretty special and meaningful to us. Two years ago, it was our very first event, ever. It was the first time that Dennis debuted his paintings in public, and I was starstuck by the positive feedback that he got that day. A few paper goods were sitting on a table with no display, not even a tablecloth. And our business cards were made last minute on tea stained paper, screenprinted and cut by hand. It was a humble beginning to be sure.

Many of our faves will be there, including Audrey Pongracz, Sloe Gin Fizz, All Things Grow, Nerl Says Design, Emi Slade and Kill Taupe (who snagged this week’s cover of Real Detroit!) There are so many booths this year, I’m really looking forward to discovering new Michigan artists to blog about. Are you going to be there? Let us know in the comments!

An Announcement…Spoiler Alert

We’ve been working really hard behind the scenes, and I can safely say now that our new online shop will open for business by September 1st! We even got our prints and paper goods professionally photographed. No grainy iPhone photos like you’ve been seeing from us on Facebook and Twitter. Everything that we’ll have at the PAF will be in our online shop next week. In the meantime, here’s a crappy iPhone pic of our newest screen print, “Moonstruck”. Hope to see you this weekend!

Crazy 4 Cult 4 Preview

Gallery 1998‘s 4th installation of Crazy 4 Cult will open in a little more than a week, and the lineup is insane. As the opening nears, some of the artists are letting us get a sneak peek of their pieces.

Scott Belcastro (A Clockwork Orange)

Rick Pellegrino (Willy Wonka)

Audrey Pongracz (The Shining)

Audrey Pongracz (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Can’t wait to see more stuff for this show pop up as the week goes on.

UPDATE: We’ll continue to keep this post going as more work surfaces. More behind the cut.

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