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Boobies & Wieners is back for a second year with an even bigger (and longer) show! With tons of art from 100+ mostly local artists, this show features immature, crass, explicit, cartoonish, odd, dirty, and sexy art featuring nude subjects. Viewer discretion advised. See photos from the show on Flickr >

Artists include: Two Dimes, Rhandi Sandford, Ken Gerberick, Janis Corrado, Katy Springer, Alicia Eisen, Liang Ding, ARGH!, Nicole Stishenko, Michael King, Natasha Broad, Antoine Marchildon, Kelly Baker, Pippa Lattey, Colin Mitchell, Yolanda Mason, Greg Glover, Joni Taylor, Kathryn Lancashire, Pierre Leichner, Stephanie Arnot, Anna Bu Kliewer, Alexandra Dewar, Carl Parker, Hailie Beaulieu, Mika Senda, Ashlee Marcus, Caroline Dahlmanns, Trevor Jansen, Marina LeClair, Laura McIntosh, Andrea Hooge, Mass Produced Art, Jane Q Cheng, Cheryl Carpenter, Mike West, Desireé Cassidy, Jules Bussey, Vanessa Lever, Carmen Ostrander, Natalie Schmidt, Emily Galloway, Julie VanOyen, Nomi Chi, JW Tatum, Sahar, Tamas, Kirsten Hatfield, Cole Pauls, Mandy Lau, Scott Peace Miller, Anastasia Watson, Roxanne Gagnon, Karla Monterrosa-Morales, Sheri Alexander, Kathleen Lim, Louie Yan, Maritza Louis, Matan Berson, Jennifer Ho, Ari De La Mora, Francine Delgado Alvarez, Luis Gadea, Lera Nyukalova, Stephen Wimbush, Vince Hemingson, Suite Charlie, Amelia Garvin, Rachael Stableford, Brent Haddow, Matt Redway, Devin Rosychuk, Patricia Klobchar, Sean Karemaker, Dana Statham, Michelle Bruton, peg leg, Klaus Pinter, Joel Rich, Jennifer Chernecki, Erin Gibbs, and Aaron White.

In addition to the main exhibit, we also hosted three mini-exhibits:

Art or Bust, curated by artist Jenn Brisson, turns breast casts of breast cancer survivors into works of art. The cast will be sold in a silent auction with 100% of funds given to Rethink Breast Cancer. Artists include Andrea Hooge, Alison Woodward, indy, Jenn Brisson, Jesse Schilperoort, Phresha, Sean Karemaker, Troy Steen, and Wendy Sexsmith.

XOXO: Art Love and the Internet, from DuJour Marketing and Fang Ling Lee, is an erotic art exhibit with a focus on the sensuality and seductiveness of the female form and how it has helped shape and mold the Internet landscape. Works from Aaron Tsuru, Aaron Tsuru, Katlyn Hubner, Guillem Rovira, Meghan Willis, Zhamak Fullad, Boo Weed, Stormy Ent, Steve Prue, and Gracie Hagen. A portion of proceeds will be donated to Rethink Breast Cancer.

Dr Sketchy’s Anti Art School will be showing a sampling of the sketches created by our art monkeys, based on all the sexy Vancouver burlesque models we have drawn in the past 7 years! Featuring Ed Chee, Aaron White, Vincent Smith, Lynn Falconer, Maritza Louis, Mike West, Jenn Brisson, Shary Contrary, Megan Majewski, The Tooninator, Arwynne O’Neill, Francine Delgado Alvarez, Thomaz Magno, Jim Newton, Ricardo Osuna, Andrew Poole, Dino Pai, Bob McAfee, and Alicia Eisen. Artists of all skill levels are welcome at our events, and with poses ranging from 1 minute to 15 minutes, a variety of erotic and funny artwork has emerged from the dark corners of our sketcher’s minds. Dr Sketchy’s Vancouver, hosted by Shary Contrary, happens on the third Tuesday of every month at Hot Art Wet City. Plus a special edition of Dr Sketchy’s on October 25 featuring Bruce Wang as Penis Satan!

Special thanks to our sponsors:

Art by Two Dimes

Conceived by Jim Hoehnle and Chris Bentzen in 2004, Hot One Inch Action is the original, one-night only show of button art and social interaction from Vancouver, BC. The tiny art of fifty different artists is reproduced on one inch buttons. These limited edition buttons are displayed on the gallery wall and the audience is offered the opportunity to buy randomly selected buttons in mixed bags of five for $5. Didn’t get the button you want? Trade with the people around you… how bad do you want that button?! That’s when the hot action starts. hotoneinchaction.com

Artists include: Aaron White, Alison McLeod, Amy Tom, Andrea Hooge, Anne Emberline, Antoine Marchildon, ARGH!, Arinn Westendorf, Baby Bear, Brent Haddow , Cang Nguyen, Carelle B Dunn, Carla Bragagnini, Celia Chung, Chad Murphy, Chelsea O’Byrne, Christel Chan, Daniel G Poggenpoel, Danika Dunn-Rydh, Doug Savage, Emily Szabo, Eugenia Leung, Flavia C, Flavie Dufrenne, J-Ray, Jackie Klobucar, Jenn Brisson, JL Martin , Joel Rich, Jon Moretta, Joni Taylor, Kathy Lea Moyou, Kazimir Simpson, Kelli Rule, Kimberly Parker, Kirsten Hatfield, Kris G Brownlee (KGB), Laura Bonnie McIntosh, Lauren Corrado, Lori Dean Dyment, Mandy Lau, Mark Atomos Pilon, Megan Majewski, Mika Senda, Nancy Vo, Phresha, The True Peg Leg, Tina Dee, Vivian Huang, and Winnie Won Tsuen Yiu.

Bringing street art inside! A group show featuring local wheatepaste and stencil artists iHeart, Joy, Slingshot, Wrk(less), and MW Bowen.

See photos from the exhibit and opening night on Flickr >

M W Bowen is an illustrator, painter, and street-artist living and working in Vancouver BC. He is interested in examining and dismantling social norms that hinder our progress as an inclusive society and world. “I have always bristled at art that needs a thesis to explain what it is trying to say. A great deal of art I see in galleries seems to be a winking-match between artists and I believe strongly that this kind of work ostricizes the general public. I want to make art that is all-inclusive, and that’s why I love street-art and why I am honoured to be a part of this show.” mwbowen.com

iHeart was born somewhere in western Canada, sometime in the late ’80s. Given the nature of what he does, iHeart, remains anonymous and claims he is “just a boy with ideas, opinions and a whole lot of aerosol.” iHeart’s social commentary establishes a dialogue with the viewer that asserts his populist ideals. iHeart’s work has been seen in Chicago, New York, Portland and Seattle and has been published in Ion Magazine, The Province, VancityBuzz, The Huffington Post, The Source, Le Monde Libertaire and Freewriter Magazine. iheartthestreetart.com

Joy studied fine art at the Trois-Rivières University in Quebec, Canada, graduating in 2001. His work is utterly for fun and is therefore full of joy! Each canvas or street art piece contains a door open to multiple interpretations. His canvas becomes the medium for full and free imagination. In the same vein, he uses a mixed technique to avoid being forced into my work. Applying layers with anything that he can get his hands on, spray paint, wax pencils, china markers… The brain is a muscle and an immense playground that asks only to be used. He does not want to be put in a box. He wants freedom of imagination, free to use any medium and have no bar. The joy of creating! fb.com/aka.the.joy

Jenn “Slingshot” Brisson is new to the street scene but not so new to the local scene, having shown her art in homes and galleries across Canada and the U.S. for most of her life. Slingshot’s love for the macabre and eerie along with an art career in Classical Animation for over 13 years became the perfect formula for her mischievous dolls and curious creatures to come to life. Keep an eye out for them… cuz they may have an eye on you around town, too. jennbrisson.blogspot.ca

Grandson of a talented painter and son of a kick-ass rock and roll guitarist, Wrk(less) fell in love and awe with art and pop culture at a very young age. Blame Star Wars, artists, directors, writers and comic book gods. He honed his skills in the dark of his room, laughing all the way. Later he discovered hip-hop and house, the streets and graffiti. It soon became time to add his own expression. Today he creates multimedia work with a camera, spraypaints, paper and photoshop. He rips pages from books, creates collage with texture, only to finally go and wheatepaste a bizarre and sexy character over the whole thing to confuse and titillate. And sometimes, like a superhero without a clue, he goes out into the night to create what some call vandalism. Others call it street art.

This is a show 30 years in the making with art inspired by movies from 1984. It was an impressive year for icons of pop-culture filmmaking. We’ve got art inspired by: Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, The Karate Kid, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Purple Rain, The Terminator, Revenge of the Nerds, Repo Man, Neverending Story, Breakin’ 2, Red Dawn, Dune, Paris Texas, Love Streams, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Blood Simple, Spinal Tap, 1984, Firestarter, Supergirl, Ninja 3, Element of the Crime, Company of Wolves, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and Sixteen Candles!

50 artists in the show: Erin Gibbs, Chris Bentzen, Qaqtis, Jeremy Okai Davis, Raman Samra, Raymond Striegler, Roxanne Gagnon, ARGH, Heather Souliere, David Granneman, Jason Gauthier, Mika Senda, Christina Norberg, Gary Lee, Scott Peace-Miller, Exploding Haggis, LJ Throstle, Cang Nguyen, Rachael Freedman, Shannon Pawliw, Talent Pun, Gary Nay, David Camisa, Dylan Moore, Fred Chevalier, Heather Szilagyi, Hannah Myers, Nicole Steen, Sheri Alexander, Stefan Tosheff, Allison Koberstein, Rupa Wood, Sadie Scott, Katie So, Sherri Rogers, Jennifer Chernecki, Ted Wilson, Dusan Postolovic, Michael King, Jackie Klobucar, Jessica Wiebe, Kirsten Hatfield, Hailie Beaulieu, Amy Tom. Lynda Marguerite, Breanna McGowan, Clem Chen, Andrea Hooge, and Lok Him Fung.

Check out more photos and a review of the show on Vandocument >

Art: “Start-Something-New Man” by Lok Him Fung

This exhibition showcases paper as an artistic medium unto itself, and demonstrates its versatility beyond the role of a mere surface for other materials. Rachael Ashe, Alison Woodward, Joseph Wu, Connie Sabo and Sarah Gee Miller produce strikingly different styles of work but approach working intimately with paper through similar methods. Each of the five artists transforms their materials using one or more techniques of cutting, folding, twisting, painting but with a unique take on the end result. The work in this exhibition reveals the infinite possibilities of paper as alchemical material in the creation of intriguing pieces of fine art and craft. See photos from the show here >

Watch interviews with 4 of the artists:

A group art show featuring paintings, drawings, photographs and more inspired by prehistoric life: neanderthals, cavemen, dinosaurs… not a historically accurate art show! Opening night features a guest appearance by one of the child stars (as seen on the image on the right) from the film Clan of the Cave Bear. Artists include: ARGH!, Chris Bentzen, Rachael Freedman, Rupa Wood, Norma-Jean Harvey, Flavia Chan, Mario Parent, Ned Tobin, Owen Wandering, Nicole Steen, Cole Pauls, Kirsten Hatfield, Levi Hastings, Erin Gibbs, Wei Cheng, Max Brown, Allison Koberstein, and Tony Cliff.

Garage Sale!
An art show featuring original art of 12 local artists under $100
PLUS discounts on back stock of working showing in the gallery!
November 28-30, 2013

 
Ever wonder what happens to artists work that doesn’t sell? Well, it fills the artist’s studio and home. Time for a GARAGE SALE! Viewing from Nov 28-30 with final sales at the party Saturday night! Sorry, no early birds. Cash only.

Artists include:
Andrea Hooge
Howard Penning
Charlene Vickers
Char Hoyt
Katie Wilson
Karin Vengshoel
Viktor Barkar
Shary Contrary
Cherry Thompson
Sean Karemaker
Mark Illing
Jackie Dives

A solo show by Drew Young featuring small experimental works on paper. Destruction and transposition are the crux for this series. Drew fractures his oil studies in order to force his figures into new and obscure contexts. He also draws from a bank of abstract marks to create balance between the erratically positioned subjects and the intangible.

Young has exhibited locally and internationally and been featured by Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, Booooooom.com and BlueCanvas. He is also the curator and organizer for Snag, the worlds only weekly live-painting raffle.

Watch an interview with Drew Young:

Some artists take the nude very seriously… as it should be. This is not that show. “Boobies & Wieners” is a group show featuring immature, crass, explicit, cartoonish, odd and whatever else is the opposite of “classy” art featuring nude subjects. It’s pretty self-explanatory really: remember that drawing in the bathroom stall of that gas station on the Trans-Canada Highway? Or the drawings in the margin of your school text book? You get the idea. The show features over 80 artists including: Alex MF Quicho, Matt Bowen, Dylan Berry, Audra Ann Ricketts, AW, ARGH!, Arlyn Bantog, Eileen MacArthur, Katrina Pruss, Max Brown, Laura McIntosh, Pandora Young, Lindsay Chetek, Jordy Cummings, Shaun McCord, Maritza Louis, Katy Springer, Nathan Crothers, Rogan Josh, Marina LeClair, Leah McInnis, Jonathan Moogk, Tanille Geib, Simon Raab, Shelley Stefan, Quinn Lincoln, Ali Bruce, Vanessa Lever, Chris Bentzen, Erin Gibbs, Yolanda Mason, Megan Allard, Shary Contrary, Alicia McLean, Sally Clark, Ben Westergreen, Peter Lojewski, Jessica Viens, Janee Auger, Viktor Barkar, Sharon Piekarski, Kathy Rudin, Ted Wilson, Rita Hernandez, Nicole Parekh, Daniel Hawkins, Rhandi Sandford, Jordan Westre, Kara Zisa, Jenna Milsom, Shelley Rothenburger, Amelia Garvin & Kyla Jamieson, Matthew Gardiner, Shannon Pawliw & Shawn Robinson, Miguel Martin, Vince Hemingson, Marina Nazarova, Char Hoyt & Stephen Wimbush, Aaron White, peg.leg, Francoise Thibault, Bashar Sawalha, Zohar, Marc Junker, Daphne Chan, Russell Alton, Mandy Tsung, Andrea Hooge, and Nomi Chi.

As part of the show, we’ll be featuring “Art or Bust” curated by Jenn Brisson with artists Alicia Lumb, Caprice White, Liz Watson, Christina Norberg, Sarah Mulder, Amanda McCuaig, Ben Westergreen, LJ Throstle, Cielo English, and Jenn Brisson applying their art to breast casts of people who have been affected by breast cancer or who have known someone who has. Casts of Pixie Pristine, Melissa Serrano, Lisa Dickson, Laura Fee, Shona Miko Musgrave, Rachelle Jones, Lizzy, Sandy, and Kristi Clark. These pieces will be auctioned off and money raised donated. Each piece will include the reasons why the model and artist felt drawn to participate in this project or how it has affected their lives. Breast cancer affects 1 in 9 people… chances are that if YOU are not diagnosed with breast cancer, someone you know will be.

See photos from the show on Flickr >

Special thanks to Cariboo Brewing for their support and to Bestie, Chinatown’s finest Currywurst, for donating prizes for opening night.

LUXSTAR ‘Innergalaktik’ is a collaborative show that explores the mindscapes of illustrators/designers Dacosta! aka Chocolate Soop® and Frazer Adams of Frazer Creative. From robotic characters and product branding to cosmic vistas and gemological forms, LUXSTAR ‘Innergalaktik’ is a mash up of digital and analogue, featuring imagery that plays with existing and emerging elements of pop-culture from all corners of the galaxy.

See photos of the show on Flickr >

Chocolate Soop® is a design creative studio currently based in Vancouver specializing in Character IP Development. Influenced by Japanese culture, graffiti and industrial design, CHOCOLATE SOOP® is driven to create projects which contribute to and promote “Character culture” on the global stage. Headed by Dacosta(!) a self-taught, multifaceted illustrator and award winning designer Chocolate Soop® ha has been creating toys, illustration, apps, animated projects and more for the past 17 years

Frazer Adams is a Vancouver-based illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist. He wields a strong understanding of three dimensions and greatly values the precision, cleanliness and impact of vector graphics and typography. Though Frazer comes from a background in street art, he draws inspiration from images and ideas found in nature and the universe. Since graduation from the Capilano University IDEA Program, Frazer has expanded game art, user interface design, typography, and turntablism.