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Alex Pardee’s unique style is one conceived through watching horror movies and overcoming a 10-year bout of anxiety and depression. His pieces are often brought to life by translating random shapes and colors into signs of torment and absurdity. By juxtaposing these two conflicting moods, Alex makes his works more personal to his viewers, forcing them to project their own feelings and emotions onto each character in his twisted universe. Alex continues to use his art as a means of self-medication, creating emotionally charged images on canvases, sketchbooks, and any other surfaces he can cover with his bizarre characters. He is currently working hard on finishing a 50-minute animated movie for Warner Bros Television based on the Chadam character that he created in 2006. Alex is writing, co-directing, and art directing the entire project, which should be finished at the end of 2009.
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Artist & Co-Founder of "HI-FRUCTOSE MAGAZINE", ATTABOY & I, Circa 2004. Before Hi-Fructose. Before Zerofriends. Young & In Love:)

It's been a long time coming, but we here at Zerofriends are finally ready to announce our newest collaborative release, this time with world-renown illustrator, toy designer and co-founder of Hi-Fuctose Magazine, the illustrious ATTABOY.

Atta and I have been friends for years after meeting at the San Diego Comic Con back in 1999. We were both at similar "starving and trying really hard to figure out how to make a living doing what we love while being confused by most things in the industry" stages of our lives, and since that moment, we have both fed off of each others ambitions, while also individually growing and taking separate paths down a weird scary road that have both led us to our different accomplishments. I have always been influenced and enamored by Attaboy's art, as well as his passion and his strive to work and push the boundaries of the art world, whether it has been with toys, with paint applications and techniques, or even with the art-magazine world. With that being said, Zerofriends is proud to announce the release of his newest Ultra Limited Giclee print, entitled "Girl Parts". Go grab one HERE before they are goneeeee:)



“Girl Parts” Limited Edition Giclee Print
By ATTABOY
Extremely Limited Edition Of 50
11.5" x 22" Printed with Archival Inks on Acid Free Velvet Cotton Rag.
Each print is hand signed, numbered and loved by ATTABOY.
$50.00 each

Direct link to ATTABOY PRINT:
http://zerofriends.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28&products_id=248

A word from Atta about the original painting:
"Girl Parts was the first painting I made for my "A Touch of Evil Show" in LA. While painting, I pretended I had an alter ego named Kenji Kokamoto, who didn't make magazines, whose hands were stubs burned in a rave fire in Tokyo in the 90's. Late one night I even created a Myspace page for Kenjii and in an Ad in a magazine. Some days, Kenji was a girl who wore long diva gloves which eventually soaked in the blood from the not yet healed portions of her flambe wound, drawing cute out-of-context characters that her young cousin would like. Other times Kenji was a boy, not caring about anything he drew, confident and assured, like a deodorant commercial.  Girl Parts dipicts a future, and that future, like our present, will be  part advanced, part regressed, dismantled. Exploded views, spare parts, unexpected explosions, glass and plastic, and oddly some religious themes are sneaking in.  A messed up future doesn't mean it's a dystopian one tho, there's ups and downs even in the darkest state, the darks just seem darker, making the lights stand out more, so to speak."

The print is incredibly detailed! Check out these close-ups!




Attaboy is an incredible artist and visionary. Here is a little more about him:
Attaboy is an internationally shown artist, creator and toy designer whose work is seen in galleries, museums, toy boutiques, magazines  calendars, and art books. Atta's Art focuses on the disturbed childlike sensibilities that he values above all else and is centered in a goo-filed worls; lust filled and awkward, uneasy with their own cuteness or simply unaware of it or how it affects them or others, all imagined in a palette reminiscent of a rusted cruise ship. His images and collectables are glimpses into Atta's insecurities and currupt sensibility often times providing more of a physical diary to his day to day undertakings..  Atta is the co-founder of the critically acclaimed "Hi-Fructose Under the Counter Culture" Magazine and has created and directed animation for cable TV. He's also a former child model, but he doesn't like taking about that. He was once on David Letterman; Paul Shafer was cool, but Dave was kinda an ass. That day he also got to meet Liberace tho, and that was rad. His fingers were nothing but rings.

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JeremyShawnP
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written by Art Los Angeles, October 27, 2009
This stiff is really great! Love the hypercolors!
angeliquedolan1
this is rad
written by Writing in LA, November 02, 2009
Keep up the good work!!
ShiloSparkx
:)
written by ShiloSparkx, November 18, 2009
This is awesome. Keep on trucking with your load of fantasticness...smilies/wink.gif

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Art galleries, shops/galleries, and museums that we like, organized thus:

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March 19, 2010 : Sight and Sound @ Norm Maxwell Gallery, LA, Norm Maxwell Studio Gallery 430 N. Faifax AVe. Los Angeles, CA 90036

March 19, 2010 : Odon, Weaver of Dreams @ FIAF Gallery, NY, FIAF Gallery, 22 E 60 St. New York, NY 10022

March 19, 2010 : My Other Half @ Gallery 146, SF, Gallery 146 - 146 Leavenworth Street (between Turk & Golden Gate)

March 19, 2010 : Undomesticated @ Wall Eye Gallery, Cleveland, Wall Eye Gallery, 5304 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102

March 19, 2010 : We Kill You: Rubbish @ Million Fishes Gallery, SF, Million Fishes Gallery 2501 Bryant St. San Francisco CA 94110

March 19, 2010 : The London Police Ride Again (Kentucky) @ BLDG Gallery, Kentucky, 30 W. Pike St. Covington, KY 41011

March 19, 2010 : Kelly Allen: Everything is Everything @ Medicine Agency, SF, Medicine Agnecy 1262 Mason St San Francisco CA 94108 (at Jackson)

March 20, 2010 : New works by Patricia Gillespie @ Zza's Wine Bar Gallery, Oakland, Zza's Wine Bar Gallery

March 20, 2010 : LIVE @ Norm Maxwell Gallery, LA, Norm Maxwell Studio Gallery 430 N. Faifax AVe. Los Angeles, CA 90036

March 20, 2010 : Hunt and Gather London Book Launch @ 47 Mowlem Street, London, 47 Mowlem Street. East London. (Off Vyner street), United Kingdom E2 9DR

March 20, 2010 : Academy of Art University Open House @ Sheraton Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Sheraton Dallas Hotel, 400 North Olive Street, Dallas, Texas 75201

March 20, 2010 : the ART of Graffiti "Sketching Letters" Class by Nate1 @ 1AM, SF, 1000 Howard st, San Francisco, CA, 94103