Thursday, November 8, 2007

Circus Punks: High-End Knock Down Dolls



The Circus Punks opening reception went off Saturday, October 13 at the GoRilla Gallery in Orange. Circus Punks are the foot-tall with fuzzy edges used at carnival booths. Traditionally, you throw bottles at them and win prizes, but at this art show these dolls are hand-painted and sold for $200-450.

So far Circis Punks has been shown in New York and Pasaden. This year's show is in Orange retrospective displaying 275 punks. Of these 275, 76 are hand-painted, 90 are mass produced or screen-printed and the rest are mixed media creations.

Local punk rock band The Johns were there to play a short set. The Johns lead singer Rob Milucky was quite the Circus Punks enthusiast.

"I wanna buy one! I like Jason Maloney's....It's Raggy Ann with a knife and her sidekicks head in the back, it's great. Everyone should have that in thier living room," said Milucky.


Later, I caught up with Maloney and found that his hand-painted punk was actually Raggedy Fran--Raggedy Ann's psycho-evil-goth-step-sister.

That was the best part of the show. Many of the artists were present and most of the punks had a story.


"A lot of them seem to be monster oriented," said Katie Gallegher a gallery goer supporting a friend of a friend.

That was true except for the friend of the friend she was there for-- Tommi Lim. He explained that his punk dealt with truth and lies and how others try to follow certain righteous people whether it be religious or political and how you can never trust any one 100%. So on one side of his doll he painted a fist in the air like "Fight the Power" and while the other side depicted the same hand with it's fingers crossed. All this was done in vivid pinks and greens set against a black background with lime green fuzz.

The event was sponsored by Harvey's makers of the seatbelt bags, who own GoRilla gallery and have a store attached to the gallery.



For more information on Circus Punks visit www.circuspunks.com

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