Phone Booth Gallery: Kevin Tong

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Kevin Tong Opening Photos

Kevin Tong's opening reception was really amazing. Great crowd, great company, and great art. Take a look at some photos from opening night below. Then check out the artwork hereL

http://www.phoneboothgallery.com/exhibitions.htm

Kevin Tong's Forthcoming Flight of the Conchords Poster

Coming Soon, this beauty has a prop or costume from every episode, and is 18x24 and 5 colors... Also doubles as functional paper dolls!

Kevin Tong's St. Vincent Poster

Kevin Tong is stepping up his game with his newest concert poster for St. Vincent. With custom designed type, and a beautiful illustration, and three different colorways, $25 is a steal.

pick one up at his online store.

Megabolt Shirts for a Cause

Phone Booth Gallery has donated two prints for this amazing contest created by Steven from Megabolt, to drum up support for the Coan family. If you haven’t yet read about the cause behind this project, please check out this post from OMGPosters.com. Here is some info about the contest:

Starting today (Monday), if you purchase a Jeff Coan Benefit Megabolt Shirt for only $13, you will be entered into a drawing to win over 25 prints from printmakers across the globe. Many of these prints are sold out and rare including prints from Kevin Tong, Todd Slater, Tyler Stout/Mitch Putnam, Jason Munn, Jes Myszyk, Brian Kasprzyk, The Bungaloo, Mark McDevitt/Methane Studios, Rob Jones, Sean Lunn via JoJos Posters, Rhys Cooper, Rick Reese, Jason Teegarden-Downs via Delicious Design League, Ray Frenden, Phone Booth Gallery, and Jorge Ortiz.

To purchase your t-shirt (with all profits benefiting the Coan family), and be entered into the contest, visit the Megabolt Etsy Shop.

Sonic Youth Poster Series

Mitch Putnam, mastermind behind postersandtoys.com, omgposters.com, amoung countless other enterprises has put together Sonic Youth's latest series of posters this month. Here is Kevin Tong's poster below. Other artists include Ken Taylor, Olly Moss, Emek, The Small Stakes, and possibly others.

See more here: http://omgposters.com/2010/01/07/the-sonic-youth-2010-mini-tour-series/

Kevin Tong's Hatch Print Info

For all you crazy Lost fans out there wondering about Kevin Tong's Hatch print from the ever popular viral series, he has now officially released the info about the release!

It will go on sale Monday, January 11, 2010 at NOON and will be $200
It will be sold at His online store, so make sure you get ahold of one, this print is HOT!

http://www.tragicsunshine.com/storevarious.htm

Kevin Tong's New Print Series "Transmissions"

Kevin Tong's new print series is pretty stunning! There are five individual prints, each with an edition size of 200. They are 18 x 24 inch, two color screen prints on 100 lb cover paper. Transmissions, one through five, are available individually and as a set, at a discounted price and FREE shipping. Individually, they are $30, the set of five costs $100.

As always, Tong's stuff can be purchased on his website:
http://tragicsunshine.com/

Badass Cinema Photos

Last night was Badass Cinema at Gallery 1988, a one night showcase of movie artwork brought to you by the amazing people behind Mondotees.com and The Alamo Drafthouse. Harry Diaz was there doing live screen printing of designs he did: Gizmo, Mr. T, Clint Eastwood, Godzilla, and Bruce Lee. Kevin Tong was there selling some Lebowski prints he worked up, as well as custom drawings from any movie upon request... great idea!

Lots of other cool stuff on display as well... check out mondotees.com for some of the stuff, that site is awesome! here are some photos:

Badass Cinema

Check out Badass Cinema on Friday, November 20th for exclusive one night showcase of awesome movie tees and posters from mondotees.com's vaults. Also showing artwork is Skinner, Kevin Tong, and Harry Diaz.

Kevin Tong x Andrew Bird

Another Must have Tong poster: http://www.tragicsunshine.com/posters.htm

New Work from Kevin Tong

Below are some new posters Tong has worked up. Make sure to check out more info, and maybe buy a print or two on his website and blog at http://tragicsunshine.com/ and http://tragicsunshine.com/newsletter/

Cake-

Atlas-Tron

The Gaslight Anthem-

isteamMAC-

The Sea Also rises- A collaboration with Tim Doyle. Doyle went nuts with the illustration and Tong splashed on the color.

Kevin Tong Returns from Travels

Kevin Tong's blogposts are like the TMZ of the poster world. Get the scoop on Flatstock 22 in Seattle, Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago, and the exchange of conversation he had with David Cross here:

http://tragicsunshine.com/newsletter/?p=579

Kevin Tong gets down

Kevin Tong has been up to no good these days, getting crazy with posters, book projects, vinyl toys, fine art, etc. Here are a couple of upcoming shows to check out. He will give his interpretation of The Venture Brothers, and The Tick at this show, called "Crusaders and Haters." The show will be at The Royal T Gallery in Culver City. http://www.royal-t.org/

He will also be one of many artists to rock out in Gallery 1988's infamous "Crazy for Cult Show" in LA in July 16th. You definitely shouldn't miss this one. http://crazy4cult.com/

Artwork and No Play - Group Art Exhibition!

Just in time for Halloween, Phone Booth Gallery put on a group show dedicated to the movie "The Shining," by Stanley Kubrick. Exhibiting artists included: Garry Booth, Aurora Armijo, Iain Macarthur, David Owen, Caspar Williams, Pfft, Jack Rossi, Chester Burnett, Jason "Jzn" Liwag, Mark Michelon, Kevin Bannister, Quyen Dinh, Arlene Reyes, Ryan Milner, and Kevin Tong. The wonderful Mr. R. Black rocked the heck outta the show print:

Ryan Milner's piece from the show was on the cover of the District Magazine, and an article was written about the gallery on the inside.... Read the article in digital form here: http://thedistrictweekly.com/2008/print/arts/visual/h-e-e-e-r-e%E2%80%99s-phone-booth/

Also, Phone Booth friend Kevin Tong's print he did for the show was featured in Issue #4 of a magazine called Low Art Magazine based out of Germany.

See more on that magazine here: http://www.low-magazine.com/

And hear are a couple of the pieces from the show:

Quyen Dinh:

Garry Booth:

Eggs and Sausage Group Exhibit

Our group exhibition dedicated to Tom Waits was pretty awesome! A ton of people came out and had a blast with us at House of Hayden on Long Beach, CA. Dave Hayden treated us like kings, and hung the artwork in his psychedelic suspension technique... Exhibiting artists included: David Rankin, Aurora Armijo, Shannon Freshwater, Jaya King, Karin Hassler, Billy Dyson, Dave James, Irene Grishin-Selzer, Illworx, Sherlock, Mark Michelon, Ryan Milner, Evanimal, Erik Lomen, Brandon Clark, Andrew Loder, Garry Booth, Arlene Reyes, Kevin Bannister, Chester Burnett, Ken Meyer Jr., David Owen, Marisela, Nick Marquez, Nathan Wettstead, and David Atkinson. Kevin Tong did the widely acclaimed Show Print: