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This Sunday (June 30) at 2 p.m.-4 p.m., the Hi-Fructose MICRO Mega Store will host a signing of acclaimed artist and illustrator Junko Mizuno. As a special treat, these beautiful silk screened test prints on wood (that sparkle with glitter) will be available. Each of these prints are unique and quantities are limited. You will also find Junko’s new coloring book, copies of her latest manga books, her totally awesome Triad pop-up book, rare copies of HF 23 (she’s on the cover), and unique items she will be bringing from her personal archives.
We've just added two special items in the Hi-Fructose store and a special bundle where you can get both books at once and we cover the priority shipping. Both are fantastic and unique books; filled with pop-up surprises on each spread, bringing each artist's work to life in new unexpected ways. Plus, the Skinner's Necronomicon book comes signed on the inside in paint by the artist! Junko Mizuno's book can be ordered here, Skinner's book here, and you can order a bundle of the pair here.
Japanese manga artist Junko Mizuno depicts the "Seven Lucky Gods," a once-disparate group of deities that became a unit through Japanese art history, in a new show at Alhambra, Calif.'s Gallery Nucleus. Although not traditionally this way, “Takarabune” transforms all of these gods of fortune into women, translated in Mizuno’s vibrant style. The show runs through Jan. 8 at the gallery. Mizuno was last featured on HiFructose.com here.
Japanese born, San Francisco based artist Junko Mizuno (featured on the cover of HF Vol. 23) has a penchant for sweetly demonic characters. Her colorful paintings, drawings and graphic novels feature witch-like goddesses, sexy over-eating vixens, and fairytale-inspired girls with badass magical powers. Among them all, Junko Mizuno has her three favorites: a witch, a nurse, and a wrestler. The trio makes up the starring characters in her latest exhibition "TRIAD", opening tonight at Cotton Candy Machine Gallery in Brooklyn, which is closing its doors at the end of this year.
This Saturday, Junko Mizuno continues her 3-part series, "Junko Mizuno's Food Obsession", with "Ambrosial Affair" at Narwhal Contemporary gallery in Ontario. The first part was "Venus Cake", where she set the stage for these overeating witch-like idols in a state of psychedelic euphoria. They live in a world of fantasy, inspired by the fact that certain foods can get you in the mood and help get your blood flowing down there. 'Obsessed' with the theme of gluttony, Mizuno has strongly linked her subjects to their food fetishes.
On Friday, La Luz de Jesus gallery invited viewers to reflect on how we see ourselves with their group exhibit, "Temple of Art". The evening also celebrated the Baby Tattoo book release of the same name, the brain-child of photographer Allan Amato who has taken interest in photographing over 50 fine artists. Many of them have been featured on our blog recently, and will be familiar to Hi-Fructose readers; Christine Wu, Dan Quintana, Hueman, Junko Mizuno, Karen Hsiao, Ken Garduno, Kent Williams, Shaun Berke, Stephanie Inagaki, just to name a few.
Photographer Allan Amato's "Temple of Art" is a series of portraits of fine artists over two years in the making. His black and white images provided the canvas onto which the subject was encouraged to interpret his or her likeness. You could say these are artists who look like their art; Jasmine Worth shares the regal quality of her Madonnas, Danni Shinya Luo has the grace of her watercolors, and so on. Opening December 5th at La Luz de Jesus, their collaborative exhibition enhances their personal characteristics and quirks.
Demonic goddesses and amorphous love children dominate the compositions by Japanese-born, San Francisco-based artist Junko Mizuno (featured on the cover of HF Vol. 23). Mizuno has an expansive oeuvre, which spans such media as graphic novels and television animation. Her original paintings, in addition to wood, giclee and silkscreen prints, will for the first time be seen in London during the artist’s retrospective, "Belle: The Art of Junko Mizuno," opening October 20 at Atomica Gallery.