Kozyndan

Now available in our web shop is a new limited edition COLOR version of our popular "Spirit Animal Collective" image. "Spirit Animal Collective (Tinted)" is a limited edition of 150 signed and numbered archival digital prints on Somerset watercolor paper with deckled edges. Its 28 x 22 inches plus 3 inch white borders.   The print is based on kozy's 2009 drawing "Spirit Animal Collective". The drawing was the culmination of kozy's 4 year-long "Unknown Portraits" project, which involved Kozy's nearly obsessive search through old photographs in junk shops from Australia to Spain to Northern England to San Francisco to our own backyard in Venice Beach (and more!).  Most of the drawings were the size of playing cards, but for the final artwork Kozy create a massive graphite rendering of a 1940's-era New Zealand primary school class photo.  In it she imagined the camera to reveal the spirit animal within each of the students.  This summer we decided to produce a colorized version reminiscent of old tinted photos (Dan's grandmother used to tint photos as a side job while raising her children) and this is the result.

A small painting for our upcoming exhibition at Narwhal Gallery in Toronto (opening November 16, 2012) has also been uploaded to our Society 6 account.  There you can find a lot of rare kozyndan images available for prints, cards, iPhone cases, T-shirts and more.

Back from an amazing week in Maui, Hawaii.  Its the kind of place we are resistant to liking.  Its just too easy.  Its where everyone wants to go for vacation, and thus filled with stuff we hate in a vacation location: resorts, over priced crappy food, a constant barrage of tour operators, and loads of muggles.  Thankfully we had an amazing opportunity to stay on the eastern half of the island, away from the tourist hordes,  and another Maui revealed itself to us and we fell in love with it. Damn!

We have a few pieces in this sure to be amazing exhibition that opens with a unique garden party at Narhwal Art Projects TONIGHT! People of Toronto, check it out - feel the cosmic energies! A Gathering of Elemental Energies Aug 24-Sept 15, 2012 Opening Reception Aug 24 7-11pm NARWHAL - 2988 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON Narwhal invites you to come and rest awhile amongst elemental energies in Echo Dell. Drawing warmth and nourishment from the mystic properties that surround us, this exhibition honors the healing properties of the natural world channeled through the earth, water, sky and fire that surrounds us. Join us for this end of summer celebration. Artwork by Diana Vandermeulen, Faith LaRocque, Jepoy Garcia, Karen Azoulay, Kozyndan, Noel Middleton, and Sojourner Truth Parsons. Installation by Cold Picnic and Take To The Sea. Exhibition runs August 24-September 15, 2012. More information at www.narwhalprojects.com.