Even if you don’t know his name, I bet you know his work. Gary Baseman has created an art empire from his bulbous, cheeky, and sometimes-gruesome imagination. He is the Emmy winning creator of the cartoon Teacher’s Pet, a Juxtapoz favorite, the Cranium art designer, an illustrator for Nike, Gatorade, and Mercedes-Benz, and contributor to Esquire, Forbes, GQ, The New Yorker, Time, Reader’s Digest and Rolling Stone magazines, as well as in The New York Times.
His work is part of the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art in Rome. He has his own toy line and monograph of his work entitled Dumb Luck: The Art of Gary Baseman
Tomorrow, July 3, he opens his new show Knowledge Comes from Gas Release at the Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona, Spain. The 50 new works are said to be the result of Gary “challenging himself in a different way, trying to understand the aesthetic nature of what he paints, dealing with a sense of abstraction.”
I’m not sure if there are any dogs, but I bet there will be some when he moves on to Rome’s MondoPOP Gallery on Sunday July, 13, where he will be signing toys, books and other merchandise.
Congratulations, Gary, and good luck with the shows!
