Ron English’s Abraham Obama

Pop iconoclast Ron English paints, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes modern culture and its mainstream visual iconography on canvas, in song, and directly onto hundreds of pirated billboards. English exists spiritually somewhere between a cartoon Abbie Hoffman and a grown-up, real-life Bart Simpson, delivering a steady stream of customized imagery laden with strong sociopolitical undertones, adolescent boy humor, subversive media savvy, and Dali-meets-Disney technique. Dedicated to finding the sublime in the everyday and breaking the momentum of the didactic approach to art and life, English offers up an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted, and there is always room for a little good-natured fun. Link

After unforeseen production delays, Ron English’s highly anticipated Popaganda mini figure series are being pre-released at SDCC. Ron will be signing at Toy Tokyo’s booth, as a limited amount were flown in to greet fans in attendance before launch in late August.

American artist Ron English dedicates his time to making illegal billboard ads. With satirical and subversive imagery and sloganeering, English makes people stop and think about how products, personas and ideas are sold to the public. In this very funny presentation at the Semi-Permanent conference, he gives a history of how his art came to be part of the urban cultural landscape.

A trailer for the upcoming documentary film on designer vinyl toys entitled “The Vinyl Frontier”. This film features many of today’s top toy artists as well as collectors and toy producers alike.
A Film by Daniel Zana
music: Booka Shade
www.thevinylfrontiermovie.com

Made by Monsters & Ron English continues their collaborative efforts with the new series of “Grins” Vinyl figures. This time around featuring a 10″ tall Dinosaur with a massive T-Rex skull.

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Andy Warhol once said, ““I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’” Ron English, in collaboration with metal experts Fully Visual, is happy to oblige!
Figment, edition of 15 in Bronze and White Bronze, stands 7.5” tall and features an iconic Warholian wispy wigged skull atop a turtle-necked tombstone. Available now at FullyVisual.com.

The 100 Helmets of THE VADER PROJECT are ready for Auction!

Auction July 10, 2010, 12:00pm  Eastern Time
Freeman’s Auction House
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania
www.freemansauction.com