Childhood Items We Miss The Most @Gallery 1988

To celebrate their “Childhhood Items We Miss The Most” month this September, Gallery 1988’s Melrose and Venice locations will both be holding special exhibitions that any kid from the 80’s should hold close to their heart.

Garbage Pail Kids Trading Card Art Show
First off, 1988’s Melrose gallery will be launching the Garbage Pail Kids trading card show next Friday (September 2nd), featuring re-interpretations of the original 47 card set from over 100 artists including Dan Goodsell, Munk One, Rhys Cooper and The Bungaloo. A cult phenomenon throughout 80’s America, the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards offered grotesque, vulgar and rude alternatives to the sickly sweet dolls (the Cabbage Patch Kids) that swept the nation over two decades ago.

Produced in association with the cards creators, Topps and The Hundreds, the most popular designs from the show will eventually be made into a collectable series of their own. Gallery 1988 are planning on going all out with this one, readying a host of activities alongside the event, including a special screening of the 1987 Garbage Pail Kids feature film in association with Cinefamily (The Silent Movie Theatre).

The Old School Videogame Art Show

Moving on towards the middle of the month, 1988’s Venice gallery will be holding the Old School Videogame Art Show (September 16th), an exhibition we’ve been looking forward to with bated breath for the last couple of weeks here at the Tru:Teknology Files. Calling on a host of our favourite painters and illustrators including Kevin Tong, Alison Sommers (pictured) and Le Merde, the nostalgia-tinged exhibition is set to feature over 90 lovingly re-imagined pixelated masterpieces.

Alison’s entry, entitled ‘A Boy and His Dodongo’ (above), is sure to get any fan of Zelda’s Ocarina of Time salivating, the perfect teaser to what could be one of Gallery 1988’s most memorable exhibitions yet!

More information / photos from the two events will be posted as soon as we get them. Check Gallery 1988’s web page here for a look at their current shows, Same Gang and Dan McCarthy & Jay Ryan (new works).

The Garbage Pail Kids Show, Gallery 1988 Melrose, CA, Friday September 2nd

The Old School Videogame Art Show, Gallery 1988 Venice, CA, Friday September 16th

(via- Gallery1988)