http://www.boo-hooray.com/suckadelic/press-release/

Opening Party: January 11, 2011, 6pm
Closing Party: January 23, 2011, 3pm

OPEN EVERYDAY 11pm-6pm
521 W 23RD ST, NEW YORK, NY 10011

The Boo-Hooray Gallery reluctantly announces the first SUCKADELIC retrospective gallery exhibition. Intentionally confusing, misleading, disappointing and really funny, the limited edition parodies of action figures reverberate with a vicious wit and are oddly eyeball-pleasing in the manner of all kinds of toothsome 20th/21st century collage and montage art.

The toys and their aggressively situationist piss-take packaging comment on pop culture commodification and the consumer habits of compulsively shopping kidults: The very process that made KAWS, Takashi Murakami, and Michael Lau art-stars on the Art Basel Miami/Armory Show/Venice Biennale tip.

One of the most respected despised and influential figures in the art toy movement for the past decade, the SUCKLORD has been producing handmade bootleg action figures in very limited runs, each selling out immediately. As the plot thickens, the work of the SUCKLORD is widely collected in fine art circles, and has been auctioned at Christie’s, Freeman's and Phillips.

This exhibition marks the first time the entire SUCKADELIC catalogue will be exhibited in one place. For the duration of the exhibit, a SUCKADELIC SUCK-SHOPPE pop-up store will be open. Original artwork, sculptures, silk- screens and paintings will also be for sale.

The work presented in this exhibit is a documentation of my struggle to reach the top of a sinister pyramid scheme; A culture-jacking enterprise where ruthless-yet-compelling super-criminals compete for the imaginations of fickle consumers and a relentless media machine.

- Excerpt from the SUCKLORD's artist statement

The 100 page exhibition catalogue will be available as a limited edition of 500 numbered copies. A deluxe signed limited edition catalogue of 50 copies with an exclusively created SUCKADELIC figure will also be available.

If you show up on opening night, you’ll have the opportunity to meet the characters from the SUCKADELIC Universe. We can not guarantee a pleasant experience: the SUCKLORD, his nemesis Vectar the Intolerable and their cast of super-villains don’t really get along and have been prone to serious falling-outs, resulting in laser gun- battles and sulking.

The exhibition is curated by Johan Kugelberg and Simeon Lipman.

Boo-Hooray is the pop-up/parasite gallery curated by (mostly) Johan Kugelberg that once in a while shows up in New York or Tokyo or London or Paris or Stockholm or hey maybe your hometown?

Boo-Hooray: http://www.boo-hooray.com/suckadelic
SUCKADELIC website: http://www.suckadelic.com
Meet the SUCKLORD: http://boo-hooray.com/suckadelic/meet-the-sucklord/

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dont forget the 10 inches of snow that nite

you're not going to let a little snow speculation keep you from coming, are you?

I will absolutely be there! After I saw those pics up woebots facebook, I gotta stop by.

see all you assholes in an hour!

Im pretty amazed at the amount of people that were there. Seemed like more people were there just to say they were there,not for the art.

or for the free beer.
I didn't go. I'm going to stop by and check the art without the crowd.

thats usually how it is at openings.. i got a quick look around, grabbed a few beers, chatted a bit with some friends, and left before it got super crowded. its not exactly easy to check out all the pieces when the place is wall to wall packed.. i'll go back in few days to truly take in all the awesomeness

I would loooooooooove to see that show.
At least I was able to snatch a catalog - cheapo version tho !