Ana Bagayan, Andrew Hem, Catalina Estrada, Emiliano Ponzi, Gordon Wiebe, Red Nose Studio and Nate Williams were all selected for 3×3 Magazine’s Professional Show. Emiliano even received a Gold Medal for his personal piece, Burka, and two Silver Medals for his editorial work, Stop Speaking and Remember the Bones. All the artists that were selected will be published in the 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 5, available early next year. Congratulations everyone!

Bird Show

Ghetto Bird

Breather

Team

Wait For It

New Forest

Remember

Forest

Sex Tourism

Anniversary of Slave Trade Abolition

Stop Speaking, SILVER MEDAL

Lovers

Remember the Bones, SILVER MEDAL

Burka, GOLD MEDAL

Ombrelloni

Online Music

Warmed and Humbled

Walk

Rolling Cubicles

Elemi

Sherlock Holmes

Tin Cup Serenade

Ana Bagayan and her boyfriend and fellow creative, Ara Devejian, were invited to teach an art segment at the launch of re:Active’s newest zine project, Dead-End Door, re:Vealed. re:Active in a non-profit, arts-education program for youths aged 13 to 19 that introduces students to jobs in the fields of design, writing, illustration and photography through the production of a theme-based magazine about issues affecting youth.

The newest issue, Dead-End Door, re:Vealed, was a collaborative effort between re:Active, 826LA and the students of Los Angeles High School.

The launch takes place on Sunday, June 29th between 4:30-6:30 at FAMILY, 436 North Fairfax, Los Angeles, CA

re:Active

826LA

Gordon Wiebe and Ana Bagayan are featured in Blanket magazine’s collector’s edition patchwork poster. Blanket is an online magazine from Australia that features art, design and photography from around the world. The poster, made to resemble a patchwork blanket, features the work of 56 artists that have appeared in the magazine since it’s launch in December 2006. The poster measures 950mm x 570mm and is available for $15 (plus postage) at the Blanket Magazine online store.

www.blanketmagazine.com

Ana Bagayan is exhibiting in DvA Gallery’s collaboration show with Billy Shire Fine Arts in Chicago, IL. Other artists participating in the show include Dave Cooper, Martha Rich, Bob Dob and Bonnie Reid, among others. The show opens on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 with a book and toy signing between 4-6pm and the opening reception between 7-11pm.

DvA Gallery, 2568 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL

Catalina Estrada, Emiliano Ponzi, Graham Roumieu, Gordon Wiebe and Nate Williams each had work selected to appear in the American Illustration 27 annual and Ana Bagayan had two pieces and Andrew Hem one piece chosen to appear on disTRIBUTE, American Illustration’s web gallery. The book will be printed in full-color and distributed world-wide in hardcover immediately after their annual Publication Party in mid-November. Congratulations go out to everyone!

Forest

Remember the Bones

Saluti

Infidelity

Warmed & Humbled

Tin Cup Serenade

Fetus

Head In the Clouds

Moving Forward

Emiliano Ponzi, Ana Bagayan and Andrew Hem have been recognized by Communication Arts. Andrew had one series and one single selected in the Unpublished category, Emiliano had one single selected in the Editorial category, and Ana had a single also in the Unpublished category. The winning pieces will be published in the Communication Arts 2008 Illustration Annual and on the Communication Arts website. Congratulations go out to everyone!

White Snow

Breather, series

Team, series

Wait For It, series

New Forest, series

Remember, series

Don’t Make a Mistake

Bird Show

Ana Bagayan was selected for Print magazine’s 10th edition of their New Visual Artist 2008 competition. The list is made up of 20 artists, all under the age of 30, that have been nominated by the industries leading art directors, studio owners and professors. Ana and the 19 other artists can be seen in the April 2008 issue, available now. Congratulations, Ana!

New Visual Artists 2008

Ana Bagayan is exhibiting artwork in a group show with Yoko Tanaka and Judith Schaechter at Billy Shire Fine Arts in Culver City. The show opens on Saturday, March 15th and runs to Saturday, April 5th, 2008.

Billy Shire Fine Arts

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 15th, 2008, 7-10pm.

5790 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA

Ana Bagayan, Mother

Born in Armenia, Ana Bagayan moved to the US at the age of six and has been living and working in Southern California for a number of years. An illustration graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, her dreamy scenes merge reality fluidly with fantasy in an ‘Analand’ where fairy tale themes influence characters with unexpected results, and sweetness often comes packed with a punch. Beautifully rendered, her child-like figures, animals and toys bring powerful concepts to life. Little surprises in every illustration leave you wondering, “What does it all mean?”. Does it always have to matter? Ana’s sweetly subversive work has been catching the attention of the industry influential - with a recent commission by Crispin Porter + Bogusky for the Young Guns Awards ad campaign, as well as a Young Guns nomination for herself.

Ana’s clients include Diesel, Honda, Spin, BMG Records, Rolling Stone, GQ, Mighty Fine and the Sydney Symphony.

She has exhibited at Billy Shire Gallery, Varnish Fine Art and Subtext Gallery, and has had two solo shows at La Luz de Jesus.

Ana Bagayan showed the Kokeshi doll she did with Ara Devejian at Subtext Gallery in San Diego from November 3rd to December 17th, 2007. Over 75 artists were represented including Catalina Estrada, S.Britt, Audrey Kawasaki, Gina & Matt, Ana Juan and Marcos Chin.

Subtext Gallery

680 West Beech St, #1

San Diego, CA