Catalina Estrada’s solo show, Disarming Dreams, opens at Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona, Spain on April 30th, 2009. The show takes us away from the beautiful dreamscapes we’ve come to expect from Catalina to show us the grim reality of the child soldiers fighting in Colombia’s civil war. These children, most of which come from poor families, understand very little of the conflict they take part in. They fight against other children with very similar backgrounds and who share the same economical situation and grim future. These children, that have so much in common in civil life, become ruthless enemies at war.

“Disarming Dreams looks for those children hidden behind the mist. These children to whom the alienation and madness of the war has condemned to float in the limbo as lost souls awaiting to be reborn, awaiting to awake and discover that they were fooled, that their rifle was always made of plastic.”
- Pancho Tolchinsky

The show runs until May 30th, 2009. 

Opening Reception: April 30th, 2009 8pm

Iguapop Gallery, Comerç, 15, Barcelona, SPAIN

Nate Williams is featured in Computer Arts Projects‘ current issue, The Illustration Issue (no. 123). Rob Carney interviewed Nate about how he deals with clients for the magazine’s Practical Skills section. 

Catalina Estrada was in Mexico for the launch of her limited-edition line of t-shirts for Levi’s Latin America. The launch featured a runway show with Catalina’s illustrations serving as the backdrop. Each of the t-shirts were also displayed separately among beautiful flower bouquets. The line is available in styles for both men and women and each shirt comes in it’s own black tin, also featuring Catalina’s work. The event was a huge success and special thanks go out to the Levi’s team in Mexico, especially Maria Adelaida Correa, Vanesa Heshiki and Juan Carlos Basurto. Click here to see more images.

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Emiliano Ponzi was honored to illustrate for architect and furniture designer Fabio Novembre’s Il Fiore di Novembre. The monograph, which was published by Electa, was released to coincide with the designer’s exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. The exhibition runs from April 21st to May 17th, 2009.

Bella Pilar will be at the Papyrus store in Century City Mall in Los Angeles, CA this Saturday, April 18th between noon and 3pm. Exclusive limited edition prints will be available at the event and Bella will be on hand to sign your favorite Bella Pilar product. The store will be decorated with Bella Pilar posters and there will even be five Bella Girls circulating the store. As an added bonus, when you spend $50 or more on Bella Pilar products you will be entered in a draw to win an original signed painting by Bella. Not in the L.A. area? Don’t worry, there is a second event planned for the Grand Central Terminal location in New York City in May. We’ll keep you posted!

Saturday, April 18th, 2009 NOON to 3:00pm

Century City Mall, 10250 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA

Marguerite Sauvage joins an international roster of over 75 illustrators, photographers, fine artists and graphic designers exhibiting work in Grafuck 04 at Nucleus Gallery in Alhambra, CA. The show coincides with the launch of the highly anticipated art book, Grafuck 04. This is the fourth edition in the popular book series and also marks Marguerite’s third time contributing work. The opening reception will feature live body-painting, interactive displays and an exclusive screening of the film The Blindness of the Woods. In addition, several artists will be in attendance to sign the new release. Other artists contributing work include: James Jean, Audrey Kawasaki, Camilla d’Errico and many, many others. The show runs until Monday, April 20th, 2009.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11th, 2009 7-11pm (18+)

Nucleus Gallery 210 E. Main St., Alhambra, CA  

Catalina Estrada is featured in the current issue (#99) of Juxtapoz magazine. The theme of this issue is ‘worldwide representation.’ Jeff Soto’s work is on the cover and UK artists, Chloe Early and Word to Mother, are featured inside, as well as Greek fine-artist, Stelios Faitakis, L.A. graffiti artist, Augor, and Mumbai’s Balkrisha Arts, which is the last hand-painted Bollywood poster studio in operation. The magazine is available now.

Shawn Barber will be exhibiting work in the group show, Draw, at The Shooting Gallery in San Francisco, CA. The show, which was curated by Curse Mackey and Erik Foss, features graphite drawings from over 300 artists from around the world. Draw debuted in October 2006 at New York City’s Fuse Gallery, and has since traveled to Austin’s SXSW and London’s Stolen Space Gallery. Moby, Ron English, Neck Face, Camille Rose Garcia, Ed Templeton, Mark Gonzales, WK Interact, Barry McGee, Doze Green and Tara McPherson are among the participating artists.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 11th, 2009 7-11pm

The Shooting Gallery 839 Larkin St., San Francisco CA

Andrew Hem is exhibiting work in Hi-Fructose’s group art exhibition, Overdose, at Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. The show promises an ‘overdose of great art’ and includes work by Bob Dob, Brandi Milne, Glenn Barr, Naoto Hattori and Tin, among others. The opening reception, which takes place this Saturday, will include free giveaways, an artist signing and even an ice cream truck so be sure to stop by if you’re in the Santa Monica area. The show runs until Saturday, April 25th, 2009.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 4th, 2009 8:00-11:30pm

Copro Nason Gallery Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave. T5, Santa Monica, CA

Nate Williams is featured in issue 120 of Taiwan’s dpi magazine. The magazine features an interview with Nate, as well as a selection of both personal and client work completed over the past two years. Julien Vallée, Mijn Schatje, Martin Haake and Tan Jun are also featured in this issue, available now.