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If you are in Los Angeles on May 7th, you don’t want to miss this art show.  Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art is set to present Get Rich Quick, featuring Antony Micallef, Banksy, Barry McGee, D*Face, David Choe, David Choong Lee, Faile, Ian Francis, KAWS, Nick Walker, Shepard Fairey, Space Invader, Swoon, Will Barras with more to be added

You’ll find a combination of original pieces and a selection of rare, sold-out prints will being showcased from the biggest names in art today.   More gallery details after the jump!    via SlamxHype

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The Hundreds dropped a couple of preview pictures of t-shirts for their Summer 2009 line.  The Trilla (Gorilla) design is by Steve Nazar and Dave Choe stepped in to do a solid design his signature whale, Munko, x Thrilla mash-up.

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Video Part 1 of 3 – Learning Spray Paint:

The Walrus TV interviews are a taste of what’s to come in the upcoming viewing of Upper Playground Presents - Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe.  In this award winning film, Choe’s hard work and radical antics have been recorded by Harry Kim, who follows David Choe’s trail, documenting eight years of mayhem and artistic awesomeness. The film helps to express Choe’s unwillingness to grow up, his struggle to make it as an artist and his fight to hold on to his sanity for his life and burgeoning art career.  The film is part of the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival and Bay Area residents can enter to win two sets of tickets to the film from Upper  Playground.

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Upper Playground has released David Choe’s Choegal, a wooden figure produced by Ningyoushi, in association with Upper Playground.   The Choegal is based on a wooden toy that David Choe made for past Giant Robot shows.  The Choegal is limited to a set of 1000 and each doll is hand painted.  David Choe himself was surprised at the detail that the overseas factory was able to replicate by hand.

The figure has fully poseable arms and has three faces with different expressions:  happy, angry and sad.  To reveal a new face, turn the “pom pom” on the hat.  The Choegal measures approximately 8 inches tall and, since they are all hand painted, they will all vary slightly.  The Choegal is available online now at the UP Web Store.

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This Thursday morning, October 30th, The Hundreds will release their 5th Anniversary Artist Series collection of t-shirts, exclusively at The Hundreds LA & The Hundreds SF.  The Hundreds 5TH continues with the Artist Series with five original contributions from Robbie Conal, Tofer, MR44, David Choe, and Usugrow.  Each design will be available in black or white, see each one after the jump!

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Bay Area-born artist David Choe is the latest artist to partner with Upper Playground to produce not one, but two Barack Obama prints. Choe has designed and produced apparel, adidas sneakers, comic books, movie posters, album covers, fine art books and toys, among many other projects.

David Choe’s Barack Obama posters are part of an ongoing series from Upper Playground of artist collaborations in support of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.  There were 200 prints made that are signed and numbered of each design, and each poster retails for $200. The limited-edition 18″X24″ prints are available exclusively online:

Poster 1

Poster 2