‘Honey, I Shrunk the Art Show’ Is Full of Fantastically Tiny Portraits

Every creation amusement needs a theme. Maybe it’s all the enactment of 1 artist. Maybe it’s each centered connected 1 subject. Some of the ideas are really, REALLY big. And, successful immoderate cases, the thought is to support it very, precise small.

This Friday, Gallery 1988 volition uncover a caller online grounds called “Honey, I Shrunk the Art Show,” curated by 2 artists who emotion to marque tiny art: Tom Whalen and Dave Perillo. The io9 favorites person agelong teamed up with the Los Angeles assemblage to bash awesome shows, galore of which person included tiny pop-culture portraits. This clip though, the Philadelphia-based friends thought bigger, but besides smaller.

“Gallery 1988 reached retired to america and asked america to make a caller amusement for them,” Whalen told io9 via email. “Dave and I thought aft doing truthful galore two-man shows together, it mightiness beryllium amusive to invitation a clump of our talented friends to articulation america successful creating a curated show. We had a fewer ideas, and yet settled connected an ‘80s themed amusement with a twist; each pieces person to beryllium 6 x 6 inches oregon less. Everyone that we invited ran with the thought and the results talk for themselves.”

He’s right. Here’s a preview.

All pieces successful the amusement volition beryllium connected grounds and connected merchantability connected the Gallery 1988 website astir 2 p.m. ET connected Friday, July 19.

Above you spot pieces from not conscionable Perillo and Whalen, but different io9 faves similar Eric Tan and Cuddly Rigor Mortis. We asked Whalen successful peculiar wherefore helium decided to effort thing caller with those horror-based cards.

“I’ve been itching to bash trading cards for rather a while,” helium said. “I recovered a vendor that produces high-quality, low-run trading cards, and this seemed similar the cleanable accidental to motorboat my caller enactment of tiny creation pieces. If radical respond to them, I’d emotion to proceed the enactment with many, galore much movie icons.”

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