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AUSGANG AUGUST! Free Vivisect Ausgang figure!
July 31, 2008
FREE Vivisect Playset Anthony Ausgang Clean One vinyl
figure WITH ANY ORDER OVER $50 placed during August!
Augang's contibution to Luke Chueh's Vivisect Playset, a
mini figure series produced by Strangeco, is "Clean One", a
figure which calls upon his signature cartoonish lowbrow
style. Clean One is a freaky multi-faced, multi-limbed
animal, 3" tall, made of vinyl.
Anthony Ausgang is of particular interest to us here at TT
because of the influence he draws from hot rod culture!
(His bio mentions the beauty of rat rods, which are frikkin
awesome- do a Google Image Search for "rat rod" if you
don't know what one is!)
We have lots of items that are over $50 all by themselves,
so this August is your chance to expand your mini figure
collection essentially for free!
Check out Anthony Ausgang's website here:
http://www.ausgangart.com/
Here's the figure you'd be getting for free:
http://www.tenacioustoys.com/catalog/item/4172943/5457576.htm
Here's a full bio of Anthony, taken from his website:
Anthony Ausgang was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1959 to
a Dutch mother and Welsh father. The family moved to
Houston Texas in the early 1960s, a particularly difficult
time for an immigrant family to parse American culture.
Nevertheless, Ausgang's father made brave attempts to
assimilate by attending custom car shows and demolition
derbies. Ausgang eventually encountered Ed Roth and before
long had a shoebox full of Rat Finks, a small plastic
figurine of a noxious rodent that had somehow become the
embodiment of Hot Rod and Custom Car Culture. Ausgang's
mother continued the European traditions by dragging her
son to endless operas, symphonies and art museums. This
combination of High Art and Low Art was to prove a fertile
cultural mulch for Ausgang's artistic inclinations.
After a short stint studying art at The University Of Texas
in Austin, Ausgang succumbed to the myth of California and
moved to Los Angeles where he began classes at The Otis Art
Institute. Disappointed to find out that the curriculum
there didn't include target practice, admiring cars or
watching surf films, Ausgang dropped out to start showing
his artwork to as many galleries as would tolerate his
frequent visits. Finally accepted by the infamous Zero One
Gallery, a combination of after hours nightclub, gallery
and crashpad, he had his first official sale, to a drug
dealer. At his solo show later that year Ausgang sold to a
more diverse and socially acceptable crew as collectors and
critics began to take notice. At the Zero One Ausgang met
Robert Williams, who had been one of the main forces at
Roth Studios in the 1960's and at this time was the most
successful practitioner of the type of art that would later
be called Low Brow. As the "official" artworld began to
accept Ausgang's work so did the commercial artworld and he
began making record covers and posters and working as a
consultant on computer generated animation.
In 1993 Ausgang was included in the Laguna Beach Art
Museum's seminal exhibit "Kustom Kulture" which
investigated art influenced by gearhead car culture. In
2003 Ausgang's paintings could be seen in Morning Wood, a
primer of Post Graf art; in 2004 his work graced the pages
of contemporary art survey Pop Surrealism and in 2005
Weirdo Deluxe explained his art to the unenlightened.
Ausgang draws influence from as many outside channels as
possible, preferring the toy contents of grocery store
gumball machines over the latest exhibit at the Whitney.
Opinionated but informed, he is able to see the beauty in
both a Rembrandt and a rat rod. This variety of interest
has led him to design his artwork on the computer but
complete it on the easel, the perfect combination of new
technology and traditional media.
Ausgang now shows regularly in Amsterdam, Holland and
Bologna, Italy. Commercial clients include the Boredoms
(Warner) in Japan and Apollo 440 (Sony) in England.
Collectors include Nicholas Cage, David Arquette and Perry
Farrell.
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