Tarot, Mystics & The Occult: Opening Reception

Our upcoming show, Tarot, Mystics & The Occult, is going to be absolutely fantastic! Curated by Light Grey Art Lab's very own Lindsay Nohl, Tarot, Mystics and The Occult is a spectacular new exhibition exploring the history and symbolism of the occult revolving around the Tarot.

The opening reception is October 26th from 7-10 PM. The main event is The Light Grey Tarot, an all-new illustrated tarot deck. We've already announced the pre-order previously, but the opening will be the first time you can get your hands on the deck in person.

In addition to a gallery full of large-format prints of The Light Grey Tarot artwork, we'll have a collection of excellent art dedicated to Mystics and The Occult.

You'll definitely want to attend the opening reception, as in addition to food, drink, music and art, there will be local professionals present giving live tarot readings. If you have any weighty decisions, questions or quandaries about life, now's your chance to get some direction! For a small donation the readers will be doing 10 minute, 3-card readings which are a quick but insightful look into your past, present and future.

We'll have sign-ups when you enter, make sure to get yourself on the list ASAP.

And finally, we just want to let you know that the following day, Saturday October 27th, there will be the class Reading With The Light Grey Tarot from 1-2:30 PM at Light Grey Art Lab. We'll be teaching how to read and interpret The Light Grey Tarot, so if you get a deck, you'll want to attend. Watch this blog for more details about this event.

RSVP via the Facebook Event Page, and show up early to make sure you get signed up for a reading!

Remember, the Opening Reception is Friday, October 26th from 7- 10pm! We're located on the corner of Stevens Ave and 26th Street - right across from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Street parking is available on Stevens, 26th and 1st Ave.



It's an incredible show and we can't wait to finally unveil the final The Light Grey Tarot decks. See you there!

Sneak Peek: Expletive Poster Show!

The Expletive Poster Show is only a couple weeks away! We're up to our eyeballs in the delightfully dirty and profane artwork, but you'll have to wait until the opening reception to see the show it all it's explicit glory,

Until then, here's a safe-for-work sneak peek!









Artwork by Ann Shen, Patswerk, Teagan White and Victor Melendez.

Expletive Poster Show Opening Reception

The Expletive Poster Show: Ugly Words to Admire is the next show here at Light Grey Art Lab, and it's one just for the grown-ups. A surly group of of typographers, designers and illustrators were given a simple instruction; celebrate their favorite cuss word, dirty phrase, or filthy mantra through art and type.

The show opens Friday, September 14th, and we're throwing an opening reception from 7-10 pm! There will be dozens of lewd and crass posters, music that would make your mother blush, and plenty of good laughs!

As an added bonus for you real bad mamma-jamma's out there, if you come dressed in an article of clothing that fits the theme of the show, we'll reward you with a special, one-night-only custom print!

Tell your friends, but only the one's cool enough to appreciate a little salty language! Pass along our Facebook invite and we'll see you there!

Remember, the opening reception is Friday, September 14th from 7- 10pm! We're located on the corner of Stevens Ave and 26th Street - right across from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Street parking is available on Stevens, 26th and 1st Ave.

CALL FOR ART : GIRLS: FACT OR FICTION

Image by Lindsay Nohl

EDIT: THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT SUBMITTED YOUR PORTFOLIO FOR OUR CALL FOR ART! THE CALL IS NOW CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS. We'll be going over all of the entries tonight and will be announcing the list of artists on Sept 5! Be on the look-out! And thanks again for all of the enthusiasm and for introducing us to all of your awesome artwork! This will be a tough one to narrow down, that's for sure...



Our next show is a big one! It's lovingly called GIRLS: Fact or Fiction

As you've probably guessed, we're looking for artists that are big fans of girls. Two kinds of girls, in fact : Real girls, and fictional girls.

The show will open at the end November at Light Grey Art Lab and run through the first week in January. This will be our big end-of-the-year show, and we're really excited about it! All pieces will be shown as 8" x 10" archival prints in the gallery and online. (The final number of participants is yet to be determined, but it is definitely slotted to be a big group show!)

Here's what you need to do if you'd like to be considered for the group!
Link to your portfolio / blog below in the comments section along with a list of 4 girls you'd like to draw. Two of them should be "fact" and two of them should be "fiction".

In order to make sure we have a balance of real girls and characters (and to make sure we don't have 45 Hermiones), the Light Grey team will be reaching out to each selected artist with ONE of their suggested girls. Please do us a favor and write something like:

Lindsay Nohl
www.blogblogartblog.com
1. Anne Frank (fact)
2. Anne Hathaway (fact)
3. Orphan Annie (fiction)
4. Annie Hall (fiction)

And rank them in order you'd like to draw them.
Of course, we'll always try to be fair and we'll try to give everyone involved their first choice when we can, but make sure you like all 4 of your choices!

Don't worry if someone has already listed some of the girls you'd like to pick, too -- Just put 'em on there and make sure you have at least one or two original ideas JUST incase we need to pull from those. We'll try our best.


FINALLY.
Here are some of the categories that make something fact or fiction in our gallery:

FACT:
• Any woman, alive or dead, of any age or era. Including:
  
• Celebrities, Musicians, Writers
  
• Religious figures of any type including gods/goddesses, saints, or anything like
  
• that. (ALL religious figures will be included in the fact section.)
  
• Politicians
  
• Friends, Family Members, Yourself.
  
• Scientists, Actresses, Historical Figures, And any other category you can think of where they've actually LIVED at some point, in the realm of reality.

FICTION:
• Myths and Fairytales
  
• Characters from books, TV, Games of any era.
  
• Movie Characters
  
• Folkloric Characters, fables, tall tales
  
• Ghosts
  
• Ladies of Legend

(You get the point.)

This call for art is open til September 3, so feel free to spread the news to anyone you think might be interested. We're looking forward to seeing your thoughts and can't wait to see your sites! Past participants are totally welcome to submit. Each show takes on it's own life once we see who might be involved, so if you haven't been selected in the past, don't let that stop you!

Thanks again and we're looking forward to the show!

p.s. there has been some talk about getting a book published with the work included in this show... we're looking into it.

A Horde of Zombies (and Zombie-lovers) invade Light Grey Art Lab

Everyone crowds in to see all 52 pieces

Night of the Exquisite Corpse opened with an exciting reception this past Friday! A horde of guests were greeted by an appropriately ghoulish soundtrack as they marveled at each of expertly crafted, undead themed paper toys.


Zombie fans of all ages attended

It was a fun and high-energy exhibition and we had a fantastic turn out! We want to thank everyone that was involved, from near and far, for all of their hard work and enthusiasm for the show!


Lindsay hangs black balloons outside in preparation for the opening

Be sure to check out all the pics on our flickr gallery! Besides getting a good feel for the vibe of the show, you can check out some artists posing with their pieces (sorry we didn't catch everyone, though!).


Curators : Chris Schons (left) and Adam Hoppus (right) admire their own paper toys

Big thanks to Chris Schons and Adam Hoppus, who co-curated the show! They poured time, blood, sweat and tears into brainstorming, planning, assembling and coding. Adam painstakingly cut out and assembled each of the three dimensional pieces on display, and Chris created this amazing interactive gallery!


Stop by www.zombioso.com to see all the entires and mix and match some zombies!

Night of the Exquisite Corpse will be on display at Light Grey Art Lab through September 7, so please stop by! They are amazing in person!

For those who can't make it to Minneapolis to see the show, don't worry, we have you covered! Check out our our online shop where you can see all the assembled pieces as well as the flat artwork! And of course you can order any you'd like to build yourself!

And again, please visit zombioso.com to see the interactive gallery of all of the pieces listed by artist - with a special zombie-swap feature that also lets you see what they look like when pieces are interchanged!

How nice! Night of the Exquisite Corpse Write-ups!

Get ready to swap body parts to your heart's content on www.zombioso.com/papercorpse

This week has been crazy! We have Adam Hoppus working diligently to assemble all of the paper toys and Chris Schons building one crazy awesome website for you guys!

You'll soon be able to see the magical unveiling of the Night of the Exquisite Corpse Exhibition, and boy, will you flip out over the pieces we've got. (At least I will be!)

We've also gotten a couple great write ups today about the upcoming exhibition and we're happy to share those!

This one is from Stephanie at Metro Magazine. She was a blast to talk to and she gave us a really fun story!

This one, too, by TOYSREVIL, is fantastic and we're honored to be featured!

We can't wait to post the full gallery of images! More soon!

Night of the Exquisite Corpse Sneak Peek!

Today we began to set up the gallery for Night of the Exquisite Corpse, which opens this FRIDAY (August 17th, 7-10PM)! It's the first time we have ALL of the assembled pieces in one place and it's pretty amazing! It's like a tiny paper-zombie army has invaded the space!

Here's just a few you can except to see once the show opens later this week (there's over 50 on display)!







You can see a complete list of participating artists here. More info about the opening here! And share the Facebook event!

Night of the Exquisite Corpse Opening Reception

The team at Light Grey Art Lab is busy setting up for our newest show, Night of the Exquisite Corpse, a group show of papercraft zombies featuring 52 amazing artists!

The Night of the Exquisite Corpse opening reception is this Friday, August 17th, from 7–10 p.m! Stop by Light Grey Art Lab to see a horde of mini-zombie papercraft toys! We'll also have refreshments, free DIY zombie templates, and an interactive display letting you swap the head, torso and legs of the zombies to make some truly bizarre combinations of creatures!



We're super excited for the opening of this show so stop by to see the zombies and say hi! You can RSVP and invite friends via our Facebook events page!

Remember, the opening reception is Friday, August 17th from 7- 10pm! We're located on the corner of Stevens Ave and 26th Street - right across from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. Street parking is available on Stevens, 26th and 1st Ave.

Night of the Exquisite Corpse : Preview!

It's like something out of a paper-nightmare...



Awesome photo (and photo set here) by Johnson Cameraface of the paper toys created by the amazing, Jesse Phillips.

Light Grey Art Lab will be be mobbed by horde of 52 paper zombies, ghouls and creepers. Adam Hoppus and Chris Schons' have curated a fantastic show for everyone.

Chris Schons has built an amazing interactive site (link to be announced soon!) where visitors will be able to view all of the pieces in the show and swap their body parts at random. Plus, we'll be giving away blank die-lines so you guys can also take one home and build your own!

Visit the flickr set of Johnson Camerface to see the rest of Jesse Phillips' awesome zombies, and come visit us at Light Grey on Friday, Aug 17 from 7 - 10pm to see the rest of the show!

Here's the official Facebook invite - the show is open to everyone, so bring your friends, family and anyone else that might want to see a little paper-gore.

The Light Grey Tarot PREORDER: Announced!

The Light Grey Tarot

We are officially announcing a pre-order the full 78 card deck plus guidebook of the Light Grey Tarot.

We're printing a limited quantity run of The Light Grey Tarot to accompany our Tarot, Mystics and the Occult Exhibition (Coming to Light Grey Art Lab October 19).

Each 78-card boxed set of the Light Grey Tarot comes with a 32 page guidebook that walks through all of the meanings, symbolism and details of each card, plus instructions on how to read several classic Tarot spreads. The cards are approximately 2.75 inches x 4.75 inches (nice and tall!)

If you're interested in staking claim to a deck before the opening, here's the link.

We'll also be launching all of the amazing full size giclee prints of each artist's work on October 19, so be sure to check back then to see all of the available prints! We will be sure to keep you posted!

A full list of contributing artists can be found here.

For now, here are some shots of the deck - (You'll have to wait to see all 78 until the show!). We'll have more information as we get closer to the opening!

**Pre Orders will be shipped with all other orders made through the duration of the exhibition (Second week in November). Orders are first-come, first-served. We fulfill orders as we receive them and when we run out, we run out! Thanks for the support and hope to see you at the event on October 26th at Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis!

If you are local and decide to pre-order, bring your receipt and you can pick up your deck at the Exhibition Party on October 26 in Minneapolis at Light Grey Art Lab.