This month marks the fifth anniversary of The Purr Room, first displayed in Los Angeles (2018), then in London (2019) and Beijing (2022/2023). A collaboration with the late Blackie the Cat (plus many others including Stacie B. London, Flat Bonnie, and musician Money Mark), the installation featured Blackie’s “triple purr”.…
Celebrating Friday the 13th and Halloween, Baseman offers FLAT AHWROO An edition of 50, FLAT AHWROO is exquisitely and individually hand-crafted with vegan leather by Yukari Fujimoto of Flat Bonnie. MADE IN LA. Each 11-inch FLAT AHWROO is numbered and signed by both artists, and comes with a Certificate of…
40 million people around the world play Magic: The Gathering, and the Secret Lair cards are among the rarest and most coveted. MAGIC commissioned Gary Baseman to create a cycle of lands in his own distinct…
Gary Baseman is at KIAF Art Fair in Seoul now through September 10, showing new paintings made especially for Megumi Ogita Gallery, a Tokyo-based gallery. “This work is a combination of looking back at childhood and an opening to the post-pandemic world. I’ve been thinking a lot about the kind…
Updated 10/2/23: Sales of Baseman’s MAGIC Secret Lair cards ended Oct 1, 2023. Secret Lair cards were available for a limited time only. We are so excited that Baseman is part of the Secret Lair Fall…
What’s special about Los Angeles to artist Gary Baseman? Find out HERE Interviewed by Emmanuelle Bourlier, Baseman shares his heartful connection to the place he was born, raised, and is still based. FIVE PLACES L.A. is a living documentary of the city produced by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture…
Ten years ago (April 25–August 18, 2013), Gary Baseman’s career retrospective The Door is Always Open debuted at the Skirball Cultural Center and Museum. Featuring hundreds of items, including original paintings, drawings, editorial and advertising illustrations, toys, and costumes, this exhibition showcased Baseman’s career that since the 1980s has spanned…
Gary Baseman heads to San Diego Comic-Con this week, the premier comic book convention and nonprofit multi-genre entertainment event held annually in “America’s finest city” since 1970. Since the early 2000s, Baseman has attended Comic-Con to check out current ideas and trends in toy design and the popular arts. Born,…
“Memento Moa is about death and grief, the passage of time and memories. I tend to draw and paint a lot of animals and mythical creatures, more so than humans. Extinction is explored in Memento Moa.” –Gary Baseman via Art News Aotearoa Thank you Art News Aoteaora and contributor Andrew…
