Bodnarchuk and Kakeda - beasties at Headquarters.

Tyson Bodnarchuk introduced El and I to Samurai Jack, and apparently he and his smart gal Angie fall asleep to the 1960’s Spider Man most nights because the colours are so beautiful, and the characters so odd.

He shares a show with Aya Kakeda which opened last night down at Headquarters. Apparently Aya has stayed over at Tyson and Angie’s house for the last week, drawing and watching TV together, and making some of the pieces that appear in the show.

Tyson’s working with ink and water colour these days, so the wall of bright acrylic characters you might recognize as his if you’ve been over to L’Autre GAllerie recently faces a wall of the same guys, and some new ones, done in a murkier, spidery-er medium. I’ve done some of this myself, and find I am very appreciative of the brilliance his colours, and the animated precision of his lines. He’s done what looks like dozens of them, and they grid the wall with their own separate, monstrous little realities. Hopefully sooner or later he’ll get some of them up on Indyish.

Aya Kakeda’s work is intricate and dear. My favorite of her pieces shown last night was Laundry Day which combines her sweet round, recognizable lasses with a darkly tumultuous water world and blowing laundry.

My other favorite were the three portraits of Happiness.
Here’s “Materialistic Happiness at Dinner”:

The show runs for a month, and there’s much good in it, so go check it out if yer able.