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Grass Hut store - Local artists APAK
By H-Dawg | February 6, 2010
Apak are the husband and wife creative wonder duo of Aaron Piland and Ayumi Kajikawa Piland. They and some other great local artists have created a small store collaboratively “for fun.” The store is the Grass Hut on Burnside in that small row of boutiques and fancy stuff. Grass Hut shows art every first Friday of each month. On Feb 4th, a show opened called “Staying Put,” which pretty much means what is says, I ’spose, and contains several of the different artists’ print works, including APAK. The store also has tons of independent local zines and books along with plastic toys, printed shirts and tons of other cool stuff. The artists involved in Grass Hut are: APAK, BWANA, SPOONS, LAMENDE, MARTIN and SCRAPPERS. The two members of the team APAK currently reside here in Portland. The two artists who form that name APEK who are known for the cute little hairy creatures on watercolor posters and post cards are not really small at all. The artists have several shows that are currently going on or will be opening up later this month with openings in : LA, NY, NH and here in Portland at the store. I have enjoyed their wonderfully amazingly cool and spacey art for a few years now. I would pick up postcards in the bay area where I saw them and always check in with their sight and blogs. When I re-located here I was pleasantly delighted to find them in most every local small shop around.
APEK:
Staying put show @ Grass Hut in Portland opening on 2-4-2010 till 3/2010
Grass hat show @ Gallery1988 melrose LA, opening 2-4-2010 (w/ the Grass Hut crew)
Year of the tiger show @ GR2 (Giant robot Two) in west LA -an event to provide adoption for animals/ good homes. opening 2-13-2010-3-10-2010
A cry for help group show @ Think space LA -current
find out the others and/or more details on grasshutcorp.com or http://apakstudio.com
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