Second Saturday, Wynwood Art Walk

All ready for Fabrika's Art Space group show. Saturday May 8th Wynwood Art Walk event at the Fabrika Art Space (2722 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL.) first group show with amazing artists. Live plush creation by Me (Dennise Rodriguez) and a collage performance by Joshua Surprenant.

More set-up pictures
Fabrika event page
Facebook event page

Fabrika Art Space Group Show

Things are moving along and everything is almost ready for the upcoming Fabrika Art Space: group show for Wynwood Art Walk. Don't miss my live plush creation and Joshua's collage performance. There will also be music, drinks, and cool people to mingle with. Doors open at 7pm and the party doesn't stop till 11pm. Fabrika Art Space: 2722NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL (Next to the HUGE wynwood.com Banner).



PJ Hedgie


Hedgies


Wize Maugey Monkey

Miami Fabrika Art Space Show

May 8th Fabrika's first group art show! Also my first Miami based art event. For this occasion I will be displaying brand new plush work... so new they are not even done yet. There will also be music, drinks and live art performance by myself and Joshua Surprenant. Other artists displaying Danny Brito and Claudia Calle.

Facebook Fan Page

It took a while but I finally got around to making a Denn Rodriguez facebook fan page. A bunch of you are already signed up. Tell your friends I'm shooting for 100 fans!

The 100th fan get's a prize!

More maps, maps, maps

Between going to the Green Market and watching a really good Super Bowl game I sat down and made 3 more maps. I should be all done with the maps and ready to draw some artifacts. Can you guess what I'm working on?

Meet Octoquish

Last night while looking for an adventure I spotted this little critter, eating everything in the fridge!!! Don't let his cute appearance fool you. He calls himself Octosquish and can eat like a dragon. I know what you are thinking... how? With what mouth? Somewhere in between that soft, cute, orange fur there's a huge bottomless pit. I'm serious! No joke! I need to keep a constant eye on him, so I moved him to the office where there is nothing he can eat and he can hang with Mr. Gorilla pain. Hopefully they'll get long.

If you want to venture and take any of these two monsters home... they are super friendly and actually like to cuddle. Well anyway, they available at my etsy store.

Maps, Maps, Maps

What I'm currently working on and will be working on for a while is maps, maps, maps and some ceramic drawings. These will be publish in my girlfriends dissertation and she is über excited about them. So far they are pretty fun, but really time consuming.

GUR Miami!!!

Not exactly art related but definitely super fun! This weekend Rhianna, two friends and I did the Great Urban Race Miami. What is GUR? Well think Amazing Race but local. We were team Foo Foo Cuddlie Poop (blame Rhianna for that one) and Joshua and Julio were team Chimi Changa.

We really had no idea what to expect when getting to the race, but soon after starting we where having a blast. We did so much in 3 hours, from a 2 minutes salsa lessons to waxing a surf board, jumping in the air for a picture, getting our nails painted and waiting for the bus... it was run, run, run all over Miami Beach. We'll definitely have to do this again!

Just got the official time. 2:38:03 that's 53rd place out of 107. Not that bad for a first time. First place did it in 1:36:02 THAT"S CRAZY!!!!!


Julio , Rhianna Joshua and I


Yeah! We had to take the bus!


Had to come back to this one. Needed to touch it.


Jump for chocolate!!!

Mr Gorilla Pain

"Giant" Gorilla plush. This was my big project at the Carnival show. Those are bandages all over him and yes! those are 2 gold teeth. He thinks he is the pimp. I'll be taking more pictures of him this week.
For a better idea of how big he is see this picture.

Skateboard Art Show

Skateboard design for the 4th Annual "I'M BOARD" Skateboard Art Show. My original idea was to make something simple. That idea went south really fast. This design ended having more than 100 felt pieces all of them cut and sewn by hand.

Peligroso Azul on vacation

Why stay in the cold of South Florida when the Caribbean is so much warmer? This pass winter Peligroso Azul and I went on a cruise to the Caribbean. We had a blast visiting the beautiful islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, Dominica and Barbados.

If you want to see other travels and adventures of Peligroso Azul and his luchador friends join his Facebook group.


The cool town of Barbados


Downtown Barbados


St. Kitt's plaza


Dominica's rain forest (one of the many)


Welcome to Dominica!


Beautiful beach in St. Croix

Artist Trading Cards

Color pencil and ink.
This is what happens when you scan stuff too quickly. Now I have to wait for the show to end before I can post a descent scan.


By the way this was hand made. Yeah it looks like a vector but is not. I made them while watching TV. It helps when I have two things going on at the same time.

Art Nouveau presents CARNIVAL : Jan. 20, 2010

Art Nouveau presents CARNIVAL: a freaky live art group show! Over 20 artists creating and exhibiting: photography, painting, body painting, stenciling, spray painting and more, including Carnival performers! This is my first show of the 2010 season! This show is different from any show I have previously done. This is a LIVE show. Yes! I will be creating new art right in front of your eyes!!! That's why is called a Live Art Show!

• Entry: FREE
• When: Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
• Where: THE LOUNGE, 517 Clematis Street, Downtown West Palm Beach, Florida
• Time: 8pm - 1am

• Free popcorn
• Dress up in "Carnival" theme!! Freaky? Clowny? Carnival-y?!!

More info and pictures visit this page.

Monkey Featured in Vectortuts+

My purple pissed-off monkey got featured in Vectortuts+ alongside a group of really cool monkeys. Yeah that is the monkey from the gorillas underneath mine. Go Bananas!!!

Keychain Luchadores

These guys are hand sewn canvas turned inside out and hand painted in acrylic. :) All three of the luchadores are in a new home now. More of them coming soon!

Luchador Keychain GIVEAWAY!!!

Luchador keychain giveaway

Bag and buttons not included

Win your very own Luchador Keychain, for FREE. Before they are available anywhere. Keep in mind that the Luchador may look different from the picture, they are handmade after all. I'm also covering shipping. When I said Free I really meant it. :) If you would like you can give some ideas for colors.

Rules to participate:

Step 1. Visit my blog.

Step 2. Leave a comment in any one of my posts.

Step 3. Cross your fingers.

One entry per person. Tell your friends.

Deadline:

Giveaway is good for a week only (ends black friday).

I will choose at random a comment on Saturday, November 28, 2009 and declare it a winner. Make sure to come back to check the winner post. Simple enough right? Good luck everyone!!!

New and revamped artwork

Bear and Bird Gallery Purchase Art

Serene Monsters (acrylic and color pencil)

Señor Luchador (acrylic, markers, ink, gold spray)

Squishy and FrankenOctoKitty (felt and ultra soft)

Pink Luchador (felt, fleece and buttons)

This is some of my new and revamped work, just in time for the upcoming show Small Stuff 3. I revamped some plushies I made earlier this year and made some new paintings based on character sketches. This show opens November 22 and runs through January 9, 2010. Unlike other shows the theme of this event is "cash & carry", in other words, you pay for it, you take it home on the spot. I'm really looking forward to seeing the work made for this show. See you at the gallery early! :) To purchase any piece from the show go here.

Published pictures in Level Magazine

Level Magazine a latin pop culture Miami publication has a new November issue dedicated to "El Día De Los Muertos" (Day of the dead). They were kind enough to publish two of my pictures from Día De Los Muertos, Merida 2007, after finding them through Joshua's flickr (also in the collage). Denn Rodriguez is published on the first and second page of the picture collage, with a name mention on the second page. Get the magazine on stands today or see their virtual publication. (pictures in pages 84-87).