I’m excited/sick to my stomach to announce that my next solo show, H8FOREVER, will open on June 7 at the Secret Headquarters in LA. MORE GLARES, MORE BLOOD, MORE BROODING
Come to the opening reception and douse me in canned beer and tears
H8FOREVER
Works by Hellen Jo
Opens June 7, 2013
7 o’clock in the evening
At the Secret Headquarters
3817 […]
Just hours ago, I completed this painting for the James Bond tribute show that opened at QPOP forty-seven minutes ago. FIST PUMP
In this piece, Pussy Galore judo-throws James Bond while her Flying Circus pilots yawn on. Cuz Bond was such a dick in “Goldfinger”!
PUSSY & JAMES
8×10″
click img to view larger
Hello, my little vikings. I’ve done a painting for the iam8bit show celebrating the Nickelodeon shows of our youth, It’s the shizNICK, which opens tomorrow.
This painting is inspired by the “What I Did On My Summer Vacation” half-hour special of The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Mr. Tastee’s inability to form relationships haunted […]
GUH I’m still having a hard time keeping this blog updated; the oversharing enthusiasm of my youth was long ago replaced by my stingy, overthinking, anxiety-fueled adulthood. ANYWAY, here are all of the small girl gang paintings I did for Giant Robot’s SEASONAL CHANGES group show last month. Thanks to those who attended the opening, […]
Here in LA, it’s already summer, and I’m sweatin’ to finish my teeny tiny paintings for SEASONAL CHANGES, a group show opening this Saturday, March 16, at GR2, with Deth P. Sun, Jen Corace, and Gosha Levochkin (flyer at the bottom of this post!). Here’s a sneak peek at one of the paintings, SHIT […]
I really neglected this hovel of a blog in 2012 (and a bit more in 2011), and I want to keep better track of my shit on here in 2013, but I gotta sweep away all the hairballs first and post all the odds and ends I never published properly. Let’s take a look […]
Fram damn it, there’s a new episode of Regular Show tonight! You’ll laugh, you’ll mope, you’ll shudder in disgust. I made a flyer; spread it like a disease!
OH NO, BRO! Tonight at 8PM, Cartoon Network will be broadcasting PIE CONTEST, a new Regular Show episode storyboarded by Sarah Oleksyk and me! It’s our first, so tune in, I BEGAYEW
LOOK, I EVEN MADE YOU A PRETTY PICTURE
Been watching Fox and His Friends (Faustrecht der Freiheit) at work; Rainer Werner Fassbinder wears an oversized velvet bowtie and I pity/love him:
BOAH!
1. I finally posted some shit for sale online, inc. DEEP CUT, the 2nd printing of Jin & Jam #1, some prints, and that danged wallet: helllllen.bigcartel.com
2. Meanwhile, there are some even fancier exclusive giclee prints available at that sweetest of spots, Rotopol
3. And finally, I uploaded a Mac version of that tired old […]
UNGLAUBLICH, MAN. I’m leaving soon for my first solo show, DEEP CUT, this Friday the 13th, at the lovely ROTOPOL in Kassel, Germany. There will be a selection of prints of my favorite illustrations of the last few years, as well as a couple new paintings. I’ll be at the opening, trying to […]
Calvin and I are gonna be at TCAF this weekend, sellin’ shit at table 115. 116? Who knows. I got a zine reprint of Jin & Jam #1, fancy big ol’ giclee prints, and I made me a shit new mini, Deep Cut:
In more exciting news, Calvin’s got an excellent new comic, Ramble On […]
OH SHIT! First illustration of the new year! I painted this in gouache for the cover of Mimi Thi Nguyen’s upcoming book, The Gift of Freedom, to be published this July by Duke University Press. Click to view larger:
Ascended Master
Gouache on craft paper
6×9″
As an added bonus, here is the test palette on which […]
Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:
I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
Twin Sister
6×6″
Brush pen & gouache on four Post-Its
for Post-It Show 7, opening at GR2 on Saturday night:
A preview of the last illustration I’ll do in 2011. Pencil on computer paper:
Good night
Schlaf gut
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