KAWS | “The Long Way Home” Exhibition Recap

by L.A. Ruano, February 22, 2009

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The Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles played a major role in tonight’s showcase of New Jersey native KAWS. The highly appraised artist showcased his mastery of the superflat style with a medley of new works including a life-sized Chum character and a wide assortment of large scale paintings. Packed with lines around the block, the exhibition signified KAWS’ mass influence within the contemporary art world, shining a new guiding light onto the genre.

Photography: L.A. Ruano

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30 Responses

  1. Posted by: 2b on February 24, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    I’m under no illusions….Kaws really got hot in Japan with the paintings….before then his paintings didn’t have this much exposure. The art world gave graffiti it’s “15 minutes of fame’…in the 80’s.
    It elevated a lot of kids….blew them up and dropped them like a hot potato…Kaws studied pop artists and nailed it. He has a style that “they”(public) feel comfortable buying into…the art was waiting on this….POP!

  2. Posted by: A Savvy on February 23, 2009 at 8:31 pm

    Dayum! lissa that sucks. Plus the fact it rained a little that night. Hope you get to see it eventually. It was cool.

  3. Posted by: Run Baby Run on February 23, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    Like some1 said on here before, what kaws does is simple and he thought of the idea 1st, if you had thought of the idea 1st and did it you would of but you didnt.

    Just like Ralph Lauren did with Polo

  4. Posted by: Truth on February 23, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    GETTING SO OLD, OPEN YOUR EYES.

    Kaws is good, but not ‘the best artist’ of our time or any time for that matter. Just because the only artists you know about are the ones featured on hypebeast doesn’t mean Kaws is god. His Poster manipulations were 1,000 times more interesting on so many levels. I have respect for the guy, and I think his work is revolutionary, but do yourself a favor and take some time to look into other contemporary art…

  5. Posted by: lissa on February 23, 2009 at 3:24 pm

    took night off from work to stand in 2hour line to see kaws never got in. to find out other artists had been able to take up the whole 2hour time in gallery was very very upsetting to me and the other thousand fans in line, so so unfair !!!!

  6. Posted by: lissa on February 23, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    waited in 2hour line for kaws ,never got in to find out other artists had privilege than die hard fans ,so not fare to do to us who have been waiting so long in line!!!!

  7. Posted by: Eddie on February 23, 2009 at 2:05 pm

    My best friend… KAWS. I love u. U did very great job… …

  8. Posted by: dreamcrusher on February 23, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    beautiful stuff!

  9. Posted by: church... on February 23, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    overrated, agreed. he was a decent graf writer back in the day, (anyone seen the Video Graf with him and EMIT doing a huge burner?) but i don’t understand the hype around his art. it’s in a gallery, big deal. it’s not that groundbreaking or original. i have to give props to dalek, fafi, and swoon though. graf related art in general is trite and hyyyyped in general now. i love graffiti (it raised me) and maybe that’s why i get offended by graf kids trying to make their shit “fit into” the gallery scene without putting an original spin on it. that is just my opinion though.

  10. Posted by: Johnny on February 23, 2009 at 3:46 am

    Great artist – kind of funny to see so many corny hype kids lining up for an art show though. It’s like some kind of sneaker release. Does anyone over 14 actually still line up for sneakers?

  11. Posted by: Johnny Walker on February 23, 2009 at 2:04 am

    HONOR FRASER
    2622 S. LA CIENEGA BLVD.
    –> LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90034

  12. Posted by: blahblah on February 23, 2009 at 12:23 am

    the head didn’t fall down. kaws purposely put it there. there was an attendent standing over it

  13. Posted by: Grant on February 22, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    The Gallery is in Culver City not downtown

  14. Posted by: Caramel Corn on February 22, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    KAWS invented art. I like hotdogs.

  15. Posted by: elscorcho on February 22, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    pic #11, the head fell off????

  16. Posted by: Jon Stark on February 22, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    Yeah way to post the most overrated artists, Arcieri

  17. Posted by: nader on February 22, 2009 at 5:41 pm

    ^^^ ^^ ^hes not all that great

    he just takes other work and puts the crossed out eyes and weird face on it
    but some of those i will admit are pretty sweet

  18. Posted by: Houston [hh] on February 22, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    hottest taggger alive

  19. Posted by: plob on February 22, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    He is really great, but he’s being way too overhyped.
    I mean just look at the reactions above. The guy is a great artist, he’s not God.

  20. Posted by: ryan on February 22, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    i talked my way in, because i knew i wouldn’t have made it by 8 if i waited in line…hahah

  21. Posted by: Jay on February 22, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    KAWS is so overrated, his work isn’t bad, but he’s far from the legend everybody makes of him…

  22. Posted by: fuclife on February 22, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    why is the blue KAWS HEAD on the floor in one of the pics…?

  23. Posted by: dude on February 22, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    idiot, culver city is not downtown la

  24. Posted by: APE MASTA on February 22, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    “The Warhol of our time…”-Dennis Mars

    I’d have to argue that…if anything Murakami would be the closet thing to “the warhol of our time”…he took warhol’s concept of low-art meets high-art, and art meets commerce.

  25. Posted by: Dennis Mars on February 22, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    The Warhol of our time…

  26. Posted by: WWW.CDALLO.COM on February 22, 2009 at 12:04 pm

    THIS DUDE IS A STAR IN THE SKY.

  27. Posted by: t'e on February 22, 2009 at 11:27 am

    KAWS is amazing.

  28. Posted by: Arcieri Keness on February 22, 2009 at 10:29 am

    The person above me must not know many artist.

    David Flores is good
    Fafi was slept on before the beast got a hold of her.
    Then Dalek is another great… Kaws is decent but a lot of hype, honestly.

  29. Posted by: geetoe on February 22, 2009 at 7:39 am

    i passed by the gallery around 620 and the line for that shit went for about 2 blocks im gonna go tomaro tho so yea

  30. Posted by: KiCC'z & SuCh on February 22, 2009 at 6:12 am

    KAws …one of the greatest artist ever …