Plush Week Opening Night @ Gallery 1988

Plush Week opened on Tuesday, February 7th at Gallery 1988 on trendy Melrose Ave in West Hollywood, California.  This week-long show (hence the name) featured an incredibly diverse and high quality collection of designer plush toys from including Anna Chambers, Jenny Harada, Shawnimals, Thomas Han and many many more.  While our first love is designer vinl, this show just might make us true believers in the power of plush.  Curated by Katie Cromwell (Gallery 1988) and Jon M. Gibson (I am 8-bit), Plush Week was certainly one of the most impressive collections of designer plush we’ve ever had the pleasure to see.   

Judging by the huge turnout (especially since it was a Tuesday night), we were not the only ones impressed with the show offerings.  The gallery was crowded to the point that walking around involved politely navigating through and around people soaking in the plush art and taking picture after picture.   While not quite as crowded as the night of the LA Dunny opening held about a week prior, it was close and that’s quite an accomplishment from our point of view.

Cuddly Rigor Mortis
 
 
 

 
Klayco
 
 

Tsai-Fi
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
Michelle Valigura
 
 

 
 
 
Anna Chambers

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Murphy's Original Stupid Creatures
 
 
 

Winona Regan
 
Parskid
 

 
 
 
 

 
Jenny Harada
 
 

Social studies
 
Lost Monster
 

 
Crump
 
 

Love Ablan
Heidi Kenney
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Brandi Milne

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Jake Henzler
 
 
 

 
Thomas Han & Eunice Chang
 
 

Lost Monster
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
Jason Sho Green
 

 
 
 
Lost Monster

 
Jen Rarey
 
 

 
 
 
 

Suicide Kittens
 
 
 

Longo-Land
 
 
 

Sandra Equihua &Kelie Smith
 
Kate Sutton
 

 
 
 
Renee Gontarski

 
 
 
Monster Factory

 
Crump
 
 

Love Ablan
 
 
Creature Co-Op

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

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