All This Brand New Pop Culture Art Is Freaking Awesome

Residents of Los Angeles and San Francisco every have superior popular culture artwork reveals to go to this weekend—but in the event you don’t stay in these cities, io9 is bringing the reveals to you, proper right here, proper now.

The first is known as “4×4 Etc.,” the most recent collaboration between artists Dave Perillo and Tom Whalen. We’ve lined the idea up to now, the place every artist creates four-inch by four-inch prints, normally in units of two, of characters that go collectively. It opens at 7 p.m. July 9 at Gallery 1988, 7308 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA, and stays on show by means of July 23. The first seven slides on this slideshow are all model new, exclusives items from the present that includes items from Back to the Future, Flash Gordon, Jurassic Park, Superman, and extra.

Up the coast a bit, Spoke Art is opening a brand new present known as “Sugoi!”, and it’s a tribute to Japanese animation. We’re speaking Dragon Ball Z, we’re speaking Studio Ghibli, Akira, Mobile Suit Gundam, you identify it. It opens at 3 p.m. on July 9 and runs by means of July 30 at 816 Sutter Street, San Francisco. You’ll discover a number of items from that present after those from “4×4.”

For extra on the Los Angeles present, click here. For extra on the San Fransiscio present, click here. And click on the arrow to see all the pictures.