Curio: Wes Anderson's Bad Dads

Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here with your weekly arts and crafts.

There is a very cool exhibit coming up for those in San Francisco. As I've noted many times, Wes Anderson is a bottomless source of inspiration for visual artists. So Spoke Art, a transient art gallery and publishing house based in the Bay Area, is taking advantage of the bounty by putting on an art show tribute to Wes Anderson titled Bad Dads ("as nearly every Wes Anderson character has family issues, notably father issues"). The exhibit opens this Saturday at LoPo Gallery. And apparently there will be prints available soon from Spoke's online store!

Here's a preview of some of the images. It's not surprising that Royal Tenenbaum (of, well, The Royal Tenenbaums) figures largely.

Lauren Gregg

Dave Greco

Tim Doyle

Max Dalton

Kevin Tong

Caia Koopman

Curio: Film and a Felt-Tip

Alexa here with more film arts and crafts. Jessica Mae Hendrickson's doodles may just be proof that it's impossible not to have fun with markers. I came across her etsy shop recently, and even though it seems like an elaborate prank (it's called "Buy My Shit", after all), I may put up some cash for her punny, absurdist, felt-tip magic. While she makes marker art of all kinds, here is a selection of her film-related subjects.

A framed Corky St. Clair.

Track (suit) Galifianakis.

Michael Pitt, and banana, in The Dreamers.

The many faces of John Goodman, as balloons.

(Wish I'd had these for my daughter's birthday party.)

Ari, Chas, and Uzi Tenenbaum.

Tim Roth as a sloth.

Resigned romance in Eternal Sunshine.