900.00 USD
Mixed media SKULLpture with found materials. This is a new piece for 2020 by Mike Wellins. It stands approximately 13 inches tall. It’s made of resin, found objects, and is very heavy. It also has a knob that turns, opening and closing the mandible of the piece. One of a kind, signed and dated.
About the Artist:
Mike Wellins has been an artist and garage filmmaker since age 8. He studied Art, English, Computer Animation and film and video production at California State University, Chico.
Mike is a freelance writer/director/filmmaker. Mike is a director for Laika (formerly Will Vinton Studios) in Portland, Oregon. Previously he worked as a development writer at Walt Disney Feature Animation. He has also produced animated work for, MTV, Nickelodeon, Warner Brothers TV and Fox Television and Happy Hour Entertainment.
Mike also authored "Storytelling through Animation" an animation textbook through Charles River Media in 2005.
Mike's films have been in various Spike and Mike Film Festivals, The Animation Celebration and MTV's Liquid Television, IFC media lab as well as the Sundance Film festival. Mike's films have garnished various awards including Gold and Silver Plaques from the Chicago Int'l festival as well as an Annie for Best Animation for 2000 for the commercial spot for Mirinda soft drinks, "Genie." Updated 2008
About the Peculiarium:
THE SENTIMENT OF THE OFT-REPEATED slogan, “Keep Portland Weird” is exemplified in the eclectic shop/museum known as the Freakybuttrue Peculiarium.
According to the Peculiarium’s website, the shop and art space was established in 1967 by a Portland, Oregon explorer named Conrad Talmadge Elwood whose love for all things weird, freaky and zany caused him to have a dream of the store which he promptly forgot. While Elwood’s story is suspect, the fabricated origin is perfectly in character for the shop which seems to celebrate pranks and hucksterism.
The gift shop space contains a massive Bigfoot statue that greets customers and the shelves are jam-packed with weird pop artifacts, cheap gag toys, and creepy specimens. In the Peculiarium itself, the wide variety of exhibits include a nightmare dollhouse, a lot of very odd drawings and memorabilia, and even a trip inside a zombie’s brain. Photography is encouraged and there are great places for visitors to take selfies, including a seated, evil-looking Krampus with blazing red eyes and a life-size recreation of an alien autopsy. In addition to the items for sale, the space doubles as an art gallery, spotlighting talented local Portland artists who can hang their works among the bustling kitsch ephemera.
Ironically the Freakybuttrue Peculiarium’s most squirm-inducing attraction is not its fake severed body parts. They also serve fresh chocolate chip bug cookies, sprinkled with edible scorpions, mealworms, and crickets.
