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OX-OP ARTS PRESENTS:
NATHAN JUREVICIUS-"Tunnel Vision"

Artist Reception Saturday, October 8th, 7-10pm
Show runs October 8th-31st

This month at OX-OP, artist and Australia-native Nathan Jurevicius invites the Twin Cities to share his Technicolor vision of a world populated with lovable mutants, huggable inbreds and shiny-eyed monsters. His incredibly appealing style of saturated color and twisted cute has made him a successful illustrator and toy designer, who is now taking on the gallery world.

Most widely recognized as the talent behind Scarygirl, (which people “in the know” have been rabidly snapping up like the delicious eye-candy it is), Nathan Jurevicius has been telling stories with his art for over 10 years. Since graduating from the University of South Australia with a degree in design, Nathan has worked in the fields of fine art, editorial illustration, broadcast animation, photography, short film and toy creation.

Nathan's most notable project to date has been his hugely successful Scarygirl brand --- a diverse collection of designer vinyl toys, products and clothing. The Scarygirl concept has been optioned by Passion Pictures (famous for its award-winning Gorillaz music clips) and is now in early development for a feature-length animated film.

In addition to creating his own product line, he has worked with MTV, The Wall Street Journal, Coca-Cola, Warner Bros, and most recently, designing mascots for the World Expo in Japan. When he’s not traveling to galleries and toy expos, Nathan lives mostly in Toronto, Canada with his wife Lizzy, three young children Milo, Arkie, Sass and imaginary friend Andrew.



OX-OP is open to the public
Tuesday through Friday 4-8pm
Sat 1-5pm, or by appointment
New shows opening the first Saturday of every month.

Rob McBroom
rob@ox-op.com

Tiff Larkin
tiff@ox-op.com

612-259-0085

OX-OP
1111 Washington Ave S.
(Behind Grumpy’s Bar)
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Ph. 612-259-0085
www.ox-op.com

From City Pages A-List
Published October 26, 2005
by, Christina Schmitt

Scary Girl is Nathan Jurevicius's creation. I know her well. Someone gave me a six-inch-tall doll version of her for a housewarming gift, and there she sits atop my television, looking cute in her trendy Frankenstein way: her embroidered stitched mouth, her black eye patch, her meat-hook hand. She's kind of a ghoulish Raggedy-Ann doll, and she comes off well in the 2D paintings of her in this exhibit. The most impressive is the series of Scary Girl Metallic Sketches. Scary Girl is immediately recognizable in each, but you have to come close to see the intricate gold stenciled designs on their red backgrounds, where eventually you will find a wee bird eating a skull.

From Pulse Magazine
Published October 5th, 2005
by, Nancy Sartor

Even though I sometimes get upwards of 100 press releases a day about various artistic events throughout the Twin Cities—from banal to bracing—the ones that always stick out and command my attention are the shows at Ox-Op Gallery. A premier venue for showcasing underground and hipster art, Ox-Op never disappoints, and this Saturday’s opening of work by Nathan Jurevicius is no exception. Just opening the JPEG attachment had me squealing with delight as I ogled the spooky-cute characters rendered by this native Aussie. Jurevicius has been serving up delectable eye candy for more than 10 years through visual art, editorial illustration, animation, photography and short films. The creator of “Scarygirl” comic has also teamed up with notorious Hong Kong toy manufacturer Flying Cat to distribute a line of vinyl toys, products and clothing inspired by the strip. This is twisted artistry at its best, and just in time for Halloween.

Art Dealer

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Aesthetic Apparatus-"2nd Annual Kindling & Litter-Box-Liner Sale"
"Rome is Burning/The New School"
Aesthetic Apparatus-"The Official Aesthetic Apparatus Kindling & Litter-Box-Liner Sale"
Gary Baseman- "MOD Manifestations Of Desire"
Mark Mothersbaugh-"Postcard Diaries"
Gary Taxali-"Chumpy's Specials"
Nathan Jurevicius-"Tunnel Vision"
Shepard Fairey "Visual Disobedience"
Jaime Hayon: "Mon Cirque"
Derek Hess: "Descent from Grace"
Shag-"Push Your Luck"
Billy Childish-Paintings, Prints, Poetry & Performance
Kii Arens-"The Yard Sale"
Burlesque of North America: First Blood, Part III
"Triangulated Fire" paintings by Naoto Hattori, Ryan Kelly & Chris Ryniak
BuffMonster-"Dulces Locos"
Dalek- "The Return of the Space Monkey"
Yumiko Kayukawa & Oksana Badrak
Glenn Barr-"New Paintings & Prints"
KRK Ryden-"The Atomic Glob Show"
Camille Rose Garcia-"Works on Paper"
"Qeedrophonic"
Frank Kozik-"All Your Base Are Belong to Us"
Bwana Spoons & Martin Ontiveros "Like Sqeezing Juice from a Stone"
"Rated XX"
Aesthetic Apparatus
George Thompson-"Bachelor of Fine Arts"
Mark Mothersbaugh-"Beautiful Mutants"
Charles S. Anderson Design-"Awful Pretty: Original Art"
Jeff Soto-"Complete Domination"
Dave Burke-"New Paintings"
Tim Biskup-"The Phantom Thread"
Shag-"Tell No One: Paintings and Prints"
Niagara-"Paintings,Prints and General Artistic Mayhem
Shepard Fairey -"Prints and the Revolution"
Gary Baseman-"Open Wounds (and other paintings about vulnerability)"
Dalek-"Two Fingers of Milk"
"Big Bang"