Fawning Over Ms. Gehweiler

Fawn Gehweiler’s characters are extremely recognizable. You have probably seen her sweet little dames from the logo for vintage store Screaming Mimi’s, or from the website from our very own Treasure Hunter, Liz Baca. Fawn has been busy with numerous concurrent projects, including illustrations, paintings, and a collection of vinyl toys. Check out the following events coming up in the life of Fawn:

1. Compound Gallery

On July 2nd at 7:00 PM, Fawn will be featured as a guest artist at the Compound Gallery located in Portland, Oregon. She will unveil paintings that will serve as a preview for a new series, which she describes as “a tribute to Regency ragamuffins, dollies, and dandies with a little bit of Buster Keaton thrown in for good measure.” She also slips in that the pieces will be very affordable, with “depression era pricing.”

“Sundae Girls” for the Necessaries Toy Foundation: “I Want Candy.”

2. “Sundae Girls” for the Necessaries Toy Foundation

Move over, Kid Robot! Fawn gives M.I.S.S. a sneak peak of the first of three dolls in the upcoming series “Sundae Girls”. Her first doll, manufactured by the Necessaries Toy Foundation and currently in production, is named “I Want Candy.” Yum.

3. Showing at Retrospect Galleries during the “Splendour in the Grass” Music Fest

Fawn G.’s (that sounds like a rapper) work will also be included in a group show at Retrospect Galleries in Byron Bay, Australia during the music festival known as “Splendour in the Grass”. The so-called “Revolution of Art” set of works will be on display Friday, July 24th. All of our Australian readers should check out Fawn’s installation and then mosey to the “Grass” festival to get a glimpse of Bloc Party, the Flaming Lips, Jane’s Addiction’s, Low Budget, etc.

4. Fawn Blogs, too!

Click on Fawn’s new attempt at blogetry, or peep a little more of her work at her annex and at HMS Carousel.

I love the idea of 24 hour shopping. 24 hour anything really, let the people decide when they want to do what they want to do. So Paper Magazine is bringing it to the people of L.A. once again with their “24 Hour Department Store”. Tons of brands from Jeremy Scott to Converse will be posted up from 6 p.m. tonight to 6 p.m. Saturday night. And as an added punch to this 24 hour shopping par-tay, there will be 24 bands/performers keeping the energy up! Go cop some vintage from Screaming Mimi’s or Fruition at 2 a.m. and an ice cream sandwich from Heartschallenger at noon cause you can!

Location: 8873 Sunset Blvd. LA

This Saturday Screaming Mimi’s will be hosting the 1st Annual Celebrity Sidewalk Sale. You can score goods from Mr. Mickey, Charlotte Ronson, Peter Davis, Emma Snowdon-Jones and Star Von Bunny. All to benefit Charity Water. Charity Water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

Screaming Mimi’s is one of NYC vintage clothing store institutions! A couple of years ago they set up a seasonal shop in Montauk. It’s been going well and tomorrow is the opening day for this Summer season! So get down to the shore, enjoy the nice weather (FINALLY!!!) and get some of that vintage luvin’! And how adorable is the flyer by our very own once homepage artist, Fawn Gehweiler?!?! Sooooooooooo Cute!

M.I.S.S. Crew’s very own Fawn Gehweiler is exhibiting some of her recent works at a new show entitled Pink Worlds, opening this Friday at Aftermodern Fine Art Gallery in San Francisco. Here’s how she explains the show:

Taking a cue from the show’s namesake “Pink Worlds and White Icing”, a collection of poems written by a 12 year old girl in late 60s, artists Dana Carlson and Fawn Gehweiler each present a collection of recent works that take a turn for the pastoral, pop and pretty, albeit with a dash of dark comedy thrown in for good measure. Awash in preteen nostalgia, strangely baroque and alternately naive, precocious, and deeply introspective, these tiny poems about “color, the Beatles, bubblegum, nature, and the universe” lend both a perfect title and a perfect backdrop to their respective candy colored dreamscapes and imaginary narratives of head-in-the-clouds teenage psychedelia.

Fawn is one of our favorite artists and if her work looks familiar it’s either because you’ve seen a Screaming Mimi’s ad or you saw one of our older M.I.S.S. Crew covers.

Details about the opening and info about the artists after the jump . . .
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