Well he’s done it…Sucklord has gone and convinced an actual Chelsea gallery to not only give him a retrospective show, but let him sell his bootleg toys out of it for a month. Hell has frozen over…or at least New York has under all of this snow.

All jokes aside, I love the Suckadelic figures. Greg and I were first introduced to Morgon AKA Sucklord via his Band of the Lost mixes a long time ago in a New York Streetwear scene very far away. When we had our own Pop-Up shop off of Bedford Ave many years ago now, Sucklord even made a special edition Kreactivader figure to celebrate the launch of our JK5 collection. I remember this one guy, in his late 40s drove all the way down from Maine (Maine!) just for that figure. Anyway, I’ll leave you now with their official press release to hock this show/shoppe.

The Boo-Hooray Gallery reluctantly announces the first Suckadelic retrospective gallery exhibition. Intentionally confusing, misleading, disappointing and really funny, these limited edition parodies of action figures reverberate with a vicious wit and are oddly eyeball-pleasing in the manner of all kinds of toothsome 20th/21st century collage and montage art.

The toys and their aggressively situationist piss-take packaging comment on pop culture commodification and the consumer habits of compulsively shopping kidults: The very process that made KAWS, Takashi Murakami, and Michael Lau art-stars on the Art Basel Miami/Armory Show/Venice Biennale tip.

One of the most respected despised and influential figures in the art toy movement for the past decade, the Sucklord has been producing handmade bootleg action figures in very limited runs, each selling out immediately. As the plot thickens, the work of the Sucklord is widely collected in fine art circles, and has been auctioned at Christie’s, Freeman’s and Phillips.

This exhibition marks the first time the entire SUCKADELIC catalogue will be exhibited in one place. For the duration of the exhibit, a SUCKADELIC SUCK-SHOPPE pop-up store will be open. Original artwork, sculptures, silk- screens and paintings will also be for sale.

The work presented in this exhibit is a documentation of my struggle to reach the top of a sinister pyramid scheme; A culture-jacking enterprise where ruthless-yet-compelling super-criminals compete for the imaginations of fickle consumers and a relentless media machine. – Sucklord

The 100 page exhibition catalogue will be available as a limited edition of 500 numbered copies. A deluxe signed limited edition catalogue of 50 copies with an exclusively created Suckadelic figure will also be available.

If you show up on opening night, you’ll have the opportunity to meet the characters from the Suckadelic Universe. We can not guarantee a pleasant experience: the Sucklord, his nemesis Vectar the Intolerable and their cast of super-villains don’t really get along and have been prone to serious falling-outs, resulting in laser gun- battles and sulking.

The exhibition is curated by Johan Kugelberg and Simeon Lipman and will be having its opening party on January 11th at 6pm. The show/shoppe (god I hate that word!) will be up through January 23rd. Psshh, less than a two week run! Poor Sucklord. :(

The shoppe (there’s that dreaded word again) will however be open to take your hard earned cash for crappy bootleg toys everyday from 11am-6pm ’til the end of the show.

Tuesday January 11th, 6pm
Boo-Hooray Gallery
521 West 23rd St.
New York, NY

- My Pal the Crook