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Plush Week at Gallery 1988 by Carol T Chung
Opening this Tuesday night in L.A. at Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight is Plush Week! The show features hundreds of one of kind plush toys to drown yourself in cuteness consumption gluttony. Featured here is Tsai-Fi's Periwinkle Dust Bunni. Tsai-Fi takes vecter art characters and brings them to life as plushies and even applies the characters to t-shirts and accessories. Her work as well as many others will be exhibited at the show this week, so be sure to check it out if you're in the L.A. area. I bet the little darlings could all use a good home!
Plush Week
From February 7th to 14th
Opening Reception: Tuesday February 7th, 8pm to 11pm
Gallery 1988
7020 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
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