Mark Ryden’s YHWH Release available for pre-order

As I first told you about here. Mark Ryden's YHWH is being released. Available for Pre-Order now at Porterhouse, the official release date of this edition is July 10. YHWH is a vinyl figure created in conjunction with Necessaries Toy Foundation after the central figure in Mark Ryden’s painting of the same name. In production for more than a year, the figure is cast in pink vinyl with inset, high-quality eyes and comes in an elaborately designed, gold embossed box. Sculpted by the talented Dave Pressler.

Edition Size: 2,000
Size: 16.5″ x 9″ x 1.75″
Box Size: 16″ x 4″ x 4″
Price: $180

Tree of Mystery Print By Mark Ryden on sale details

The “Tree of Mystery” is a limited edition, giclee print with letterpressed title and embossed chop on archival cotton rag paper. The print is framed in a beautiful hand-carved wood frame with museum quality archival plexiglas. The print is only available framed and is numbered and signed by the artist. To grab yourself one check out Porterhouse Art.

Available May 28th, 2009

Edition Size - 40
Print Size - 21-1/4″ x 28-1/4″
Porterhouse Item Number - P072
Price: $4,000

Mark Ryden to release special edition of "The Tree Show" book

The Special Edition of the 'Tree Show' Exhibition Book features works from Mark Ryden's major solo exhibition at the Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. The hard-bound book includes over 130 color images of paintings, drawings, studies and sculptural works as well as a wealth of Mark's inspirational reference materials. Each signed and numbered Special Edition book comes in a handmade clamshell box covered in a fine Japanese silk (shown above).

The edition also comes with a collection of "Vintage Souvenirs" including a postcard set, commemorative pin, pennant, bookmark and pencil (shown above).

Book Size: 12" x 9"Hardcover
Pages: 128
Edition Size: 500

Suggested List (before it goes to EBay): $395

The book will only be available through Ryden's online store here. And at
www.porterhouseart.com

This item will be available on Thursday, April 16th, 2009 at 8:00 am PDT. Set your alarm clocks now!

More on Ryden’s YHWH – Dave Presser’s original sculpt

By now the news of Mark Ryden’s first vinyl toy, YHWH, has spread far and wide across the ‘net. We now wait along with the rest of you till ‘mid-summer’ for the drop. Thankfully though for the hard-core there’s more to talk about – sculptor Dave Pressler has just posted his original completed sculpt for the project which interestingly included the girl featured in Ryden’s source painting. Next week he’ll follow that up with a step-by-step article series on the process of creating the sculpt.

Mark Ryden’s First Ever Toy - YHWH Pictures on sale details

Original Painting

Here is the first photo we have seen of Mark Ryden’s first ever toy - YHWH. The figure is titled after one of his paintings (seen after the jump) and also cleverly posed with a little girl as in the painting, the figure is 16" tall. Not sure what it is meant to be but one definition of YHWH is the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from Hebrew consonants. Perhaps it’s Ryden’s vision of the Almighty, at least in the world of his paintings.

The figure will come in a special box and will be released by famed collector Long Gone John’s Necessaries Toy Foundation. There will also be two other colorways - black and white - more rare no doubt. Look for this to drop mid-summer 09