Brooklyn based artist Kaws recently participated in a group exhibition called First Look: An Exhibition of Emerging Artists From Los Angeles Galleries presented by House of Campari. Curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala of Scenic, the show featured fiberglass Chum characters measuring 90 x 54 x 30 inches. According to Campari there were a series of 6 unique colors. Here have a look at the yellow, and (although it could just be our monitors playing tricks on us) what appears to be a fluorescent green version of Kaws’ iconic Chum. This is definitely an exciting sculpture, and we hope to see all 6 colors soon.

More from the Kaws Chum 2009 @ House of Campari after the jump.

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Yesterday we gave you a look at some of the first Original Fake S/S ‘08 t-shirts that have released. Thanks to Kaws we have some more information on the Chum pieces now. Mark Dean Veca has designed the Chum that you saw on the t-shirts. Here we give you now a close look at his work for Original Fake.
After the jump you can check out the Mark Dean Veca Chum in detail.

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Here another preview of soon to be released work by the artist Kaws and his OriginalFake label. His Chum characters appears again, first released in 2002 as a vinyl toy, and this time in a “Paint By Numbers” sketch. Soon we’ll find out if it will come on t-shirts or another medium!

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