Rat Powered Films: Current

Rat Powered Films: Current Exhibition

Take Off Your Coat. Stay Awhile.
Presented by Rat Powered Films
Now showing at the Grand Central Art Center

Where: 125 N Broadway
Santa Ana, CA 92701
714.567.7233

When: September 2 - October 22, 2006

Featuring:

Dan Goodsell
THE IMAGINARY WORLD OF MR. TOAST
Who is that at the door? It's Lemonhead...
Mr Toast is out taking a walk.
Mr Toast enjoys the clouds.
TRT 01:27
Mr Toast leads a somewhat ordinary life in an extraordinary cartoon world. Between trips to the
park and walks in the woods, he finds time to voyage into outer space. Living in his backyard tree house is his best friend Joe the Egg. His other neighbors include the acerbic Lemonhead, Mope the Onion and the perpetually frazzled Shaky Bacon. In a world where breakfast foods walk and talk anything goes.
www.theimaginaryworld.com
www.mistertoast.blogspot.com

Dan Goodsell is an artist living in Los Angeles. His work includes illustration, painting and 3D objects. The basis of his work is a fictional place called the Imaginary World which is inhabited by an odd assortment of characters including Mr. Toast, Joe the Egg, the Lemonhead and Dr Encyclopedia, just to name a few. His artwork chronicles the adventures and lives of these characters. A major influence on his art was "the golden age" of education; when science, history and nature were taught through state fairs, roadside attractions, illustrated books and animated classroom films. Over the last six years, he has created and maintained the Imaginary World web site where visitors can find weekly web comics and read illustrated stories. He has self published numerous books, including Imaginary World Comics #1, GAGS and Mr Toast at the Circus, and created a number of other Mr Toast products including dolls and t-shirts.

Dan Goodsell is a graduate of UC Irvine School of Fine Arts. He has been working in experimental radio and live performance art for the past 15 years. He is also an avid researcher of the history of advertising, theme parks and other childhood memorabilia. He has been interviewed for various documentary television projects including numerous appearances on the Food
Network. Mr Toast also had a guest appearance on the show Big on the Discovery network. He has lent objects from his collection to various museum exhibitions and publications. He is the co-author of "Krazy Kids Food" published by Taschen books in spring of 2003.

In February of 2006, he had an installation of his artwork at the Ben Maltz Gallery at the Otis College of Art & Design. Currently he is working on a number of projects including a new Mr Toast book and a show of his artwork at the Nickelodeon Studios Gallery in Burbank.

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