Welcome to bob Show

On July 7, 2017, Rogue Buddha Gallery, in Northeast Minneapolis is proud to exhibit 7 artists that each feature a unique take on contemporary Pop Art. This is bob Show. Nicholas Harper (owner of Rogue Buddha) has turned over the curating duties to Boxy Mouse and it is shaping up to be something special. Featured artists include Kii Arens, Biafra Inc., Boxy Mouse, Haze XXL (Thomas Hazelmyer), Math.I (Jeff Mathison), TOOTH (Dale Flattum) and WUNDR.

The opening reception will be held Friday, July 7th at 7:00pm to 10:00pm. Artist talk with Boxy Mouse will be held Friday, August 4th at 7:00pm, and the show will close on Saturday, August 5th.


Kii Arens is an artist bent towards Rock-N-Roll. Never formally trained, this St. Paul native grew up with a fascination for album covers, band logos, and font styles. He credits Saturday mornings in the '70's spent watching Sid & Marty Krofft as his main inspirations for color.

Now residing in Los Angeles, Kii spends his time creating art in his gallery, La-La Land in Hollywood, established in 2004. His other work includes creating concert art prints for the Hollywood Bowl, Goldenvoice and other fine venues. He also designs album covers, directs music videos, shoots photography and makes music.


The artist known as Biafra Inc. originally started cutting stencils in 2003 and started putting stickers up with his name on them in 2006. At the time it was a fun game he was playing with himself, trying to see how many different places he could get the stickers. As things progressed he realized that more than just stickers were a possibility and began working on posters and other print media. This game has shifted form and focus over the years, but the essence is still the same -- a continual hunt for new environments and landscapes to place his work in, on and around.

His work takes a critical look at problems, both politically and ideologically, that are being put on the shoulders of his generation to solve. It inserts characters from an idyllic time period into scenarios where they are doing questionable or devious things. The characters are often surrounded with old advertisements and news headlines that both reflect and question these values.

His current work functions in print and on canvas as well as large scale paintings, both legal and illegal on walls and trains. His main drive involves putting the work out into the world and seeing what happens to it; how long the work stays up, how the environment around the work affects it, etc.


Boxy Mouse was inspired by a bonafide mouse named Jasmine in the winter of 2007. Since then, the approach at Boxy Mouse Design Studio (and laundry room) has been to learn how to create all manner of art-like things based on Boxy Mouse and other various Boxy characters. Nearly every item, from the buttons and stickers to screen prints and paintings, are produced by hand in-house. The work blurs the constantly evolving line between product and art -- all are considered the same thing in the world of Boxy Mouse. Rampant speculation surrounds the studio -- there's even a rumor that a collective of mutated "painting monkeys" are on staff.

Vive le Boxy Mouse!


HAZE XXL has been around far too long. He cut his teeth during the early to prehistoric Minneapolis Hardcore scene doing fliers and record sleeves. This evolved into forming the band Halo Of Flies, starting the record label Amphetamine Reptile Records and doing a metric shit ton of the art and graphics involved with both. He founded the legendary OX-OP Gallery in 2003 which exposed the Twin Cities to a veritable who's who of the art and design underground. The likes of Shepard Fairey, Kozik, Billy Childish, Gary Baseman, Mark Mothersbaugh, and dozens of others were involved.

His most recent artistic incarnation involves a several year run of linoleum cuts/prints -- often utilizing these in conjunction with limited "art" release LP/Singles with the likes of The Melvins and others.


Math.i is a mixed media and analog collage artist residing on the fringes of the beef, poultry and sod farm belt, south of the Twin Cities greater metropolitan area. He takes an absurdist twist in refashioning the symbols and iconography of contemporary and past images in order to provide an alternate, if not completely optimistic view.

Past exhibitions include Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles; CO Exhibitions, Minneapolis; TT Underground, New York; and Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis. Books "Son of Heroes" and "New Retina Instinct" were both released on the Amphetamine Reptile Records label. He also has created LP cover art for Minneapolis noise rock heroes Gay Witch Abortion and Seawhores.


Dale Flattum began his career in music and art as bassist, vocalist, and audio-collage artist for the San Francisco-based bands Steel Pole Bath Tub and Milk Cult. After touring worldwide for nearly a decade, he moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, to focus on his artwork. Working under the alias TOOTH, Flattum has created hundreds of rock posters for acts such as the Melvins, Mudhoney, The Decemberists, and Faith No More. He currently runs a screen printing studio with his wife and works as a graphic designer in Minneapolis.


WUNDR is producing artwork across multiple mediums ranging from fine art, illustration, graphic design, collectable toys and street-art. He is constantly creating art out of a mixture of reused and re-purposed materials that have been left behind or disregarded, and whatever else he can get his hands on.

WUNDR's artwork is often a reminisce of childhood, with a thirst for adventure, and an abstraction of our environment. His characters are not a representation of any specific individual, but are molded from pieces of all of us. They are inspired by mental snapshots of our society, childhood associations, abstractions of feelings and emotions, self reflections, and by the people that we interact with daily.

WUNDR is currently spending most of his time inside his studio in South Minneapolis with his cat. His current objective is beautifying the city while still being able to afford to eat pizza.