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Tony Baloney

I Eat Crayons for Breakfast!

About Me

I am a full time professional free-lance artist. I create weird and funny comical paintings that parody famous artists, movies, animals, food and other pop culture. I do exhibitions and art festivals all over the USA and the UK such as CB's 313 Gallery, MoCCA, DeCordova Museum, The Walker, John Slade Ely House, Hygienic Art Gallery, l'art Noir New Orleans and lot's more! I also sell my art as magnets, prints, stickers and comic books. My resume includes murals, illustrations, cartoons, photography and art lessons. I also play the accordion a bit and I'm a wanna be movie director. I'm currently working on some animation with Aidan Moran. I live in The Agoo Art Studio with my pet, Commander Hamster.
Please visit my official web site at agooart.com
I had an interview with My Art Space
"I love Tony "Baloney" Juliano's paintings, and was thrilled that he was lending his unique vision to creating an actual comic book! Despite starting a Comic Art museum, I may not know too much about Art, but I know what I like. Now you can experience Tony's comic book for yourself. And that's no 'Baloney'!"
- Lawrence Klein Chairman of the MoCCA Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
“In what bizarre corner of the universe do the worlds of a sage Muppet-like space alien and the Italian Renaissance intersect? Why, within the cosmic anomaly that is artist Tony "Baloney" Juliano's warped little mind, of course. Tony puts on display his Mel Brooks-ian gift for parody. The developer of a solo artistic movement he calls Agoo Art - a phrase coined after a childhood nickname - Juliano creates works that good-naturedly lampoon other artists (his "Manrilyn" painting gussies up Andy Warhol's legendary Marilyn Monroe portrait with a healthy helping of a beard stubble) or makes good on his darkly humorous Far Side influence (Juliano's "The Jersey Shore Sand Castle" flies a condom flag on a syringe tower). The Connecticut resident and Paier College of Art graduate's work has been displayed all over the U.S. and the U.K.. Juliano's work is accessible, widely-appealing, and often damn funny, but also contains undercurrents of more serious thought. But not too serious - after all, this guy named his pet Commander Hamster.”
- Nick Scalia PLAY Magazine

My Interests

Magic tricks, old side shows, street performances, B-flicks, crazy art and crazy art openings, hot tea and cold fruit punch, playing my accordion, collecting toys (I live in FAO Schwartz), I love to walk around, lame jokes, art history and Halloween!

Performance art by F-THNDR from the group exhibition The IRS Thinks We're Dead held at The NEST Art Lofts! Filmed by Chad Heston! ..

I'd like to meet:

Kindly curators, art collectors with fat wallets, artistic weirdos, nerdy fine arteests, depressing cartoonists, heartbreaking illustrators, dirt poor graphic designers, and anyone who thinks Godzilla rules!

Music:

They Might be Giants, Tom Waits, Randy Newman, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, XTC, Wild Colonials, Lick the Tins, Harry Chapin, John Coltrane, Beethoven, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Ella Fitzgerald, Devo

Movies:

The Shawshank Redemption, Jaws, Boogie Nights, The Godfather, Escape from Planet of the Apes, Raising Arizonia, The Big Lewbowski, Basquiat, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Network, Fight Club, Toy Story, My Neighbor Totoro, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Television:

Sports Night, Northern Exsposure, M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues, The Simpsons, St. Elsewhere, NYPD Blues, Buffy, West Wing, Picket Fences

Books:

John Irving - "The World According to Garp", Armistead Maupin - "Tales of the City", Kyle Baker - "Why I Hate Saturn", Dan Clowes - "Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron", Berkeley Breathed - "Flawed Dogs" Lawrence Ferlinghetti - "A Coney Island of the Mind", Kurt Vonnegut - "Player Piano"

Heroes:

Gary Larson, MAD Magazine, Tony Falcone (friend), Mel Brooks

My Blog

Spam!

Tony's parody of Andy Warhol titled Spam! is in a book called, The Book of SPAM published by Atria Books written by Dan Armstrong and Dustin Black. To buy a copy click http://www.simonsays.com/content...
Posted by Tony Baloney on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:07:00 PST

Forgot To Laugh

For more info and to purchase tickets, click here!
Posted by Tony Baloney on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:18:00 PST

Art Buzz

My artwork will be featured in the 2008 Art Buzz book which is scheduled to come out late 2007 early 2008! Will keep everyone posted in the meantime, click here for more info!...
Posted by Tony Baloney on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:54:00 PST

The Parody of Reptiles (Now More Like Birds)

OK, the commissioned mural I did for The Peabody Museum of Natural History (part of Yale) is all finished thanks to all the kiddies of New Haven, CT for helping me paint this wacky 40 foot mural durin...
Posted by Tony Baloney on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:03:00 PST

Art Festivals of 2007

Well, it's that time of the year again! I'll be traveling all over the place doing art festivals! Keep an eye on this blog, 'cause it will be updated with more shows. Hope to see you there!" Rose...
Posted by Tony Baloney on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:48:00 PST