The World of Wonder Storefront Gallery is home to a pop art and pop culture revolution. Located two blocks east of the world famous Hollywood & Highland, it’s a place where high art and low brow collide. Opened in August 2007 on the former site of a Hollywood Boulevard sex shop, the gallery underwent extensive refurbishment at the hands of production company World of Wonder, best known for cult films The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Party Monster, and Inside Deep Throat, and popular TV shows Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood with Tori Spelling and Pam: Girl On The Loose with Pamela Anderson.
Famous for its celebrity-inspired exhibits and splashy star-studded opening parties, the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery has been host to such witty and unconventional exhibitions as Golden Gals Gone Wild (guest curator Lenora Claire’s celebration of senior sexuality and liver-spotted bazooms inspired by the famous 80s sitcom characters), Just Britney (with works depicting every look and tabloid reference of the fallen pop princess), Hollyween (guest curator/ actor Daniel Franzese’s [Mean Girls] meshing of the fiendish and famous), Warhol: Dead At 21 (marking the 21st anniversary of the pop artist’s death in an entirely silver-covered Factory makeover for the space) and Dial ‘M’ For Madonna (a campy coronation of the Queen of Pop’s 25 year reign).
Each group show features a mix of cutting edge and breakthrough artists – from an artist that works in chewing gum, to photographs by a 14 year old paparazzo, to dance performance pieces by a 300lb drag queen. Growing quickly from underground sensation to a mainstream notoriety, the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery frequently attracts international press attention, and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Times of India, UK Daily Mirror, Us Weekly, Art US, and on MTV, Fox News, and internet sites TMZ, E! Online, Perez Hilton, Reuters and Yahoo News. Frequent contributors to the group shows include New York society photographer Patrick McMullan, to up-and-coming art world superstars Jamie Boling, Corey Smith and Jason Kronenwald.