Mark Ryden Yakalina Secrets: New Shows from the Godfather of Pop Surrealism

Mark Ryden's Yakalina Secrets is the wondrous second installment in the artist's incredible gallery of creatures.

Foreword by Takashi Murakami

In his Pacific Northwest studio during the isolation of COVID-19, Mark Ryden began a series of his iconic half-animal, half-plush creatures that further explored his reverence for these beings, who are guides through a landscape of the unknown.

The figures in these paintings are neither human nor animal, they are spiritual entities that create a bri...