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I've been drawing a bit more as you can tell. These are fun, since I don't know exactly what I'll end up with. Some are supposed to be people I know, some are just random, a few are Eishi heads, and some are people who I look at in a magazine.
I’ve been drawing a bit more as you can tell. These are fun, since I don’t know exactly what I’ll end up with. Some are supposed to be people I know, some are just random, a few are Eishi heads, and some are people who I look at in a magazine.
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Junk in the Trunk art show opening Group show and yard sale at GR2 August 15 – September 23, 2009 Reception: Saturday, August 15, 6:30 -10:00 Yard sale: Sunday, August 16, 11:30 – 4:00 GR2 2062 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025 gr2.net (310) 445-9276 Giant Robot is proud to present Junk in the Trunk at GR2. One person’s junk is another’s treasure, and this art show is what’s in the middle. We’ve asked some of our favorite creative forces to contribute new, old, and random pieces of art that need new homes. All we specified was that they be well made and moderately priced. Participating artists are scheduled to include (but are not limited to) the following: Apak! Charlie Becker Christopher Bettig Michelle Borok Aaron Brown Ryan Bubnis Christine Castro Alex Chiu Allison Cole Eleanor Davis Jordan Fu Katherine Guillen Clement Hanami David Horvath Rama Hughes Mari Inukai Anne Ishii Kaori Kasai Ben King Tessar Lo Philip Lumbang Keyla Marquez Eric Nakamura Kiyoshi Nakazawa Tru Nguyen Albert Reyes Sonia Romero Brian Rush Emilio Santoyo Ashkahn Shahparnia Ryan J. Smith Daria Tessler Jeremy Tinder Lilly Todd Christiaan van Bremen Christine Vincent Chris von Szombathy Steven Weissman The next day, Sunday, Giant Robot will be hosting its first-ever yard sale, which will be loaded with DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes, books, toys, clothing, and other artifacts, extras, and mementos from Giant Robot’s past. Longtime magazine readers and store customers should expect to see some familiar pieces and nice surprises, and yard sale aficionados won’t be disappointed. A reception for the art show will feature many of the artists and take place from 6:30 – 10:00 on Saturday, August 15. The yard sale will take place from 11:30 to 4:00 Sunday, August 16.
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[nggallery id=51] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Art Show Opening Jon Burgerman August 15 – September 16, 2009 Reception: Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Giant Robot Gallery 437 East 9th Street Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village New York, New York 10009 (212) 674-GRNY (4769) | grny.net Giant Robot is proud to host My American Summer, an art show featuring new work by Jon Burgerman. Working across a variety of media that includes drawing, painting, print, animation, large-scale murals, and toy design, the U.K. artist has built a strong reputation through his unique and colorful artworks of swooping, intertwining lines, and hyper-emotional characters. A sense of British self-deprecation, dry humor, and modern-day anxiety imbues his work, which retains a hand-made, hand-drawn quality. In 2008 his art was showcased in Pens Are My Friends, a 300-page monograph published by IdN. My American Summer will feature works that have been made during Burgerman’s nearly three-month visit to America (in Los Angeles and, mainly, New York City). Most are drawings on paper, while others are unique, three-dimensional versions of his observations on his Brooklyn Hipsters, hand-made by plush expert, The Felt Mistress. The work plays with notions of being a tourist, cliched outsider observations, and how some cultural differences are now homogenized in most major cities. A reception for the artist will be held from 6:30 to 10:00 on Saturday, August 15. For more information about Burgerman, GRNY, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Art Show Theo Ellsworth at GRSF, July 18, 2009 – August 19, 2009 Reception: Saturday, July 18, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm GRSF 618 Shrader Street San Francisco, CA 94117 gr-sf.com 415-876-4773 Giant Robot is proud to present Imaginary Friends, an art show featuring new works by Theo Ellsworth. Theo Ellsworth makes obsessively detailed drawings and self-publishes comics, mini comics, and zines about imaginary people and places. The cosmic imagery, subtle geometry, and implied animism in his works recall the epic, heroic, and odd imagery of Jean “Moebius” Girard, Mayan ruins, and the Nazca lines, filtered through the jam-packed and often psychedelic lens of underground comix from the ’70s. (Ellsworth’s first “real” book, Capacity, was weird, wordy, and wonderful, and published by Secret Acres in 2008.) Taking part in art shows affords the Portland, OR-based artist opportunities to experiment with color, explore larger frames, and let his imagination fly–or spelunk or dive, depending on his mood. Lately, he has been cutting characters out of wood with a scroll saw and drawing sea creatures. For Imaginary Friends, Ellsworth is making 30 pieces using pen and ink, colored pencil, and watercolor. A quarter of them will be woodcuts. According to the artist, recurring themes include but are not limited to “parades of monsters, people made of leaves, scaled and antlered beasts, flying machines, complicated structures, and dreams.” A reception for Ellsworth will be held from 6:30 – 10:00 on Saturday, July 18. For more information about the artist, GRSF, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311
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