Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Bay area artist, Kelly Tunstall is a long time Giant Robot supporter and submitted a great and large piece for the Robots exhibition called Beethoven. It’s still available. She attended California College of the Arts and continues to show often. She currently has an exhibition at 111 Minna Gallery called Secret State is now available online. The exhibition is set to travel to Palm Springs later this year. facebook page and twitter page. Her collaboration work with Ferris Plock can be seen here: http://www.kefeinc.com/
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Susie Ghahremani is a long time artist and supporter of Giant Robot. Some of her most popular work are tiny pieces that gave her major hand problems in the past, but the results are a beautiful array of birds, trees, and other spirited images. It’s hard to show just one or two Susie Ghahremani artworks since her career is expanding into products by Chronicle Books including a travel journal called Bon Voyage. You can see her works and more at her site boygirlparty.com Susie is also working on a picture book which will be out in 2013, illustrations in the Bust – Diy Guide to Life book, and has an exhibition currently in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A strange link is her affinity for the game of Sudoku. She even illustrates the covers of Sudoku books. Take a look! Her works continue to balance cute, technical, and colorful. We also feature some of Susie’s goods at our own site like the print above. Please take a look and watch for Susie Ghahremani at Giant Robot 2 in 2012. If you haven’t had enough of Susie just from the above, there’s even more: http://dribbble.com/boygirlparty http://www.twitter.com/boygirlparty http://www.facebook.com/boygirlpartyfb http://boygirlparty.etsy.com
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Ryan Jacob Smith has a painting style that’s developed into work that’s recognizable as his. He’s an Art Center graduate who now resides in Portland and is learning the art of tattooing. He’s recently tattooed a lemon as practice. His art piece below My CPU’s a Neronet Processor: A Learning Computer. This piece is available here. Always a supporter of GR, Smith will be releasing some new prints and t-shirts for the holidays. Ryan Jacob Smith prints. Meanwhile take a look at more of his work here: http://www.ryanjacobsmith.com
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David Henry Hwang, like him or not is a busy Asian American theater guy. His play Chinglish is on Broadway and will gain a lot of notoriety. We posted a video preview, but more importantly, his words in this blog post make the play more interesting than many Asian American tales. (blogswsj – David Henry Hwang) [youtube]FRpptXJdNNY[/youtube]
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That’s Martin Hsu and Lawrence Yang and they’re perfectly centered where both of their works show in the background. They’re at the opening of Undercurrents at GR2 on Saturday October 15th. Great times and fun photos of the Bay Area artists.
