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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Group art show opening Blithe Spirits: New work by Sean Chao and Inés Estrada June 11 – June 29th, 2011 Reception: Saturday, June 11, 6:30 – 10:00 pm GR2 2062 Sawtelle Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90025 http://giantrobot.com (310) 445-9276 Giant Robot is proud to host Blithe Spirits, a joint art show featuring new work by Sean Chao and Inés Estrada. Sean Chao is a Los Angeles based artist from Taiwan. Chao sculpts, paints, and delicately constructs a world filled with curiosity and amusement through creatures and nature. The Mixed-media pieces capture odd moments frozen in time. They hint at a narrative and create an imaginary history. His latest works are inspired by automobiles and nature. Humor is one of the key ingredients in his work. Chao combined and created a world that automobiles and nature can co-exist without pollutions. He plans to have 10 to15 small to medium size pieces of sculptures and drawings. Inés Estrada has lived in Mexico City for as long as she knows. She likes working with any materials she has at hand, as long as the result is colorful and messy. Her work is spontaneous and has no meaning other than you, the viewer, would like to find in it. She also likes making things with her partner Roi, and together they are Café con Leche, name under which they create comics, drawings, songs, sandwiches and plushie bastard children. Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with a shop and gallery in Los Angeles, as well as an online equivalent. An opening reception for the artists will take place from 6:30 – 10:00 pm on Saturday, June 11, 2011. For more information about Chao, Estrada, GR2 or Giant Robot, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311
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GR Friend, JJ Abrams wears the Tape Robot Shirt with Tom Cruise looking on. As appeared in the New York Times – JJ Abrams is a Crowd Teaser. Mission Impossible III. It looks like we’re near out of this shirt, but we’ll be putting more up soon. We only have women sizes available, but we’ll be sure to print more really soon.
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Ryan McGinness glances and makes eye contact to a question asker, during his entertaining and informative lecture at Giant Robot 2 on Friday, May 27th, 2o11 as part of his 2011 Los Angeles Tour. McGinness and his staff graciously added Giant Robot to his schedule of events and on a calm Southern California friday evening and night, his fans and passers by enjoyed gr/eats made BBQ Chili dogs and Chili burgers, an outdoor projection of a “vintage” McGinness animated video, lecture, and a signing of his books and products. One of our favorite pages captures nearly everything. On the left side, something akin to a butterfly. It’s part of McGinness’s “pretty” imagery, but at the same time, it’s juxtapozed by the “balls” to add masculinity. The bottom left appears to be a sketch for one of his large scale paintings which we learned isn’t orchestrated necessarily by the exact placing of each “icon” screen, but more so as a whole. McGinness did seem to be in a place to perhaps explore the placement of each screen in the future. On the right, a tape cassette that says “Love”, and it’s being torn apart. It’s a sad image. McGinness is often designing buttons, t-shirts, and products which are often never made. They live in his sketchbook. Images from his sketchbook lived on the window at Giant Robot 2 throughout the weekend. [nggallery id=16]
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At Giant Robot 2 on May 28th, Saturday starting at 6pm until everyone gets tired, join us and come and draw. No pressure, just draw for fun. We’ll have special Guest Jeni Yang who’s currently showing along with Jesse Fillingham. We’ll draw, pass around pages, and keep drawing and see what happens. It’s BYOB if you want, but we’ll have tables and some chairs. Stop in, shop, and draw.
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