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Art · art exhibition · art show · giant robot · GR2 · Lawrence yang · suck at life · Oct 10, 2011

Giant Robot Artist Interview – Lawrence Yang

Lawrence Yang lives in San Francisco and has shown at Giant Robot a few times and is now teaming up with Martin Hsu for their Giant Robot 2 exhibition: Undercurrents set to open Saturday, October 15th. His day job is a tech firm in the Silicon Valley and he paints to un-fry his mind. His work is beautiful and serene and we’re happy to host him.

GR: How did you get started in art?
LY: I’ve been drawing since I was a kid, but I didn’t really start spending a lot of time on it until I graduated college and moved to San Francisco. Here, with a new home, a new job, and limited friends, I found I had a ton of time to myself. So I started painting, and eventually started posting to a blog. A gallery somehow found me online and asked if I wanted to be in a show. I’ve been showing my work ever since!

GR: What’s your day time life like? Can you mix that with your art work?
LY: I have a full time job in the South Bay, which when taking the company shuttle means about an hour and a half door to door ride. I work as an information architect, so I spend my day thinking about user experience and content hierarchies. I usually get home around 7 or 8, eat something, and if I’m not too tired – then I would start to paint. I feel like my job and artist life complement each other very well – it makes for a nice balance of structure and freedom! Now if only there were more hours in the day…

GR: You live in the bay area, can you talk about how the environment touches your art?
LY: The Bay area is a great place to live as an artist. The people are interesting and the environment is varied – ocean, bay, hills, redwoods, vineyards, mountains… Inspiration is everywhere.

art · art exhibition · artist · buff monster · figures · GR2 · monster · News · plush · toys · Oct 09, 2011

Giant Robot 2 Robots Artist: Buff Monster

We’ve known Buff Monster for years and have happily witnessed his rise of local street art wheat paster to now an internationally known artist. We proudly hosted his art show The Monster Within in 2010, and you can see the photos here. Just on friday, he released his Cat Plush that you see below. The eyes are pink which is his trademark color. You can easily see this edition of 200 pieces on his own website. We have our own plush by Buff Monster also at the $18 rate that was made in edition of 200. You can see it below and get it here among a few other Buff Monster goods. The video below is from Tara McPherson’s Cotton Candy Factory in Brooklyn. There’s a few customs still available. Buff Monster and Jeremyville from Tara McPherson on Vimeo.

Art · art exhibition · Art Gallery · giant robot · GR2 · robots · Oct 08, 2011

Giant Robot 2 Robots Artist: Jake Gillespie

Jake Gillespie has shown in group shows at Giant Robot in SF three times and has always supported Giant Robot. A transplant from the midwest, he lived in Oakland and now is back to the midwest. he’ll be teaching painting classes at Indiana University. Without the demeanor of a Bobby Knight, Gillespie also makes art videos which can be seen at his YouTube site. The painted he contributed to Robots is above. The man depicted as a Transformer with grey face and all is award winner author Philip Roth. It’s called Almost Beyond Communication Range and echoes that time period of the animated robots in the 80s. It’s available here.

Art · Art Gallery · art show · exhibition · giant robot · GR2 · tessar lo · Oct 08, 2011

Giant Robot 2 Robots Artist: Tessar Lo

Tessar Lo once lived in Los Angeles and now calls home, Canada. He’s doing art more freely than ever and is having an exhibition called, The Dying Wishes in Amsterdam. The show card is below. His piece for Giant Robot 2′s Robots exhibition is below and we thank him for his kind comments that are found on his website.

Art · GR2 · hawaii · justin morrison · justin scrappers morrison · maui · robot · robots · scrappers · shave ice · Oct 07, 2011

Giant Robot 2 Robots Artist: Justin Scrappers Morrison

Justin Scrappers Morrison is a gentleman. He lived in Portland and touched many lives with his positive-vibed, mountain man attitude. When there’s police breaking up a Comic Con bonfire party, Scrappers acted like the ultra naive and honest with a huge dollop of smart-ass mixed in. Scrappers has traded in his Pacific Northwest forest life for palm trees and shave ice. He’s now living in Maui. For the GR2 Robots exhibition, he pulled off something unique. A robot made from parts that he found on the beaches of Maui. A vintage oil can, really? You can see the art page here. His new venture is a blog called the Department of Awesome, which is fitting. Although it’s about projects that he’s dreaming up, a company that he wishes existed, and includes a lure for an artist residency in his home, it’ll surely form into something unique and fun. That’s the Scrappers way. He did say the blog site is really all about Shave Ice! Scrappers is a man at peace with himself. I think.