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[nggallery id=91] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Group Art Show Group Sects at GRSF, April 19, 2008 – May 14, 2008 Reception: Saturday, April 19, 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 a group show including paintings, illustrations, prints, and other mediums by some of our favorite artists. Contributors will include: Aaron Brown French Kevin Hooyman Katy Horan Matt Leines Monkmus Garrett Morin Josie Morway Pryor Praczukowski Jeana Sohn Daniel St. George Gary Taxali A reception featuring many of the artists will be held from 6:30 – 10:00 on Saturday, April 19.
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[nggallery id=44] Giant Robot is proud to present At The Movies, a group art show featuring oils, illustration, prints, and other media dedicated to cinema. Indie flicks, foreign films, art movies, blockbusters, flops, imaginary sequels and crossovers, and behind-the-scenes action–anything goes and everything’s fair game. Artists will include (but are not limited to): Melinda Beck Robert Bellm Chris Bettig Kelie Bowman Aaron Brown David Choong-Lee Alika Cooper Matt Furie Susie Ghahremani Katherine Guillen Ryan Jacob-Smith Arlo Jamrog Hellen Jo Omar Lee Stephanie Leung Jack Long Alexis Mackenzie Munkao Casey O’Connell PCP Ferris Plock Pryor Praczukowski Nathalie Roland Keith Shore Kevin Taylor Daria Tessler The Little Friends of Printmaking Matthew Thurber Kelly Tunstall Aiyana Udeson Steven Weissman Derek Yu
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Giant Robot is proud to host Salvage, an art show by Caroline Hwang. Raised in Southern California, Hwang graduated from Art Center College of Design. Influenced by graphic arts, films, and music, Hwang turns fabric, quilting, and painting into collages that reflect the complexities of human relationships. Currently residing in Brooklyn, Hwang has been featured in Paper Magazine and Swindle Quarterly, and has contributed illustrations to The New York Times, Bust Magazine, and HOW Design. Recently, she was part of the Giant Robot-curated To The Masses group art show at the Scion Space in Los Angeles. Hwang’s latest work integrates the craft aesthetic of quilting and sewing with nautical themes such as color-block flags. As the title implies, Salvage is about searching for something lost and preventing further loss in adverse circumstance: picking up the pieces–glimmers of hope, pieces of oneself–and starting anew. The opening reception will take place from 6:00 – 10:00 on Saturday, January 12. Reception: Saturday, January 12, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Giant Robot is proud to host Salvage, an art show by Caroline Hwang. Raised in Southern California, Hwang graduated from Art Center College of Design. Influenced by graphic arts, films, and music, Hwang turns fabric, quilting, and painting into collages that reflect the complexities of human relationships. Currently residing in Brooklyn, Hwang has been featured in Paper Magazine and Swindle Quarterly, and has contributed illustrations to The New York Times, Bust Magazine, and HOW Design. Recently, she was part of the Giant Robot-curated To The Masses group art show at the Scion Space in Los Angeles. Hwang’s latest work integrates the craft aesthetic of quilting and sewing with nautical themes such as color-block flags. As the title implies, Salvage is about searching for something lost and preventing further loss in adverse circumstance: picking up the pieces–glimmers of hope, pieces of oneself–and starting anew. The opening reception will take place from 6:00 – 10:00 on Saturday, January 12.
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[nggallery id=42] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – APAK Art Show Little Sanctuary at GRSF, April 21 – May 10 Reception: Saturday, April 21, 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 Little Sanctuary, an art show featuring the work of husband-and-wife collaborative duo Ayumi and Aaron Piland, a.k.a. APAK, who hide out like hermits on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. For the show, the two artists are preparing 30 colorful gauche paintings ranging from 5″ x 7″ to 8″ x 10″ on wood and paper, illustrating “the fantastic utopian life and adventures of little beings living in a lush organic environments surrounded by curious and friendly little animals.” Tweaked with fantastic elements and charged by rich colors, the familiar landscapes are familiar yet surreal, hinting at fantastic narrative while suggesting truths about the real world at the same time. A reception with the artists will be held from 6:30 – 10:00 on Saturday, April 21.
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[nggallery id=79] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Group Art Show Fearfully and Wonderfully at GRSF, March 17 – April 18 Reception: Saturday, March 17, 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 Fearfully and Wonderfully, a group art show featuring the work of Sean Cassidy, Katherine Guillen, Zachary Rossman, and Brian Rush. For the show, Sean Cassidy is preparing 10-20 small pieces that instill the effortless flow of the drawn line with the mystery of science. His deceptively straightforward paintings and sculptures balance the primal need for expression with an unstated but understood logic and cloud the boundaries of fact and fantasy. Katherine Guillen uses watercolor, etching, and ceramics to “chronicle the hopeless state of the environment, and the darker side of humanity that it exposes.” Her translucent-but-dark hues depict subjects such as manual labor and bullies, as well as floods and other forms of nature in an unflinching, subtly humorous manner. Zachary Rossman plans on painting about seven gouache-on-paper pieces, all of which will feature meticulous brushwork. Fixated on the unbreakable and often freakish relationship between humans and nature, his latest work suggests an obsessive fixation with caves, as well as mountains, black holes, icicles, botanical forms, and creatures. Brian Rush will prepare 10-15 acrylic paintings that will feature cartoon-based characters and narratives, loosely held together by a non-linear storyline or idea. Although the subjects may be familiar, no single explanation is enforced upon the viewers, who are allowed to construct their own explanations of the accessible yet cryptic themes. A reception for the artists will be held from 6:30 , 10:00 on Saturday, March 17. For more information about the show, the artists, GRSF, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311
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