Giant Robot Store and GR2 News

It’s not safe to be in Boulder, Colorado on some nights for Asian Americans. First according to the Denver Post, ” One of the men — described as being a blond white male about 19 or 20 — said, “Do you think you are an American?” called him a “Chinaman,” punched him in the face “multiple times” and told him to say that he loved America, police said.”  Then unrelated was a sexual assault on an Asian American woman. Two attacks, one bad night. The illustration below is of the racial assault assailant who looks like a freak. Definitely the wrong way to start off the New Year, Boulder… (Denver Post – Attacks)
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If you’re going to go racist, don’t do it in writing. This Papa John’s employee wasn’t so lucky and got terminated when the head office caught wind of the “Lady Chinky Eyes” description on the pizza order. Thanks to the social networks it went viral and lo and behold, a great start to 2012 for Asian America. Soon after the “Ching Chong” at Chick Fil-A on the receipt of an Irvine, CA customer caught a lot of air time, this one adds more excitement. Again, don’t do it in writing. Word to the Racists or just plain stupid: Say It, Don’t Spray It.  
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PRINTED MATTER 10

PRINTS FROM ARTISTS

JANUARY 11 – JANUARY 25

RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 6:30-10PM

The Giant Robot 2 (GR2) remodel happening at the beginning of January will transform the location into a larger gallery, creating MORE wall space and utilizing all of the existing walls. We’re shrinking the retail capacity of GR2 and focusing in on the art that we’ve loved sharing with the world there! We’ll begin with a large print show, “Printed Matter 10″ as we’ve done in the past at GR2, GRNY and GRSF. We’ve had numerous installments of of “Printed Matter” and this is the 10th. The print show will begin January 11th with an opening on Saturday the 14th. Participants include:

Apak!, Chris Bettig, Jude Buffum, Burlesque Printing, Louise Chen, Shawn Cheng, David Choe, James Chong, Dutch Door Press, ENFU, Ines Estrada, Jesse Fillingham, Hilary Florido, Matt Furie, Gabe Gonzales, Kio Griffith, Seonna Hong, Kerry Horvath, Michael & Pearl Hsiung, Martin Hsu, Mari Inukai, Jeremyville, Kaori Kasai, kozyndan, Jesse LeDoux, Little Friends of Printmaking, Bradford Lynn, Dan McCarthy, Gary Musgrave, Masato Nakada, Saelee Oh, Martin Ontiveros, Panorama Press, Sidney Pink, Albert Reyes, Jay Ryan, Jessica Seamans, Ryan Jacob Smith, Dave Stolte, Diana Sudyka, Deth P. Sun, Jesse Tise, Aiyana Udesen, Justin Wallis, Jing Wei, Kent Williams, Aaron Woes Martin, Sashiko Yuen

GIANT ROBOT 2 – REDUX 2012

TEMPORARILY CLOSED DURING RENOVATIONS

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