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[nggallery id=83] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -Group Art Show For the Love of…. at GRSF, February 21, 2009-March 24, 2009 Reception: Saturday, February 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 For The Love Of…, a group art show featuring artists that we love, doing what they love. Contributors represent a variety of media, including painting, illustration, and indie comics, and include the following: - Robert Bellm paints vibrant images from nature, calling the eye-pleasing mix of natural shapes with manmade forms “organic technology.” - Christopher Bettig develops products, graphics, and installations for a wide range of clientele from his studio, The Mountain Label. - Matt Furie is a San Francisco-based artist whose richly detailed illustrations reflect the unholy crossbreeding of The Neverending Story and The Muppet Show. - Tim Gough is a Philadelphia artist whose imagery goes for a direct approach that addresses the human condition and the situations surrounding it. - Benjamin King is a young, upstart artist from the Bay Area whose illustrations reflect a unique perspective on mainstream celebrity and underground culture, among other topics. - Jesse LeDoux is an accomplished commercial illustrator who handles creative collaborations with high-profile clients through his site, LeDouxville. - Aaron Martinez is a Los Angeles based artist, who creates somber yet thoughtful monochromatic images, and is currently designing for Element Skateboards. - Sidney Pink is a Japan-based illustrator who was nominated for the 2008 GEISAI Museum 2 Jury Awards. - Albert Reyes is a prolific artist from Los Angeles whose style reflects the grittiness of the streets fused with the refinement of classical portraiture. - Daria Tessler is a New York-based illustrator/printmaker whose delicate, intricate, detailed works give a sense of story ripped straight from your imagination. - Joe To is a San Francisco-based artist whose unique illustrations portray the irregular as normal, the normal as strange, the strange as safe. - Aiyana Udesen creates exquisitely detailed works that blend nature with celebrity, and publishes “How to Draw” books that marry the subjects seamlessly. A reception featuring many of the artists will be held from 6:30-10:00 on Saturday, February 21st. For more information about the show, GRSF, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310)479-7311
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I dig this dude, Kio who runs a clothing like called Yellow Rat. He's supposedly a great surfer, and back in 2007, I wrote about him with some photos on this blog when I visited his casa. Here's that post. He once made a Kio's Ding Repair shirt using a Barry McGee image. It's looks like this here. Today, he showed me a new design. Here's the backstory which makes this funny. Barry does strange ads...
I dig this dude, Kio who runs a clothing like called Yellow Rat. He’s supposedly a great surfer, and back in 2007, I wrote about him with some photos on this blog when I visited his casa. Here’s that post. He once made a Kio’s Ding Repair shirt using a Barry McGee image. It’s looks like this here. Today, he showed me a new design. Here’s the backstory which makes this funny. Barry does strange ads sometimes. He pays for the ad, and actually advertises something that’s not his own. This advertisement showed up in the Hamburger Ears (their music offshoot of Hamburger Eyes) publication. Kio was shocked to see the ad, and now it’s a shirt complete with Kio’s home address at the bottom. I’m sure Barry had no idea that Kio works out of his home in Mar Vista. I hope people don’t knock on his door. That’s his assistant. Yes, I forgot her name.
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Praxis... the great dog needs your help.
For the next seven days, you can view and bid on ebay for artwork by some of my favorite artists. They have created and/or donated work inspired by my dog, Praxis. Most of these artists have met Praxis, or know how much he's meant to me, and donated their time and talent to my effort to raise funds to pay for Praxis' chemotherapy and other medical bills...
Praxis… the great dog needs your help. For the next seven days, you can view and bid on ebay for artwork by some of my favorite artists. They have created and/or donated work inspired by my dog, Praxis. Most of these artists have met Praxis, or know how much he’s meant to me, and donated their time and talent to my effort to raise funds to pay for Praxis’ chemotherapy and other medical bills after he was diagnosed with lymphoma in May 2008. I’ve held on to these for a while, maybe too long, and I only kind of know why. Since the diagnosis, I’ve been in a strange state trying to wrap my head around losing a loved one to an illness like cancer. You have to accept that there’s no cure, and that treatment can buy you time, but there’s never a guarantee of quality of life, and certainly no sense of how long that time will last. Engaging in this artwork, all of it capturing some part of Praxis and my love for him, brings that home for me… and I’m not always strong enough to find a way to deal with the loss that’s looming ahead. I think part of me also wants to keep it all!! Each piece is so fantastic… truly. This is a talented bunch and I’m incredibly lucky to have these folks as friends. This is an exciting time in my life. This is the first time I’ve had so many creative friends who are successful in their endeavors and inspire the same in others. The work ranges from oil paintings to gooco prints and is a diverse collection of talents and styles, and 10% of the proceeds will go to The Magic Bullet Fund to help other pet owners find funds for expensive cancer treatments. It’s a terrible feeling to have… to not be able to afford something that can help an animal you’ve loved and cared for. It made me feel powerless and disloyal. That was afwul, and I hate to think of anyone being in that position. Check out the auctions on eBay!See Michelle’s original post here.
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