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[nggallery id=67] Group Art Show Opening Devil’s in the Details April 11 – May 6, 2009 Reception: Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Giant Robot Gallery 437 East 9th Street Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village New York, New York 10009 (212) 674-GRNY (4769) | grny.net G Giant Robot is proud to present Devil’s in the Details, a 10-person group art show. Contributors range in artistic styles and backgrounds, from illustration and graphic design, to graffiti and fine art. Representing some of the most prolific and engaging voices in the art world today, each artist has created new original works for this show. Participants include: Sean Boyles – Applying his loose, yet honed style to drawings, paintings, printmaking, and even photos and videos, Boyles has the uncanny ability to make carefully composed depictions of the street appear effortless. Ako Castuera – Castuera depicts a hyper-colored, gravity-defying world that is somewhat terrifying but also super fun. When she is not making her own art, she is a character artist for the Metacopalypse animated TV series. French – Utilizing a distinct, finely detailed method to his drawings, French’s subjects include the morbid, the classic, the contemporary, and the strange, all executed with care and precision. Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch – One of the hardest working artists in the art scene today, Holyoke-Hirsch has maintained his artistic vision and expanded on his style while showing in galleries around the world. Andrew Holder – The patterns and shapes of Holder’s art are as distinct as the compositions he creates with both. Continually making work that exemplifies the direction of modern art, Holder most recently graced the cover of Arkitip. Jordin Isip – Isip’s mixed media work combines the look of raw sculpture with simple, modernist design, and graces book covers, album covers, and magazine articles. Yellena James – In her artwork, James combines complex abstract forms to form larger images that take on lives of their own. Her colorful arrangements of organic shapes and tangled lines are at once floral and alien, organic and sci-fi, crafty and fantastic. Jeremyville – Art, product design, animation–Jeremyville seems to do it all, and always with his trademark, innovative style and sophisticated presentation. His work has been shown around the world, and he continues to fill galleries with art that defies definition. David Jien – Still developing as an art student, Jien’s pencil drawings incorporate a dream like world that embraces such elements as graffiti, aliens, and the people around him. Matt Lock – At once, Lock’s colorful, heavy metal-inspired paintings recall the crudest of notebook doodles with the most epic sci-fi landscapes. They are simple, stunning, and thought provoking. The opening reception featuring many of the artists will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 11. For more information about the artists, GRNY, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311
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[nggallery id=89] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Group Art Show Game Over/Continue? at GRSF, March 27, 2009 – April 15, 2009 Reception: Friday, March 27, 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 Game Over/Continue?, a group show that pays homage to the massive influence and continuous evolution of videogames. The impact and inspiration of videogames will be represented through a wide assortment of styles and genres provided by top artists in the fields of illustration, painting, sewing, and indie comics. Contributors are scheduled to include the following: APAK Robert Bellm Christopher Bettig Bigfoot Blinky Sean Boyles William Buzzell Scott Carl Ako Castuera Ethan Hayes-Chute CUPCO Liam Devowski Elayne Dixon Everybody Get Up Matt Furie Pete Glover Tim Gough Jay Howell Yellena James Jeremyville Heisuke “PCP” Kitazawa Chris Kline Matt Lock Aaron Martinez Bill McRight Mike Perry Sidney Pink Albert Reyes Brian Ralph RONDO Brian Rush Johnny Ryan Robert Sato Scrappers Caleb Sheridan Snaggs Jim Stoten Kaz Strzepek Team Macho Joe To Lawrence Yang In addition, the Artxgame collective, a collaboration of Attract Mode and Giant Robot, is developing four custom videogames. These exclusive games will be available for play at the show’s opening, and the pairings include the following: Hellen Jo and Derek Yu Saelee Oh and Anna Anthropy Souther Salazar and Petri Purho Deth P. Sun and Jonatan “Cactus” Söderström A reception featuring many of the artists will be held from 6:30 – 10:00 on Friday, March 27. For more information about the show, GRSF, Attract Mode, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311
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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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[nggallery id=62] Deharavath 2 February 7 through March 4, 2009 Reception: Saturday, February 7, 6:30 Giant Robot Gallery 437 East 9th Street Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village New York, New York 10009 (212) 674-GRNY (4769) Giant Robot is proud to host Deharavath 2, a group art show featuring the work of Yukinori Dehara, David Horvath, and Sun-Min Kim. Dehara’s hand-painted clay depictions of debauched salarymen, brutalized gangsters, happy monsters, and other unique figures stand about 5-inches tall. Although the pieces are detailed and glossy, the subtle and intentional flaws of the Japanese artist’s self-described “crummy” style project more humanity than horror, and are oddly sympathetic. His work has garnered a cult of collectors around the world, and is celebrated in books, stickers, and other merchandise. For this show, his subject will be “otaku.” David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim are best known for creating UglyDolls, the indie plush dolls that have gained a rabid worldwide following and sparked a movement of cool handmade toys. For this show, Sun-Min is preparing otaku-themed paintings and David is drawing a one-of-a-kind storybook–each page sold separately! (Parents and guardians should note that this is not an UglyDolls event, and will contain works intended for a somewhat more mature audience.)
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[nggallery id=72] Giant Robot is proud to present Dirty Paper Machines 3 by Rob Sato at GR2. Paintings and illustrations by Rob Sato have been known to mix animals and humans in strange yet appealing ways. In addition to participating in numerous group and solo art shows since 2001, he received the prestigious Xeric Grant awarded to up-and-coming comic-book artists in 2004, allowing him to publish Burying Sandwiches. “When I heard this show was actually going to happen, I made plans to drop all projects and cut my hours at my day job,” says Sato. “This situation has produced work which digs deeper into themes I usually try to stuff into pictures. It’s a rich mix of humor, mayhem, sadness, horror, adventure, heavy metal, science fiction, history, pastoral beauty, questionable behavior, and true love . Of course, some of it is just silly.” For Dirty Paper Machines, Sato is preparing about 60 pieces. Sizes range from tiny one-inch paintings to 30″ x 44″. In addition, he will have one new mini-comic, some small screenprints, and a large Ultrachrome Giclee print.
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