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[nggallery id=41] Giant Robot Presents: ‘Adventure!’ an art show featuring new work by Philip Lumbang August 7 – September 1, 2010 Opening Reception: Saturday, August 7, 6:30 – 10:00 PM GR2 2062 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025 <a href=”http://gr2.net/” rel=”nofollow”>gr2.net/</a> 310.445.9276 Giant Robot is proud to host Adventure!, an art show featuring new work by Philip Lumbang. The Sacramento-born, Los Angeles-based artist has made a name for himself by painting what has been become known as “polite bears” on public walls around Los Angeles. Providing contrast to typically macho graffiti, his life-sized characters wave, smile, and are accompanied by word balloons that say things like “Have a nice day” and “Don’t worry, be happy.” While the warmth-inducing pieces are bold enough to smite passers-by in buses, bikes, and cars, closer inspection reveals a painterly hand. What might be mistaken for stencils from afar turn out to be the products of a confident brush worthy of a gallery setting. For Adventure!, Lumbang will continue his work on wood and a range of found objects, trying out different spray-paint and sanding applications and showing new layering techniques that add depth to the back ground, while keeping the fore ground as illustrative as possible. He says, “I want the pieces to be literal, with a lot of bold type and bright colors.” Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with shops and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, as well as an online equivalent. An opening reception for Lumbang will take place from 6:30 – 10:00 PM on Saturday, August 7. For more information about the artist, GR2, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311 ###
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I like seeing pics like the above. Imagine, we have our friends who are around like Kat and Josh on the left and Luis second from right, then you have Anthony and Derek who are friends of GR, and much less regular. It’s GR friends mixing with gamers and mixing with art fans. That’s my favorite combination right now. This pics sums up Game Night pretty well. The idea of Game Night, Giant Robot, and I’m sure adding Attract Mode, Game Space, and Gaijin Games, is building a community, audience, and a good time – on a Monday night! But there’s more!
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[nggallery id=21] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Art show opening Buff Monster at GR2 July 10 – August 4, 2010 Reception: Saturday, July 10, 6:30 – 10:00 GR2 2062 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025 gr2.net (310) 445-9276 Giant Robot is proud to host The Monster Within, an art show featuring reinterpretations of work by Buff Monster by his friends. Buff Monster is best known for his wheat-pasted, street art featuring lumps of ice cream, clouds, and squirting breasts. He needs just a few tones to seize your eyeballs–black, gray, white, and pinks–and his disarmingly sweet imagery has spilled over into the worlds of fashion, collectibles, and galleries, as well as collaborations for the likes of The Standard, Hurley, Vans, Helio, and Nike. For this exhibit, the Los Angeles artist is asking 49 of his artist friends, peers, and colleagues to customize three-inch toys based on his work. Collaborators will come from various fields and countries, and are scheduled to include the following: Aaron Martin/Angry Woebots, APAK!, Arbito, Matthias Bax/Flying Fortress (Germany), Christopher Bettig, Jon Burgerman (UK), Camilla d’Errico (Canada), Chaz/The London Police (Netherlands), Olivier Cramm/KOA (France), Tristan Eaton, Huck Gee, Godmachine (UK), KaNO, Koji Harmon/Gargamel (Japan), David Horvath/Uglydolls, Mari Inukai, Jay222, Jeremyville (Australia), Kirkland Jue/Toybot Studios, Paul Kaiju, Mike Kelly/Le Merde, Travis Lampe, Joe Ledbetter, Daniel Lim/Fawn Fruits, Travis Louie, Jeremy Madl/MAD, Markie Darkie (Canada), Drew Millward (UK), Miss Mindy, Junko Mizuno (Japan), Brian Morris, Moto (Japan), Mark Nagata, Martin Ontiveros, Alex Pardee, Albert Reyes, Johnny Rodriguez/KMNDZ, Chris Ryniak, Benjamin Salomon, Greg Simkins/Craola, Sket, Skinner, Bwana Spoons, Sucklord, Tado (UK), Uamou (Japan), Michelle Valigura, Amanda Visell, Yoskay Yamamoto A full-color, limited-edition poster will also be made available to commemorate the event and capture the one-of-a-kind pieces. Giant Robot was born as a Los Angeles-based magazine about Asian, Asian-American, and new hybrid culture in 1994, but has evolved into a full-service pop culture provider with shops and galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, as well as an online equivalent. An opening reception attended by Buff Monster will take place from 6:30 – 10:00 on Saturday, July 10. ###
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