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[nggallery id=39] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Group Art Show Aiyana Udesen and Lisa Hanawalt at GRSF, June 12, 2010 – July 7, 2010 Reception: Saturday, June 12, 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 Two Girls; One Show, a group art show featuring new works by Aiyana Udesen and Lisa Hanawalt. Aiyana Udesen graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003. She resides in San Francisco and works on art daily. When she is not making instructional diagrams about drawing celebrities, she can be found staring at her succulent garden, pondering the beauty in the details of nature. (She also is a founding member of an art gang called the Future Colors of America, along with Matt Furie and Albert Reyes.) For the show, Udesen promises “a bunch of ’80s celebrity/small animal/crystal mash-ups,” mostly in pencil and colored pencil, complemented by “some ‘painting cats’ pieces.” Lisa Hanawalt is a Bay Area artist transplanted to Brooklyn. The second issue of her comic book, I Want You, is about to be released by Buenaventura Press, and recurring themes in her work include anthropomorphic animals that are simultaneously cute and creepy, attractive and repulsive. For the show, Hanawalt is making approximately 30 drawings ranging from medium to postcard-sized and smaller, in watercolor, ink, and markers. “I’m continuing to work with the same themes I’ve been focused on for the last few years, and also dipping into the imagery of plane wrecks, car crashes and other modern phobias,” she says. “A lot of these drawings will be in color, which is a new direction for me!” 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. A reception featuring the artists will be held from 6:30 – 10:00 on Saturday, June 12. For more information about 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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[nggallery id=45] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Group Art Show Matt Furie, Le Merde, and Johnny Ryan at GRSF, April 17, 2010 – May 12, 2010 Reception: Saturday, April 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 The Boys Are Back in Town, a group art show featuring new works by Matt Furie, Le Merde, and Johnny Ryan. Matt Furie creates richly detailed and hyper colored illustrations and paintings that reflect the creative cross breeding of The Neverending Story and the unrestrained imagination of The Muppet Show. For this show, he is leaning less on the eye-straining detail of Bernie Wrightson and more on the simplicity and tweaked humor of the ALF Saturday morning cartoon series. For this show, he is contributing 50 pieces (including minis, floating heads, and POGs) related to his self-published Boy’s Club comic, as well as “riffs on the characters of Johnny and Le Merde.” Le Merde has gained a rabid following in the limited-edition figure scene with his molten and oozing but cute style. Often lost in the shadows of his sculptural work are the Portland artist’s equally colorful paintings, which also reference a loving appreciation of underground comix, Japanese horror manga, and rock ‘n’ roll. He is preparing 50 pieces of cel and ink on watercolor paper, focusing on the “three Gs”: ghosts, ghouls, and gods. Johnny Ryan is best known for his self-published title Angry Youth Comix, which was picked up by Fantagraphics Books in 2000. His crude yet totally polished and undeniably funny illustrations reveal both a ruthless-but-loving knowledge of the topics that he slays (superhero comics, science fiction, Ernie Bushmiller, the Holocaust) and a seemingly effortless mastery of linework and energy. He promises 50 pieces of “awesome shit.” 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. A reception featuring many of the artists will be held from 6:30 – 10:00 on Saturday, April 17. For more information about 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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[nggallery id=88] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Group Art Show Game Over III at GRSF, March 12, 2010 – April 14, 2010 Reception: Friday, March 12, 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 III, a group show that pays homage to the continuous evolution of videogames and their massive influence on popular culture. 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, indie comics, and videogames. Contributors are scheduled to include the following: Sasha Barr Brandon Bird Blinky Sean Boyles Eric Butler Kris Chau Shawn Cheng Ryan De La Hoz Elayne Dixon E. Dubois Theo Ellsworth Everybody Get Up Matt Furie Mark Giglio Jake Gillespie Girafa Tim Gough Andrew Holder Paul Hornschemeier David Horvath Jay Howell Martin Hsu Mari Inukai Marc Johns James Kochalka Le Merde Phil Lumbang Aaron Martinez Andrew Perry Mike Perry Ferris Plock Silvio Porretta Carlos Ramos Albert Reyes Grant Reynolds Alexander Shen Snaggs Kaz Strzepek Team Macho Daria Tessler Jeremy Tinder Joe To Kelly Tunstall Aiyana Udesen Amy Vazquez Connie Wong Anthony Wu Lawrence Yang Derek Yu 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. A reception featuring many of the artists will be held from 6:30 – 10:00 on Friday, March 12. 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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Art Show Rob Sato at GRSF February 13, 2010 – March 9, 2010 Reception: Saturday, February 13, 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 Junk History, a solo show featuring new works by Rob Sato. Los Angeles-based artist Rob Sato produces rich, detailed imagery, mixing scenes of stark horror, quiet beauty, and humor. His heavily yet subtly narrative paintings tend to walk in a tense space between the observed and imagined world, and the massive amount of back story evident in every image rewards long, hard looks. “Junk History will feature both the largest and the smallest paintings I’ve ever worked on. I’m working furiously to finish a few huge pieces by show time, there will be some prints of past favorites, and I’ve kept making a bunch of these tiny paintings that somewhat ape the look of slide film,” says Sato. “What comes out is an unexpected mass of paper machines which seem to work pretty well despite being a bit clunky and bound together with spit and string. Some of them crash pretty hard, but those only get shown if they crash hilariously.” 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. A reception for the artist will be held from 6:30 – 10:00 on Saturday, February 13. For more information about Sato, 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=49] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Group Art Show Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, and Aiyana Udesen at GRSF, August 29, 2009 – September 16, 2009 Reception: Saturday, August 29, 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 Future Colors of America, an art show featuring new works by three longtime friends, Albert Reyes, Matt Furie, and Aiyana Udesen. Albert Reyes is a Los Angeles-based San Francisco Art Institute graduate who has developed a style equally influenced by graffiti, comics, and fine art. Among other media, he draws and prints on the inside covers of old books and mixes traditional Mexican imagery, popular culture icons, and political suggestion. He was the cover artist and main interview in Giant Robot 52. Matt Furie is an Ohio-born, San Francisco-based artist whose richly detailed and hyper colored illustrations and paintings reflect the creative cross breeding of The Neverending Story, unrestrained imagination of The Muppet Show, and humor of ALF. His corruption by popular culture is further complicated–or perhaps enriched–by the energy of BMX culture and anarchy of street art. Aiyana Udesen was born in Hawaii, went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute with Reyes, and lives in San Francisco, where she gained attention for her “how-to-draw” series of zines, many of which have married her interests in celebrities, animals, and realistic-yet-stylish illustration. Her fine art in both colored pencil and paints share a minimal palate that doesn’t distract from the linework yet channels the flair of the ’80s without the excess. A reception for all three artists (including a rare San Francisco appearance by Reyes) will be held from 6:30 – 10:00 on Saturday, August 29. For more information about the Reyes, Furie, Udesen, GRSF, or Giant Robot magazine, please contact: Eric Nakamura Giant Robot Owner/Publisher eric@giantrobot.com (310) 479-7311
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