This weekend, Los Angeles’ Giant Robot 2 introduces its first 2010 show with joint exhibition Diplopia. Running from January 16 to February 10, 2010, Diplopia features the work of emerging artists Eleanor Davis and Katherine Guillen.

Eleanor Davis is a cartoonist who makes work for both adults and children. The award-winning Atlanta, Georgia-based artist grew up on children’s comics, entered the Sequential Arts program at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and makes painstakingly crafted, whimsical, and non-condescending comics for young readers. Her most recent studio artwork involves pen and ink with watercolor with some gouache. Like the panels of her stories, it is bold yet full of mystery, with recurring themes that include “humanity in the face of destruction, people laughing and crying, etc.”

Los Angeles-based artist Katherine Guillen creates paintings and prints that explore the tenuous connections between the urban and natural environments. Her most recent work–which resembles landscapes but is more symbolic than picturesque–investigates the way structures work as language on the landscape and how we use architecture to order nature and defy mortality. She says, “I am fascinated by the human desire to create, build, and idealize, which is both our redemption and our failing.” In addition to making gouache and mixed media paintings on paper, she will be showing some papier-mache pieces.

For this show, the longtime friends are also creating a number of large collaborative panels.

Giant Robot 2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Opening Reception January 16, 2010, 6:30 p.m.-10 p.m.

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Louise Chen

Giant Robot NY has an excellent group show entitled “Playful Extremities”, which will open on Saturday, January 16th.  Some great artists (Louise Chen, Hellen Jo, Sara Antoinette Martin, Tran Nguyen, and Sylvia Park) will have new work on display and you should really try to check it out!

Below is all the info on the show and some preview images.  Enjoy!

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James Jean. Rickshaw. Print.

Giant Robot has just released a print of James Jean’s Rickshaw which is featured in the ongoing GR Biennale 2 show at the Japanese American National Museum.   Limited to 50 pieces, the 28” x 44” Rickshaw print is available now for $500 directly from Giant Robot’s store.

Last Saturday, Giant Robot hosted their fourth annual Post-it Show, featuring a dizzying number of tiny original art pieces on you guessed it, post-its.  With a deep and talented artist roster curated by Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson and prices starting at just $20 for the standard sized post-it, the cash and carry show proved quite popular.  Holiday shopping at its finest – affordable and unique.   Enjoy our pics of the opening.  Be careful though, you’ll catch yourself staring at the pieces, and then are hundreds.

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Giant Robot's Post-It Show 4. 12.5.09 @ GR2.

The holidays are upon us and with them come some wonderful traditions including Giant Robot’s Post-It Show. The ‘09 edition, Post-It Show 4, opens this Saturday December 5th 2009 (6:30 – 10:PM) @ Giant Robot 2 on Sawtelle in West LA.

If you’re not familiar with the show, it’s pretty self-explanatory – a huge group of artists create works on Post-It notes.   The 3” x 3” works are available for only $20 while the larger 4” x 4” and 6” x 6” will cost slightly more. Unlike most shows, this one is cash ‘n carry – buy it and take it home right then and there.   Curated by Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson, this year’s show will feature nearly 2000 pieces (that’s not a typo) from a wide selection of artists including:

APAK!, Andrice Arp, T. Edward Bak, Scott Bakal, Gary Baseman, Drew Beckmeyer, Marc Bell, Mike Bertino, John Black, Jill Bliss, Jon Boam, Aaron Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Chris Buzelli, Brian Cairns, Lilli Carre, Christine Castro, Martin Cendreda, Katherine Chiu, Chris Cilla, Greg Clarke, Josh Cochran, Tim Cochran, Allison Cole, Jen Corace, Jennifer Daniel, Eleanor Davis, Luke Davis, Skinner Davis, Vanessa Davis, Ryan De La Hoz, Bob Dob, Doodles, Seth Drenner, Evah Fan, Korin Faught, Nina Frankel, Shannon Freshwater, Jordan Fu, Matt Furie, Nicholas Gazin, Leif Goldberg, Frieda Gossett, Katherine Guillen, Peter Hamlin, Lisa Hanawalt, Pam Henderson, Tim Hensley, Jaime Hernandez, Ryan Heshka, Paul Hornschemier, David Horvath, Mina Horvath, Patrick Hruby, Rama Hughes, Yellena James, Jeaux Janovsky, Levon Jihanian, Hellen Jo, Mark Johns, Sun Min Kim, Kinoko, Olaf LaDousse, Travis Lampe, Will Laren, Le Merde, Daniel Lim, Ben Marra, Jacob McGraw, James McShane, Brendan Monroe, Mark Murphy, Kiyoshi Nakazawa, Tom Neely, Andrew Neyer, Tru Nguyen, Anders Nilsen, Saelee Oh, Martin Ontiveros, Christina Paulos, Carlos Ramos, Luke Ramsey, Ron Rege, Jesse Reklaw, Joe Rocco, Zachary Rossman, Johnny Ryan, Souther Salazar, Brooks Salzwadel, Scrappers, Chris von Szombathy, Raymond Sohn, Zack Soto, Bwana Spoons, STO, JJ Stratford, Deth P. Sun, Shirl Sun, Team Macho, Daria Tessler, Peter Thompson, Jeremy Tinder, Aiyana Udesen, Steven Weissman, Gilian Wilson, Ben Wolfinsohn, Connie Wong, Jamie Zollars, and MANY MORE

It probably goes without saying, but the early bird gets the worm.  Don’t snooze on this one folks.

GR2
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
310.445.9276

David Choe is hard at work creating a large wall mural for Giant Robot’s Biennale 2 which opens this Saturday, October 24th (6-10 PM) @ the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.  Here’s a look at Choe in action courtesy of GR co-founder Eric Nakamura.

Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street
Los Angeles California 90012
213.625.0414

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Giant Robot will celebrate 15 years of covering Asian Culture with Biennale 2 opening on October 24th, 2009 at the Japanese American National Museum. The impressive featured lineup includes David Choe, James Jean, Souther Salazar, Theo Ellsworth, kozyndan, Stella Lai, Jack Long, Albert Reyes, Jeff Soto, Deth P. Sun, Le Merde, David Horvath and Yukinori Dehara.  A second hall will feature work from 50 additional artists. If you have any interest in Pop Surrealist / New Contemporary art, this show is not to be missed.

By way of preview, check out the James Jean teaser video below created and posted by GR Co-Founder Eric Nakamura.  It shows glimpses of Jean’s new Chinnamasta piece which will be featured in the show as well as another painting which we presume will also be part of Giant Robot Biennale 2.

Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street
Los Angeles California 90012
213.625.0414

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“Junk in the Trunk,” a group show featuring more than twenty artists, opened Saturday at GR2 in West Los Angeles. The piece above was my favorite. More pictures follow!

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Many outstanding artists are currently on display at the “Printed Matter VI” show at GR2 in West LA. Pictures follow after the jump.

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We cannot wait to see Jack Long’s new paintings in Singing Her to Sleep at Giant Robot, New York on Saturday, June 27th.

Long’s mythical scenarios meticulously depict mysterious themes that celebrate the events of everyday life, love, and nature. Jack has been showing ever since working with Giant Robot and now he is taking over the New York outpost for another solo show. While he normally works on a fairly small scale we are hearing that some pieces for this show will be much larger. Lucky for us we will be in town for this one, so cannot wait to see more.

Jack Long
Singing Her to Sleep
Giant Robot NY
June 27th, 6-10pm

Discuss the show here.

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Last Saturday I attended David Choe’s Choegal release event and signing at Giant Robot NY. It was great to see David again after running into him at the SCION Installation Five art tour during Art Basel Miami Beach. He was excited about his upcoming show in China later this year and new book coming out in 2010. Before walking away with signed Choe collectibles, I met up with friend Lis Timpone who has three new works in an international group show at Ad Hoc Art called Delineations (a collection of drawings and illustrations) opening Friday, January 16th, 7-10pm. Lis introduced me to her friend, artist Mollie Goldstrom, who is showing work in Adolescent Rage Closed Caption Comics at Cinders Gallery opening Friday, January 9th from 7-10pm. So now you know and can mark both Brooklyn-based shows in your calendar to see works by these talented emerging artists!

David carefully inspects each Choegal

David Choe greeting fans…

David Choe and Debra Anderson (how cool is David’s T-shirt?)

Artists Lis Timpone and Mollie Goldstrom

Looks like GR2 is getting a lot of love from the blog today, but all deserving. Giant Robot has both a great last minute gift show up (see Post It) – and they just hosted art superstar David Choe for a signing of his newly released “Choegal” toy from Ningyoshi toys.

The wooden toy has hand painted parts (though not by Dave) and we were able to pick up ours along with a shiny autograph from Dave. It is really a great toy – and you should probably get online, or into GR2 to order one quick as it is limited to only 1000 pieces.

Fans were picking up Choe toys, GR posters and the new Giant Robot Magazine with Choe’s cover art, all in hopes of getting a sketch. The fan above (a DD contributor) actually brought a paint set. David was nice enough to paint a little something…

…David tells us he is off to China in a few weeks to begin shooting his new project. Have fun in Beijing…stay away from the street meat! Keep reading for our pics, or discuss David’s work here:

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Last weekend Giant Robot opened its annual “Post-It Show” with hundreds – and we mean hundreds – of pieces of original art on Post-It Notes.

With artwork from Gary Baseman, Brendan Monroe, Evah Fan, Buffmonster, Travis Lampe, Souther Salazar, Tim Biskup and dozens more this was a crazy opportunity to buy ridiculously small – but ridiculously affordable – pieces of original work by some of your favorite artists.

Best of all you can take your purchases right off the wall. While this means many pieces are already gone, there are still tons of great pieces to be had. DD just picked up a pair of Brendan Monroe’s, a Deth P Sun and four Evah Fan’s yesterday!

The show runs through January 14th but we wouldn’t wait if we were you.

GR2
2026 Sawtelle Blvd. LA CA
gr2.net

Images courtesy Eric Nakamura and GR2