Opening this Friday night, March 4th, at Giant Robot in San Francisco is the 4th annual “Game Over” exhibition. This video game inspired group show will feature work from Esao Andrews, Jeremy Tinder, Jesse Balmer, David Chung, Little Friends of Printmaking, Ferris Plock, Jesse Reklaw, Rob Sato, and many more. The art at these shows is generally pretty affordable, and there looks to be some great work this year, such as Esao Andrews “Zelda” inspired painting (shown first).
Preview: Playboy Redux II @ Copro Nason
Opening this Saturday, December 18th at Copro Nason is the second showing of the Playboy Redux Group Exhibition. The first showing was at Rotofugi Gallery, and from the looks of it there is a few new artists added to the show this time around. This second showing will feature work by Bob Doucette, Glenn Barr, Isabel Samaras, Frank Kozik, Tara McPherson, Brian Viveros, Scott Anderson, TIN, Vincent Cacciotti, Luke Chueh, Dan Quintana, Keith Weesner, William Wray, Gary Baseman, Leslie Ditto, Lisa Petrucci, Lang Leav, Brian Ewing, Andrew Schoultz, Shaunna Peterson, Jennybird Alcantra, Ken Keirns, Ain Cocke, Jeremiah Ketner, Travis Lampe, Anthony Ausgang, R. Black, Jeremy Tinder, Erik Alos, Bonni Reid, Mark Bodnar, Nouar, Shag, and more. I like Bob Doucette’s painting, with inspiration taken from “Venus Anadyomène” by Ingres. I also really like what William Wray, Leslie Ditto, Glenn Barr, and Ken Keirns created. Take a look at the preview and then over to the galleries page for the full show.
“Playboy Redux” @ Rotofugi Gallery
The Play Enterprise and Warhol Museum asked over 20 artist to reinterpret the classic bunny imagery. The show as first shown at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, but has been given a second go round at the Rotofugi Gallery. The participating list of artists is amazing: Jennybird Alcantara, Glenn Barr, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Brian Ewing, Jeremy Fish, Mike Giant, Ken Keirns, Jeremiah Ketner, Frank Kozik, Travis Lampe, Tara McPherson, Lisa Petrucci, Bonni Reid, Isabel Samaras, Andrew Schoultz, Jeremy Tinder, and many more. Many of the paintings look pretty spectacular, and fit the Playboy theme very well. I especially like Glenn Barr’s, Jeremy Fish, Tara McPherson, Keith Weesner, Ken Keirns, and Isabel Samaras all of which are shown below. After you take a look at these, keep your eye on the galleries site for the full show to surface.
Rotofugi Gallery
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Martin Ontiveros & Jeremy Tinder @ Rotofugi
On Friday October 16th, two new shows opened up at Rotofugi. “Fake it ’till you make it” by Martin Ontiveros and “The Devourer of Men” by Jeremy Tinder. The work shown from Jeremy Tinder will all be a part of a book being released in 2010, so not only is this a great chance to score some original art from Jeremy, but also art that is going to be a part of what looks like a very interesting book.
Both artists have very colorful styles. Martin seems to be using acrylic and inks on paper mounted on wood, and Jeremy is all acrylic on wood panel with display shelf. The shelf looks like a unfinished piece of wood attached to the bottom of the painting, kind of a cool effect.
I like Martin’s work, but I have been a big fan of Jeremy’s work for a while now and really like that his show pieces are all sequential, but you can buy a single piece and not worry that you are missing anything to go with it. A cool little bonus, is that when you purchase one of Jeremy’s painting your name “will receive a special thank you credit in “The Devourer of Men” book when it is published in Fall 2010.”
Head on over and check out the full show: Martin Ontiveros & Jeremy Tinder @ Rotofugi
Alternative Press Expo all this weekend
All weekend long, if you are in San Francisco you might want to stop over to the Concourse and check out the Alternative Press Expo. It will be filled with all sorts of indie comics, and there will of course be the original art and prints that many of these artists will no doubt have with them.
I love indie, self published comics, but it is really the art/prints that I am going to see. So I have put together a little list of some of the artists that you will be able to check out at the show. I am told it is not very big, nothing like SDCC, so finding some of these artists shouldn’t be too hard in case I wasn’t able to get the table number they are at.
- Food One, Dave Crosland & Scott Morse will be at #314, and then later that night at the Space Gallery on Polk for a live art with screen printing on an item you bring.
- Tom Haubs and Ken Garduno will be there, with some original works and a new zine.
- Hi Fructose will be there at #350-351, make sure you stop by to pick up some back issues.
- Lesley Reppeteaux & Daryll Peirce will be at table #119
- Alex Pardee will be there with ZeroFriends at #150. Bunnywith 2 will be sold, and a new 8″ x 10″ print that looks amazing.
- Ben Walker will be at table #446
- Camilla d’Errico will be at table #272, with some prints, keychains and books.
- David Choong Lee will be at #254-255
- IDW Publishing will be at booth #331-332, and I think Ben Templesmith will be signing.
- Jim Mahfood will be at table #314
- Jeremy Tinder will be at #349 with his new “Papercutter” book
- Tom Neely will be at #360-361 with some books
Along with the A.P.E there is also two shows opening that go along with the Expo.
At Varnish Art, the group show “Crom” opens. It’s all work inspired by the Conan movies from the artists that are there for APE. The show opens at 7pm and will have work from N8 Van Dyke, Jon Wayshak, Alex Pardee and many more. Check it out
Also, Panelists IV opens at Giant Robot SF at 6:30pm – 10pm. The show will feature work from such comic artists as: Allison Cole, Matt Furie, David Horvath, Mats!?, Tom Neely, Jeremy Tinder and many others. Check it out Here
