This past Saturday, Giant Robot New York hosted the opening reception for Playful Extremities, a group show featuring the artwork of 5 extremely talented ladies, namely Louise Chen, Hellen Jo, Sara Antoinette Martin, Tran Nguyen, and Sylvia Park. Despite having very different styles, their art all meshed together quite nicely on the walls. Come and see for yourself. Playful Extremities is on display in the GRNY gallery until February 3, 2010.


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Wonderful images from the upcoming Playful Extremities show keep appearing in my inbox. These two are from Louise Chen and Sara Antoinette Martin. Playful Extremities opens next Saturday night, January 16 2010.



Louise Chen, Use Your Words.



Sara Antoinette Martin, Goldfish.

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Tran Nguyen just sent us some additional images of her work for the Playful Extremities show, which opens on Saturday, January 16, 2010 at GRNY. Please enjoy.




Tran Nguyen, Do Not Breathe in the Moon.



Tran Nguyen, Thank You, but No Thank You.

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Just sharing some additional new images of work by Sylvia Park and Louise Chen for GRNY's upcoming gallery show, Playful Extremities. This show is looking better and better, hope you're all as excited about it as I am. Playful Extremities opens January 16 2010 at GRNY.



Sylvia Park, DayQuil.



Sylvia Park, Camera.



Sylvia Park, Guilt.



Sylvia Park, Doodling at Paradise.



Sylvia Park, One Sunday Afternoon.



Louise Chen, To the Moon.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Group Art Show Opening

Playful Extremities
January 16, 2010 - February 3, 2010
Reception: Saturday, January 16, 2010 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

Giant Robot is proud to host Playful Extremities, a group show featuring new works by Louise Chen, Hellen Jo, Sara Antoinette Martin, Tran Nguyen, and Sylvia Park.

Although Louise Chen is freshly graduated from UC Santa Cruz's art program, her work is uncommonly diverse and realized. She transfers the clean, effortless lines of her etchings and woodcuts to her drawing, seamlessly inserting them into otherworldly landscapes rendered with equal craft and tremendous atmosphere.

Hellen Jo was born in Starkville, MS in 1983 and lived in Florida and New Mexico, but is firmly entrenched in Northern California, where she plays in indie bands and makes indie comics. Her style is loose but attentive--as evidenced in her full-color issues of Jin & Jam, which combine the raw humor and honesty of underground comix with the precision of alternative manga.

Brooklyn-based Sara Antoinette Martin takes familiar subjects of cryptozoology, symbols of Freemasonry, and tattoo flash art and presents them in highly graphic and surreal forms. The bold arrangement of commonly-known-but-mysterious imagery forces viewers to revisit their preconceptions about truth, legend, and aesthetics.

The surreal art of Tran Nguyen has a faded, antique look, but the subjects are timeless.The Savannah, GA-based artist depicts young, beautiful subjects in dark settings--surrounded by melancholy and/or ectoplasm, if not actually emitting them from their pores. The effect is strangely hypnotic and hauntingly beautiful.

Sylvia Park is a New York City-based artist who depicts an imperfect real world with perfect lines. Using only contours, she is able to create out hyper real scenes with depth and feeling. Her precision line work is highly effective for editorial purposes publications, but wavers just enough to convey subtle emotion and urge closer viewing in a gallery setting.

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 to 10:00 on Saturday, January 16. 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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Christmas is yet to come and GRNY is already thinking about next year. Our inaugural show for 2010 is titled Playful Extremities and features the talents of Louise Chen, Hellen Jo, Sara Antoinette Martin, Tran Nguyen and Sylvia Park. We're excited to be starting 2010 with such a strong showing of talented artists. Please enjoy this preview of things to come.



Tran Nguyen, Live for Sake.



Louise Chen, First Breath.



Louise Chen, Playing In The Jungle.



Eels I, Sara Antoinette Martin.



Eels II, Sara Antoinette Martin.



Eels III, Sara Antoinette Martin.

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