Monday, April 21, 2014

SuperAwesome: Art and Giant Robot

SuperAwesome: Art and Giant Robot

April 19–July 27, 2014

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of groundbreaking alternative art and culture magazine Giant Robot, OMCA features the major exhibition, SuperAwesome: Art and Giant Robot featuring works by 15 contemporary artists who have been a part of the magazine's social and cultural evolution. Co-curated by Giant Robot visionary Eric Nakamura and OMCA’s Associate Curator of Art & Material Culture Carin Adams, SuperAwesome presents new or recent works by California and international-based artists affiliated with the influential magazine that brought Asian, trans-Pacific popular culture to mainstream audiences in the United States. Artworks in the exhibition represent a range of mediums, including mural art, sculpture, illustration, portraiture, large-scale installations, graphic novels, photography, and more.

Featured artists include: Ako Castuera Sean Chao David Choe Luke Chueh Hamburger Eyes Andrew Hem James Jean kozyndan Masakatsu Sashie Shizu Saldamando Rob Sato Amy Sol Deth P Sun Adrian Tomine

Over the past 20 years, the Giant Robot brand has expanded to include retail stores and galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, a restaurant, museum and gallery exhibitions, and a popular website. It has also become an important outlet for a generation of emerging artists, several of whom have achieved mainstream success—such as Adrian Tomine, whose work has graced many New Yorker covers, and James Jean, whose is best known for his work for Prada, ESPN, and Atlantic Records.

SuperAwesome: Art and Giant Robot
Through July 27th, 2014
Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St. Oakland, CA



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