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“Bunny Blossom”
digital, 2005
The second image in our “Seasons of the Rabbit” series. This image popped into Dan’s head as a follow up to “Uprisings” once it was apparent that people really liked that image. Unlike “Uprisings” which a very direct homage to a specific work by a specific artist, “Bunny Blossom” was more just evocative of a classic type of Japanese image common in woodblock print, featuring some flowering branches in an interesting composition (often the ukiyo-e masters would include birds on the branches, but Dan decided not do so in this piece). Dan continued the theme of turning one natural element (this time the cherry blossoms) into rabbits.
One thing of note is that this piece was originally made longer for the long sold out archival limited edition print, but in order to make the poster a similar spect ratio to the “Uprisings” poster we cropped the bottom off the image for the poster release (which can be purchased HERE).
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“By the Crystal’s Light”
2018
Dan play a bit in the dark with Kozy’s sculptures for new new exhibition, “Growing Into Roots”, before we delivered them to GR2 Gallery. Super fun to imagine the world her bunny primitive sculptures live in - their social structures, their recreation, their rituals, all the oddities, as well as parallels to our own world.
I think we have some similar ideas about the world the characters inhabit, and what they are like, but we don’t discuss it between us too much - the sculptures just exist in our own personal worlds, and we expect each viewer of the exhibition will fill out their own version of the bunny primitive world.
Some of these one-of-a-kind, hand built ceramic sculptures are still available for purchase HERE on Giant Robot’s web store.
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38 of the 140+ new bunny primitive sculptures Kozy made for her solo show, “Growing Into Roots”, at Giant Robot. The exhibition runs September 8-26th, 2018. Remaining sculptures are available at Giant Robot’s Web Store now!
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Purchase available artworks HERE!
“Growing Into Roots” is the new exhibition by Kozy Kitchens at Giant Robot 2 - GR2 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition will be on viewSeptember 8th, 2018 through September 26th, 2018.
Giant Robot GR2 Gallery
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 20025
www.giantrobot.com
Kozy is presenting an installation of over 160 new ceramic sculptures, including 140+ new figures in her ongoing “Bunny Primitive” series, as well as glowing crystal sculptures, wind chimes, and sound objects.
From Kozy:
“This summer I had the honor of attending the prestigious residency program at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park in Shiga prefecture, Japan, to further my exploration of ceramics, a medium that I have developed a passion for in the last 6 years. It was a humbling experience to learn traditional techniques and to use the traditional wood fueled kilns, as well as discover that all the local clays and different techniques of glazing and firing employed in my home country for centuries. During my 3 month stay at the residency I chose to make learning about these techniques, about my own cultural heritage, my priority. I continued working with the same ” bunny primitive" forms I had been creating in the US, and found so much joy in discovering these parts of my culture I wasn’t aware of before.
It’s struck me that I had left Japan in 1997 as a teenager, wanting to escape what I thought of as a rigid, staid culture, for the relative excitement and artistic freedom of the USA. I have made a good life here in Los Angeles over the last two decades, and have been fortunate to make a living from my artistic practice, but I have missed my family and thought of this residency as a good excuse to see more of them while I continued to work. What I found, though, was a new appreciation for my own heritage. Maybe it is just a function of having been away so long, or the newly chaotic cultural climate in the US these last few years, or maybe I have just matured enough to appreciate Japanese culture (a culture that, unlike American culture, really reveres, and in many ways is geared toward, older people). Probably it is a combination of all these things, but whatever the case, attending the residency, and creating the works I am presenting in this exhibition, altered my direction in life, and gave me a new understanding of my identity. “
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(viahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miCJK3fKJZE)
“Growing Into Roots” is the new exhibition by Kozy Kitchens opening Saturday, September 8th, 2018 at Giant Robot 2 - GR2 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition will be on view through September 26th, 2018.
Remaining sculptures are now available on Giant Robot’s web store! Click Here to view them.
Giant Robot GR2 Gallery
2062 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 20025
www.giantrobot.com
(424) 246-7626
Kozy is presenting an installation of over 160 new ceramic sculptures, including 140+ new figures in her ongoing “Bunny Primitive” series.
From Kozy:
“This summer I had the honor of attending the prestigious residency program at the Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park in Shiga prefecture, Japan, to further my exploration of ceramics, a medium that I have developed a passion for in the last 6 years. It was a humbling experience to learn traditional techniques and to use the traditional wood fueled kilns, as well as discover that all the local clays and different techniques of glazing and firing employed in my home country for centuries. During my 3 month stay at the residency I chose to make learning about these techniques, about my own cultural heritage, my priority. I continued working with the same ” bunny primitive" forms I had been creating in the US, and found so much joy in discovering these parts of my culture I wasn’t aware of before.
It’s struck me that I had left Japan in 1997 as a teenager, wanting to escape what I thought of as a rigid, staid culture, for the relative excitement and artistic freedom of the USA. I have made a good life here in Los Angeles over the last two decades, and have been fortunate to make a living from my artistic practice, but I have missed my family and thought of this residency as a good excuse to see more of them while I continued to work. What I found, though, was a new appreciation for my own heritage. Maybe it is just a function of having been away so long, or the newly chaotic cultural climate in the US these last few years, or maybe I have just matured enough to appreciate Japanese culture (a culture that, unlike American culture, really reveres, and in many ways is geared toward, older people). Probably it is a combination of all these things, but whatever the case, attending the residency, and creating the works I am presenting in this exhibition, altered my direction in life, and gave me a new understanding of my identity. “
Our exhibition “Going Home” at Giant Robot’s GR2 Gallery is already about 77% sold after the opening weekend, but there are still gems to be had! Check out their website for all the available work (they have conveniently been moving the available pieces to the top of the 9 pages of listings to make it easier - thank you Giant Robot for everything!):
GR2: Going Home - kozyndan exhibition
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We are back in Los Angeles this month to finally finish moving out of our house here, and sending the rest of our stuff to our place in Japan. Its a hectic process to finish before the end of the year, but Eric Nakamura thought it would be fun to add to the hecticness by suggesting we move up our show scheduled at his Giant Robot GR2 Gallery from February to THIS WEEKEND! Being crazy, we opted to GO FOR IT, and are now having an opening this Saturday, DECEMBER 18th at GR2 in West LA! Reception 6-9PM December 18. We’ll be there! On view till January 11.
The show, entitled “Going Home”, is essentially two different shows - one part is a new collection of kozy’s “Bunny Primitive” ceramic sculptures that she made in wood fire kilns near our home in the Japanese countryside over the past year, and the second part will be an assortment of drawings and sketches we are pulling from our 20 year archives as we clear out our studio in Los Angeles. it should be an interesting look at our process over the years…
If you are in Los Angeles, please come to check out the exhibition!
On a related note, it has been about 19.5 years since Eric first suggested we have an art show at his little shop in West LA. he had never put on an art show, and we were still in college at the time. Two weeks after we graduated, in June of 2002, our little show opened in the OG Giant Robot Store on Sawtelle, the first ever show Giant Robot put on. It is fitting that this is where put on the the last show before we move out of Los Angeles (and the US)!
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achilles shieldmaidens
giant robot— meet gianter robot XD
sketching out some important future scenes for the book
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achilles shieldmaidens, my new mecha comic has now been updated on deviantart as well. it is a patreon funded comic and released early on patreon and then later on deviantart
enjoy. pdf here. it’s a sfw comic series so you should be able to download it without a deviantart acocunt
https://www.deviantart.com/shiniez/art/Achilles-Shieldmaidens-updated-881375970
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HOW is this all one robot??
I did a beach.
“White hair and white shoes, neon green beach with a faded blue”
That’s not how it goes but that is how I hear it.
Evil emperors of fictional rangers monsters
Inktober, day 21–just a couple of introverts taking on a giant robot. (FayeJean is getting rid of the paparazzi.)
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The Caliban is essentially an angry wolverine pinball that exists solely to bully and humiliate mechs three times it’s size and smear them across the interior bulkheads with it’s Very Big Shotgun (Done for the Mechs in Motion Kickstarter: http://kck.st/35em98U)
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AU: Titanic is going to Japan and Jack finds his way in to pursue his dream of building the world’s first mecha, in hope to use it to help the world. On the way he meets Rose, an sci-fi writer and lover of mechanics.
‘Agori Warsuit’ a little design I came up with years ago when I was fresh out of Uni. Thought it would be fun to revamp an old idea. What do ya all think?
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Giant Robo and Daisakue ready to lay a several ton smack-down on Big Fire!!
Sorry for the inconsistency of posts, I’ll try to get back on track!
