Eric Joyner's new show of robot paintings

Posted by David Pescovitz, September 5, 2008 5:43 AM | permalink

Painter Eric Joyner brings his delightful robots back to Culver City's Corey Helford Gallery for a new solo show opening tomorrow night, September 6. The new collection, titled Artificial Enlightenment, features the machines in their day-to-day lives involving donut factories, motorcycle rides, and steam train catastrophes. According to the gallery, Joyner is "inspired by science fiction, toys, and Brandywine artists and illustrators of the 1900’s." The full show is also viewable online.
Eric Joyner's Artificial Enlightenment, Corey Helford Gallery

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#1 posted by eustace , September 5, 2008 6:29 AM

Wow. It's all there - robots, doughnuts, steam power...

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#2 posted by geo the moose , September 5, 2008 7:05 AM

at first, I was like, waaaait a minute, those robots shouldn't be using the doghnuts they made to power their massive steam engines, that doesn't compute... then I saw that their *world* was made out of doughnuts, and it was like, ok...

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#3 posted by Jeff , September 5, 2008 7:20 AM

I have that same robot standing next to me. Fun stuff. Any robot collectors in here? (I do not count Transformers as robots.)

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#4 posted by Kat Johnston , September 5, 2008 9:09 AM

This is actually the first time I have seen his work (I'm not sure I should be admitting that), but I rather like it. Just having a look through his gallery of paintings from 2007, I really enjoy the painterly feel to the pieces, seeing brush-strokes and a textural quality which seems often lost in artworks I see with this sort of sci-fi element. Very beautifully executed.

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#5 posted by Thomas J. Brown

, September 5, 2008 10:23 AM

What a delightful tribute to Lewis Hine.

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#6 posted by artbot , September 5, 2008 11:16 AM

I love these! And it's nice to see some paintings not by Amy Crehore.

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#7 posted by DWittSF , September 5, 2008 2:08 PM

I'm looking at a Joyner on my office wall as I type this; he has a series which uses Rock 'em Sock 'em robots in various classic depictions. My print has the Red robot throwing a knockout punch sending the Blue robot through the ropes and into the crowd--a bunch of retro robots looking on in awe. This always makes me smile.

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#8 posted by GHM327 , September 6, 2008 9:02 PM

this new series seems to have the feel of a storyboard layout for a film!

i would love to see "that film" get made!

would anyone agree?