March 3: Short Circuit Art Opening @ Benjamin Benjamin Art Gallery | Robot Art
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From press release:
Short Circuit Opening Reception
Thursday, March 3
5-8 p.m. | FREE
Show runs March 3- April 2
Benjamin Benjamin Art Gallery
1720 NW Lovejoy Street
Two nationally published artists bring their robotic art to Portland!! Eric Joyner's Robots and Donuts and Paul Guinan's Boilerplate, Mechanical Marvel of the 19th Century.
Eric Joyner's series Robots and Donuts is well described by the title. Each image feels as if it was taken from your own adolescent imagination, vibrant colorful robots battling advancing donuts, robot bar fights, robots stealing and boxing. This show can only be described as awesome!
Paul Guinan invites you to meet Boilerplate, the world's first robot soldier—not in a present-day military lab or a science-fiction movie, but in the past, during one of the most fascinating periods of U.S. history. Designed by Professor Archibald Campion in 1893 as a prototype, for the self-proclaimed purpose of "preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations," Boilerplate charged into combat alongside such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia. Campion and his robot also circled the planet with the U.S. Navy, trekked to the South Pole, made silent movies, and hobnobbed with the likes of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla. Part Jules Verne and part Zelig, it's great for a broad range of fans of science fiction, history, and robots. Boilerplate was recently acquired by J.J. Abrams to produce as a major motion picture for Paramount Studios.
