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Classic videogames like Street Fighter and Ms. Pac-Man inspired the artists whose works will be displayed in the Game Over 3 exhibition.
Put on by geek magazine turned art, design and clothing purveyor Giant Robot, the group gallery show will feature pieces from dozens of illustrators, painters, cartoonists, artists and game designers.
Game Over 3 runs Friday through Sunday at the Giant Robot store, 618 Shrader St., in San Francisco, California. Check out Wired.com’s preview of the show for an early look at the work that’ll be up for sale.
Silvio Porretta’s playful and somewhat perverse Play With Me painting features a life-size joystick protruding from the crotch of a life-size pixel person. Porretta is a videogame industry veteran since 1990 who contributed art to the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series.
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Ico and Yorda from the 2001 PlayStation 2 game Ico are rendered in watercolor by cartoonist Anthony Wu. Wu has previously painted Chun Li from Street Fighter and hopes to complete a lovely portrait inspired by Grim Fandango for the gallery.
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Jeremy Tinder’s Katamari piece incorporates characters, pick-ups and items from a dozen classic videogames. How many can you name?
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Painter and comic book creator Jeremy Tinder created this tribute to the hungry wizard from Gauntlet.
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Mark Giglio boils down the color scheme from the classic Atari game Pitfall! into an abstract exercise in design. Giglio, a designer from Oakland, California, also works in wood.
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Designer Mark Giglio portrays retro portable gaming with clean lines, reserving the sole use of color for the original GameBoy’s LCD screen. Giglio’s graphic work has been used by Apple and Nike.
Artist Matt Furie collaborated with Aiyana Udesen on this portrayal of Ms. Pac-Man on a tandem bike with Baby Pac-Man.
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Matt Furie riffs on Mortal Kombat with a blue-tinged version of Goro accompanied by a tiny, purple tot. Furie’s humor comic, Boy’s Club, is published by revered art-comic outfit Buenaventura Press.
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Illustrator Aiyana Udesen sketches the Bejeweled grid in color pencil. Last year, Udesen’s portraits were exhibited at Los Angeles’ excellent comic book shop Secret Headquarters.
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Left: Street Fighter brawlers Rufus and Oro kick up dust in this piece by Shawn Cheng. Note the Giant Robot mascot in the right side of the image.
Right: Shawn Cheng pits Necro against Dhalsim in this Street Fighter -inspired illustration. Cheng is currently collaborating on a series of illustrations inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.
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Paul Hornscheimeier’s abstract portrayal of Q*bert ditches literal cubism in favor of an exploration of the square inspired by Wassily Kandinsky.