The Cloudrider

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The Cloudrider by Amy Van Gilder and Luciano Martinez

Fabric, Wood, and Acrylic, 13.5″ x 10.5″ x 10.5″

Amy Van Gilder

Current Exhibition at Flower Pepper Gallery: 6th Year Anniversary Show from October 21st to 28th, 2017

Previous Exhibitions at Flower Pepper Gallery:
- Summer Mood: A Cash & Carry Exhibition from July 1st to 26th, 2017
- Being A Panda from May 6th to 31st, 2017
- Wild Heart from February 4th – March 6th, 2017
- Mini Tale from November 19th to December 8th, 2016
- I Wish I Had Friends Like That! curated by Amy Van Gilder from October 15th to November 15th, 2016
- Special Window Installations for Flower Pepper Gallery
- Flower Pepper Box – Small Box
- Cash And Carry

Artist Biography:
Puppetmaker and designer Amy Van Gilder’s career spans five decades. She was one of the earliest designers in the New York Muppet Workshop, hired in 1976 during the first season of The Muppet Show. She worked alongside Jim Henson in Elstree Studios, England, heading up the Muppet Workshop during the filming of The Muppet Show. She created puppets for iconic episodes including those featuring Diana Ross, Christopher Reeve and Dudley Moore, and was nominated, alongside other members of the team, for two Emmy Awards and won a Peabody Award. Van Gilder also worked as a puppet maker and designer on The Dark Crystal, The Muppets Go Hollywood, The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Labyrinth and Fraggle Rock. In 1990, Van Gilder moved with her family to Los Angeles, where she worked first at the Disney Figure Finishing Department, before becoming a Walt Disney Imagineer. In 1996, she took a sabbatical from Disney to work on the TV series Muppets Tonight. Over the past 3 years, she has collaborated with the Flower Pepper Gallery on window designs. Van Gilder graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, and currently lives in Pasadena.
Amy Van Gilder has done numerous memorable special window installations for our gallery! We are truly grateful for Amy’s creativity and talent!

“Amy Van Gilder was one of the earliest designers in the NY Muppet Workshop, hired during the first season of The Muppet Show. She left Henson for a time in the early 1980s to start a family, but returned to work on Muppets Tonight. She also had a cameo alongside Jim Henson in The Great Muppet Caper, as a patron of The Dubonnet Club.

She was later hired by The Walt Disney Company in the Imagineering Department, where she currently helps with integrating the newly acquired Muppets property into their theme parks. Her achievements there include design and theming concepts for Lucky the Dinosaur, the first in a series of free-roving Audio-Animatronics in Disney’s Living Character Initiative, which would later include the Muppet Mobile Labs.

Amy Van Gilder’s children are journalist Sonia van Gilder Cooke and photographer Bartholomew Cooke. Sonia van Gilder Cooke mentioned her mother as her “role model” in an interview with The Sunday Times of London.” – Muppet Wiki

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Amy_Van_Gilder

Artist’s IMDB Page:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0886938/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Luciano Martinez

Previous Exhibitions at Flower Pepper Gallery:
- I Wish I Had Friends Like That! curated by Amy Van Gilder from October 15th to November 15th, 2016
- Pandamonium from June 7th to 27th, 2014
- Of History And Hope from April 5th to May 2nd, 2014
- Twice – Told Tales from January 25th to February 28th, 2014
- Handmade Christmas Ornaments Sale from December 3rd to December 31st, 2013

Artist Biography:
Luciano Martinez’s career started as an illustrator. He later attended the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California for graphic design. Luciano’s main focus at the Art Center was branding experience and contemporary design.

Luciano has worked with such brands as Redbull Energy Drinks, 2 Rodeo, Paper Culture, Urban Decay, Colgate, The Bellevue Collection and has collaborated with design companies like Maddocks and Co., Ad*itive Advertising, Disney’s Research and Development Lab, Mousetrappe, StudioC323, and The Bezark Company.

In addition to commercial design, Luciano has created an independent art experience titled My Friends Love Me. The MFLM project consists of creating illustrations and designs that will convey the human need to find connections with one’s past experiences.

Clients Have Included:
Red Bull Energy Drink, 2 Rodeo, Disney, Ad*itive Advertising, Coral Tree Cafe, The Bellevue Collection, Lumina Hotels, One Scottsdale, Paper Culture, The Wall-Las Memorias Project, Psychoanalytic Center of California, The Voyager Group, Alphamale Skincare, Pro Club Clothing, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Urban Decay Cosmetics, Barenaked Yogurt, Lectura Books, Thrive Infant Family Program, Stickam.Com, MTZ Vacuum Services, Higuero Photography, Maddocks & Co., Extraordinary Events, Colgate, El Nido Family Services, Office of Aids Programs and Policy, Merclab, Hispanic Professional Network, Sweet & Tender Hooligans (Music), E.L. Doran Public Relations, Airzone Services, Just Fabulous Style.Com, Good Thinking Marketing, Mousetrappe, and The Village Kitchen.

Artist Websites:
http://www.lucianojmartinez.com
http://www.blopopmagazine.com

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