Eric Joyner
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Eric Joyner in 2013
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| Born | 1959/1960 (age 64–65) San Mateo, California |
| Residence | San Francisco, California, US |
| Occupation | Artist |
Eric Joyner (born c. 1960)[1] is a contemporary American artist whose body of work has focused on robots and donuts.[2]
Early life and career
Joyner grew up in San Mateo, California, and spent some time in Medford, Oregon, after his family moved there.[1] He was always interested in art and attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.[3] He began working as a commercial illustrator in 1984[4] and created the cover art for several video games, such as Tales of the Unknown, Volume I: The Bard's Tale, Realm of Impossibility, and Archon II: Adept.
Robots and donuts
In 1999, he chose to focus only on topics that he likes. After having collected Japanese toy robots as a hobby, he chose to use them as subjects. In 2002, he felt that he needed another element to work off of.[3] Inspired by the film Pleasantville, in which Jeff Daniels paints donuts, Joyner added donuts.[1] The donuts have been featured as both objects of desire and adversaries to the robots.[5]
Several of his paintings are used as set pieces in the TV show The Big Bang Theory.[6] An adaptation of his 2007 work "The Collator", "Submerged", is featured on the album cover for the Ben Folds Five album The Sound of the Life of the Mind.[7]
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