Robert X. Burden did a video interview with Electric Playground that was posted a year ago, where he explains his interest in creating art based upon the cheap, plastic toys from his childhood – as well as the childhoods of everyone who was born during the seventies and eighties. He will be opening his show Toy Box in the Shooting Gallery on Saturday May 11, from 7-11 PM. In the interview, Burden discusses the inherent irony of spending hours to produce large-scale, ornate, and unique representations of a mass produced product. Irony aside, Burden’s work is not solely a commentary on commodification; Burden captures an authentic sense of wonderment in how these toys appeared to the eyes of a child. This is the artist’s first solo show with us, though he was most recently featured in White Walls Winter Group Show back in 2025. We think it’s certainly time for his own exhibition!

Toy Box, A Solo Show by Robert Xavier Burden
Opening Reception – Saturday, May 11, 7-11 pm
On View Through June 01, 2025
@ Shooting Gallery (shootinggallerysf.com)
886 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

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