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reCovered: Parsons Illustration Alumnus Garrett Pruter’s work featured in group show.

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Parsons Illustration Alumnus Garrett Pruter (’10) is one of five artists featured in the international collage show “reCovered” at frosch&portmann.  The opening reception is Thursday, June 30th from 6-8 p.m., and the show is up until August 21st.

Collage by Garrett Pruter

“‘reCovered’ brings together artists working with materials originally not intended for painting, gluing or cutting: Magazines, family photographs, shooting practice targets. The artists in the exhibition recombine and reinterpret their original found material and thus create a whole new imagery — a recovered picture.

The works in the show play with the disappearance and fragmentation of the human figure; heads are covered with paint, faces pasted over, whole bodies cut out.”
                                                                                                       -description from show announcement

reCovered
frosch&portmann
53 Stanton Street, NY, NY 10002
June 30 – August 21, 2011
Opening Reception: June 30, 6-8pm

Josh Cochran in Copenhagen

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Parsons Illustration Alumni William Hatch Crosby and Leslie Robertson (both class of ’11) just got back from Copenhagen, Denmark—where they helped Parsons Illustration Faculty Josh Cochran paint a 40-foot-tall mural on the outside of a building!

In addition to being “4 stories of illustration” (-Leslie), the mural serves as promotion for Josh’s solo show at Rumkammerat Gallery, across the street.

Left: Josh and Leslie, scaffolding,  Right:  in front of a job well done.

Will, tending to a tie

Left: a view from beneath,  Right: “context,” and “environment”

Josh’s solo show at Rumkammerat Gallery, “Travels,” will be up until August 13th.  The mural is permanent.

Art13 Benefit Auction

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PS126 / Manhattan Academy of Technology is holding its annual Art13 Benefit Auction on Tuesday, June 21st. The auction helps to fund the school’s art program, as well as being an opportunity to showcase work by the students of school. The event is being hosted by Cey Adams of Def Jam records and will be held at Lombard-Freid Projects.

The auction includes work from current and recent Parsons Illustration Faculty members Melinda Beck, Gregory Benton, Edward del Rosario, James Gallagher, Jordin Isip, Tara McPherson and Chang Park as well as Illustration Alumni William Hatch Crosby, AJ Fosik, Hiro Kurata, Paula Searing and Hazel Lee Santino. Jordin Isip helped to organize the event and collect the work.  Over 50 students from PS126 will also be featured in the exhibit.

Clockwise, starting at top left: Chang Park, Hiro Kurata, Edward del Rosario, Tara McPherson, Hazel Lee Santino, AJ Fosik.

Tickets are $20, or $10 for students. The auction runs from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. (bidding on items ends at 8).

Lombard-Freid Projects
518 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011

More about the event.
Online gallery for PS126 students.
Some of the artwork donated for the auction.

Student Showcase: Rachel Levit

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Parsons Illustration Senior Rachel Levit (’12) is this month’s featured Up-and-Coming Illustrator on the book/art blog Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast.  The article includes an interview with Rachel and a great selection of her work.


You can see more of Rachel’s work here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51468196@N08/
http://levit-ate.blogspot.com/

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“Pre-cinematic technology takes over the Dorothy B. Williams Theater at HERE for a week of contemporary Cantastoria, cooked up by puppeteers, artists & craftspeople from across the country.  A millennium-old art form is rejuvenated and re-imaged, as performers animate paintings and banners with puppets, sung texts, jokes, songs & stories.

Each unique program features several original shorts on a given theme, and the festival kicks off with a FREE opening celebration, presented by Great Small Works at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park.”                                                                     — from a flyer for the show


The festival begins Sunday June 19th with the free show from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Pier 1 in DUMBO, Brooklyn and featuring: The Dolly Wagglers, Great Small Works, Theater Oobleck, Chinese Theater Works, Possibilitarian Puppet & Mask Theater and Greatest Smallest Band.

The festival continues at HERE, from Wednesday the 22nd through Sunday the 26th with one or more programs per day. Programs cost $20, or two for $30.

For more information, head over to the Banners & Cranks blog.


A set of four hand-printed linocut posters for the event designed by Clare Dolan and Dave Buchen (shown here) are also available for a contribution of $40.  Donations/contributions may be made on the Banners & Cranks blog.

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Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing

Parsons Illustration adjunct faculty member Mike Perry has just published a new book–Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing.  Pulled is a collection of design by various different designers working in the medium of screen printing:

“Popularized in the 1960s by Pop artists like Andy Warhol, screen printing remains a favorite among artists due to its versatility, duplicability, and relatively low cost. In Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing, best-selling author Mike Perry (Hand Job, Over and Over) collects the work of more than forty of today’s most talented designers who are, in their own way, pushing the boundaries of this dynamic medium.”                                               – description from Mike’s website

Mike is also the author/curator of Hand Job: A Catalog of Type, and Over & Over: A Catalog of Hand-Drawn Patterns.

An exhibition related to the book’s release is at Yes Gallery in Cincinatti, OH through July 27th.

Yes Gallery
1417 Main St.
Cincinatti, OH 45202

Purchase book via Amazon.com

Farewell, friends

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A note from Rosemary, your trusty administrator/operations guru/blogger/clutterbug.

After seven years, I am moving on to new adventures outside this beautiful city.  In mid-June, I will start a new job at the University Archives in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University. While I am excited to explore different territories and meet different folks, it’s bittersweet of course.  I love the time I’ve spent at Parsons and in the Illustration program, but at the same time, I am eager to start a new career as an archivist and librarian.  This shouldn’t seem like a major stretch to anyone that knows me–my bag has always been books and weird old stuff, the things that other people pack away in boxes, the oddities, ephemeral history and beauty of all kinds.

It’s good to move on, I suppose.  No, I know it’s good (and important) to move on.  Even if it’s difficult.

What a lucky thing to be surrounded by beautiful art and beautiful people!  I am thankful for everyone that welcomed me into this job, everyone that supported the work I did, and everyone that showed me kindness along the way.

Good luck to us all.