Category Archives: Exhibitions

Der Spiegel Exhibition at Parsons Illustration

November 13, 2008Events, Exhibitions, Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Industrybarbara berry, der spiegel, Illustration, magazines, parsons illustrationamt

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In conjunction with the upcoming PICTURING POLITICS symposium, the Illustration Program at Parsons The New School for Design invites you to a reception for an exhibition of illustrated covers for Der Spiegel magazine this coming Friday, November 14th, at 6 p.m. The reception will be held at the Parsons Illustration lobby at 2 W 13th street, 8th floor, and the exhibit will be on view until November 30th.

Der Spiegel is one of the most significant political magazines in Europe. It was founded in Germany in 1947, only two years after the fall of the Nazi regime, and it marked the beginning of a liberal era in Germany.

Since its beginning, Der Spiegel has employed some of the world’s most talented illustrators and caricaturists. The exhibition this Friday will feature illustrated covers from various decades – covers that give witness to Germany’s reconstruction after WWII, its political division during the Cold War, and finally, to the realities it has faced since its reunification, as a nation in a global world.

Please join us and Barbara Berry from Der Spiegel for this event on Friday.

Der Spiegel Illustrated Covers
Illustration Department
2 W. 13th, 8th floor lobby
Reception: November 14th, 6 p.m.

Last Second First

October 29, 2008Events, Exhibitions, Illustration Alumni, Illustration Facultycat lauigan, edward del rosario, isb gallery, james gallagher, jordin isip, last second first, liz lee, narrative art, rhode island, risdamt

If you’re in the Providence, RI area, you should check out this show, curated by Parsons Part-time Faculty Jordin Isip and featuring a host of narrative works by other Parsons Illustration folks, including:

William Buzzell (alum)
James Gallagher (part-time faculty)
Jordin Isip (part-time faculty)
Cat Lauigan (alum)
Liz Lee (alum)
Edward del Rosario (part-time faculty)

The grand opening is tomorrow night, October 30th and the show is up through November 30th so drop in and see it if you can. Congrats to Jordin and all the other artists and involved!

Last Second First
ISB Gallery
Rhode Island School of Design
2 Canal Walk, Providence, Rhode Island

Pat Cummings and the Dillons featured in The Original Art Show

October 24, 2008Events, Exhibitions, Illustration Alumni, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, Newsleo and diane dillon, parsons illustration alumni, parsons illustration faculty, pat cummings, Society of Illustrators, the original art showamt

Art from Illustration Part-time Faculty Pat Cummings’ book Harvey Moon Museum Boy, will be featured in The Original Art show that goes up this month at the Society of Illustrators alongside a host of other wonderful artists including Parsons alums David Ezra Stein and Julian Hector. Here’s a preview:

Make sure to check out Pat’s amazing work as well as all the other fine artists included in the show like Leo and Diane Dillon (Parsons Illustration Alums), who are receiving a Lifetime Achievement award for their outstanding art over the years.

The Original Art Show
October 16 through November 26, 2008
Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street
New York, NY

[top images by Pat Cummings; bottom image from Northern Lullabye by Leo and Diane Dillon]

Repost and Reminder: Retrospective of Blab!

October 17, 2008Events, Exhibitions, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, Publicationsblab!, monte beauchamp, nora krug, steveamt

“BLAB!: A Retrospective” opened August 1, 2008 at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art on the campus of Kansas State University. The exhibition will be on view through November 2, 2008. It is the first American museum exhibition devoted to the work of BLAB!, Monte Beauchamp’s periodic anthology of sequential and comic art, illustration, painting, and printmaking. The exhibition, which focuses on BLAB! #8-18 (1995-2007), features the work of forty-six artists and includes 150 works of art from thirty-nine collections.

This exhibition features an eclectic gathering of stylistically varied work by alternative comics artists, illustrators, graphic designers, printmakers, and painters from BLAB!, the annual anthology of visual art produced by Chicago-based graphic designer and art director Monte Beauchamp.

BLAB! began in 1986 as a self-published fanzine (fan-produced magazine) devoted to MAD magazine and other EC Comics publications. Today it is a significant outlet for a wide variety of contemporary artists. BLAB!‘s influence has cut a broad swath across contemporary visual culture. It has helped launch many artists’ careers. It has introduced American audiences to important contemporary European graphic and comics artists. And, it has contributed meaningfully to the blurring of boundaries between alternative graphics and mainstream illustration. All of the work in this exhibition has been featured in BLAB!.

Artists in exhibition:

Michael Bartalos, Gary Baseman, Richard Beards, Tim Biskup, Stéphane Blanquet, Calef Brown, Greg Clarke, The Clayton Brothers, Sue Coe, Don Colley, Brian Cronin, Nicolas Debon, Douglas Fraser, Drew Friedman, Geoffrey Grahn, Steven Guarnaccia (Illustration Department Chair), Ryan Heshka, Peter Hoey, Tom Huck, Teresa James, Jeffrey Kamberos, Nora Krug (Illustration Department Faculty), Peter Kuper (Illustration Department Alum), Mark Landman, Laura Levine, MATS!?, Walter Minus, Christian Northeast, John Pound, Archer Prewitt, CJ Pyle, Helge Reumann, Xavier Robel, Spain, Jonathon Rosen, Marc Rosenthal, Sergio Ruzzier (Illustration Department Faculty), David Sandlin, Bob Staake, Fred Stonehouse, Mark Todd, Chris Ware, and Esther Pearl Watson.

The accompanying 128-page, full-color catalogue was designed by Monte Beauchamp and contains contributions by David A. Beronä, Mark Frauenfelder, Matt Dukes Jordan, and Bill North.

Related Events

Sept. 18 – Gallery talk by Bill North, senior curator, Beach Museum of Art, 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 25 – Lecture, “From Highbrow Comics to Lowbrow Art: The Shifting Contexts of the Comics Art Object” by Bart Beaty, noted comics scholar and associate professor of communications studies, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary, 5:30 p.m.

Oct. 23 – Artist talks by Steven Guarnaccia and Nora Krug, associate professors, illustration department, Parsons: The New School for Design, 5:30 p.m.

You can see installation views on Flickr and grab your own Blab! here.

Blab!: A Retrospective
August 1st-November 2nd, 2008
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Kansas State University
701 Beach Lane (14th & Anderson Ave.)
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-7718

Reminder and Repost: Kim Deitch Retrospective

October 13, 2008Exhibitions, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industrybill kartalopoulos, comics, Illustration, kim deitch, moccaamt

MoCCA is hosting a fantastic artistic survey of legendary comic artist Kim Deitch. Even better, the exhibition is curated by Parsons Illustration faculty Bill Kartalopoulos. Here’s the official press release:

Kim Deitch: A Retrospective will display original comics pages and other work covering the artist’s entire career to date, beginning with full-page comic strips drawn for the East Village Other in the sixties up to recent graphic novels including The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Alias the Cat, Shadowland, and Deitch’s Pictorama. The exhibit will also feature rarely seen work including elaborate preparatory drawings, hand-colored originals, animation cel set-ups and lithographs.

Kim Deitch was born in Los Angeles in 1944, the eldest son of Oscar-wining animator Gene Deitch (Tom Terrific, Munro). Deitch studied at the Pratt Institute, traveled with the Norwegian Merchant Marines and worked at a mental institution before joining the burgeoning underground press in 1967. As an early contributor to the East Village Other and the editor of Gothic Blimp Works, Kim Deitch was a charter member of the underground comix scene that exploded with the 1968 publication of Robert Crumb’s Zap #1. Forty years later, he stands alongside Crumb, Bill Griffith, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Art Spiegelman as one the most notable and prolific artists to emerge from that milieu. In addition to his comic books and graphic novels, Deitch’s work has appeared in venues including RAW, Weirdo, Arcade, Details, the L.A. Weekly, McSweeney’s, Nickelodeon Magazine, and The New Yorker.

“Kim Deitch’s career spans the entire post-war history of avant-garde comics, from the underground to the literary mainstream,” said exhibit curator Bill Kartalopoulos. “Deitch brilliantly weaves vast intergenerational narratives that enfold a deep history of American popular entertainment. Distinctions between fiction and reality blur in his meta-fictional world just as real madness bleeds into the visions and schemes of the artists, entertainers, and hustlers who populate his stories. The result is a rich narrative tapestry as compelling and as breathtaking as Deitch’s densely layered, tightly woven, and intricately detailed black and white comics pages.”

Deitch’s body of work stretches outward from comics to embrace a spectrum of visual-narrative modes, including extra-textual single images and illustrated prose modeled after Victorian illustrated fiction. His most recent book is Deitch’s Pictorama, a collection of illustrated fiction produced in collaboration with brothers Seth and Simon Deitch. The exhibit includes several examples of Deitch’s career-long experimentation with text/image modes.

MoCCA will publish an original poster and 1″ button featuring the “Sunshine Girl” character who stars both in Deitch’s earliest and most recent work. The Museum will also host a series of talks and events related to the exhibit.

• Exhibition dates: Through December 5, 2008

MoCCA
594 Broadway, Suite 401, between Houston and Prince
New York, NY 10012

Tara McPherson works in Rome

October 8, 2008Events, Exhibitions, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, Newsdoothy circus gallery, Illustration, parsons illustration faculty, rome, tara mcphersonamt

Parsons Part-time Faculty Tara McPherson gave us the scoop on an upcoming exhibition of new works called “Inside Nostalgia,” at the Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome:

I have done 4 large new paintings for this exhibition, and will include a couple small ones as well. These new pieces deal with concepts within the theme of this show; How the dead miss the living and vice versa. These new paintings deal with some much darker subject matter than I usually paint. I had a great time working on them. Please contact the Gallery if you are interested to be put on their wait list to see the paintings.

“Inside Nostalgia”
Tara McPherson
Esao Andrews
Travis Louie
Opening Reception October 31, 2008 8pm
Exhibition Runs October 31 to December 30 2008
Via Nuoro 17 00182
Rome Italy
Tel. +39 06 70161256

[image by Tara Mcpherson, “The Guilt Will Eat You Alive… If You Let It”]

Last Days: George Bates in “Surf Art Nouveau

October 2, 2008Exhibitions, Illustration Alumni, Illustration Faculty, NewsGeorge Bates, montanaro gallery, newport, parsons illustration alumni, parsons illustration faculty, surfingamt

Illustration Alum and Faculty member George Bates has a piece featured in “Surf Art Nouveau,” an exhibition at Montanaro Gallery in Newport, RI. Works from more than twenty-five different artists are in the show which focuses on

new works in the classic ‘art nouveau’ style…be incorporating the subject matter of SURFING…

If you’re in the Newport-area, make sure to stop by and see George’s work before it comes down!

Surf Art Nouveau
On view until October 5th
Montanaro Gallery
18 Franklin Street
Newport, RI

Repost and Reminder: Politics ’08 Closing Soon

October 1, 2008Exhibitions, Illustration Industrypolitical illustration, politics 08, Society of Illustratorsamt

The Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators presents “Politics ‘08.” On view through October 4, 2008, the exhibition will showcase the original art from today’s top illustrators surrounding this year’s primaries and general elections. With recent coverage of the debates, a growing awareness in politics has piqued the media’s interest in political illustration and caricature once again, creating an array of important and controversial images. Through magazine websites and artist’s blogs, illustration is bringing Americans together online to discuss the politics of the day, stressing the importance to vote in the upcoming elections. Art from magazines and newspapers of all political affiliations will be represented in this exhibit, allowing artists to express their views on the 2008 election in print and in a variety of new media.

Curated by former Art Director at TIME Magazine, Edel Rodriguez, the exhibition features the work of political illustrators including Steve Brodner, Philip Burke, Tim O’Brien, Hanoch Piven, Stephen Kroninger, Luba Lukova and Barry Blitt. Original art used for print by Rolling Stone, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The New York Observer and the controversial New Yorker cover of Barack and Michelle Obama will be on display along with the printed publications.

In an interview with the Nation, illustrator Steve Brodner explains the importance of political illustration: “They are an important part of the mix. They are a way to encapsulate ideas, to make them clear and find what is compelling. We look for meanings, for passions, for true things. If you can have all these factors working simultaneously, you are a master.”

Politics ’08
On view through October 4th, 2008
Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street
New York, NY 10065
212.838.2560

Last Days: AJ Fosik in Paris!

September 26, 2008Exhibitions, Illustration Alumni, Illustration Industry, Newsaj fosik, gallery l.j. beaubourg, Illustration, paris, parsons illustration alumni, stiff meatamt

Parsons Alum AJ Fosik has had his first solo show in Europe up for most of September at Gallery L.J. Beaubourg. It closes on September 29th, but if you’re in Paris, stop by and see the wonderful collection of “wooden bears. big jaws, and freaky creatures.” Kanye West even posted images from the show his blog. Way to go, AJ!

Stiff Meat
a solo show by AJ Fosik
On view through September 29th, 2008
Gallery L.J. Beaubourg
23 rue de Renard, 75004 Paris
m Hotel de Ville
01 44 59 27 27

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