Positive Forward, a solo show of collages and drawings by Parsons Illustration Alum Lulu Wolf (Class of ’10), opens this Friday, August 12th at Youth Group Gallery, in Bushwick.
Eclipse, by Lulu Wolf
Opening Reception Friday August 12th, 6-9pm,
Youth Group Gallery, 407 Johnson (at Morgan) – off the Morgan stop on the L. (map)
Brooklyn, NY
Parsons Illustration Alum Hiro Kurata’s (’04) solo exhibition, “Play the Right Game,” opens tomorrow, July 22nd, at Common in Tokyo, Japan. The show runs until July 31st.
Parsons Illustration Alum Garrett Pruter (’10) is featured in another group show this summer, Third Order at the Charles Bank Gallery. 12 of Garrett’s pieces from his Weird Science series are included. The show also includes work from Paul Allsopp, Mikaela Bradbury, Nick Darmstaedter, Violet Denisson, Adam Henry, Gordon Hull, Anna Janser and Rachel Rossin.
The opening reception is this Thursday, July 14th from 6-9 p.m.
Scientists 3 by Garrett Pruter
Third Order
Charles Bank Gallery
196 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
Opening Reception: July 14, 6-9pm
Parsons Illustration Faculty Jordin Isip, Melinda Beck, and recent Faculty member James Gallagher are featured in the group show “Twin Infinities” at Nomad Art Gallery in Los Angeles, opening this Friday, July 1st. 
Nomad Gallery
1993 Blake Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
90039
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
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.
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.
Parsons Illustration Alum Cat Lauigan (Class of ’08) has new drawings in the “Spring Fling” group show at the Brooklyn Collective. The show includes work from more than 30 artists and designers.
“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.
life after language
2011 parsons illustration senior show
school of art, media and technology
MAY 9-MAY 23
ALBERT AND VERA LIST
ACADEMIC CENTER
6 EAST 16TH STREET,
12TH FLOOR
NEW YORK CITY
[image by: william hatch crosby ]