Parsons alumna Rima Fujita will be speaking at the Trace Foundation on May 10th. Fujita will discuss her latest book, “Save the Himalayas” (forwards by the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere), her Books for Children project, and her recent trip to India to deliver her books to the Tibetan refugee children. Guest readers will read from “Save the Himalayas” in Tibetan, English, and Japanese, and original art from the book will be on display. After the readings Fujita will be available for signing.
Guy Delisle, author of Pyongyang, Shenzen, and Burma Chronicles will be showing at Housing Works. Come out for a night of conversation, a presentation of his work, and signing!
Presented by Drawn & Quarterly, Housing Works, and Desert Island
126 Crosby Street
Tuesday, April 24th 7pm
Mirage Show, an exhibition of contemporary collage curated by Geoff Kim, opens on Friday, April 13th from 6:00 – 10:30 pm at Brooklyn Fire Proof. Included in the nine person show is Parsons Illustration Program graduate Lulu Wolf (2010) and former faculty member James Gallagher.
The opening reception for Edward del Rosario‘s appropriately titled solo show, “Paintings and Drawings”, is this Thursday, April 12th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at Nancy Margolis Gallery in NYC. Please stop by to say hi, hang out, and see Eddie’s beautiful and powerful work.
Edward has exhibited on both coasts of the United States and the little island state of Hawaii. His work has appeared in many publications including The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Times Magazine. Edward is a former Parsons Illustration Program adjunct faculty member (Junior Drawing and Painting; Painting).
Domecile l, oil on linen/panel, 30" x 30", 2012
“Melted City”, a show curated by Parsons Illustration faculty Jordin Isip and Filipino artist Louie Cordero opened on March 24th at Blanc Compound in Mandalyuong, Philippines. The ten person works-on-paper show (five artists chosen by each curator) includes Parsons Illustration Program alumni Hiro Kurata (’04), Hazel Lee Santino (’12), and Paula Searing (’11). The other artists are Vic Balanon, Patrick Cruz, Robert Gutierrez, Rob Leecock, Matt Leines, Jacob Lindo, and Yuji Maruyama. The exhibit runs through April 14, 2012.
“Melted City” was reviewed by The Manila Art Blogger. Read it here.
Melted City flyer, image by Robert Gutierrez
Hazel Lee Santino, "Hagley Woods"
Paula Searing, "What It's All About"
(left) Robert Leecock, "2012: Enter the Dragon"; (right) Matt Leines, "#122"
Hiro Kurata, "Portrait of a Slugger"
In late February Taylor Mckimens, Chang Park, and Jordin Isip took their Parsons Illustration classes to visit internationally renowned artist Misaki Kawai in her studio as she prepared for her upcoming show “Love from Mt. Pom Pom” at the Children’s Museum of the Arts. Misaki’s studio is in a vacated Bank of America on the ground floor of the beautiful Woolworth Building– plenty of room to host the 50+ visitors for a fun and inspirational morning. Thank you to Misaki and Justin for kindly opening up the studio and spending time with us!
Go see Misaki’s show– you can comb an 18 foot long, 11 foot tall fuzzy fuchsia dog with a 2 foot long comb.
“Love from Mt. Pom Pom” was reviewed in the New York Times. Read it here. The exhibit runs from March 14 – June 10, 2012.
Parsons Illustration alum Garrett Pruter‘s (’10) show was reviewed in Art Forum‘s Critic’s Picks.
“Grounded in found photographs gleaned from various sources, Garrett Pruter‘s recent body of work lends new visual life to images threatened with obsolescence. For June Gloom (all works 2011), Pruter has inflated a print to sprawling dimensions and then scraped away at the raw, wetted photographic emulsion with a dull blade, leaving a somewhat spectral scene scored with evenly paced yellow notches. In Washed Out, abstract patterns from a scrimlike layer have been cut out and placed over a blown-up image. See also Ship Wrecked, where pieces of the photographic print itself have been excised, resulting in a pocked and perforated surface. By contrast, Mixed Signals is additive, with cutout shapes from a found poster placed below an enlarged, anonymous portrait of two individuals. In each instance, the relationship of the pattern—either subtracted, abstracted, or superimposed—to the original imagery is quirky; all seem arbitrary and interrogative, evocative and suggestive rather than tendentious.
Three collage pieces—respectively titled Los Angeles, Blackout, and Flesh—feature repurposed magazine images, cut into squares and layered in abstract patterns. Flesh fittingly derives from vintage editions of Playboy and Penthouse. Abstracted into a field of pinkish (and seemingly pixilated) geometries, it bears only a metonymic relationship to more carnal origins. Similarly, Los Angeles, taken from aerial photographs of the eponymous city, plays on layers of removal from its original urban source, slicing up photographs into a series of formal facets.
The exhibition’s most striking piece is an installation incorporating various 35-mm slides—again culled from random sources—projected onto a curved mold, covered with tessellated mirror fragments. Cast onto the wall in intervals, the resultant images appear distorted and distended though still discernible in their basic dimensions, whether as landscape or portrait. Prutter seems to be hitting his stride in terms of a play between photographic removal and objective presence—a cocktail that he is bound to take in compelling directions.” -Ara H. Merjia
Garrett Pruter, “Mixed Signals”, Feb. 9 – March 11, 2012, Charles Bank Gallery , 196 Bowery, NYC
images: Flesh (l); Ship Wrecked (r)
Here are the next five of the ten stellar pieces that were selected by a distinguished jury to appear in the 2012 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship exhibition in May (see previous post for the first five):
Yasmin Liang (class of 2012)
YASMIN LIANG, "Tantrums", Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip
Chelsey Pettyjohn (class of 2012)
CHELSEY PETTYJOHN, "Night Religion 02", Senior Thesis 1, Jordin Isip
Monica Ramos (class of 2012)
MONICA RAMOS, "Internal Landscape I", Senior Thesis 1, Lauren Redniss
Leslie V. Robertson (class of 2011)
LESLIE V. ROBERTSON, "Washed Up", Senior Thesis II, Jordin Isip
Hazel Lee Santino (class of 2012)
HAZEL LEE SANTINO, "Bigfoot in the Woods", Relief Printmaking, Martin Mazorra
Parsons Illustration seniors Iain Burke, Ciara Gay, So Yoon Kim, Rachel Levit, Yasmin Liang, Chelsey Pettyjohn, Monica Ramos, and Hazel Lee Santino, and recent graduates William Hatch Crosby and Leslie V. Robertson (class of 2011) were selected by a distinguished jury to appear in the 2012 Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship exhibition. Only 250 works were chosen from a record 8,119 entries. Congratulations to them and their teachers!
Here are five of the ten pieces (the next five will be posted soon):
Iain Burke (class of 2012)
IAIN BURKE, Stumpy G, Senior Thesis I, Jordin Isip
William Hatch Crosby (class of 2012)
WILLIAM HATCH CROSBY, "Wandering Giant", Printmaking Studio, Paul Marcus
Ciara Gay (class of 2012)
CIARA GAY, "Styling Heads #2", Screenprint: Sequential Art, Scott Nobles
So Yoon Kim (class of 2012)
SO YOON KIM, "Fragmented Face", Senior Thesis I, Jordin Isip
Rachel Levit (class of 2012)
RACHEL LEVIT, "Panties", Beyond the Page, Noël Claro
Parsons Illustration Program alumnus Garrett Pruter‘s (2010) first solo exhibition, “Mixed Signals”, opens tonight, Thursday, February 9th at Charles Bank Gallery (Lower East Side), NYC. The opening reception is from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. The show will be up from February 9th – March 14th.
