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 Julie Pinzur (Class of ’11) was recently featured on the blog of fashion design website BurdaStyle. The article includes an in-depth interview with Julie about her company, Mokuyobi Threads, and photos of her designs and her work space.
Julie Pinzur standing in front of her non-thesis works at the 2011 Illustration Senior Show.
Current Parsons student Teresa Nimirowski has an interesting (and paid!) job opportunity for Illustration students. Her friend’s band needs illustrations, and potentially an animation, to go along with their song, currently featured in a promo for HBO. Information on the job and contacts are below:
“Hey there guys!
My band Two Seconds to Midnight are currently being featured on HBO as the music for the worldwide promo campaign for the second season of Boardwalk Empire.
Our song is called Opt1m1sm and can be heard on our website, www.twosecondstomidnight.com
We are looking to have some visual representation for the song as it seems a lot of people are looking it up online and downloading it. We are welcoming any students, designers, animators to pitch us some ideas and help us put together a (preferably) animated video. We love the work of the likes of Shynola and some of the more recent Radiohead videos… doesn’t have to be near as complex as those, but just so you know where we are coming from. Can be a very simple idea executed beautifully. Something that should go along with the tone of the song and doesnt have to be literal, can be abstract.
We can offer a little bit of pay (negotiable $250/$300) but along with that there will be a lot of exposure. The song is already getting a lot of hits and the first teaser promo from the show is already at around 110,000 views.
Please get in touch via the below email address if you are interested in collaborating with us in this project!
Cheers!
Zig and TSTM
zigster@talk21.com“
Jackie Hahn’s “Badlands,” selected for 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 8
Hazel Lee Santino’s “Nikola Tesla in the Hotel New Yorker,” selected for 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 8
Hazel Lee Santino’s “The House That Philip K. Dick Built,” selected for 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 8
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.
“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.
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
