The children’s book and illustration blog Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast recently posted an in-depth write-up on Parsons Illustration Alum Nicholas Gannon. The article includes an interview with Nicholas and an animated video introducing the star of his online newspaper the Doldrums’ Press.
Seven Impossible Things also has a monthly Up-And-Coming Illustrator post, which has previously featured current Parsons Illustration students Monica Ramos and Rachel Levit.
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.
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 Alum Sophia Chang (’10) is collaborating with Anthony Bourdain and No Reservations to create a series of limited edition — and signed — posters promoting the new season of the show.
Sophia previously made a poster for No Reservations’ Boston episode (above), but now she’ll be making an original poster for each episode this season. Five autographed posters will be given away each week, and you can enter the sweepstakes here.
Watch an interview with Sophia, where she talks about her creative process.
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
Yann Kebbi’s “The Fools,” selected for 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 8
Yann Kebbi’s “The Crowd,” 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.
