Category Archives: Illustration Industry

Quick Hit: “Street Language” at Woodward Gallery

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An interesting show opens up at Woodward Gallery this weekend. Here’s a snippet from the official press release:

Woodward Gallery is proud to open the Spring season by introducing Artists Matt Siren and Darkcloud. “Street Language” will transpose two respected street artists with a select group of their peers to a gallery setting for the first time. Representing a true renaissance in urban art, these emerging artists surface from a subculture ruled by self-directed codes and complicated by its delight in youthful mayhem. They tag with their icons consuming the urban landscape with colorful enthusiasm; reveling in an ability to seep into and subvert the hyperkinetic visual surroundings most passersby take for granted.

Utilizing their individualized lexicons, Matt Siren and Darkcloud bring their recognizable icons indoors with edition prints on paper and original paintings on metal signs or wood. Born of media saturation, these icons speak of cartoons, video games, toys, and a generation aware of the potency of a powerfully branded image – and its repetition.

Connected through the rapid waves of text messaging, blogs, and websites these urban artists are now able to connect internationally with their peers creating a shifting social network. Their organized approach to a self-guided movement, so prominent in user-generated wiki-culture, is mirrored in each artist’s unique attempt to edit the urban landscape. Commenting on today, their optic, codified language is finally united to speak on the exhibition walls of Woodward.

Head over on Saturday, May 10th, 6-8pm, for the opening reception of this exciting cultural debut!

Matt Siren & Darkcloud: Street Language May 10 – Jun 28, 2008
 133 Eldridge Street (Between Broome and Delancey) New York, NY 10002

[images t-b: darkcloud, matt siren]

Don’t Paint with Your Teeth featuring a TON of Illustration students

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Move 16: Don’t Paint With Your Teeth
A Group Show of blue ballpoint pen, pencil and Sharpie drawings
Curated by Rich Jacobs
May 9th – June 8th 2008
Opening Reception Friday May 9th 2008 7 – 10pm

Move 16: Don’t Paint Your Teeth, marks the 2nd group drawing show at Cinders curated by artist Rich Jacobs. The guidelines for this one: Make a drawing using either ballpoint pen, pencil, or sharpie on an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of white paper. This show brings art back to its most basic and raw form of drawing and with materials that everyone has access to. This DIY creative spirit runs throughout the show, which includes a diverse array of artists that spans several generations from around the globe. There will be a limited edition zine catalogue made to go along with the show in the very near future!

Featuring work by Mark Gonzales, Matt Leines, Chris Shary, Caroline Hwang, Rachel Sumpter, Rich Jacobs, Chris Mendoza, Neckface, Eric White, Suzanne Sattler, Erika Borboa, Brian Chippendale, Diane Barcelowsky, Maya Hayuk, David Ellis, Jeff Ladouceur, Theo Ellsworth, Hisham Bharoocha, Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Logan MacDonald, Allyson Mellberg, Justin Williams, Garry Davis, Irene Cho, Davd Aron, James Kirkpatrick, Jojo Li, Jordin Isip, Melinda Beck,Tim Kerr,Taylor Mckimens, Daniel Higgs, Ryan and Casey Gallagher, John Orth, Sto, Daniel Davidson, Pam Morris-Gallagher, Phil Franklin, Christine Shields, Andrew Scott, Pat Delaney, Mike Boul, Moses, Dennis and Loreto Remsing, Kelie Bowman, Kate Hurowitz, Carl Dunn, Oliver Rosenberg, Oliver Harkness, Rodger Bridges, Tod Swank, Olivia Shoa, Bill and Christopher Sprague, Kostas Seremetis, Zachary Rossman, Matthew Thurber, Rebecca Bird, Eric Shaw, Morgan Goodwin Acheson, WoonHyae Bae, Lindsey Balbierz, Noel Chanyungco, Arlette Espaillat, Nicholas Gannon, Florence Gidez, Rich Guzman, Seulki Kim, Sae-am Lee, Shanna Mahan, Yulia Makarova, Elizabeth Meluch, Ray Ray Mitrano, Cassie Ramone, Liz Riccardi, Jeremy Schlangen, Peter Sriployrung, Nicholas Sultana, Emmanuel Tavares, Franklin Valdez, Misaki Kawai, James Gallagher.

(fancy color code = Illustration Faculty, Illustration Alum, Current Illustration Students)

Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer st.
Btwn Hope and Grand St.
Williamsburg Brooklyn
718-388-2311
http://www.cindersgallery.com

[images l-r: Shanna Mahan, Lindsey Balbierz, Florence Gidez]

Quick Hit: MAC Cosmetics student competition

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ARTCO is a New York based company founded by Cary Leitzes that pairs artists with corporations for creative collaborations. They do everything from product design to in store installations and deal in the space where culture and commerce converge.

Click here for a PDF that tells all about their MAC Cosmetics student competition to design/create a window design for their 2008 holiday collection. Prize money and wonderful high profile exposure.

Parsons Illustration BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition

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Join us for the Parsons Illustration
BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition!

Exhibition on view: May 6th-May 10th, 2008

Opening Celebration: May 7th, 2008 6-8 p.m.

Chelsea Art Museum

556 West 22nd Street

New York, NY

[top image: lindsey balbierz; bottom image: sae-am lee]

Alumni Bulletin: News from Illustration Grads

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Larry Roibal (’82) recently had his piece “Sunday Morning” accepted for the Communication Arts Illustration Competition. Larry’s unique style was also highlighted by the fine folks over at Drawn a couple of weeks ago.  See more of Larry’s work at his website. Congrats!

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Alum Chris Roth has been creating like crazy, including tons of animations for CBS (like this!), a Spiderman stained-glass window in honor of legendary artist Stan Lee, and this great spot for Channel Frederator (the first piece is his!):

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See more of Chris’s work at his website. Keep up the great work, Chris!

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Alum Angie Mason recently had her work included in the Fusion 5 Festival, which is an amazing new art festival put together by Strychnin Gallery Owner Yasha Young and Hotel 3.14’s creative director Dani Morla.

The artists included in this event were:

Bijou (France), Diva (Spain), David Hochbaum (USA),
Angie Mason (USA),Till Krautkraemer (USA),
Manuel Cortez & Philipp Baben (Germany), Brian Horton (USA),
Chichi Menendez (Australia), Natalie Shau (Lithuania),
Chris von Steiner (France), Mark Verhaagen (Netherlands)
David Stoupakis (USA), Daniel van Nes (Netherlands),
BORIS + NATASCHA (Germany & Australia), Mkan (France),
Virginie Ropars (France), Ansgar Noeth (Germany),
Matthew Bone (USA), Mimi S. (Germany),
Kristen Ferrell (USA), Oksana Badrak (GUS),
Mijn Schatje (France)

Angie also posted images up also at her flickr site and had this to say about her experience:

It was a great event where each artist was given a room/suite that matched their art (no two rooms are a like at this very unique hotel) and the artists had to fill the space with their work making the room their own and then have it viewed during the opening party exhibits and public openings. There was wonderful music and art and press and an ever flowing amount of absolute vodka since they were one of the main sponsors.

Thanks for sharing the news, Angie!

Liz Lomax gives lecture at Society of Illustrators

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We just got this email from Illustration Alum Liz Lomax:

I wanted to let you know about a lecture I am giving at the Society of Illustrators at the end of this month. I’ll be talking about how I got started as a 3D Illustrator ten years ago and how I’ve turned some wire, tinfoil and Sculpey into a career. I’d love to see you there if you can make it.

Liz Lomax, a three dimensional illustrator in New York, is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in her field. She illustrates using a unique process she developed herself over ten years as a professional. Her work has won awards and appeared in many annuals and books on illustration. Her clients include some of the best names in advertising and magazines.

April 30 at 6:30 pm
“An Evening With Liz Lomax”
$10 ($6 for students)

The Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues)
New York, NY 10065

Book Signing for Leah Hayes’ new book tomorrow!

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WHAT: Book signing for Parsons Illustration Alum Leah Hayes‘ new graphic novel Funeral of The Heart.

WHERE: Spoonbill & Sugartown
218 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718.387.7322

WHEN: Thursday, April 24, 7PM

Funeral of the Heart is Leah Hayes’ stylistic tour-de-force and graphic novel debut, featuring a series of short stories by Hayes and illustrated entirely using the otherworldly medium of scratchboard. Hayes creates a world of unease and ambiguity populated by obsessive characters, forlorn animals, and mysterious, inanimate objects; odd occurrences, unnerving deaths and unconventional but genuine love bind these characters and their stories together. In “The Bathroom,” a middle-aged couple discover a mysterious tunnel in their pool house after a neighbor’s child accidentally drowns in their pool — leading to an immaculate bathroom and another drowning. In “The Needle,” two sisters suffer the death of their grandmother as well as her possible resurrection at the hands of the woman with the needle.

The stories are hand lettered and juxtaposed against stark, highly stylized, graphically powerful, black and white images. Stories with titles like “The Bathroom,” “The Needle,” and “The Hair” may sound innocuous, but they aren’t fables that should be read to one’s children — unless your children enjoy being made uneasy by beautiful things.

Come out and support Leah, but if you can’t make it, the grab your copy of Funeral of the Heart over at Fantagraphics.

Quick Hit: The Illustrated Letter show at NY Times

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The Illustrated Letter:
Four Decades of Letters to the Editor Spots

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Thursday, April 24, 2008
7:00-9:00 PM

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The New York Times
620 8th Avenue, 7th Floor

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RSVP Required to
galleryseven@nytimes.com

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“Lots of Things Like This” at apexart (curated by Dave Eggers)

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A great exhibition–Lots of Things Like This–organized by Dave Eggers and currently on view at apexart through May 10th, features a huge range of exceptional artists. Here’s an excerpt from an Eggers-penned essay discussing the show’s concept:

This show, titled Lots of Things Like This, came about when apexart asked for an idea for a show. The first thought that occurred to us was an exhibit that would highlight work that included these three elements:

1. An image
2. Some words (usually referring to the image)
3. A sense of humor

The show never got much more complicated than that. We started with the artists we knew we had to include: Raymond Pettibon, Tucker Nichols, Maira Kalman and David Shrigley. All four of them had found a place in the fine art world, even though in many cases their work was both narrative and funny, a combination that’s historically been rare in galleries and museums. For the most part, artists who use text in their work don’t write punchlines – the text is usually abstract or oblique, open to interpretation. But the rise of comics-based art, and of Pettibon in particular, had opened the doors to new hybrids of words and images, thank god.

In any case, being loathe to draw conclusions about the artists’ motivations or methods, because, again, so many of these people are dead, we’re instead going to list some questions that occurred to us and might occur to you and might help the show blow your mind completely:

Why is it that so many of these artists aren’t so great at spelling? And why is it that when they screw up one of their words, instead of starting over, they just cross the word out and write it again? Many people would choose to start over.

Why is it important to many of the artists that the drawings appear casual, even rushed? Is the loose draftsmanship part of its appeal, in that it seems more intimate and disarming? Is absurdity more appealing when it comes across as humble?

What is the line between a doodle, a cartoon, a gag, a work of fine art, and will there ever be a time when someone doesn’t insist on writing a similar kind of silly and rhetorical sentence in an art catalog?

Read the whole essay here and make sure to catch this unique show before it comes down.

Lots of Things Like This
organized by Dave Eggers
April 2 – May 10, 2008
291 Church Street
(between Walker and White)
New York, NY 10013 USA