life after language
2011 parsons illustration senior show
school of art, media and technology
MAY 9-MAY 23
OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 18
6-8PM
ALBERT AND VERA LIST
ACADEMIC CENTER
6 EAST 16TH STREET,
12TH FLOOR
NEW YORK CITY
[image by: cecilia de corral]
CRY UNCLE
by Frances Jetter
8th Floor Gallery
Illustration Department
2 West 13th Street L Building
Through April 30, 2011
We are pleased to extend an invitation to visit Parsons Illustration to view CRY UNCLE, by Francis Jetter.
If you are not familiar with the work of Frances Jetter you will find this art engaging in many ways.
The work is a 23 page accordion fold book that Frances wrote, designed and illustrated. The 18″ x 24″ images are impeccably printed from linoleum cuts, on translucent, handmade, Japanese paper. The content is truly compelling; a graphic account describing and addressing the horror of torture through a political lens. By all accounts, and certainly in my humble opinion, it is an aesthetically stunning and impassioned piece. It challenges us on an intellectual and visceral level and shares the beautiful tactile mastery of her medium.
Given the recent interest and proliferation of exhibitions throughout the New School University and the city offering variations on sequential narrative straddling both the fine art and the communications fields, this work has the exceptional qualities that enable it to rest comfortably in both realms.
Editions of this book (limited to 15) have been acquired by various notable institutions, among them, The New York Public Library.
Frances Jetter is an alumna from Parsons and has maintained a highly distinguished profile in the communications field for three decades.
Please find an opportunity to visit the 8th floor of 2 West 13th L building to the Illustration Department gallery, to see this exceptional piece of art.
The exhibition will be up through the end of April.
I encourage you to visit her website as well. www.Francesjetter.com.
–Wendy Popp, Parsons Illustration Adjunct Faculty Member
Rima Fujita (Illustration, ’87) dropped us a line about an upcoming event featuring her work! Here’s the scoop:
My 4th book, “Save the Himalaya” (forewords by the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere) will be published this fall, and I will be donating a few thousand copies to 82 Tibetan refugee schools in exile. I am having a charity exhibition event at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills. I would like to invite you to the special opening on April 29 (ed. note: click the link for more information!) if you are in LA area that day.“Save the Himalaya” is an educational book about the crisis of the Himalayan environment, and Mr. Tagore and I are donating all proceed to educating Tibetan children in exile about the environmental issue.
© The Brother and Sister Nishioka.
American and Japanese artists have been inspiring each other for decades. Tonight, authors Hideo Furukawa and Steve Erickson share their strong apocalyptic imaginations, and Roland Kelts, half-Japanese author of Japanamerica, will discuss the mutual influences in narrative visual art. Haruki Murakami’s love of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Carver is well known; Susan Sontag and Paul Auster have professed their love of the filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, and Ozu’s seemingly quintessentially Japanese films were created after he immersed himself in Hollywood movies during the war. American comics and animation by Walt Disney, Max Fleischer and others were transformed by Japanese artists into manga and anime, which now enjoy an enormous following among American youth. The panelists discuss how and why as they launch Monkey Business International, the first trans-national literary journal with fiction, poetry and manga from both nations. The influence has entirely been mutual, and they will discuss and contextualize contemporary Japanese visual and narrative culture.
Followed by a reception.
TICKETS
$12/$8 Japan Society members, seniors & students
Buy Tickets Online or call the Japan Society Box Office at (212) 715-1258, Mon. – Fri. 11 am – 6 pm, Weekends 11 am – 5 pm.
Bob at the Society of Illustrators
Longtime Parsons Illustration Faculty member Bob Levering died very early on April 22nd at St Luke’s Hospital.
You can see a few of his illustrations here.
Bob was a wonderful artist, an important mentor, and a sweet, generous soul.
He will be missed by those of us at Parsons and by the artist community he was a part of for so many years.
At a later date, there will be a memorial celebration. Details to be announced.
[image via: Today’s Inspiration]
