Illustration Alum and current Faculty member R. Sikoryak had an illustration in last week’s issue of the New Yorker! So cool. You can see more of Bob’s work at this variety of places:
Masterpiece Comics on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Masterpiece-Comics/109084917611?ref=ts
Go Bob, Go!
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
I’d like to encourage you all to donate artwork to what will be a terrific auction for a great cause, to benefit Illustration’s own Nathan Bond and his family. Some of you may have heard Nathan’s story in the news. He and his wife were diagnosed with advanced forms of cancer virtually simultaneously, and they have an 18- month-old daughter.
Artwork should be delivered to the Illustration Program office no later than May 6. Please pass the word on. Details below!
Yours,
Steven Gaurnaccia
Director, Illustration
Parsons The New School for Design
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Hi Everyone,
I am organizing a benefit auction for Nathan and Elisa Bond. For those of you who do not know their story, please see below. There are links to articles and videos that tell all. Nathan teaches painting in the Illustration Program and drawing in the Foundation Program.
I am looking for artists to donate a work for this cause. All works collected will be featured in an exhibition for one night (May 10) at Flux Factory in Brooklyn. Here is the format for the auction: There will be one ticket sold for each work collected. Purchasing a ticket guarantees you will receive a work in the show. When the auction begins, the holder of the first ticket number pulled randomly will be allowed first choice of the show. We will then proceed drawing tickets until all works in the show are claimed. Ticket prices are yet to be determined, but will be approximately $200-$250. Works are taken home as they are chosen. We will have volunteers on hand during the choosing
of the works to collect contact info to be made available to each artist on who chose their work.
I have been asking many of you in person as I see you if you would be willing to donate a work for this auction. I currently have about 40 commitments and I thank you all. My goal however is to bring this number to between 100-150 so if you would like to participate, or know of another artist who could donate a work, I would appreciate knowing as soon as possible. I need to have the art collected and accounted for in order to sell tickets, and as I am sure you can imagine, preparing for a show of this magnitude will not be easy in such a short amount of time.
If you have already committed to donating a work to this auction or would like to, please send an email to toddlambrix@gmail.com. Please include a current Bio, Artist statement, and or CV to be printed and made available at the show, the name of the work, medium, dimensions, and date the work was made. I will respond to you with directions for delivering the work. We intend to hang the works at the show in the most appropriate manner possible. If your piece requires special handling, hanging instructions or hardware, please be sure to detail this in the email. Please keep in mind that people should be able to leave the night of May 10th with their collected work with relative
ease. We cannot leave anything in the gallery space past the night of the reception.
I would also like to request that you share this story with artists within your professional circles and see if they are interested in donating a work for this show. Please pass along my email to them or send me theirs so that I may get in touch.
As with any opening or gallery reception, all are invited to attend and I hope that you will spread the word so that we can have a supportive turnout. Flux Factory is located at: 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens. Again, the event will be held on May 10, 2011 from 5:00-8:00pm Auction will begin promptly at 6:15.
NY Times Article
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/a-couples-knot-tied-tighter-by-dual-diagnoses/?scp=1&sq=elisa+nathan+bond&st=cse
Support website:
http://friendsofnathanandelisa.blogspot.com/
The Today Show-MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42450455#42450455
I thank you all for reading this and appreciate your support.
All the best,
Todd Lambrix, Assistant Professor
Associate Director of Foundation
School of Design Strategies
Parsons The New School for Design
2 W13th St. Rm 907
New York, NY 10011
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]