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PictureBox
PictureBox was an art, music, photography, and comics publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York directed by Dan Nadel. PictureBox published its own books and packages books and concepts for museums and galleries. The company began in 2002 with ''The Ganzfeld 2'' and gradually shifted to emphasize a diverse assortment of visual ideas and topics. PictureBox was best known for its books by artists from or related to the Providence art scene of the 2000s, music books, and projects for numerous artists involved with the New York gallery Canada. The cover art for Wilco's ''A Ghost Is Born'', designed by Peter Buchanan-Smith and Nadel, won a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 2005. In December 2013, Nadel announced PictureBox would cease publishing at the end of the year. Since then, Nadel has curated exhibitions and edited books including What Nerve!: Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Takeshi Murata, Jimmy De Sana's Suburban, and The Collected Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Forgues
Christopher "Chris" Forgues, (also known professionally as C.F. and Kites), is an artist and musician, best known for his graphic novel serial ''Powr Mastrs''. He is based in Providence, Rhode Island. About He holds a B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. C.F. was influenced in the 2000s by the Fort Thunder art collective in Providence, Rhode Island and did some worked with them. C.F. collaborated with Ben Jones on a zine project called "Paper Radio". '' Art in America'' magazine named Forgues one of the, "most important cartoonists of their generation" for his work with Paper Radio. His graphic novel series, ''Powr Mastrs'', is published by Picturebox. His story "Mosfet Warlock and the Mechlin Men" was included in The Best American Comics 2009, edited by Charles Burns. His work has also been published in Kramers Ergot, and has been shown at galleries in New York and Los Angeles. Forgues had a monthly comic strip, Monorail High, in '' Mothers News'', a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuichi Yokoyama
Yuichi Yokoyama (横山裕一, ''Yokoyama Yūichi'', born April 3, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and painter. Trained in oil painting, Yokoyama transitioned from fine art to manga in the mid-1990s, seeking a more suitable medium to explore concepts of time, space, and motion, and had his breakthrough as an artist in the 2000s. His works are characterized by abstract environments, mechanical repetition, minimal dialogue, and immersive use of onomatopoeia, challenging traditional manga conventions and described as "neo manga". Internationally acclaimed, Yokoyama's work has been published and exhibited, among others, in France, the United States and South Korea. Life and career Yokoyama was born in 1967 in Miyakonojō in Miyazaki Prefecture. While growing up, his family moved frequently, from Kyushu to Hokkaido to the Kanto region, due to his father's work. In 1986 he enrolled in Musashino Art University in oil painting. After graduation in 1990, he first focused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Bell (cartoonist)
Marc Bell (born November 24th, 1971 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian comics, Canadian cartoonist and artist. He was initially known for creating comic strips (such as ''Shrimpy and Paul''), but Bell has also created several exhibitions of his mixed media work and watercoloured drawings. ''Hot Potatoe'' , a monograph of his work, was released in 2009. His comics have appeared in many Canadian weeklies, ''Vice (magazine), Vice'', and ''LA Weekly''. He has been published in numerous anthologies, such as ''Kramers Ergot'' and ''The Ganzfeld''. Publications *''Boof'', 1992, Caliber Press (Plymouth, MI) *''Hep'', 1993, Caliber Press (Plymouth, MI) *''The Mojo Action Companion Unit Vol.2 #1'', 1997, Exclaim! (Toronto, ON) *''Shrimpy and Paul and Friends'', 2003, Highwater Books (Brooklyn, NY) *''Worn Tuff Elbow'' #1, 2004, Fantagraphics (Seattle, WA) *''The Stacks'', 2004, Drawn & Quarterly (Montreal, PQ) *''The Hobbit'' (with Peter Thompson), 2005, PictureBox (Brooklyn, NY) *''Fresh F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Bernhardt
Katherine Bernhardt (born 1975; Clayton, Missouri) is an artist based in St. Louis, Missouri. Work and career Bernhardt received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Bernhardt is known for painting consumer symbols, tropical animals, and every day objects over bright flat fields of color in an expressionistic and almost abstract style. Previous bodies of work include Moroccan rug-inspired paintings and collages made in collaborations with her (now ex)husband Youssef Jdia, as well as her "model" paintings, which were loose portraits based on images of supermodels from high fashion magazines. Bernhardt has also been involved in numerous collaborations within the art and fashion industries. In 2015, Bernhardt was one of five artists asked to contribute to W Magazine's annual "Art Issue" featuring artwork inspired by rapper Drake. Bernhardt also produced a in-store installat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renée French
Renée French (born 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and, under the pen name Rainy Dohaney, a children's literature, children's book author, and exhibiting artist. Her work is characterized by her "obsessive-looking and highly unsettling visual style." Books Her work includes ''H Day'' (Picturebox), ''The Soap Lady'' (inspired by the display in the Mütter Museum) (Top Shelf Productions), ''The Ticking'' (Top Shelf Productions), and ''Micrographica'' (Top Shelf Productions), ''Edison Steelhead's Lost Portfolio: Exploratory Studies of Girls and Rabbits'' (Sparkplug Books), and ''Marbles in My Underpants'' (Oni Press). She also has a weekly strip ''The Taint'' in the ''New York Press''. Her serialized comic ''Baby Bjornstrand'' appears on the Study Group Comic Books website. ''The New York Times'' said her graphic novels "split the difference between adorable and horrifically gross"; writing about "Baby Bjornstrand", they called it "equal parts Daffy Duck and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Panter
Gary Panter (born December 1, 1950) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter's work is representative of the post- underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of '' Arcade: The Comics Revue'' and the initiation of '' RAW'', one of the main instigators of American alternative comics. '' The Comics Journal'' has called Panter the "Greatest Living Cartoonist." Panter has published his work in various magazines and newspapers, including ''Time'' and ''Rolling Stone'', and in notable comics anthologies such as ''Raw'', '' BLAB!'', '' Zero Zero'', '' Anarchy Comics'', '' Weirdo'', '' Kramers Ergot'', and '' Young Lust''. He has exhibited widely, and won two Daytime Emmy Awards for his set designs for '' Pee-wee's Playhouse''. His most notable works include ''Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise'', '' Jimbo's Inferno'', and ''Facetasm'', the latter of which was created together with Charles Burns (and which won a Firecracker Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storm Thorgerson
Storm Elvin Thorgerson (28 February 1944 – 18 April 2013) was an English art director and music video director. He is best known for closely working with the group Pink Floyd through most of their career, and also created album or other art for Led Zeppelin, Phish, Black Sabbath, 10cc, the Alan Parsons Project, the Mars Volta and the Cranberries. Early life Thorgerson, who was of Norwegian descent, was born in Potters Bar, Middlesex (now part of Hertfordshire). He attended Summerhill School, Brunswick Primary School in Cambridge, and the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys with Pink Floyd founders Syd Barrett, who was in the year below him, and Roger Waters, who was in the year above him. Thorgerson and Waters played rugby together at school, while Thorgerson's mother Vanji and Waters' mother Mary were close friends. He studied English and Philosophy at the University of Leicester, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, before studying Film and Television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet (born December 31, 1965) is a Canadian underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as '' Dirty Plotte'' and ''My New York Diary''. Her work is concerned with such topics as "sex, violence, and male/female issues." Biography Early career Doucet was born in |
Novelty Item
A novelty item is an object which is specifically designed to serve no practical purpose, and is sold for its uniqueness, humor, or simply as something new (hence "novelty", or newness). The term also applies to practical items with fanciful or nonfunctional additions, such as novelty aprons, slippers, or toilet paper. The term is normally applied to small objects, and is generally not used to describe larger items such as roadside attractions. Items may have an advertising or promotional purpose, or be a souvenir. Usage This term covers a range of small manufactured goods, such as collectables, gadgets and executive toys. Novelty items are generally devices that do not primarily have a practical function. Toys for adults are often classed as novelties. Some products have a brief period as a novelty item when they are actually new, only to become an established, commonly used product, such as the Hula Hoop or the Frisbee. Others may have an educational element, such as a Crooke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mat Brinkman
Mat Brinkman (born 1973 in Austin, Texas, Austin, Texas) is an American artist and electronic musician. Also known as Matt Brinkman, Meerk Puffy, Mystery Brinkman, Brinkman, Brinkmangler, and Mucid Cuspidor. He is based in Colorado. History Brinkman was a co-creator of the Fort Thunder, ''Fort Thunde''r artist live-work space in Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island from 1995 to 2001. He resided in the Providence artist live workspace ''Hilarious Attic'' from 2002 to 2007. He recorded with the bands Mindflayer (band), Mindflayer and Forcefield (art collective), Forcefield, who performed at the 2002 Whitney Biennial. In 2000, his Teratoid Heights comic was published by Highwater Books. Through his anonymous and pseudonymous works, he, like Bruce Conner and Marcel Duchamp before him, seems to be concerned with issues of artistic credit and its relation to artistic output. His musical performances have incorporated aspects of circuit bending and drum and bass. Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock (born 1974) is an American artist working with Printmaking, prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings. Through his work, Hancock mainly aims to tell the story of the Mounds, mystical creatures that are part of the artist's world. In this sense, each new artwork is the artist's contribution to the development of Mounds. Early life and education Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and grew up in Paris, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA from Texas A&M University–Commerce. As an undergrad, Doyle worked as a cartoonist for the school newspaper. At the time, he thought he would become a professional cartoonist following graduation. The influence of Hancock's early interest in cartoons is still visible in his current work. Following his studies at Texas A&M University-Commerce, Hancock earned an Master of Fine Arts, MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock's art was also significantly influence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Chippendale
Brian Chippendale (born July 22, 1973) is an American musician and artist, known as the drummer and vocalist for the experimental noise rock band Lightning Bolt and for his graphic art. Chippendale is based in Providence, Rhode Island. Brian plays an assortment of drums usually decorated with prints he makes himself. He uses two ride cymbals as crash rides and a Ludwig snare drum. Early life and education Chippendale was born July 22, 1973, in Newburgh, New York, and was raised in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chippendale is also an artist and attended printmaking classes at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the late 1990s through 2000, but did not graduate. Music As a vocalist for Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer, Chippendale eschews the usual microphone stand and conventional microphone, instead using a contact microphone. Chippendale often warbles or makes nonsensical sounds into the microphone, so the vocals typically come out extremely distorted and inco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
