tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-244095852011-12-10T19:01:25.939-08:00CHRONICLING THE RISE OF THE ART OF GALLERY COMICS<br>Gallery comics combine the unique language of comic art<br>with the visual experience of paintings, art prints, or posters.Mac McCoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15436394520124509797noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24409585.post-91839974024229777462011-07-03T10:52:00.000-07:002011-07-03T10:52:36.375-07:00

Contemporary Art Center Press Release:  "Meanwhile...." July 11-August 27 Gallery 3R Mark Staff Brandl with Gary Scoles and Thomas Emil Homerin The trio creates a comic book installation on site from scratch, eventually enveloping the entire room. Visitors are invited to watch the process and interact with the creators. Their activities are documented in video and photos, also becoming

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A marvelous Gallery Comic Installation by Julia Roth in the Art Academy Liechtenstein. Detail photo.

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Here's another recent 3-stone lithograph I made which exists as a print (one sheet to be hung on the wall) and as a leporello-folded comic book. It is titled Self-Reflexive Mark, with and obvious play on my name. It travels between abstraction and representation, beginning left with images of the three tools I used to make the piece (and usually use), traveling through some "homage"

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What: SPX 2010Where: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference CenterWhen: Open to the public Saturday and Sunday, September 11 and 12, 2010.Times:Saturday: 11:00 am – 7:00 pmSunday: noon – 6:00 pmAdmission:One day memberships: $10.00Weekend memberships: $15.00Collected at the door the day of the showWhy: If you did not participate in the past, whether as a fan or an exhibitor, you missed a

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(click on image to enlarge)I've been working on a series of sequences (so comic strips, actually) as planning for several new stone lithos which will be leporellos, yet also I am working toward "gallery comic" installations as well. I'm attempting to make them ride the line between apparent abstraction and loose representationalism. Hence, as my art school profs would have it, they are indeed

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It is a particular thrill for me to announce that the Art Museum of Thurgau in Switzerland has just acquired 20 paintings of mine! They comprise a representative cross-section of several years of my series titled "Covers," which are Gallery Comics as well as paintings. I am very pleased that they will be in such a great institution and under the care of its eminent director Markus Landert and

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Silent Pictures, running from September 1 through October 11 in the James Gallery in NYC focuses on aspects of comic book structure that do not depend on words to advance an image sequence. The exhibition is inspired by artist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman's personal collection of wordless comics and graphic novels -- mostly black and white rare artist books from the 1930s. The

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Designer Saul Bass's wonderful abstract Film Titles for the movie The Man with the Golden Arm. The film was based on the book by Nelson Algren, still one of the greatest, yet most underappreciated American authors. Abstract Comics avant la lettre? And if it were projected on the wall in a museum, it would be Gallery Comics, as I see it!

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Andrei Molotiu, gallery comics artist and editor of the forthcoming anthology Abstract Comics, the first book to trace the history and survey the contemporary landscape of abstract sequential art, has started a blog to showcase the book and other work by some of the book's contributors. The link: abstractcomics.blogspot.com.

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No Shit. A painting installation disappears in an opening in Colorado Museum. 26 of 31 paintings taken by visitors.The cat is out of the bag, they have gone to the press, so now I can discuss and indeed complain about the events.As you may know my art is an integral part of the traveling exhibition "Out of Sequence." It was in the Krannert Art Museum first, and the second venue is the Belmar

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A super short (2 min. 35 sec.) TV video clip of the exhibition "Out of Sequence: Under Represented Voices in American Comics," which is on exhibition at the University of Illinois' Krannert Art Museum. This video tours the exhibition with its co-curators, Professor John Jennings and PhD candidate Damian Duffy. Mark Staff Brandl's corner Panels painting-installation and Covers paintings in the

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Brandl is interviewed on the award-winning podcast website Bad at Sports! As they write on their blog: "Episode 170: Mark Staff Brandl, Duncan MacKenzie interviews Mark "The EuroShark" Staff Brandl, theorist, writer, professor, artist, and contributor to Art in America, Sharkforum and Bad at Sports."Go on over, listen streaming or download the mp3 and listen to it on your iPod. Then join in the

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Excerpt of a radio show interview with John Jennings and Damian Duffy touring the Out of Sequence exhibition at Krannert Art Museum in Illinois. For 13 minutes of streaming radio click on the arrow. To download as mp3 click here.

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This weekend, the Krannert Art Museum is having an opening for the exhibit, "Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics." The curators, John Jennings and Damian Duffy, describe this show thus:Out of Sequence continues and expands on investigations such as Masters of American Comics, presented in 2005 by UCLA's Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, by

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Two invitations: SHARKPIT and KRANNERT ART MUSEUM.I, Mark Staff Brandl, will be in the US in October and would love to see you -- and show you work. The dates and contact info ---OPENING (vernissage, apero)SHARKPIT (Wesley Kimler's Studio)THURSDAY OCTOBER 16 from 7:30 - 11:00 pm (or so)a small SHOW of littler worksAfter that a very large painting-installation inKRANNERT ART MUSEUMChampaign,

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As many of you know who read my posts and articles, or have heard me speak, I was greatly influenced by a remarkable, painterly adventure comic artist, Gene Colan. I am saddened to announce that at age 85 he has liver failure.Gene is not only my Master, but has become my friend over the last years. His wonderful wife Adrienne as well. She writes, "My darling, sweet, handsome and brilliantly

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A series of four abstract cartoons by artist Mark Staff Brandl, originally made in 2001, in collaboration with Mustafa Kocabeyoglu. Now available on youtube.

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(click image to view enlarged)Hot Links:http://www.comicbooktalkradio.com/Archive

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Editor John Lent opened the pages of his remarkable academic journal, The International Journal of Comic Art to several essays on gallery comics grouped as a symposium. The latest issue (Fall 2007, vol. 9 no. 2) combines perspectives on gallery comics from artists, art historians, collectors and curators. In the coming weeks, we will share some notes on the essays by Mark Staff Brandl, Joanna

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Comic Illustrator and Gallery Comic artist Mac McCool made a short but interesting "pointer" post on another blog concerning page comics:"In comic art, the "gutter" defines the space between panels. How wide should gutters be? Generally, not so far apart that the panels seem disconnected and no longer belonging to a meaningful visual group and reading sequence (fig. 1). When the gutter width is

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Fine art comics, beaux comics, display comics, exhibition comics, object comics, sequential fine arts .....I have a certain difficulty with the term gallery comics, as it centers so directly on only one possible destination for the works of art presented here. Granted, the term has its strengths. First, it was created by C Hill, who is the first theorist and practitioner to have identified and

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Sorry --- while this topic of Gallery Comics is indeed a hot issue, we have all been too busy making the works and discussing them elsewhere to properly be active here! I promise more activity soon --- and stimulating discussion.

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The Marshall Gallery of the Phoenix Art Museum is hosting the exhibit, "Uninked: Paintings, Sculpture and Graphic Work of Five Cartoonists." In guest curating this exhibit, Chris Ware brought together the art of five alternative comic artists, which has a natural "fit" in the gallery. These versatile artists are Kim Deitch, Jerry Moriarty, Gary Panter, Ron Regé, Jr. and Seth. The exhibit ends

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Laguna Art Museum Guest Curator, Jacqueline Bunge, in her effort to include a broad cross section of different arts from Orange County artists, has selected Blind Date, an 11-piece gallery comics installation by C Hill. When walking in the first exhibit room across the museum entrance, Blind Date faces visitors. For our readers who cannot make it to the beautiful beach city of Laguna by January

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Here is yet another twist on gallery comics, and this one is probably stretching the definition a little too far, but lovers of eurocomics will be forgiving! Frank Pé, comic artist of the acclaimed series Broussaille and Zoo has revisited in a series of quite realistic portrait paintings the heroes of the eurocomics mythology. His approach gives the illusion he had the A-list of eurocomics

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C Hill steps into the realm of art installations with his latest gallery comics, Blind Date, opening at the OsCene II exhibit at the Laguna Art Museum (Oct. 29, 2006 through Jan. 21, 2007). It is boldly bookended with two large pieces that says "IGNORE ME" and "NOT ME!" Made of 11 panels ranging in sizes from 3' x 4' down to a very intimate center panel of 2.25" x 3" panel, Blind Date explores

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The Kellogg University Art Gallery at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona is hosting through October 21, 2006 the exhibit "DPI" or "Digitally Propelled Ideas." Visitors can see among the art selected C Hill's Stars, Crosses & Stripes. The national exhibit, juried by leading graphic designer Elliott Earls, "provide[s] a venue and bring[s] together artists who have been actively

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On the heels of our last post, posing the question of whether Gary Baseman's Enjoy or Suffer fits the concept of a gallery comics, the Blab! Exhibition held during the 2005 Fumetto Festival at the Museum of Art in Lucerne, Switzerland, deserves a solid look! While once again, most of all the art shown here first served the printed page, when seen on a wall, many pieces work beautifully while

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As part of the remarkably seductive, yet confounding show, Pervasion: The Art of Gary Baseman and Tim Biskup at the Laguna Art Museum (till Sept. 24), one piece worthy of notice for gallery comics aficionados is Baseman's Enjoy or Suffer (reproduced on the Juxtapoz 8th Anniversary Show online gallery). Composed of four sequential panels (acrylic on canvas panels 14" x 14"), this comics also had

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Fans of abstract comics, and particularly of the seductive gallery comics of Andrei Molotiu, will gladly discover his revamped blog. Of note, he reposted photos from the solo show he had in 2005. It is a treat for the eye, and the closest thing to seeing the actual thing, so take a tour of Andrei Molotiu's gallery comics pages. One more thing: Molotiu is also doing some figurative, and in his

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Comic artist, Mark Savary, who self-publishes his strips at the Autumn Lake website created a small set of Sunday or "Sunday-like" pages on the theme of rain. Those depart from his more cartoony anecdotes about a handful of characters living in rural New England. The "Rain" pages capture with grace the subtle, yet sudden shifts in atmosphere and in mood of rainy days in the northeast. Savary

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Judging by Andrei Molotiu's uploaded images on his blotcomics, he has been busy producing new pieces, including some he introduces as "Alien comic strip from Mars!!!"When you visit Andrei Molotiu's website, it is also worth scrolling down to some 2004 pieces of simply gorgeous abstract color fields patched in gridlike patterns.

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C Hill will be signing at the Newhall, Calif. comics store, Brave New World (22722 Lyons Avenue) during the Independence Day parade from 9 to 11am. Paul Adam Linsley, illustrator of the children's book May I Have The First Dance? will be signing along.

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Not this year! However, Nisha Gopalan, Editor at Entertainment Weekly, one of this year's five Eisner Awards jurors stood behind C Hill's "Stars, Crosses, and Stripes." She wrote in the San Diego Comic-Con Update (vol. 2, 2006):I am quite pleased with the outcome [of the Eisner Awards nominations], though I still think that La Perdida, issue No. 1 of Strange Detective Tales, and the

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Gallery comic artist, Mark Staff Brandl, collaborated with sculptor, Maya Bringolf, in a two-artist show, Nu Pop Scape, at the Project Space Exex in St. Gallen, Switzerland (May 4-28, 2006). If you are curious to see how large scale gallery comics can reshape and expand space, take a tour of this very seductive show. There are plenty of photos and insightful commentary.

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Bringing the comics medium to the gallery space is not restricted to hanging modest size art on a wall. Mark Staff Brandl's adds dimension to them. His work is BIG. Some of his art takes on the entire space of the gallery, more like installation pieces. Another contribution by Staff Brandl is his theoretical exploration of the concepts of gallery comics and of "iconsequentiality," a term he

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Gallery comic artist Mark Staff Brandl introduced his art during the 94th annual College Art Association conference in Boston last February. His lively talk at the "Gallery Comics" panel (in addition to generating many laughs!) provided great insight into his creative process and his artistic philosophy. Readers can revisit Staff Brandl's presentation notes now posted online. The CAA has also

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Tom Good reviewed "Stars, Crosses, and Stripes" in the Miscellanea and Ephemeron section of the Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society. Good comments, "the challenge is to make the composition work both from across the room and from nearby, so that it invites the viewer to come closer and then provides some reward for doing so. Stars, Crosses & Stripes succeeds at this. [....] The use

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John Parkin, at The Great Curve, interviewed C Hill about gallery comics, "Stars, Crosses, and Stripes," and future projects.

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Derik A. Badman, who writes the MadInkBeard blog, which anyone interested in the formalist and conceptual dimensions of comics will enjoy, has just published a nice review at Comic Book Galaxy of C Hill's limited edition gallery comics, Stars, Crosses, and Stripes.

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Andrei Molotiu has long championed the concept of abstraction, ornon-figurative imagery, in comics, not only in his writings and lectures, but in his art. Those abstract comics presented in the realm of the gallery form one of the more exciting frontiers in the field of gallery comics. Molotiu’s beautiful art, sometimes in frugal black and white, sometimes in lush colors, graces the surface of

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The online literary and art magazine Oblique Angle includes on page 4 in its March issue “Hold Me,” or C Hill’s very first gallery comics (the one he nicknames his “gallery comics zero”). “Hold Me” is nicely paired with Tara Alfano’s poem, “Behind the Door.”

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Michelle Ollie, Andrei Molotiu, Mark Staff Brandl, and Joanna Roche have all worked on gallery comics, but from very different perspectives. They spoke of their experiences at a panel organized by fellow gallery comics pioneer, C Hill, at the College Art Association 94th annual conference (Boston, Mass. - February 25, 2006). For the first time, the artistic and academic community saw examples

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