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Too Art for TV, Too Second Annual Exhibition for New York's Animation Industry May 4th through May 25th, 2007 Stay Gold Gallery is pleased to present Too Art for TV, Too, the Second Annual Exhibition for New York's Animation Industry. 35 artists, by way of toys, comics, prints, and paintings, liberate the skills otherwise "owned" by their television networks bosses. In January of 2006, "Too Art for TV" opened as the first of this annual event. Drawing in an excited, elbow-to-elbow crowd of artists, illustrators, filmmakers, animators, and gallery goers, "Too Art for TV" unquestionably demonstrated the wide spread appeal of animation inspired art. Animation is terrific at inspiring both audience and artist alike. Its influence starts early; Saturday morning cartoons fill our heads with colorful shapes and silly premises, the ever-complex process shielded by a convincing final product. Born of countless drawings and paintings, an animated anything is a large artistic effort; both abstract in its construction and real in its effect on our imagination. The Village Voice, examining last year's "Too Art for TV" wrote; "Underpinning the cacophonous chaos of today's 24/7 cartoon broadcasts is an army of artists skilled in depicting the human figure" [R.C. Baker]. Such a genre is bound to draw purveyors of art, as evidenced by MoMA's Pixar exhibit last year, and this year's recent "Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making". Animation artists are experts in monsters, robots, villains, and the changing genres of pop influence. They are the lusty consumers of graphic novels, toys, video games, art books, and the many incarnations of obsessive geek culture. Their careers make them excellent drafts-people, skilled at drawing and well adapted to the latest design technologies. Loaded with influences and abilities, their works when combined create an umbrella movement for pop surrealism, geek-core, graffiti, low-brow and the finer arts. Too Art for TV, Too is the biggest showing of this movement to date; featuring the artists who create, write, direct, storyboard, design, color, and animate "Venture Bros." (Adult Swim), "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (Fox Network), "Ice Age" (Blue Sky Studios), "A Scanner Darkly" (Richard Linklater), "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Nickelodeon), "Code Name: Kids Next Door" (Cartoon Network), "Stanley" (Disney TV), "Daria" (MTV Animation), "Blue's Clues" (Nick JR), and more. Senior Curator: Liz Artinian |
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Known for being ridiculous, mouthy, and tactless; |
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The daughter of an artist and a writer, Amanda |
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Jennifer Batinich is a Seattle born New Yorker. |
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Blue Bliss was recently assistant lead animator and software trainer on the Richard Linklater film "A Scanner Darkly" in Austin, Texas. After majoring in glassblowing at Carnegie-Mellon University, she moved to San Francisco and became a graphic artist and illustrator. She lived in Santa Fe where she painted murals for private commissions. She has traveled around California designing and painting giant murals for theme parks, including SeaWorld and Marine World. After taking time off to teach herself computer graphics, Blue Bliss re-emerged as a web designer, illustrator and animator. Her clients include NASA, Hasbro, Mattel, Ericsson, Frito-Lay, and Animation Collective. She currently lives in Brooklyn, where she is freelancing as a Flash animator, designer, and portraiture artist. www.blueblissgallery.com |
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Standing nearly five foot eight and one half inches high, Jeff Buckland has long labored in the vineyards of funny ha-ha children's television. Raised from birth by feral cats, Mr. Buckland grew up to direct PB&J Otter, Stanley, Kenny the Shark, and Pinky Dinky Doo. He lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife, child, and ukulele. He enjoys both apple and key lime pie, though never at the same meal. |
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Jared Deal works as a freelance animator/designer doing everything from animated shorts to music videos since starting in the industry in '98. Previous clients include MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Curious Pictures, Spike TV, Funny Garbage and Augenblick Studios. Jared currently has two of his own cartoons in development: Carneys with Atomic Cartoons and Flakes with Studio B Productions. www.jareddeal.blogspot.com |
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Kelly Denato graduated Pratt Institute in 2000, having majored in Communications Design with a focus in Illustration. Kelly began her career as an illustrator for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. She started animating for Children's Television Workshop and Cartoon Network online games. She then worked full time as an animator at Rumpus, a start-up toy and webisode company. Kelly later worked as a Character and Background Designer for Animation Collective including two KOL (AOL Kids) series, Kung Fu Academy and Princess Natasha, as well as an MTV pilot Metal Wolf. Kelly has illustrated a children's book called Ellen's 11-Star Spectacular Super-Deluxe Hotel for Little Brown Publishing which came out in June 2006. Currently living and working in Brooklyn, Kelly is focusing on painting, character art, and plush toy design. |
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Marina grew up watching Pink Panther and Tom and Jerry cartoons, but her real love for animation came while working at Zagreb Film in Croatia. It was there that her animation career started, working in production on independent animation shorts. After moving to the U.S. in the 90's, Marina worked as a color artist/supervisor at Ink Tank, Curious Pictures, Magnet Pictures, and Disney Television Animation. She helped to establish Noodlesoup Productions (now World Leaders Ent.) where she is currently working as a creative director. She lives in the East Village with her fat cat Marko. |
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Nash Dunnigan has been involved in animation, both TV and feature, for 13 years. He has worked at many New York Studios, including Jumbo Pictures, Curious Pictures, and MTV. Nash was one of the founding artists at Noodlesoup Productions (now World Leaders Ent.), and worked as an art director for two years. Nash is now at Blue Sky Studios. He was cinematographer on Robots and Ice Age, The Meltdown. He also did storyboarding for Robots. Nash is currently in visual development, and designs environments for the upcoming 2008 movie Horton Hears a Who. Recently, Nash was one of the writers/artists of a comic collective called OOP, Out of Picture, published by Paquet Publishers in Switzerland. Nash had a show at Gallery Arludik in Paris, France last month. He's currently working on his second collective book, due to be published next fall. www.outofpicture.com |
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Jonathan Ehrenberg received an MFA from Yale University's painting program in 1999. Jonathan had a solo exhibition of his work at the Earl McGrath Gallery in 2001 and was the creative director of Head Trip, an animated show produced by MTV Animation. Jonathan is currently teaching drawing at the Parsons School of Design. |
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When Chris George was a child he dreamt of becoming a super famous rock star/painter/physicist. Once, in 1997, Chris George jumped in front of a moving train, stared down the barrel of a gun, and embraced his pirate ancestry. Chris George dislikes fish. Chris George has waking dreams of heroism and nightmares filled with zombies. Chris George is most likely a cat person. Chris George likes you. Chris George is a real life professional artist for hire. Employers include Nickelodeon, MTV, and Cartoon Network. Chris's most recent contribution to the world of animation was that of character designer on the [adult swim] hit show "The Venture Bros." Chris's most recent exhibition prior to Stay Gold's "Too Art for TV, Too!" was the "Shady Characters" group show at the Live With Animals gallery in July 2006. Chris George lives in Astoria New York. He enjoys J.D. Salinger novels, punk-rock, and Guitar Hero. www.sneakydreamer.blogspot.com |
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Marta Maria Jonsdottir has been working as a freelance animator, in London and Reykjavik, Iceland, since graduating from London Animation Studio in 2004. She has worked as an animator and illustrator for game companies (Nintendo Gameboy Advanced and dvd-kids) and created several TV-adverts for Icelandic advertising agencies. She was nominated for the Icelandic Music Awards, 2006 for the best music video, and 2005 for the best cd-cover design. In 2000, Marta graduated from Goldsmiths College with an MA in Fine Art. She has participated in various group exhibitions in Iceland, Greenland, Netherlands and the UK over the last ten years. In spring 2006 she had a private show on the west coast of Iceland, Slœnkar’ki. That same year she participated in an international group exhibition: Sequences, real time festival in Reykjavik. |
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kaNO was born in Brooklyn and went to the High School of Art & Design and the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He makes a living in the animation industry and freelances as an illustrator. kaNO uses his experience of 80's and 90's era inner city life as a foundation for his art. His work mirrors street culture and is heavily influenced by Hip-Hop. kaNO got his start as a character layout artist at MTV Animation. He went on to be a designer, storyboard artist and traditional animator for Jumbo Pictures, 4kids Ent., Curious Pictures, Nickelodeon, and Rankin/Bass. He is currently a design director at World Leaders Entertainment on Supernormal, the animated series. www.kanokid.com |
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Rick Lacy has been a resident of NYC for ten years and has worked extensively in NY animation. Most notable is Rick's work for Adult Swim's, The Venture Bros.. He has contributed to many facets of the show with design, layouts and storyboards. Rick is also in the comic book universe with notable work for Dark Horse Comics, including two stories for their Clone Wars Adventures series and recently as lead artist for the Hellboy Animated series. A fan of both mediums, Rick has embraced his adventures with the utmost excitement. His labor of love, a project aptly named Labor Days, is a graphic novel 3 years in the making. Recently, Rick and long time collaborator, Phil Gelatt, signed a contract with Oni Press to publish it. They approach the venture with a hearty dose of gusto. This is Rick's second time showcasing his art at the Stay Gold Gallery. www.ricklacy.blogspot.com |
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Douglas Lovelace is an artist of the "Visionary-Ecstatic" type. His influences span the centuries, from extemporaries such as Hiroshige & Herge to contemporaries Bill Presing & Tom Connor. Much to his amazement & amusement, he was adopted by the NYC animation circa 1998. That makes him nine years old in NYC animation years (roughly 120 human years). He has been utilized as a character designer & storyboard artist on projects ranging from MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch to Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. The production team environment is weirdly familiar & comfortable to him, filling him with feelings such as "warm & fuzzy", and, occasionally, their dark counterparts "cold & chilling". He always shoots to do his best, but never better than his best. Ultimately, art is his religion & only incidentally his profession. www.chrisis.org |
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David B. Levy is the author of the best selling book, Your Career In Animation: How to Survive and Thrive (Allworth Press, 2006). Levy was episode director for the Noggin Channel' Flash animated series, Pinky Dinky Doo, and also on the long-running hit, Nick Jr's Blue's Clues. Most recently, Levy served as the supervising director of animation for the second season of the Blue's Clues spin-off, Blue's Room. As an independent filmmaker, he has thus far completed five, self penned, award winning independent animated films, "Snow Business" (1998), "Hortonhow" (2000), "The Way The Twig Is Bent..." (2002), "Scout Says" (2004), and "Stand Clear" (2005). Levy's films have been broadcast in Norway, Finland, Belgium, Australia and Poland. In addition to his animation work, Levy is a published author of cartoons for various publications as well as the illustrator of fifteen children's books in the United States. Levy has served as President of Asifa-east (the NY chapter of Asifa International) since September 2000. Hez teaches animation at Parson's School of Design, The School of Visual Arts, and New York University's Tish School of the Arts. Levy is currently at work on a second book for Allworth Press. |
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Todd K Lown's early interests in skateboarding, snowboarding,
drawing, tattoos, and blowing things up (that were his) eventually
led him to painting on things (that weren't his) and to The University
of Washington. There Todd received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
in 2002. Todd is currently working as a Production Assistant for 4Kids Productions on the new animated TV show Viva Pi–ata. He started at 4Kids inking and coloring for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Todd recently completed an animated short titled Cue the Birds, which is part of an independent Snowboarding film by the same name. Other recent accomplishments include a 300 page flip book drawn during a month in bed. The book was featured in the largest flip book exhibition in the world at the Kunsthale Dusseldorf and the Belgian Photo Museum in Antwerp. |
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Jim Manocchio started his animation career in 1987. Upon being nominated for an Emmy and a Gold Medallion for a promotional animation he created for the Florida Marlins, Jim was offered a position at ITV "South Florida PBS". At that time he also created an animation/live-action children's show called On The Move With Virgil where he designed, built, and acted in a 7 foot tall alligator costume. Jim moved to LA to work on The Pebble And The Penguin as an inbetweener. For 9 years Jim worked at Warner Brothers, Disney, Sony Pictures, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network on Men In Black, Histeria, Lady and the Tramp II and Alvin and the Chipmunks, among many others. In 2001 Jim moved to NYC and worked at MTV, Nickelodeon, Curious Pictures, DMA, Wachtenheim Marianetti, and VH1. He art directed VH1's ILL-ustrated and MTV's Friday, the animated seres. www.jimmynock.blogspot.com |
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A native of the beautiful island of Puerto Rico, Miguel Martinez-Joffre came to New York in 1984 to pursue his studies in animation at the School of Visual Arts. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988, Miguel quickly established himself as a well respected animator, layout artist and animation director. His past projects include Cartoon Network's The Venture Bros., MTV's Beavis and Butthead, The Maxx, Disney's Doug, PB and J Otter and Sabrina. Miguel is also a Managing Editor and contributor to the well acclaimed anthology comic book series Monkeysuit. He is currently an Art Director at World Leaders Entertainment. |
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PeeDee Shindell paints representations of imaginative biology, alien physiognomy and speculative zoology. Strange subjects and dark mindscapes are his long time obsessions, as are pencil drawings of all kinds which are high in detail. PeeDeeÕs desire is to visually externalize the internal. PeeDeeÕs inspiration begins in old alchemy textbooks and can span many sources, including modern yoga catalogues. As his subject takes shape, his pencil sketches are slowly built upon with watercolor. PeeDee searches for a translucent, otherworldly feeling to appear on his paper. His pieces are all brought to completion on 300 ply watercolor paper. www.drpeedee.com |
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Richard Mather grew up in Austin, Texas where he triumphantly dropped
out of high school and became a drunk. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
He likes people, getting to know people and cute things like puppies.
He has worked for Curious pictures, HBO, MTV, Spike TV, Nick digital and
The Weather Channel. He has worked on Daria, Downtown, and has since started is own company, Richard Mather Studio. He's created his own show called Magical Realm, which is currently running on MTV Overdrive, in addition to making a bunch of interstitials for MTV, MTV2 and MTV U. Richard has won numerous awards including a nomination for a Gold Pencil Award from the One Show Awards and was included in Creativity 34 for excellence in design. |
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Jessica Milazzo graduated with a post graduate degree in Character Animation from Central St Martin's School of Art and Design in 2004. She was an animator on Pinky Dinky Doo for Cartoon Pizza, and Punk Rock Angel Girl for Nick. She also co-directed an animated short for the museum at Mount Vernon. She is currently Flash Supervisor for the upcoming PBS series, Nate the Great. Jessica dabbles in comics, though not as often as she would like. Her comic Box Kitten was shown at last year's Too Art for TV! exhibition at Stay Gold Gallery, Brooklyn. www.jessicamilazzo.com |
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Dagan Moriarty was born and raised in New York (on the MEAN streets of Long Island) where he often dreamed of becoming an animator. He finally grew up (kinda) and has been working in Animation for the past 9 years. He has spent time at studios in California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and FINALLY came home to New York, where he has worked on lots of television shows for the likes of Noggin, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Disney. Dagan enjoys splitting his time between character design and animation, but is currently a lead Animator for the Nickelodeon show Kappa Mikey. He is also a freelance designer for his friends at Renegade Animation and FatKat Studios. |
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Liam Murray is an animator of the pencil and paper variety. He has been influenced by a wide range of artists from Egon Schiele to Freddy Moore to Glen Keane. Liam studied traditional animation as a way to escape the cut throat work of cow maintenance in Ireland. He proceeded to move across the pond to New York where he started his career as an illustrator for Estee Lauder and Sean John. He then moved on to work for the Animation Collective where his skills were utilized in layout and animation on such shows as Skwod and Kappa Mikey. He is currently a freelance concept artist for Microsoft's ad campaigns. He also storyboards for many live action and animation pitches. He still gets a thrill whenever he realizes the old adage, "Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life" is true. www.scribblejunkie.blogspot.com |
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Reject is in his 2nd season as an animator for Disney's Little Einstein produced by Curious Pictures. He has been a character designer and animater for Comedy Central, Volkswagon, Burger King and a bunch of web animation. Reject has exhibited work in a few shows, most recently Shady Characters at the Live With Animals Gallery in Brooklyn. He lives happily in Brooklyn with his girlfriend and their 3 1/2 cats. |
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Jackson Publick is the creator of Adult Swim's marginally popular The Venture Bros. animated television series. Before finding it necessary to make up a fake name for himself, he was a head writer for the comic book, animated and live action incarnations of The Tick and he openly storyboarded for such animated fare as The King of the Hill, Doug, and Sheep in the Big City. He was also a contributing editor for the Monkeysuit comic book anthology series until everyone got sick of making it. www.jacksonpublick.livejournal.com |
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Kim Rygiel is an Illustrator, Graphic Designer, and all around Crafter.
Graduating with a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design,
she began her career in animation at MTV studios working on Daria,
Head Trip and Spy Groove. Changing pace, moved to Graphic Design
working for numerous websites including gURL.com, Seventeen, Teenmag.com
and most recently iVillage.com. KimÕs recent animation work includes
designing backgrounds for the Sesame Workshop/Cartoon Pizza co-production
of Pinky Dinky Doo. Kim runs a small business, riceandweetzie.com. Her knitted "necknooshes" have been featured on Treehugger.com and in the Martha Stewart publication Body + Soul. Kim's illustrations have appeared in Seventeen magazine, the 2002 gURL minimag "Deal With It!", on iVillage.com, Cosmogirl.com, FlipFlopTrunkshow.com and Teenmag.com. www.papericecream.com |
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Pammy Salmon is a freelance writer for children's animated television. She has written for shows appearing on PBS, Noggin, and The Disney Channel, and has penned several development projects for animation houses around the country. She started her animation career at Cartoon Pizza, Inc. where she served as Production Manager on JoJo's Circus. She draws visual inspiration from charcoal and pencil still-life and life-drawings. |
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Tim Shankweiler, a graduate of Sheridan College's Classical Animation
program, came to the U.S. in 2000. He started in layout at MTV (Daria) in
NYC. Since then he's worked at various studios in most facets of animation.
He currently animates for Curious Pictures (Little Einstein).
Other Credits include: Background artist on MTV'sFriday, Disney's Katbot, Scholastic's Clifford's Puppy Days, BG Style development on World Leaders / Granada co-production Supernormal, Comedy Central's Shorties Watchin Shorties, Miramax's Duplex and My Baby's Daddy. He's contributed (Animation, Character Design, Background Design, Storyboards) to numerous other productions, including shorts, video games, pitch bibles, features, toy designs, commercials, books, logos, and pilots. He's been exhibiting his paintings for 6 years at coffee shops and galleries in NYC. www.timshankweiler.com |
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Justin Simonich was born and raised in Western Massachusetts where he took an early liking to art, which he expressed by drawing all over the walls of his parents' house. He pursued his love of art further by studying at the University of Massachusetts, followed by Vancouver Film School, where he honed his animation skills. Following his travels abroad, Justin settled in Boston, MA, working on shows for Cartoon Network and B.E.T. In NYC, Justin has worked on projects for Nickelodeon, Noggin, and MTV networks, doing everything from storyboarding, layout, character design, creating animatics, to finished animation. Today Justin continues to create short films and make his way around the festival circuit. www.justinsimonich.com |
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Alex gets his bread and butter from freelance character animation.
He works for a number of London production companies. He's
currently working at CHASE Animation London on Kid Samurai, an
animated series. This past year has seen him shooting off to deepest East Germany and the Czech Republic to glean special animformation from the very lips of the Masters of European animation. Alex continues to work for the BBC and Cartoon Network on various projects. He has also animated on independent films, in 2005 on Damian Gascoigne's Careful (winner of London Critics Award, BAA short film award runner up) and on John Williams' Hibernation 2005 (Edinburgh Film Festival winner - Best Short Film). To date Alex has produced 2 solo short films, Robot Gimme Love 954 (2004) and Beast Abroad (2006). www.alegsmeeth.com |
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Kate Tyler graduated Pratt Institute in 2004 with a BFA in illustration. She started her career in animation at Cartoon Pizza, the New York based animation studio responsible for Disney's Doug, and JoJo's Circus. It is there that Kate headed the prop and character color department for the animated series Pinky Dinky Doo, a show for preschoolers airing internationally. Kate moved on to designing props and backgrounds for the series The Wonder Pets! at Little Airplane Productions. |
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Martin Wittig has been working in the animation industry for 10 years. He attended The School of Visual Arts, and later became a Disney Feature Film trainee. MartinÕs clients include Cartoon Network, MTV, World Leaders Entertainment, Disney TV, Nickelodeon, and Discovery Kids. He recently showed work in the Shady Characters Group Art Show (Brooklyn, NY). www.martinwittig.blogspot.com |
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Lulu has graced the NYC animation scene for over a decade, working on such shows as Brand Spanking New Doug, Stanley, and Pinky Dinky Doo. She has been a cel painter, designer, and storyboard artist but is best known for her firm yet fluid inkingÊand roof-top parties. However, she maintained an interest in portraiture in her attempts toÊmaster a Roliflex camera. Lulu retired from animation in 2006 and is currently studyingÊat Cardozo Law School, where no one greets her with ululations. |
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*These images represent the artists. They are not necessarily the works that were exhibited in the show.
Jason DiOrio has been removed for copyright reasons.
