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Too Art for TV 3 New York's 3rd Annual Fine Art Exhibit for the Animation Industry December 5th through December 15th, 2008 Erebuni is pleased to present Too Art for TV 3, the third annual group exhibition showcasing the fine art expressions of the animation industry. Twice before, this show has drawn in excited, elbow-to-elbow crowds of artists, illustrators, filmmakers, animators, and fans of animation. This year’s exhibit, now the biggest one in Too Art for TV’s history, features 36 artists who- by way of toys, prints, paintings, sculptures, and experimental film- set free their skills otherwise "owned" by television networks. The widespread appeal of Too Art for TV lies in the pop culture it reflects. Animation artists are experts in robots, superheroes, and the many incarnations of obsessive "geek" pursuits. They are the lusty consumers of graphic novels, toys, video games, art books, and the fantastical incarnations of pop 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 personal works when combined create an umbrella genre inviting pop surrealism, geek-core, graffiti, lowbrow, and the finer arts into its shade. This 3rd and latest Too art for TV is unprecedented in its variety and scope. Featuring the international interactive downloadables known as Cubeecraft by Christopher Beaumont, the gigantic "public art" totems of award winning animator Patrick Smith, the obsessively small pencil drawings on large rolls of paper by Christy Karakas (creator/director of Adult swim’s SuperJail!), the playful animated Atari-style cats by Ben Ross, the assemblage robot sculptures of longtime animation producer David Lipson, as well as an eclectic array of paintings, prints, toys, and experimental animations. Curated by Liz Artinian HOURS: Mon & Tues 1pm-5pm (ring bell), open doors Wed - Friday 1pm-7pm and Sat & Sun 1pm-5pm. |
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ALEX SMITH |
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AMANDA BAEHR FULLER |
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ANDY SURIANO |
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BEN ROSS Ben Ross is this guy. He went to school for comic book stuff, but now works with Fred Siebert at Next New Networks. He has an addiction; he can't stop making stuff. Every month or two Ben buys a new domain and makes a site. From puppet podcasts, to sites with waving bunnies, Ben has 'em all.Ben sees himself as a song and dance man that can neither sing nor dance. His main goal is to make people smile with his art.He also loves kittens and pizza |
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CARLY MONARDO Carly Monardo is an SVA graduate/ illustrator/ animator/ compulsive shopper/ twin-sister/ dog-lover living in Brooklyn, NY. She loves to study faces and is fascinated with what makes a person's face unique. She tries to capture this sense of awe in her paintings. Carly's animation credits include: Sunday Pants, Venture Bros., and Super Normal. She was recently published in the comic anthology "Fat Chunk", published by Slave Labor Graphics, and did a limited run of Artist Sketch Cards for the official Lord of The Rings Masterpiece II series for Topps Cards. You can find her web-site at http://www.lasagnachildren.com. |
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CHRISTOPHER BEAUMONT A Pratt graduate living in Brooklyn NY, he spends most of his free time making little paper people for his site cubeecraft.com - an internationally known papercraft-toy community art project. |
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CHRIS GEORGE Previous Exhibitions: Too Art for TV Too (May 4-May 24 2007), The 40 Show (April 20-April 21 2007), Shady Characters (July 28-August 28 2006). Chris George lives and works in New York City, New York. |
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CHRISTY KARACAS |
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CONOR O'KELLY-LYNCH In the past year, Conor’s work has screened at several festivals around the world. These include the Bluegrass Independent Film Festival, Trail Dance Film Festival, NYC Downtown Shorts Film Festival, New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Mobifest Toronto, and the Treo Mobile Comedy Festival. His undergraduate film “Arcadia” won the online competition of the Rhode Island International Film Festival. |
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DAGAN MORIARTY Dagan Moriarty is an animator and illustrator hailing from the eastern lands of Long Island, New York. He has been working in the world of TV animation for 10 years now, mainly as a Character Designer, Animator, and Art Director. He is 34 years young. Dagan pulls his inspiration from many sources, but is especially inspired by skateboarding, children's book illustration old AND new, including the work of Shel Silverstein, Maurice Sendak, Ezra Jack Keats, Oliver Jeffers, Mary Blair and Ludwig Bemmelmans... architecture, film geniuses like Kurosawa, Miyazaki, and Hitchcock, japanese and chinese culture, Vaughn Bode, Winsor McCay, UPA, the aesthetics and culture of the 1970's, Pablo Picasso, Herbert Baglione, Chris Applehans, Amy Sol, Bill Watterson and many more. Dagan commutes to NYC from Philadelphia suburbs, where he lives with his wife Helene and daughter Lilya. They enjoy being nestled between their 2 favorite cities. |
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DAVID LIPSON |
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DAVID MONTGOMERY Enrolling in the first class of Digital Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida and graduating with the second class (needing some extra time to grasp the full breadth of courses like Numerical Analysis, but excelling at classes like Sculpture: Gravity and Buoyancy), David Montgomery honed his skills with new media while maintaining an appreciation for the natural world. After helping his grandmother illustrate a concept for teaching young children music and literacy simultaneously, he packed his bags for San Diego to pick up a freelance gig producing graphics and animated logos for live webcasts of professional surfing events. In the downtime between these events, using skills acquired from his first student film "dogBall," he started experimenting with imagery acquired from plants in his yard. San Diego's meditteranean climate was the perfect environment to facilitate the creation of David Montgomery's textural, organic stop motion. |
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EDMOND HAWKINS Hailing from Brooklyn NY Edmond Hawkins has been part of the NY animation community since 2001. He's animated for shows including Wonder Showzen, and most recently Super Jail!. Edmond also has made motion graphics packages for shows like Everybody Hates Chris where he co-creates the opening title sequence each season. In his spare time he makes independent films, which have screened worldwide including venues such as Annecy, Tribeca, and has also been featured on MTV2's Best Animation On Campus. Edmond aspires to bring his creativity to television and the silver screen and is currently developing a pitch for a new series. |
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EDWARD ARTINIAN Edward likes to animate and draw. When Edward looks loving into his children's eyes, he realizes that he has no business raising a family on an animator's income. Never the less, he gets paid for what he loves to do, and that tends to help him push out such stressful thoughts. He started his career as a layout artist on Beavis and Butthead in New York City, and has been toiling in animation since (15 years). Edward lives in LA with his wife, two daughters, big fluffy white cat and is the lead animator on the Adult Swim show, Metalocolypse. In his spare time, he enjoys watching anime, playing video games and riding his motorcycle. |
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HAL LEE Hal Lee, Character designer/Illustrator was born in Seoul, Korea and has lived in New York since 2001. He has worked as a character layout artist at Augenblick Studios for Superjail! and his illustrations have been used by New York Post, Nickelodeon magazine, Copernicus Publications, and Spaceman media. Hal's personal work is often inspired by his dreams and the archetypal image of the hermit. Currently, he is creating a series of oil paintings and enjoys listening to Terence Mckenna lectures while working. | |
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JARON EUGENE NEWTON Jaron Eugene is an animation artist who currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. He tends to focus on rough; some have even termed it weird, sketch animation. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Jaron aspired to make it to the east coast to define himself as an independent animation director. His foot in the door was an internship at Plymptoons as a colorist. From there, networking through various events, he got work with small companies such as Pilartoons. Currently Jaron is finishing a few small projects with a variety of clients while establishing connections with clients abroad.Jaron has exhibited his work at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and The Fringe Festival of Kansas City Missouri. As an animation artist, Jason pushes the limits of animation to express how ubiquitous it is as a conceptual, political, and romantic art form. |
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JEN HILL |
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JESSICA MILAZZO Jessica has recently returned from Germany having completed her short film “The Adventures of the Fabulous Box Kitten.. in part.”. Earlier in the year, she co-directed a music video, “BoyCatBird” with Super Fi for Adult Swim and Ghostly International. She has worked as a Director, Supervisor and Animator for a variety of shows, ads and museum installations. Ask her, she’ll tell you. Artistically, Jessica is inspired by visual metaphor and humor in art, high and low. Her choice of medium, watercolor and ink mainly, add a subtle elegance to her explorations. |
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JUSTIN SIMONICH Justin 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 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. He then got the opportunity to live and work in New York City and has no intention of leaving any time soon. Being in NYC has allowed him to work on projects for Nickelodeon, Noggin, and MTV networks, doing everything from storyboarding, layout, character design, creating animatics, to finished animation. Today Justin continues work in TV, create short films and as many works of art as he can. Long-term plans include getting a network show of his own and finishing a children’s book or two. |
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kaNO kaNO used to paint animation cells for Jumbo pictures while attending the School of Visual Arts. Upon graduating in 1999 he landed a job at MTV animation as a character lay-out artist. Despite the ups and downs of the industry, kaNO has been hard at work for the last decade as an animator, storyboard artist, character designer, and as of late voice over talent. kaNO has provided services for some of the biggest names in the biz, such as Disney, MTV, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Miramax, 4kids, Rankin/Bass, and Scholastic to name a few. kaNO also freelances as an independent artist under kaNO kid, LLC and has worked directly with clients such as Upper Deck and Nike. |
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KATE TYLER Kate graduated from 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 fro preschoolers airing internationally. Kate moved on to designing props and backgrounds for the series The Wonder Pets! at Little Airplane Productions. Kate's personal work is driven by fashion and theater, particularly the work of John Galliano and Christian Lacroix. |
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KELLY DENATO Kelly began working in 2000 as a freelance illustrator and animator – illustrating for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine as well as animating for Children's Television Workshop and Cartoon Network online games. She also worked full time as an animator at Rumpus, a start-up toy and webisode company. After Rumpus, Kelly began working as a Character and Background Designer for several projects for Animation Collective including two KOL (AOL Kids) series, "Kung Fu Academy" and "Princess Natasha", as well as an MTV pilot "Metal Wolf".Most recently, Kelly is working as an animator/motion graphics designer at RGA in NY. She has also been busy participating in several customization projects such as Andrew Bell's Zlik, Shawnimals' Plushform, KaNO's MoneyGrip, and a skate deck for the 3FeetHigh show. These customs were exhibited at My Plastic Heart NY, Rotofugi Chicago, and Maxwells NJ.Currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY, Kelly is focusing on painting, character art, and plush toy design. |
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KIM RYGIEL 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 as a Color Stylist on such shows as Daria, Head Trip and Spy Groove. Changing pace, she moved on to become a Graphic Designer working for numerous companies including gURL.com, Seventeen, iVillage and most recently Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Kim’s most current animation work included designing backgrounds for the Sesame Workshop/Cartoon Pizza co-production of Pinky Dinky Doo. In her spare time she runs a small business, riceandweetzie.com. Her knitted ‘necknooshes’ have been featured on Treehugger.com and in Body + Soul magazine. 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. Her portfolio can be viewed at www.papericecream.com |
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LIZ ARTINIAN Liz Artinian is a Brooklyn based painter and has worked in animation since graduating with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently Liz is the color supervisor for "The Venture Bros.", an animated series on Adult Swim. Liz’s paintings are folk inspired with a slight nod to pop surrealism. Her recent work explores "fictitious portraiture" and the subtle storytelling properties of color. She exhibits her work in New York and across the US- most recently "The Artist Ball" (Sept.2008) at Gallery Icosahedron in Tribeca. Liz curates small gallery exhibits in Brooklyn, including the annual “Too Art for TV”; a not-for-profit show designed to support fine artists in New York’s animation industry. Liz will be accepting hugs as well as friendship at this time. www.lizartinian.com |
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MIGUEL MARTINEZ Miguel Martinez-Joffre is a tried and true veteran of the New York animation scene, where he has contributed to several top studios such as Disney/Jumbo Pictures, MTV Animation, and R/Greenberg Associates. Currently, Miguel serves as a Creative Director at World Leaders Entertainment, a studio that he co-founded in 2001. Most recently, he directed 52 episodes of the animated series, SuperNormal for CITV, Granada’s UK children’s network.Previously, Miguel has filled the roles of Animation Direction Supervisor for [adult swim]’s The Venture Bros., Sequence Director for MTV’s feature film, Beavis and Butthead Do America, Animation Director for Warner Bros.’ web series, Gotham Girls, and Design Supervisor for Disney’s PB&J Otters and Sabrina the Animated Series. |
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PATRICK SMITH Patrick Smith has written, produced, animated, and directed five award-winning films from 2001-2008. Smith made his directorial debut for the Emmy nominated MTV series "Down-Town", continuing on to direct the popular animated series "Daria." His bizarre, morphing style tells symbolic stories of identity and emotion, and have extended beyond film. His Public Art Installations have earned the artist accolades outside the world of animation; his fine art is currently represented internationally by CVZ Contemporary Gallery in New York. Smith is a fellow with the New York Foundation of the Arts and a curator for multiple international film and animation festivals. His studio is located in Tribeca, New York City. |
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PAUL GREER Paul Greer has been working in the CGI industry for 8 years. He studied Animation at the West Surrey College of Arts and Design and has had his work shown at the London Film Festival. He works for Bristol based BDH Design and Direction and has worked on programs such as the BBC's"Can we save Planet Earth" and "British Style Genius" and also "The Boy with the Incredible Brain". He is a father of three, and in his spare time (of which there isn't much) he keeps a wordless web-comic and makes the occasional piece of experimental animation. Of which "Toad" is one. paulsimongreer.blogspot.com / electronicalrattlebag.tumblr.com |
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PETER J. LAZARSKI Peter J. Lazarski is an artist living in Rochester, NY. He was raised in Central New York where he spent most of his youth drawing and searching for bugs under rocks. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology to study Graphic Design and Illustration. Since school he has worked on a variety of projects, including doing background illustration and pre-production on both seasons of “Pale Force” forConan O'Brien/NBC. Peter is a self-taught screen printer, hand-printing posters out of his basement studio. His work focuses on designing characters and images that are both appealing and disturbing, merging the cute and the creepy. Monsters, bugs, and bears are frequently found lurking in his work. You can find out more about Peter's work at his website and blog: www.peterlazarski.com / www.butimawizard.blogspot.com |
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REJECT Reject has been working in NYC as an animator for over 8 years. He has done work for broadcast TV, commercial spots, and the series of tubes known as the internets. He is an artist without a real vision, painting just for fun when he isn’t watching baseball, eating pumpkin pie or trying to earn a buck.He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their 3 cats. He asked me to give you his best and he hoped you had a nice Thanksgiving. |
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RICHARD MATHER Richard Mather was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1965 but lived most of his young life in Austin, Texas, where he dropped out of high school and supported himself as and illustrator, poster artist, and digital animator. He moved to New York in 1993 where he worked for production houses and animation studios, and eventually for MTV Animation. MTV and MTV Labs commissioned Richard to make “Saw Boy Buck” for a short animation block, which never aired but opened the door for more animated shorts. One of his new cartoons, "Magical Realm" aired on MTV2 July 2008, and they created a special Magical Realm week for it to air 24 hours a day. Richard is also painting in oils and watercolors, making hand made books, voice acting, and playing music. |
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ROBERT BOHN Robert Bohn is a recent graduate of The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Bohn has interned for acclaimed artist/director Pat Smith and worked in part with Don Duga and Irra Verbitsky. Bohn has also worked extensively on the streets of New York selling his work and collecting material for his multitude of “found object” pieces. As a researcher and artist Bohn is working to create a process of viewing his work that eliminates the obstacles impeding free thought and encourages personal dissection of the human experience. Bohn blends his mastery of classic cartooning techniques with the world he observes, creating projects that are both tragically observant and beautifully executed.Bohn is well on his way to becoming a much needed threat to the dim state of affairs that has fallen over the current industry. |
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SIOBHÁN MULLEN Siobhán Mullen was born in London to Irish parents in January of 1973. She was raised in Ireland, where she graduated from Dublin’s Ballyfermot Senior College in 1996 with a Diploma in Classical Animation. She has been working in the animation industry, not only in Ireland but also in London, Berlin, L.A. and most recently, New York City ever since. Siobhan is credited with storyboard supervising many projects. The most notable of them being; “The Venture Bros.” (2005 to present) for World Leaders Entertainment/Cartoon Network. The Irish live action short film, “Right Now Ladies and Gents” (2004). “Doug's 1st Movie”, (1999) for Jumbo Pictures/Disney. And MTV’s, “Beavis and Butt-Head Do America”, (1996) as a layout artist. In the photographic world, two of her photographs were recently used as an album cover, released in March '08, and one as a single, released December '07, for a band from Liverpool, England called “Amsterdam”. She now resides with her fiancé and their four cats in Hoboken, New Jersey. |
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STEPHEN NEARY Hoosier-born Stephen Neary came to NYU to make cartoons. While still in school he animated on Nick Jr's hit show, The Wonder Pets, the BBC's 3rd & Bird, and shorts for SNL's TV Funhouse. Stephen graduated NYU in 2008 and is currently a Blue Sky Studios storyboard artist on Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.Stephen's senior short, Chicken Cowboy, won NYU's Richard Protovin Memorial Animation Grant. Stephen's previous short, Shark Suit: the Musical, won two Student Emmys from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, and received a grant from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Stephen's first short, Bigfoot's Eulogy, won a Wasserman Award from NYU and was screened at the Director's Guild of America.Stephen strives to produce an individuality of quirkiness and imagination in all his work, heavily influenced by dreams and healthy obsessions. |
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TODD K. LOWN Todd K Lown, born in 1977 in beautiful sunny Seattle, came up keeping busy with skateboarding, debauchery, and drawing. The pens, pencils and such eventually led to contently drawing in a book all day, and then to a few years at The University of Washington. While in school he got to spend countless hours gleefully squishing paper against a variety of printing plates in exchange for a BFA. During this time he also began drawing animation and when he is not still doing that he rides a skateboard, and paints pictures, sometimes in the form of large murals, which dot the countryside from the Pacific Northwest to Texas, Memphis and on up to the Northeast. Todd has traveled and exhibited about the world a bit, and keeps to actively pursuing his obsession with art in the mediums of drawing, painting, and animation. www.siamesebirds.com |
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ZARTOSHT SOLTANI Zartosht Soltani was born in 1973 in Iran. He moved to US in 2000 and worked as designer and art director for different companies. Currently he is working with BBC America and Flicker lab as and art director and designer.The concept of Zartosht’s works: his personal experiences and ideas about politics and war using stuffed animals and puppets. |
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*These images represent the artists. They are not necessarily the works that were exhibited in the show.
