I Love New Dork
Group Exhibition

Opening reception - August 23rd, 7pm-10pm

August 23rd through September 20th, 2013


BROOKLYN, NY (RELEASE August 17th, 2013) — Bunnycutlet Gallery is pleased to present I Love New Dork, a group exhibition featuring 25 emerging and established artists, many of whom will be exhibiting with Bunnycutlet for the first time.

For this exhibition, artists channel pop art through the fetishes of Nerd culture iconography, employing irony and emphasizing kitsch to highlight the absurdity and seriousness of that culture's infectious effect.

Nerds have their roots in the 1970's "bronze age" of comics and sci-fi subculture, sharing a once unfashionable passion for computers, fantasy, video games, and cosplay. Previously stereotyped as overly exuberant, bespectacled, and socially isolated, yesteryear's Nerds have cultivated a robust revenge: their idiosyncratic infatuations -- Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Super Mario Bros, Batman -- have become mainstream entertainment juggernauts. Added bonus: obsessive fandom in general has become a "cool" disposition to champion, toy collecting and trivia reciting and all, encouraging slavery to episodes of everything from Games of Thrones to Madmen.

First-time Bunnycutlet exhibitor Weston Ulfig is a Brooklyn based artist whose reverence for traditional processes and fascination with video game imagery inspires him to build large-scale video-quilt "paintings." Also exhibiting is long-time Bunnycutlet exhibitor Devin Clark, whose paintings utilize hundreds of multicolored dashes that radiate from his cartoon subjects with heroic glory. Newcomer Ian Clyde's oil paintings merge animals with commodities and technology with cheerful wit, while another newcomer, the award-winning illustration painter, Anthony Freda, re-purposes vintage, American ephemera into ironic, often sardonic takes on politically charged current events.
 
 
artwork ON VIEW
email bunnycutlet(at)gmail(dot)com for availability
 
 
Drew Alderfer
R

Acrylic on Paper
22 x 22 inches
$800
 
Drew Alderfer
G

Acrylic on Paper
22 x 22 inches
$800
 
Drew Alderfer
B

Acrylic on Paper
22 x 22 inches
$800
 
 
Anja Altenburg
St. Elsewhere

Oils and liquid gold on wood panel
10 x 18 Inches
$950
 
Christopher Baldassano
Halloween Under the Sea

Acrylic on Canvas
22 x 28 inches
$400
 
Jennifer Batinich
Stark Home Security

Gouache on Watercolor Paper
10 x 10 inches
$200
 
 
Jennifer Batinich
The Maid and the Unfair Bear

Gouache on Watercolor Paper
10 x 14 inches
$200
 
Jennifer Batinich
The Wizzer on the Wall

Gouache on Watercolor Paper
10 x 14 inches
$200
 
Jennifer Batinich
Playtime in the Khalasar

Gouache on Watercolor Paper
10 x 10 inches
$200
 
 
Devin Clark
Consume-Baby

Acrylic on Wood
24 x 16 inches
$800
 
Devin Clark
Consume-Devil

Acrylic on Wood
24 x 16 inches
$800
 
Devin Clark
Consume-Clown

Acrylic on Wood
24 x 16 inches
$750
 
 
Devin Clark
Consume-Nerd

Acrylic on Wood
24 x 16 inches
$750
 
Ian Clyde
Winny’s World

Oil on Canvas
36 x 36 inches
$2,800
 
Jared Deal
Punky Bruce-ster

Acrylic on Board
12 x 12 inches
$300
 
 
Cara DeAngelis
The Incident #2

Crayon on Board
20 x 22 inches
$1,400
 
Douglas Einar Olsen
Fortress Reprised

Video Installation
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Scott Foster
Daughter of Alderaan

Welded Steel
10 x 12 x 21 
$4.000
 
 
Anthony Freda
The Great Game

Mixed Media and Wood
18 x 36 inches
$3,500
 
Michael Haleta
Interface Pattern A

Comic Book Clippings
12 x 9.5 inches
$300
 
John Jacobsmeyer
Painter of Light

Oil on Linen
21 x 27 inches
$3,500
 
 
Marz Jr
Hook and Ladder 8

Gouache and Ink on Paper
7.5 x 9.5 inches
$200
 
Smallrus
Data Loves Spot

Acrylic on Wood
12 x 12 inches
$350
 
Smallrus
Worf Hates Vanilla Cake

Acrylic on Wood
12 x 12 inches
$350
 
 
Gabriel Pinto
Bruce

Acrylic and Mixed Media on Wood
12 x 19 inches
$300
 
Tracy Piper
Bonus Level <3

Acrylic on Canvas
20 x 24 inches
$800
 
Douglas Ra
Bar Scence

Ink on Paper
22 x 30 inches
$1,100
 
 
Douglas Ra
Riot Scene

Ink on Paper
22 x 30 inches
$1,100
 
Douglas Ra
Transit Scene

Ink on Paper
22 x 30 inches
$1,100
 
Eric Richardson
Revelations

Acrylic on Wood
8 x 24 inches
$2,300
 
 
Eric Richardson
Life Cycle

Acrylic on Wood
8 x 24 inches
$600
 
Vincent Scala
White as Snow

Silkscreen Print, 1/25 Framed
19 x 25 inches
$350
 
Vincent Scala
Mikey Monster

Silkscreen Print, 1/25 Framed
19 x 25 inches
$350
 
 
Weston Ulfig
Mike #1

Cotton
70 x 70 inches
$7,600
 
Edwin Vazquez
Ant Man

Acrylic Ink on Scratchboard
5 x 7 inches
$200
 
Edwin Vazquez
Abomination

Acrylic Ink on Scratchboard
5 x 7 inches
$200
 
 
Edwin Vazquez
A.I.M Agent

Acrylic Ink on Scratchboard
5 x 7 inches
$200
 
Edwin Vazquez
Alpha Primitive

Acrylic Ink on Scratchboard
5 x 7 inches
$200
 
Shari Weschler Rubeck
I Am Human 3

Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 24 inches
$650
 
 
Shari Weschler Rubeck
I Am Human 2

Acrylic on Canvas
20 x 20 inches
$650
 
Derek Rippe
I Love New York

Screenprint on Paper, Framed
18 x 24 inches
$200
   
 
 
 
 
Music/DJ Nithya Rajendran
 
Event Photography Brendan Adamson
 
 
ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Drew Alderfer is an illustrator and painter from Illinois, currently based in Queens, NYC. In addition to being a fine art painter, Drew writes and draws comic books. He is a graduate of the illustration program at the Ringling College of Art and Design. Drew's work reflects his dark humor about society and culture, including ideas about religion, the economy, and the obscurity of our mundane tasks when looked at from an outside perspective.

Anja Altenburg is a Danish Lowbrow artist who has exhibited her work across Europe. Her works playfully explores escapism and devotion to the modern popular culture.

Christopher Baldassano received his bachelors in illustration from FIT and is currently based in Staten Island, NYC.  Christopher's work is heavily influenced by pop culture. He manipulates recognizable characters from cartoons, popular television shows and movies, shifting the viewer's expectations in subtle as well as overt ways.

Jennifer Batinich is a San Diego born, Seattle raised, and New York educated fine artist living in Jersey City, NJ. She is an animator for BrainPOP, an E-Learning company, and has previously worked as an Animation Direction Supervisor for Adult Swim's The Venture Brothers. Jennifer has exhibited with Bunnycutlet Gallery multiple times

Devin Clark a fine artist, comic book artist, animator, and the creator of the Comedy Central animated series Ugly Americans. His fine art paintings utilize of hundreds of multicolored "dashes" that radiate from his cartoonish subjects with heroic glory. His work is exuberant, graphic, and exhibits the boldness of his comicbook drawing style.

Ian Clyde is a Brooklyn based artist originally from North of Boston, Massachusetts. His fine art oil paintings explore the juxtapositions and relationships that emerge when animals are met with commodities and technology. Originally trained as a graphic designer at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ian paints with “hyper-detail” with an eye towards the surreal. Ian has exhibited in group and solo shows in Boston and Brooklyn.

Jared Deal is a fine artist, animator, and toy designer based in New York, and has frequently exhibited with Bunnycutlet over the years. Jared studied animation at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, and his current work as Lead Animator for Nickelodeon's series Team Umizoomi landed him an Emmy nomination. His fine art work combines a bold, cartoon aesthetic with the charm and intimacy of folk art themes, utilizing a variety of media, including cast plastic and sewn plush, for his installations.

Cara DeAngelis lives and works in Connecticut. She has had fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center and the Prairie Center of the Arts. In 2010, she was awarded residency at the Terra Foundation in Giverny, France. She is also a recipient of the Rudolph Zallinger Painting Award. In 2011, Cara received her Master’s degree from the New York Academy of Art. Cara’s work depicts human conflict using Barbie memorabilia from the 60’s and 80’s. Her compositions are drawn in crayon to compound the dichotomy of childhood innocence and the insecurity of adulthood. A wide range of subject matter, including adultery, racism, murder, pedophilia, and religion, are presented in situations involving the absurd dolls in their plastic retro household.

Douglas Einar Olsen is a Brooklyn based multi-media artist interested in exploring the relationship between media and culture. He currently works as a designer, illustrator, and director in the animation industry. Continuing in the vein of an 'unstable painting', he creates looping graphics exploring the boundaries of tele-visual abstraction, featuring content inspired by the 'Mega Man' series of video games. Specifically using the classic concept of Dr. Wiley's Castle as a point of departure - a recurring architectural structure often reminiscent of classical still lives.

Scott Foster is a sculptor and owner of "good:a gallery" in Portland, Oregon. Scott has worked in stop-motion animation as a character sculptor since 1998. He has sculpted character puppets for movies (Coraline, The Boxtrolls, 2014) and television (the PJ's, Gary and Mike). Scott's personal work utilizes welded steel that he manipulates into detailed thematic sculptures.

Anthony Freda's award-winning illustrations and paintings have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, Time, Rolling Stone and The New York Times. Freda’s politically charged imagery currently graces millions of computer screens via a wide spectrum of mainstream and alternative websites. His artwork re-purposes vintage, American ephemera into ironic, often darkly humorous takes on the issues burning in the zeitgeist.

Michael Haleta is a London based artist who builds collages from destroyed comics, constructing new textured masses, blobs and 2-3D landscapes. Michael has been constructing these comic-collages for the past decade as part of an ongoing series, entitled, "Futuristic Textures from the Future." His work has been published in various publications such as: Tokion, FAB (.com), SF Weekly, Shout NY, BLOCK and Giant Robot.

John Jacobsmeyer has been an active contributor to the discourse in conceptual figuration in the New York area for the past 12 years. He operates the JJHS Press where his wordless book “More Than Human” was published in 2010 and his printfolio "Safety First!" for the Shanghai Metro is currently in production. Jacobsmeyer earned his BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University. He received artist residencies at the Ragdale Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Anchor Graphics, Cill Rialig, Der Spinnerei, Leipzig and Shanghai University. Awards include two fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Basil Alkazzi Award, a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy, a Pollack-Krasner Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship.

After studying at Savannah College of Art and Design, New York-based artist Marz jr. began developing his signature nostalgic style, combining his passion for pop culture with iconography. While in NY, he spent over a decade collaborating on a coloring work for a private studio representing Marvel and DC Comics as well as studying improv theater at UCB. His illustration work has been published in newspapers and can be found in magazines and catalogues for international companies.

Smallrus is a NYC based fine artist and illustrator who finds inspiration in typography, pop surrealism, graffiti, vinyl toys, and nature. He work for "I Love New Dork" celebrates her favorite "Star Trek" characters with cartoonish wit.

Gabriel Pinto is a New York based fine artist who also works in the animation industry. Has worked on such shows as Venture Bros., Superjail! and Motorcity. He is currently working on the upcoming season of China, IL. for Adult Swim. Gabe's fine art work draws from his professional work as a character designer, instinctively interpreting the effect of body language, motion, and line quality to communicate his ideas.

Tracy Piper is a fine artist and designer, currently working at Protoscape designing and developing websites. She graduated from the Illustration program at California College of the Arts with distinction in 2012.

Douglas Ra is a New York based illustrator who creates visuals for web design, games, print, television and is currently working on a comic book. Ra’s fine art work often depicts animal heads on human bodies. In the artist’s own words, “Using animals can give characters universal appeal because they are racially and culturally unspecific… I hope to invite the viewer to watch the characters as one would watch animals on a safari show, to see how familiar the scene is but how foreign it is as well, to recognize their own city in it but experience another metropolis.”

Eric Richardson was born in a small town in Northwest Indiana. In 1996 he graduated with a degree in Illustration from the American Academy of art and re-located to Chicago. Taking inspiration from the Lowbrow art movement, Richardson exhibited public and commercial murals and sculptures nationally.

Derek Rippe is a Brooklyn based fine artist who works as a toy designer for Nickelodeo. A regular contributor to Fab.com with his Beefcat prints and not-for-kids holiday coloring book, he is also the creator of the Dog Park plush line and frequent exhibitor with Bunnycutlet.

Vincent Scala is a New York based illustrator and fine artist. His experience has varied from working on Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go, and Team Umi Zumi, as well as many other Nick properties. His love for Disney/Nickelodeon as well for horror/comedy films peeks through in his illustrations. Vincent received his BFA Illustration degree from the School of Visual Arts in NYC.

Weston Ulfig is a Brooklyn fine artist working in print, textile, and sculpture. His work often holds a reverence for traditional processes and shares a fascination and celebration of the pop culture of his youth, featuring bright palettes and bold imagery. His quilts showcase recognizable video game characters not on a screen, or as a toy, but through the inherited and maternal art of sewing and craft.

Edwin Vazquez’s scratchboard technique was popularized by his work on 'The Werewolf of NYC' comic book, as well as by editorial illustrations for NERD RANT.

Shari Weschler Rubeck grew up in Larchmont, NY. She earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, with a major in painting and a minor in art history. Shari now an afterschool arts program in Rhode Island called Artrageous Adventures. She has participated in numerous group & solo shows in the US, and was awarded Featured Emerging Artist in Visual Overture Magazine.
 
 
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