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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Robbie Busch
is a 20+ years veteran of the animation and comic book industries. In 1987 he began working as a color artist while attending Pratt University, his clients included DC, Marvel and Dark Horse Comics. He soon found himself writing and drawing his own characters for the critically acclaimed Instant Piano (Dark Horse), which lead to writing many of the Cartoon Network properties for DC Comics, including The Flintstones, Dexter’s Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls & Scooby Doo. By the mid-90s he moved on to storyboarding, working first for R. O. Blechman’s Ink Tank & Nickelodeon, and later doing boards for: Curious Pictures, MTV, Cartoon Network and Morgan Creek. Robbie currently resides in NYC and has been showing his paintings in galleries across the country.
Ian Clyde
is a Brooklyn based artist whose paintings explore animal portraiture and the relationship between animals, commodities and technology. Clyde is also a motion graphics artist who has created animated content for The Voice, Two Guns, and Pitch Perfect. This will be Clyde's second time exhibiting with Bunnycutlet.
Sachio Cook
is a NYC character animator at Titmouse, Inc in NYC. Sachio's fine art work is inspired by the differences between American and Japanese cultures, often working in silkscreen print. For Too Art For TV 7, Sachio explores new media territory with two acrylic paintings.
Kelly Denato
is a Brooklyn based artist who grew up in Buffalo, New York. She received her BFA in Communications Design, Illustration from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 2000. Denato's paintings are illustrative and surreal. She carves unique characters from textured backgrounds with layered brushstrokes that, while delicate, maintain an incredible sense of gesture. Her subjects are visceral; darkness and disappointment are represented with joy and innocence, allowing the viewer to simultaneously experience Denato’s emotional duality in one tumultuous image. Denato's work has been featured at Bunnycutlet Gallery (NY), myplasticHeart (NY), Toy Tokyo (NY), and Gallery 1988's Crazy for Cult (NY). Denato is also an accomplished animator, currently illustrating for Nickelodeon, NY.
John R. Dilworth
Academy Award nominated director John R. Dilworth is a New York-based animation director and designer whose work has appeared on HBO, FOX, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, MTV, Canal +, and Arte, as well as the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. He has produced many award-winning independent and sponsored films, which have screened around the world, including The Dirdy Birdy, The Chicken From Outer Space, and Life in Transition. Dilworth is also the creator of the popular Cartoon Network series, Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Ezerd
is a New York based artist who received a BFA in Printmaking from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She began her “Adopt a Robot” series in 2012, which explores her “exopolitical” interests, ideas in a unifying oneness, and the role technology plays in our society. Ezerd’s work has been shown extensively in the Hudson Valley, and most recently at Dream in Plastic in Beacon, NY. Ezerd is also the program manager for “The Comic Book Project."
Amanda Baehr Fuller
has enjoyed a long career as a designer for television animation, recently finishing a long stint at Nickelodeon for the animated children's program Team Umizoomi. Her fine art paintings primarily utilize gouache, thematically exploring the anthropomorphization of animals and robots, placing them in situations that are socially awkward by human standards. Frequent exhibitor with the annual exhibition, Too Art For TV, Fuller’s work for this exhibit delves more deeply into incorporating graphic and surreal elements into her imagery as a way to offset her narrative visual quips.
Chris George
studied Animation at The Art Institute of Philadelphia; graduating class of 1998, and is currently living in New York City. In addition to being a fine art painter, Chris George has worked in the Animation industry for just over fourteen years. His clients include MTV, Nickelodeon, Disney, and Cartoon Network, and he is currently the Character Design Supervisor on the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros., and is also a Creative Consultant for Nickelodeon.
Chris George’s fine art work is part painting and part sculpture, layering together panes of painted glass to create a unique visual effect reminiscent of multi-plane cell animation. His personified creatures inhabit a folkloric world, hinting at ghostly narratives with wit and cinematic style.
Niko Guardia
is a background designer and painter working for Titmouse animation. His fine art work explores a modern, sometimes political take on pulp-art, often exploring the romanticization of the “Femme Fatale.”
Jen Hill's
award-winning career as an animator, illustrator, and writer of children's books undoubtedly informs her jovial fine art paintings. Jen is a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design's Illustration program, and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Charm and playfulness abound in Jen's gouache compositions, yet always lurking is a sense of oddity, awkwardness, or a slight imbalance. Characters, seemingly from different parts of the same story, collide in one image, dancing, chasing, or staging a single subtle and effervescent narrative. The result is an effortless pictorial encapsulation of the creepy charm that ghost stories, tall tales, folklore, and fairy tales make us nostalgic for. In the artist's own words, "Humor, mischief and mystery are absolutely elemental."
kaNO
was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA. Commercially, kaNO is an illustrator, designer and animation artist, with 10+ years of experience. His clients include: ASPCA, Nike, Jordan, Upper Deck, Disney and Hasbro. kaNO’s personal mixed media paintings incorporate design elements and urban characters, mixing cartoon influenced and “street art” styles.
Todd Lown
is an animator, illustrator, sign & mural painter working in Seattle, WA. Todd has designed and implemented over 100 pieces of public art in the greater Seattle area. His art has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide: The Sign Show in Seattle and Portland, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th annual Too Art For TV in Brooklyn, NY, Dauminkino (The Flip Book Show) in Düsseldorf, Germany and Antwerp, Belgium, and Vagrant Royalty in Tokyo, Japan.
Shay Lurie
was born and raised on the island of Guam. He studied at Parsons in Paris and New York, as well as at The Academy of Art in San Francisco, where he earned his BFA in Illustration. Shay designed characters for the Cartoon Network series Robotomy, and characters asd well as props on the Adult Swim productions Superjail!, Metalocalypse and The Venture Brothers. Rock music, cult fantasy films, 80’s cartoons, and comics exhibit irreverence and an idiosyncratic sense of humor that influence Shay’s fine art paintings.
Richard Mather
is an animator, director, and artist currently at Titmouse, and voice actor on Adult Swim’s Superjail! playing the twins. Richard's drawings are surreal disentanglements of a moment, event, story, or random thought. People, objects, associations, and personified creatures come forward and recede, exhibiting the kind of emotional chaos that thoughts and memories evoke. Somehow he still had time to create a human baby girl with the help of his wife, the Mistress of Ultra Prison.
Jessica Milazzo
is a Brooklyn based fine artist whose long career as an animation director and freelance illustrator informs her art. Her work speaks in visual metaphor, using bright quips of color and controlled design as quietly humorous punctuations. Her choice to work in "delicate" media such as watercolor and embroidery is offset by her visual themes; overt sexuality, action comics, and pop culture. Jessica's work is the extension of her flirtatious sensibility. In the artist’s own words, "I like to embroider a sexy pinup and contrast that with playful googly eyes, strategically placed, reminding you just where your own eyes ought to be! And hopefully providing a little giggle along the way."
Brad Mossman
is a song and score composer in the animation industry. He has written and performed on two seasons of Wow Wow Wubbzy on Nick Jr., Disney's Higglytown Heroes, and on animated Sesame Street shorts, as well as on scores for over 45 Cartoon Network online shorts and games. His work for Too Art For TV 7 plays with the idea of visualization by taking ink gesture drawings and transforming them into creatures or animals.
Mike Mucci
is a Queens, NY based artist who has worked in animation for the past 14 years, getting his start on MTV's Daria. He has worked for Marvel Toys on content from the Spider-man and Lord of the Rings films. Mike currently works at Nickelodeon creating toys and interactive games for SpongeBob SquarePants, Team Umizoomi, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. His work has been exhibited in several group exhibitions in NYC.
Derek Rippe
is a Brooklyn based fine artist who works as a toy designer for Nickelodeon, and is also the creator of the Dog Park plush line. He is a regular contributor to Fab.com with his Beefcat prints and not-for-kids holiday coloring book. His personal artwork often mixes adorable character design, bold geometrics, and a color palette evocative of print ads from the 50's and 60's.
Aaron Tompkins
attended Suny Purchase for Fine Arts and studied Toy design at FIT. Tompkins is a painter, an animation content developer, and a toy designer living in New York, credited with creating Swear Bears. His personal cell vinyl paintings are cartoonish, irreverent, and surreal, as if plucked from some giant Adult Swim-styled dream. This will be the artist's first time exhibiting with Bunnycutlet. Tompkins has also exhibited at CBGB's gallery, Mf gallery, Parlor gallery, and the Hi-Fructose group show at Gallery 1988.
Corwin Herse Woo
Corwin Herse Woo was a background painter on Season 5 of The Venture Bros at Titmouse, NYC before moving back to his home state of California. Corwin joined LucasArts in 2012, and later 2K games, where he is currently employed as a concept artist. His personal work is influenced by his sensibility as a concept artist, and his ability to express ideas with design, drama, and color.
Corwin's paintings for this exhibition consist of three contrasting pieces, together functioning as a sort of visual diary which he used to record different feelings and ideas he has had over the past few months; not directly, but in a non linear and visual way. In the artist's own words, "I love how much imagination and mystery can exist in small moments of every day. This element of mystery, and feeling of curiosity about something we don't understand, is an important part of these works."
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