King Sunny Adé

"King Sunny Adé," The New Yorker, July 20, 2009

unused sketches (click to enlarge)

King Sunny Adé headlines the African Festival at Celebrate Brooklyn! this Saturday.

Read more about KSA here.

Thanks, Max!

Twitter sketches

Dimebag 3

I was asked to participate in "Dimebag 3," a group show curated by Jordin Isip and Rodger Stevens. More than 200 artists were given a 3" by 3" plastic bag to fill. Here's how I filled mine:

"His 'n Hers," ink on cut paper (two works in a single bag), 2009

The original Dime Bag shows, numbers 1 and 2, were exhibited at The Front Room gallery in Brooklyn and New Image Art in Los Angeles.

The show opens this month at Giant Robot in New York.

More info to come!

Twitter: What's the Use?

"Twitter: What's the Use?," American Medical News, July 7, 2009

Spot illustration with print version

For this assignment, the art director at American Medical News asked for two versions of the final illustration- a horizontal one for their online publication and a vertical one for print.

Read "Twitter: What's the Use?" here.

Follow American Medical News on Twitter here.

Thanks, Annemarie!

Vincent

Here's an uncropped view of Vincent Van Gogh from my Morgan Library illustration...

Les Éphémères

"Les Éphémères," The New Yorker, June 22, 2009
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"Les Éphémères" is one of the plays being performed at this year's Lincoln Center Festival.

From the press release:

Over six hours long, in two parts which may be seen separately or on the same day, Les Éphémères is a departure from [Le Théâtre du Soleil’s] traditional focus on socio-political or historical themes. In the words of the director [Ariane Mnouchkine], it is an “an examination of everyday life through the prism of the family, especially, the mother. Out of the ordinariness emerges an abyss of complexity, suffering, the questions we never asked our parents...the ephemeral character of what we are.”

Watch filmed scenes from the play here.

See more of my On the Horizon illustrations for the New Yorker here.

Drink up!

"Monterrey, Cancun, Guadalajara, and Cabo," EnVIVA, June- July 2009

These pieces were done for a Mexican airline's inflight magazine. Check out the summer issue of EnVIVA here.

Thanks, Shane!