Too Art for TV is at it again, featuring all sorts of fine art made by lovely animation industry peoples. Opening reception for the 4th Annual Fine Art Exhibit is on Friday September 18th, 6pm-9:30pm. September 18th through October 17th, 2009 at Erebuni, 158 Roebling St. Williamsburg, NY 11211 Click here to see the full list of contributing artists. After party at Trophy Bar.
Every year, Too Art for TV brings fine art from NYs renowned animation industry artists to the art gallery public. It’s always a fun show and well attended every year. Many lovely ASIFA-East members have exhibited with them in the past. Too Art for TV 4 opens in September of 2009. Application Deadline is APRIL 30th 2009. To apply, visit Too Art for TV online.
Today we bring you Part Two of Richard Gorey’s review of the It All Started Here exhibition, brought to you by Howard Beckerman and J. J. Sedelmaier. It All Started Here: Part 2 Review by Richard Gorey. It All Started Here took up two levels of gallery space. The first floor, dominated by a life-sized cutout of Gertie the Dinosaur, was dedicated to the storyboards and designs of the classic theatrical cartoons. Further back were examples of TV ads from the fifties: work that kept many New York studios in the black during that time, when theatrical shorts became largely extinct. Visitors got a chance to see art and the final spots from the famous “Bert and Harry” Piel’s Beer ads, a sampling of some of the UPA films and television spots from the same era, and the work of artists like Jules Feiffer, whose social satire Munro was represented by the complete rough storyboards, on a wall dedicated to these charming sketches. The gallery’s vault (a novel and distinctive element of the former bank’s aesthetic appeal) opened to a series of projected commercials and short films created on Madison Avenue. Co-curator Sedelmaier’s work, including the series of ribald...
Today we bring you Part One of Richard Gorey’s wonderful review of the retrospective of NY’s Animation History last month, brought to you by Howard Beckerman and J. J. Sedelmaier. Stay tuned tomorrow, for Part 2. It All Started Here: Part 1 Review by Richard Gorey. Howard Beckerman, co-curator of the Westchester Arts Center’s animation exhibit, recently told me, “I’ve always said the two best-kept secrets of world War II were the development of the Atom Bomb and that Animation began–and was still being produced–in New York, not just California.” Last month, Beckerman and animation producer J.J. Sedelmaier helped to spread the word about one of these “best kept secrets” in their White Plains gallery show It All Started Here, a retrospective of New York animation over the last century. The show championed the creativity, individuality, and uniquely “East Coast” personality of the work featured, but It All Started Here also served as an instructional tour through the specifics of traditional, hand-drawn animation production. A diverse sampling of commercial and independent New York films were represented, but the Westchester Arts gallery featured everything from tools, cameras, light boxes, projectors, desks, paints and even the computers instrumental in designing, storyboarding...
Welcome back and Happy New Year!! This looks like a fun event coming up in White Plains, NY. IT ALL STARTED HERE! New York’s 103 year relationship with the Animation Industry. Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan 17, 5-8pm On View: January 20 – February 28 Curated by Howard Beckerman and J. J. Sedelmaier Presented by ArtsWestchester in partnership with J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. and Blue Sky Studios
Reported by Katie Cropper. This past friday Brooklyn bore witness to an onslaught of animators at the third annual Too Art 4 TV gallery show at the Erebuni gallery space in Williamsburg. This year’s show features a wild array of pieces from public art to pixel kitties. The house was packed in tight and the free beer was flowing if you were lucky enough to snag one, compliments of magic hat. The turn out for the event actually made it a challenge to see all the pieces offered by the 36 animation professionals. As I was pushing and squeezing my way through the opening exhibit I could help but think that this was a very uniquely new york event because of the real variety of work. One of the featured artist of the evening agreed saying “Animators man, who knew they were so multi talented? just look at this stuff!” My own favorite pieces from the evening were the two meticulously insane mural sized drawings of Christy Karakas as well as the robot sculptures by David Lipson. Some of the other work was more interactive and seemed to beg me to touch or in one case pick at, namely...
