Too Art for TV 6: Sixth Annual Group Exhibition for the Animation Industry
Too Art for TV has some exciting news to pass on! From Eric Schutzbank, Promotions Director:
Too Art for TV 6 is coming up fast and I wanted to share the latest news with you. Bunnycutlet Gallery is pleased to debut its new space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with New York’s premiere art exhibit for the animation industry on Friday, Nov 9th from 6:30 to 10PM.
Counting down to the opening, we’re running a Twitter/Facebook campaign called “44 Artists in 44 Days”, highlighting in the individual artists in the show each day.
We’re hoping to make the new Bunnycutlet Gallery space a permanent home for the personal works of animation artists in NYC. We’ve launched a Kickstarter to ensure that the gallery can remain open for at least one year. We have some awesome pins, prints, & paintings available for those who are interested in donating.
ASIFA members can find out more about the show and the gallery by checking out our Twitter, Facebook, or website.
Grand Opening of Bunnycutlet Gallery
Opening reception – Friday, November 9th, 6-10pm
November 9th, 2012 through December 14th, 2012
BROOKLYN, NY (RELEASE October 10, 2012) — Bunnycutlet Gallery is pleased to debut its new space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with the 44-person group exhibit “Too Art for TV 6,” New York’s sixth annual exhibition for artists in the animation industry.
Too Art for TV started in 2006 for artists who, by virtue of working collaboratively (and semi-anonymously) in the work-for-hire profession of broadcast animation, needed a public showcase for their individual artistic endeavors – no matter how un-TV they were. Curated by animation painter Liz Artinian, Too Art combined well-known animation artists with up-and-coming ones, their conceptual cohesion being an embrace of the experimental and the whimsical, with comics, animation, and illustration working as an aesthetic thread.
Orphaned in 2008 when its original host gallery left New York, Too Art continued its annual life thanks to yearly pop-up galleries, funded and organized by Liz Artinian, and built with the help of exhibitors and countless volunteers. Distinctive from previous years, “Too Art for TV 6” also debuts the new Bunnycutlet Gallery, an art space founded by Liz as a permanent home for Too Art, as well as for a broader art culture that embraces figurative art, pop art, and “geek” art.
Featuring new works by 44 artists, including first time Too Art exhibitor Vincent Scala, whose large acrylic paintings combine animation, horror, and comedy with vibrant colors. Also featuring paintings by Too Art veterans Kelly Denato and Jessica Milazzo – though their work differs aesthetically, they share a unique ability to mix metaphor and humor with a beautiful illustrator’s hand. Isam Prado’s drawings, while delicately drawn, are portraits of internal distress and bitter violence, contrasted with Christy Karacas’s massive-scale drawings, which energetically explode with cats, robots, and comic violence.
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:
Peter Ahern
Edward Artinian
Liz Artinian
Chris Beaumont
Robbie Busch
Devin Clark
Jared Deal
Kelly Denato
John Dilworth
Maya Edelman
Alan Foreman
Chris George
Frank Gresham
Niko Guardia
Anna Hakopian
Jen Hill
Meghan Jean
Heather Faye Kahn
kaNO
Christy Karacas
Efraim Acevedo Klein
Andres Kwon
Michael Lennicx
Adam Levine
Todd Lown
Robert Lyons
KJ Martinet
Richard Mather
Jessica Millazzo
Mike Mucci
Dagan Moriarty
Stephen Neary
Justin Offner
Douglas Einar Olsen
Joohee Park
Dan Pinto
Gabriel Pinto
Isam Prado
Lyla Ribot
Mike Ricca
Derek Rippe
Vincent Scala
Justin Simonich
Irra Verbitsky