This just in from Desert Island

Friday, July 9, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Desert Island
540 Metropolitan Ave btwn Union and Lorimer:

A pioneer in underground comics and the founder of the CBLDF, Denis Kitchen is one of the most important figures in sequential art. Kitchen will be signing his new book from Dark Horse titled ‘The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen’! In addition, Charles Brownstein, executive director of the CBLDF, will discuss Kitchen’s contribution to the history of comics. An important event you won’t want to miss!

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Friday, May 14, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Desert Island
540 Metropolitan Ave btwn Union and Lorimer

Come celebrate Deitch’s new graphic novel “The Search for Smilin’ Ed.” Ranging across the entire twentieth century, replete with flashbacks, stories within stories, and guest appearances from other Deitch regulars, “The Search for Smilin’ Ed” is a narrative whirligig that shows Deitch at his wildest and woolliest. For those whose heads have started to spin at the complexity of “Deitch world,” Deitch scholar Bill Kartalopoulos offers a lengthy essay on the ins and outs of this ever-evolving, ever-expanding world where fantasy, reality, and satire combine, clash, and are sometimes downright indistinguishable.

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Kim Deitch was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, regularly contributing comical, psychedelia-tinged comic strips (featuring the flower child “Sunshine Girl” and “The India Rubber Man”) to New York City’s premier underground newspaper, The East Village Other, beginning in 1967. He became editor of EVO’s all-comics spin off, Gothic Blimp Works, in 1969. Deitch was also a publisher, as co-founder of the Cartoonists Co-op Press. In 2008, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art featured a retrospective exhibition of his work.

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In conjunction with Nordic Book Frenzy,

Friday, April 9th at Desert Island, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm:

Three great artists, three new books, one great party!

Desert Island favorite JOHN BRODOWSKI celebrates the release of his brand-new Curio Cabinet book, culled from years of self-publishing. His finely rendered pencil art often features horror-movie villains sulking around in the forest and existentially contemplating nature. Amazing stuff.
“One of the best young cartoonists to emerge in years.” – Sammy Harkham

CLARA BESSIJELLE JOHANSSON is a cartoonist born and living in Stockholm, Sweden. She will be debuting her most intricate story yet, The Lobster King, about a happy and eccentric fellow who all the townspeople put up with. Clara exhibited at last years MoCCA festival with Buenaventura Press, and collaborated with Emelie Östergren on the book “Mexicansk Gränsö.”

EMELIE ÖSTERGREN is a cartoonist also living in Sweden. She likes her country even the boring parts, the cold weather and the quiet people. Her first book Evil Dress came out in april 2009. “Mr Kenneth” is Emelie’s new comic publised in English at the Swedish publishing house Optimal Press. The 36-pages comic is about Mr. Kenneth, the man that created the aforementioned Evil Dress. Full of action and humor.

Come meet these folks, have yourself a beer, and buy a book if you feel like it.

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Nordic Book Frenzy at Desert Island, Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
7:00pm – 9:00pm:

Featuring artists from Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark – all with new books! Planned in conjunction with the consulates of the respective Scandinavian countries. More information soon.

Finland:
Tommi Musturi, Ville Hänninen, Anna Sailamaa, Mari Ahokoivu, Kaija Papu og Kaisa Leka.

Norway:
Per Jørgen Olsen, Martin Ernstsen, Erik Falk, Espen Holtestaul, Kristoffer Kjølberg, Sindre Wexelsen og Flu Hartberg

Denmark:
Ib Kjeldsmark, Johan F. Krarup, Ingo Milton, Cav Bøgelund, Henrik Rehr, Lars Jakobsen og Søren Mosdal

Sweden:
Jakob Hallin, Sara Granér, Sofia Olsson, Åsa Grennvall,Benjamin Stengård og Johannes Klenell

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Douglas Kolk
Rustik
March 18th – May 1st 2010
Opening reception March 18th from 6 – 8pm

Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Douglas Kolk. Known for his channel-surfing aesthetic, Kolk splices together familiar imagery and furious gesture to create large-scale collage and deviant sculpture. Whereas his early line drawings depict a stark and fragile youth culture, his recent work illustrates a manic utterance of contemporary life. This will be the artist’s second solo exhibition at Fredericks & Freiser.

Kolk vehemently portrays his world with fluctuating notions of the self. Edged with an almost child-like imagination, he identifies his fragmented musings with an amalgamation of images. Combining media clippings, delicate drawing and untamed abstraction, Kolk delineates this intrinsic language. Whether he depicts the introduction of a man and a woman scrawled across pages of newspaper circulars or myriad impressions of rural life as experienced from a speeding car, Kolk takes gentle ideas and electrifies them.

About the Artist
Douglas Kolk (born 1963, Newark, NJ) grew up near a nursing home headed by his father, a Baptist preacher. In the mid-90’s he had solo exhibitions at David Zwirner, New York; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. He ceased his artistic work in 1999 as a result of excessive drug consumption and started working again only in 2004. Since then he has been included in group shows at Kunsthalle Manheim; galerie du jour agnès b., Paris; and The Royal Academy of Arts, London. He has had solo shows with Arndt & Partner, Berlin and Zurich (who began showing his work in 1994) and the Kunstlerverein Malkasten, Dusseldorf. He is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the subject of a monograph published by Hatje Cantz. This is his second solo exhibition at Fredericks & Freiser.

Upcoming
John Wesley May I Cut In? Paintings from the Early 1970’s May/June

Got invited to an art show. You should come too:

For the first months at the start of this decade, Artists Wanted mounted an international search for the worlds most compelling Self Portraits. What was discovered is phenomenal. Artists from over 70 countries submitted work ranging from painting, to sculpture to performance to photographs. The range and depth of work was phenomenal and we are pleased to present the best of that process.

Friday, March 12th, from 7pm through 10pm,
you are invited to:

Self : Expressed
Open House Gallery
201 Mulberry St. in Manhattan.

For a map, click here.

rsvp: info@artistswanted.org

Tonight, Friday 5, 2010:

The Backwards Step + The Stepchildren

Dear Sir or Madam -

You are cordially invited to attend Sights Beyond Seeing, a gala art opening and party at The Backwards Step, on Friday, February 5th, 2010, beginning at 8 o’clock in the evening. Refreshments and drinks will be served. Attire is Brooklyn casual.

8 PM-10 PM: Art Opening

Food by Callahan, Turntables by The Fleece

David Acevedo – photographs, Callahan – mixed media, Perry England – sculpture, Chul Hee Kim – drawings, Mu Gadu – video art and paintings, Alex Seel – video art and photographs, Jack Semple – paintings, Mitch Steinlicht – performance art

10 PM-1 AM: Live Musical Acts, 1 AM-Morning: see what happens

Cavalier Cavski, Pastel Group, Bangladeafy, Free Advice

Hope to see you there.

Peace & Love,
The Stepchildren

59 Jefferson Street #302 – Bushwick and Jefferson

Also tonight:

Drink-N-Draw-Overdrive // A Party for People who Love to Draw

February 5, 8 p to 2 a, $20, Admission includes Colt 45 & Live Music

Everyone’s favorite weekly figure drawing event goes big for the new year!  For the first time, we’re opening up 7,000 sq. ft. on our 2nd floor for a 6-hour Drink-n-Draw extravaganza.  As always we’ll provide the models and the beers, but this time there will be 10 models (costumed & nude), long & short drawing sessions, music from DJ Tanner, DJ Trent, The Fieros, Ego Puppets, War Cubs and more, complimentary Colt 45 and a cash bar.

Bring your drawing tools, creativity and a friend or a date. 

RSVP events@3rdward.com

Tomorrow Night, Saturday, February 6th, 2010:

Saturday February 6 2009. 10 pm. $ 5.

Free beer all night, sponsored by Colt 45, courtesy of VICE Magazine

100 Thames St +Knickerbocker (Off the Morgan L)

Opening night of the LOOM’s month long art installation, brought to you by many fabulous artistic talents from NYC and beyond.

presented by SARAH TAMAR, NORA ALEK, SARAH DEVI, DUNX of  BEAUTY MASSACRE NYC with THE DARDYS (www.thedardys.com) + DANCES WITH WHITE GIRLS + MATT SHADETEK of DUTTY ARTZ + HIRO THA JAP  SKITSNYGG of RADICALOUTING! + ZAKEE KUDURO + JESSE JAMZ + GORDON GARTRELL + KID ROYALE

Special thanks to: Stephanie Dunx, Anton Glam of RadicalOuting! Zalmen Labin, Julien Othneil Richardson, Kevon Sterling, BarrelHouseNYC (http://barrelhousenyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/loomnyc.html), Hannah Rad (www.sheenabeaston.com), Kristina Marino (www.thedowntowndiaries.com)

The Loom

Art, Music, Fashion, Marketplace, Exhibition

JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 28

OPENING NIGHT SATURDAY FEBRUARY 6

RSVP  to sarahplaysnyc@gmail.com

Finally:

Art Show #1 at 567 Onderdonk ave this weekend in Ridgewood NYC. Sat Feb 06, 6-10pm…maybe later. Tons of art and music by The London Souls, Daddy Long Legs, Trouble & Strife. DJ Avi Spivak!

Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 6:00pm. RSVP: (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=283721026567&index=1)

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 9:00 p.m. at 538 Johnson Ave Apt 210, Brooklyn, NY 11237:

Please join us for a fund raiser benefiting local cartoonists—Mollie Goldstrom and Nate Doyle! Both cartoonists have major new comics in the works—Goldstrom with “1883″ and Doyle with “Crooked Teeth #5.”

This is a fund raiser for upstart publisher Sweetheart books to gather some start up funds to put out Mollie’s work in the format and volume it deserves….and for Nate to self-publish the latest issue of his beloved comic.

And it’ll also be a really fun party! Live music! Cheap drinks! Original art for sale! Supporting the local arts community! How could you miss something like this? Isn’t this the reason you live in New York in the first place?? OK we will see you there right? OK cool!

Starts at 9pm on December 4th (that’s right…the night before Desert Island/Picturebox’s Brooklyn Comix Fest)! $5-10 suggested donation. Yeah, you can come for free but c’moonnnnnn….

take the L train to the jefferson stop. The party will be at:
538 Johnson Ave, Apt. #210

write to
austin.robertson.english@gmail.com
for more info/if you wanna help out

See you there!