Spudnik Press

Whoa time flies! I almost forgot to get the word out about our next Drink and Draw, slated for Wednesday, March 4, 2009.

Drink and Draw

Theme: Surrealist Games

Wednesday March 4, 2009

7:00-9:30pm
Pabst Blue Ribbon provided (or BYOB)
Suggested Donation: $5

@ Spudnik Press

1821 W Hubbard, Suite 308
Chicago, IL 60622

Our most interactive theme yet, it is sure to please. We will facilitate group and solo drawings based on games created by Brenton, Duchamp, Aragon, and other Surrealist and Dada artists.

Drink and Draw is our monthly night devoted to drawing practices. There’s no teacher and no pretensions. We provide a theme for the evening and plenty of PBR. Attendees provide a sketchbook and drawing utensils. Please come, and bring your friends while your at it.

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We are proud to announce our Spring 2009 Resident Artists: Paul Nudd and Onsmith! They will have full use of the studio from March 1 through June 1. We can’t wait to see what they create!

Nudd and Onsmith each have developed individual styles of illustration that are engaging in their own right. When the two join forces, a dialog is created between the opposing styles and imagery, and the art takes a turn towards the witty, surprising, and refreshing. It is clear that the two artists are being pushed an pulled in ways that can only strengthen their own artistic abilities.

Paul Nudd was born in Harpenden, England in 1976. He graduated in 2001 with an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, Western Exhibitions, Chicago and the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.

Onsmith is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Chicago. His comics, prints, and illustrations have appeared in The Chicago Reader, The Portland Mercury, The Common Review, Oxford American Magazine, Hotwire Comics (Fantagraphics Books), Vice Magazine, Graphics Classics, both volumes of Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories, and may also be viewed at http://www.onsmithcomics.blogspot.com He most recently began showing his art in galleries as well as curating a show of comics.

TENDER TWENTIES PRINT EXCHANGE
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7TH, 6-10PM

Closing Reception & Open House: Saturday, March 28TH 6-9PM

Gallery Hours: Mon & Thursday 6:30-11pm, or by appointment.

If you were born after 1979 and before 1988, you must be a twenty-something. Twenty-somethings weren’t around for the Kennedy assassination. Didn’t gape at the Watergate scandal. Didn’t cheer on the space race. But these people born between the years of 1979 and 1988, will shape the future, despite not being around for the past.

What defines this demographic? What qualities are projected onto 20-somethings or what are 20-somethings projecting? What does it mean to be in this tender age of budding adulthood? Are we young, and naive, or grown and insightful? And if we addressed this in our art (do we address this in our art?), what would it look like?

Spudnik Press decided to find out. We invited 20 “emerging” artists from Chicago and beyond to participate in the print exchange Tender Twenties.

Featured Artists:

Andrew Blair
Julie Boehmer
Kinsey Brady
Scott Campana
Caroline Carlsmith
Alicia Corman
Lenora Ditzler
Brianna Edwards
Brianne Farley
Chelsea Ann Goodwin
Sarazen Haile
Julia Vodrey Hendrickson
Megan Klawitter
Georgeanne Louise Krampien
Angee Lennard
Laura Mariposa
Ryan O’Hean
Sarah Pargulski
Rachel Pollak
Andy Schmidt
Jessica Taylor