2.17.2009
2.16.2009
2.13.2009
2.07.2009
2.06.2009
2.04.2009
1.29.2009
1.28.2009
1.20.2009
1.19.2009
review of The Dot and The Line
The show got reviewed in The Hook, a local weekly. Laura Parsons liked
the show - Go look now
at www.readthehook.com. Here's the review:
------------------------------
the show - Go look now
at www.readthehook.com. Here's the review:
------------------------------
Drawing to a close: Craghead and Mallman mark Migration’s end
by Laura Parsons
It’s rare to visit a gallery and receive a parting gift. But as Migration prepares to empty its walls and take flight, it’s fitting that artist Warren Craghead, III has created a special book, The Dot & The Line, for the venue’s final show of the same name, which features the work of Craghead and Brian Mallman.
Even more fitting is the fact that this tiny 2 x 2.25” souvenir represents something of a post-gallery approach to art. To get the prize, viewers must use a Migration-provided link at Craghead’s website (wcraghead.com) to reach a downloadable document, which the recipient then prints, folds, and staples.
The resulting 16-page piece, though minimal, captures Craghead’s unique aesthetic of intentional randomness, in which images and words fuse to form visual poetry. I realize that last sentence sounds like pompous art talk, but, trust me, it’s literally true.
Among Craghead’s works on display at Migration are original drawings for several other books. The 50 pages of How to Be Everywhere— presented in three separate groupings— combine fragments of poet Guillaume Apollinaire’s writings with seemingly spontaneous bits of drawings. Varying his lettering and line refinement, and playing with how words and images interact, Craghead invents a visual syntax that treats words as drawings and drawings as words.
Particularly poignant is Craghead’s 14-page story, “This is a Ghost,” in which Craghead exercises his skill as a cartoonist and illustrator to track the elusive nature of memory. The last page, which features only a small empty palm with the final “t” from the word “ghost” beneath it, is achingly tender.
At first pass, Brian Mallman’s large graphite-and gesso drawings on wood depicting businessmen seem in sharp contrast with Craghead’s notebook-like work. But the two artists share an interest in how marks convey information and how fragments prod viewers to fill in the blanks.
Mallman’s “Meetings Series” offers caricature-like portraits of balding white men. Their facial features are often a barely-there set of lines emphasizing teeth and eyes (perhaps alluding to the way dogs challenge each other), while their heavy black suits elide with their office chairs to form abstract shapes that the viewer can nevertheless read.
Presenting Mallman and Craghead together is the last hurrah for what Migration brought to the C’ville scene: an innovative approach to contemporary art distinct from that of other local galleries. I will miss the space and am grateful for Craghead’s memento.
1.16.2009
The Dot and The Line installation shots
The show looks good, we sold some stuff and got a lot of good words, including a great review in the local paper - I'll post it next. Thanks to Laura, Rob and Brian for being great art comrades. And thanks to all the folks who ventured out Jan 2 for the opening -there was a good crowd of friends and strangers.
don't miss the lil' book at Migration's site - you can download it and make it yourself.
1.13.2009
12.31.2008
The Dot and The Line
I'm happy to announce The Dot and The Line, a two-person show with Brian Mallman at Migration: A Gallery in Charlottesville Virginia.
I'll be showing pages from some recent books (including HOW TO BE EVERYWHERE) along with drawings and collages. Migration is also making available my new book The Dot & the Line. It's a small downloadable book that will be available only through their website beginning Friday. Here's more show details:
The Dot and The Line
Warren Craghead & Brian Mallman
January 2 - January 26, 2009
Opening reception Friday January 2nd, 5:30 - 8pm
Migration: A Gallery
119 Fifth Street SE, Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA
434.293.2200
info@migrationgallery.com
12.30.2008
12.28.2008
12.22.2008
12.18.2008
12.16.2008
12.15.2008
12.13.2008
Riccio @ The Frick
Christopher Benfey has a great slide show essay at Slate about the Andrea Riccio show at the Frick.
"It is as though we are watching the magical process of two dimensions opening out into a third, the transformation of drawing into sculpture."
12.12.2008
12.11.2008
12.10.2008
show @ Migration Gallery
Opening January 2nd I'm in "The Dot and The Line", a two-person show with L.A artist Brian Mallman at Migration Gallery here in Charlottesville.
I'm planning on showing pages from books (including HOW TO BE EVERYWHERE), some larger drawings and some other drawing/collages. I'll also be making a book that will be available online. Over the next few weeks I'll be posting more about getting ready for the show...
12.08.2008
12.06.2008
12.04.2008
"A Flame Expelled" online story and "The Best American Comics"
I'm happy to announce that recently my color story A Flame Expelled was published on Top Shelf Productions' Top Shelf 2.0 online comics anthology. You can read it for free here.
Thanks to Brett Warnock and Leigh Walton for publishing the story.
-----------------------------------
I'm also happy to announce that my book HOW TO BE EVERYWHERE was a "Notable Selection" in this year's edition of The Best American Comics, published by Houghton Mifflin and edited by Lynda Barry with Series Editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden. Thanks to all of them for the recognition.
12.02.2008
Drawn while driving
I've figured out how to post from my phone so expect to see more
frequent images, though they might be not so great pictures.
frequent images, though they might be not so great pictures.
SPX 2008 and Ignatz nomination
I'm trying to catch up on things that happened over the fall since I fell off the blogging cliff...
In early October I went to the Small Press Expo in Bethesda MD. I was nominated for an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist for my book HOW TO BE EVERYWHERE. I didn't win, but it was nice to have my weird, sort-of comics recognized at SPX which is mostly indy and alt comics. The nominating panel was a group of artists I respect a lot so not winning wasn't too bad. From their website:
The Ignatz Awards are a celebration of outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, the nominees being determined by a jury of five comic artists.
This year’s jury consisted of Gabrielle Bell, Farel Dalrymple, Eleanor Davis, John Hankiewicz and Andy Hartzell.
The Ignatz, named after George Herriman's brick-wielding mouse, recognizes exceptional work that challenges popular notions of what comics can achieve, both as an art form and as a means of personal expression.
The Ignatz Awards are a festival prize, the first of such in the United States comic book industry. The Ignatz Awards are voted on by those who attend this year's SPX on Saturday, October 4 only.
I only bought a few things at SPX - it was jammed with exhibitors but just like last year there were only a dozen or so booths with anything interesting. Big thanks to Alvin at Buenaventura Press for giving me table space and letting me play store, and ahoy to pals KH and TG for hanging out.
11.28.2008
11.27.2008
11.13.2008
11.03.2008
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)