ONE MAN SHOW - THE LAST ALUMNI AT THE HIGH SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN
After 50 years at 1075 2nd Ave The High School of Art & Design in New York City is relocating. Forty years after graduating Victor Stabin has returned to his alma mater to hang his one man show Art is Education in the school's Kenny Gallery.
Art is Education features the artist's digital drawings alongside the pen and pencil sketches that inspired the images for his book, Daedal Doodle. In addition to the book, Stabin is also displaying oil paintings from his Turtle Series. A reception for the artist along with a book signing will be held on Thursday, October 6, from 4-7:30 pm.
Stabin is a renowned artist and author. As an illustrator, Stabin's credits include nine signature stamps for the United States Postal Service, a Kiss album cover, and an enormous mural for RCA/BMG's headquarters in New York. He also has produced numerous illustrations for The New York Times, Newsweek, Rolling Stone Magazine, Time Magazine, Scholastic Books, NASA among others.
For his book Victor Stabin read over 8,000 pages from the OED, Meriam Webster and the Chambers Concise, dictionaries to come up with the alliterations that inhabit his tour de force, status quo smashing ABC book Daedal Doodle. Susan Orlean of the New Yorker has called the work "original and sly," and Leonard Lopate of WNYC radio said it was "a visual stunner with delightful definitions." The book has received attention as a teaching tool by the NEA, hence the show's name Art is Education.
The show offers audiences a rare peek into the imagination and draftsmanship of the artist by documenting Stabin's process from initial drawing and thought. Often doodled on legal paper or otherwise random napkin drawings in ball point pen, the final images are digitally rendered with extreme detail and dramatically displayed as oversized prints.
The oil paintings present powerful imagery within the context of his Turtle Series also on view in the gallery. "We evolved as creatures deeply enmeshed with the intricacies of nature, and still have this affinity with nature ingrained in our genotype today. My work attempts to explore these connections with narratives, using the turtle as protagonist," Stabin said.
Art and Design's Kenny Gallery, named for the school's founding principal John B. Kenny, hosts monthly art exhibits of student work, an annual faculty show and an alumnus show. The ground floor art gallery faces Second Avenue and is open to the public.
Art and Design is operated by the New York City Department of Education. Founded in 1936 as the School of Industrial Art, it moved to its present location in the center of the city's design district in September 1960.
The school is moving to new facilities next year.
[http://www.victorstabinprints.com/2011/09/27/press-release-the-last-alumni-show-at-the-high-school-of-art-design/]
Victor Stabin is a prolific artist whose work captures the spirit of the environment whilst inciting the illusive side of the imagination in one rousing stroke. A painter, author and well-respected illustrator, he is best known for his surreal oils that make ordinary objects and environments extraordinary, as demonstrated by his widely admired "Turtle Series" and "Fish Ferris Wheel". Stabin (born 1954) grew up in New York City. He has just completed "Keep Your Eye on the Ball," a four-foot high by eight-foot wide oil-on-linen. Additionally, his debut book "Daedal Doodle", an artistic ABC book of alliterations, was published in 2011.
Art is Education features the artist's digital drawings alongside the pen and pencil sketches that inspired the images for his book, Daedal Doodle. In addition to the book, Stabin is also displaying oil paintings from his Turtle Series. A reception for the artist along with a book signing will be held on Thursday, October 6, from 4-7:30 pm.
Stabin is a renowned artist and author. As an illustrator, Stabin's credits include nine signature stamps for the United States Postal Service, a Kiss album cover, and an enormous mural for RCA/BMG's headquarters in New York. He also has produced numerous illustrations for The New York Times, Newsweek, Rolling Stone Magazine, Time Magazine, Scholastic Books, NASA among others.
For his book Victor Stabin read over 8,000 pages from the OED, Meriam Webster and the Chambers Concise, dictionaries to come up with the alliterations that inhabit his tour de force, status quo smashing ABC book Daedal Doodle. Susan Orlean of the New Yorker has called the work "original and sly," and Leonard Lopate of WNYC radio said it was "a visual stunner with delightful definitions." The book has received attention as a teaching tool by the NEA, hence the show's name Art is Education.
The show offers audiences a rare peek into the imagination and draftsmanship of the artist by documenting Stabin's process from initial drawing and thought. Often doodled on legal paper or otherwise random napkin drawings in ball point pen, the final images are digitally rendered with extreme detail and dramatically displayed as oversized prints.
The oil paintings present powerful imagery within the context of his Turtle Series also on view in the gallery. "We evolved as creatures deeply enmeshed with the intricacies of nature, and still have this affinity with nature ingrained in our genotype today. My work attempts to explore these connections with narratives, using the turtle as protagonist," Stabin said.
Art and Design's Kenny Gallery, named for the school's founding principal John B. Kenny, hosts monthly art exhibits of student work, an annual faculty show and an alumnus show. The ground floor art gallery faces Second Avenue and is open to the public.
Art and Design is operated by the New York City Department of Education. Founded in 1936 as the School of Industrial Art, it moved to its present location in the center of the city's design district in September 1960.
The school is moving to new facilities next year.
[http://www.victorstabinprints.com/2011/09/27/press-release-the-last-alumni-show-at-the-high-school-of-art-design/]
Victor Stabin is a prolific artist whose work captures the spirit of the environment whilst inciting the illusive side of the imagination in one rousing stroke. A painter, author and well-respected illustrator, he is best known for his surreal oils that make ordinary objects and environments extraordinary, as demonstrated by his widely admired "Turtle Series" and "Fish Ferris Wheel". Stabin (born 1954) grew up in New York City. He has just completed "Keep Your Eye on the Ball," a four-foot high by eight-foot wide oil-on-linen. Additionally, his debut book "Daedal Doodle", an artistic ABC book of alliterations, was published in 2011.
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