Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

I will be showing the twenty two page first issue of my comic, Moon Chaser, this Friday at the Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Here's the PR release for the event:

Art Department

State University of New York at Oswego

7060 State Route 104

Oswego, NY 13126

315/312-2111

For more information, contact:

Cara Brewer Thompson, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Art Department,

cara.thompson@oswego.edu, 315/312-2111

Exhibition: Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition

Location: SUNY Oswego Tyler Art Gallery at Penfield Library

Date: Nov 21-Dec 13, 2014

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11:30-3pm

Artist Reception: Nov 21, 5-7pm

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition features recent work by Alfred McEvoy, Christina DeMott, Desirae Collins, Beth Burke, Alyssa Jackson, and Sam Fuller. The show features illustration, painting, sculpture, graphic design, and sequential arts by emerging artists from SUNY Oswego. The exhibit will run from November 21st to December 13th and there will be an opportunity to meet with the artists during the opening reception on November 21st from 5-7pm. Refreshments will be served throughout the evening. The event is free and open to the public.

Upcoming Exhibition

For anyone living near Fridley, Minnesota, the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts is putting up an art exhibition at the end of next month called "Art of Darkness: Inspired by the Paranormal". 

One of my comic pieces will be in the show so if anyone stops by let me know how it looks! I live outside the state so I won't be able to see it myself.

The show starts August 30. More info can be found here: http://www.banfill-locke.org/programs/visual-art/art-of-darkness-submissions/

A possible new direction

Lately I’ve been thinking about the authenticity of my work. Being that two thirds of my process is digital there exists no “authentic” original copy, only digital files meant either to be shared on the internet or mass printed. Whenever I’ve submitted work for gallery shows I’ve submitted printed copies, something that could be just as easily displayed on a computer screen or a post card to much the same effect.

Digital output and mass production are synonymous with comics as a medium. At the end of the day a comic’s goal is to find its way into your hands be it through online publication or print. I’m still very much interested in exploring comics in such a way but have also begun considering the possibility of creating a comic that exists as a singular, physical object.

 I’m choosing the fan comics I post on my DeviantArt as a place to start exploring this concept. The upcoming comic will be created with the idea that it could, ideally, be used as a wall installation. I’m currently in the planning stages and, judging from the roughs, the finished piece might be close to seven inches tall and thirty-eight inches wide. Which brings about another point, the comic will not be presented in the typical two-tiered or three-tiered format I’ve been doing thus far.

With all of my comics I’ve adhered pretty closely (almost slavishly) to page dimensions that would allow me to take my work to print. Looking at the shaped canvases of painter Frank Stella as well as the unlimited canvas idea posed by Scott McCloud, I see no reason why I should exclusively design my work for a rectangular piece of paper especially when working with such a large space as a wall. The next comic will be a simple horizontal line as I’m only just figuring out where I want to go and how to go about it. But future projects could start to take on many other shapes and forms, possibly being constructed with specific spaces in mind.

I normally do not post my fanworks on anything aside from DeviantArt but I might consider finding a spot on here to put this one when it's finished. Simply to give an idea of what I'm going towards.

And the site has gone live!

Ring the bells, cue the choir, we are all systems go! Barring any last minute complications of course. Fingers crossed, people.

Blog goes here

When I finally have everything up and running.