Post by virtu on Jan 28, 2009 8:12:12 GMT -8
Can't wait to see this show.
Todd Schorr is fantastic!
Info below from M.K. Galleries site.
TODD SCHORR: THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
March 28 – April 18, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8-11pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm
Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present a solo
exhibition of new works by renowned American artist
Todd Schorr. One of the most prominent pop surrealist
painters working today, Schorr uses the exacting
techniques of the old masters to paint colorful cartoon
characters, corporate mascots and other pop culture
icons in a unique style he calls “cartoon realism.”
Schorr’s work is highly influenced by the popular culture
of his childhood: post-war 1950’s America. His formative
years were spent watching countless horror, sci-fi, war,
cartoon, cowboy, and puppet shows on a black-andwhite
TV set, building styrene plastic models, reading comic books, and leafing through his
parents’ National Geographic magazines.
The compulsion to replicate the characters he saw in cartoons, commercials, comic books and
magazines led to a formal education at The Philadelphia College of Art. Schorr began his
career as an illustrator in New York City, which exposed him to a new set of influences from the
world of advertising and commercial art. Though his career as an illustrator was successful (his
work appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in 1982), Schorr soon left the commercial world
and began expressing his ideas on canvas.
Schorr says: “Like any artist of worth, it took many long years of struggle and investigative
thought along with trial and error as well as constant honing of technique to reach the point
where I felt I had created a language which, when spoken well, would command some
semblance of purpose. I work in what is best described as a surreal style but filtered through the
mind and eyes of what is, for better or worse, uniquely American.”
In 2008 Schorr’s work was shown at the Laguna Art Museum as part of “In the Land of Retinal
Delights: The Juxtapoz School,” and a solo retrospective exhibition will be held at the San Jose
Museum of Art in 2009.
Schorr’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz, Dangerous Ink, and in the documentary film, The
Treasures of Long Gone John. Schorr’s most recent monograph is Dreamland, 2004, published by
Last Gasp Press. His new book, American Surreal will be released in 2009. Schorr currently resides
with his artist-wife Kathy in Los Angeles, CA.
For More Information, please contact Merry Karnowsky at mkgallery@att.net.
Merry Karnowsky Gallery
170 S. La Brea Avenue (in the Art 170 Building) • Los Angeles, CA 90036 • (323) 933-4408
www.mkgallery.com
Todd Schorr is fantastic!
Info below from M.K. Galleries site.
TODD SCHORR: THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
March 28 – April 18, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8-11pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm
Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present a solo
exhibition of new works by renowned American artist
Todd Schorr. One of the most prominent pop surrealist
painters working today, Schorr uses the exacting
techniques of the old masters to paint colorful cartoon
characters, corporate mascots and other pop culture
icons in a unique style he calls “cartoon realism.”
Schorr’s work is highly influenced by the popular culture
of his childhood: post-war 1950’s America. His formative
years were spent watching countless horror, sci-fi, war,
cartoon, cowboy, and puppet shows on a black-andwhite
TV set, building styrene plastic models, reading comic books, and leafing through his
parents’ National Geographic magazines.
The compulsion to replicate the characters he saw in cartoons, commercials, comic books and
magazines led to a formal education at The Philadelphia College of Art. Schorr began his
career as an illustrator in New York City, which exposed him to a new set of influences from the
world of advertising and commercial art. Though his career as an illustrator was successful (his
work appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in 1982), Schorr soon left the commercial world
and began expressing his ideas on canvas.
Schorr says: “Like any artist of worth, it took many long years of struggle and investigative
thought along with trial and error as well as constant honing of technique to reach the point
where I felt I had created a language which, when spoken well, would command some
semblance of purpose. I work in what is best described as a surreal style but filtered through the
mind and eyes of what is, for better or worse, uniquely American.”
In 2008 Schorr’s work was shown at the Laguna Art Museum as part of “In the Land of Retinal
Delights: The Juxtapoz School,” and a solo retrospective exhibition will be held at the San Jose
Museum of Art in 2009.
Schorr’s work has been featured in Juxtapoz, Dangerous Ink, and in the documentary film, The
Treasures of Long Gone John. Schorr’s most recent monograph is Dreamland, 2004, published by
Last Gasp Press. His new book, American Surreal will be released in 2009. Schorr currently resides
with his artist-wife Kathy in Los Angeles, CA.
For More Information, please contact Merry Karnowsky at mkgallery@att.net.
Merry Karnowsky Gallery
170 S. La Brea Avenue (in the Art 170 Building) • Los Angeles, CA 90036 • (323) 933-4408
www.mkgallery.com