Nov 20, 2009

HOT POTATOE
Marc Bell & Amy Lockhart

Narwhal Art Projects presents HOT POTATOE, a book launch with Marc Bell & Amy Lockhart.

Please join us in welcoming Marc Bell and Amy Lockhart for an incredible double bill at Magic Pony. We will be hosting the Toronto premiere of their new books Hot Potatoe and Dirty Dishes alongside a specially curated art exhibition. Marc and Amy will both be in attendance to help celebrate and sign books on Friday, Nov. 20th from 7-9pm.

Marc Bell's Hot Potatoe seamlessly combines decade-plus comics activities with a lifelong devotion to, as Bell calls it, "Fine Ahtwerks." Part art monograph, part comics collection, Hot Potatoe is filled with mixed media cardboard constructions, watercoloured drawings, altered found texts and Bell's most intense, dizzying comics from the contemporary avant-garde comics anthologies - Kramers Ergot and The Ganzfeld. Bell's works have their roots in draftsmanship, typography and old-fashioned gags, but morph into assemblages that connect his images into real space. His comics are funny, seat-of-the pants narratives that give the characters an inner-life. Represented by the Adam Baumgold Gallery in Manhattan, Bell is one of the leading lights in the new emphasis on drawing in the art world. He comes on like a stepchild of R. Crumb, Ray Johnson and Basquiat; armed with a dashing and looping rapidograph. Produced by Drawn & Quarterly.

The petite livre, Dirty Dishes, is a first class ticket into the creepy cute and totally absurd world of StrawBaby, and the mind of its creator Amy Lockhart. It chronicles the various facets of her process/thinking from her paintings and drawings to cardboard sculpture of objects from her everyday life. Also included are stills from her animations and photos of costumes used in her videos. Amy works in a variety of mediums, including animation, film and video making, acrylic painting, drawing, costume making, comics and small press books and combines the various mediums as much as possible and let them feed into each other and out of each other. Produced by Drawn & Quarterly.

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