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Illustrator Profile - Stephen Kroninger: "For me collage is an improvisational medium"

By Robert Newman   Thursday September 22, 2016

Stephen Kroninger is a New York City-based illustrator who creates brilliantly artful, funny and provocative collage illustrations. His work has appeared in "just about every magazine in the U.S.," as well as in three children's books, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and animation, including the hilarious Bad Phone Sex for the Chris Rock Show. For years Kroninger has produced some of …   Read the full Story >>

Illustrator Profile - David Plunkert: "Learn to think as well as draw"

By Robert Newman   Thursday April 16, 2015

David Plunkert is visual force of nature. His editorial work has appeared in countless publications, on book covers, posters, comics books, and animation music videos, as well as in advertising campaigns. David's work fuses an art director's sense of scale and graphicness with an old school sensibility about technique and materials, along with some flat out great execution. He works in two main styles-what …   Read the full Story >>

Illustrator Profile - Anita Kunz: "This is a golden age of narrative art"

By Robert Newman   Thursday November 12, 2015

Anita Kunz has been working as an editorial illustrator for more years than many of our younger Profiles readers have been alive (she got an early start!). But her work remains as energetic and forward-looking as ever-if not more so-as she continues to expand and develop both her art and her craft. Kunz has created an ongoing series of brilliant high-profile illustrations for the …   Read the full Story >>

Illustrator Profile - Adam McCauley: "I try to see the world simply and honestly"

By Robert Newman   Thursday September 8, 2016

Adam McCauley is a San Francisco-based illustrator who has been creating smart, cool, diverse artwork since the late 1980s. In addition to doing extensive editorial illustration work, McCauley has written and illustrated a stack of delightful children's books. In his spare time, he plays music with the band Bermuda Triangle Service (check them out and their great LPs here). And if that's not enough, …   Read the full Story >>

The DART List: February 9, 2011

By Peggy Roalf   Wednesday February 9, 2011

DART Picks from performance art and media installations around town: Christian Marclay: The Clock. 24-hour weekend screenings of this groundbreaking video work, as well as weekday screenings, continue at Paula Cooper Gallery. In her New York Times review, Roberta Smith wrote, The sense of [Marclay’s] mind at work, piecing everything together — thinking endlessly of time and timing, of sight and sound — …   Read the full Story >>

Illustrator Profile - Drew Friedman: "Stick to your guns if you believe in your talent"

By Robert Newman   Friday December 2, 2016

Drew Friedman is an illustrator and book author based in rural Eastern Pennsylvania who specializes in caricatures. His illustrations have appeared in countless publications, from the cover of The New Yorker to a regular gig on the front page of the New York Observer. Friedman has created a brilliant series of books; his most recent-just published-is More Heroes of the Comics, an essential collection …   Read the full Story >>

Illustrator Profile - John Cuneo: "The act of making marks on paper is a rare and singular pleasure"

By Robert Newman   Thursday June 25, 2015

John Cuneo loves to draw. Go to his website homepage and you'll see a heading that says "John Cuneo Drawings" (as well as a monkey with pens and coffee at a drawing table...). He's a masterful illustrator, artist, humorist, and visual storyteller whose work has appeared in just about every major magazine, and most of the smaller ones, too. Cuneo's ink and watercolor drawings …   Read the full Story >>

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