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Press Release Checklist Roz Chast Season's Greeting December 9-January 29, 2005 The Julie Saul Gallery is very pleased to announce our first exhibition of drawings and painted Russian eggs by renowned cartoonist Roz Chast. The exhibition will include both black and white drawings and watercolor paintings previously published in The New Yorker, Scientific American and other journals, as well as unpublished work. The exhibition will also include a selection of Chast's most recent passionate enthusiasm, eggs decorated in the Russian technique called Pysanky- in which she combines the traditional decorative motifs of the art form with images of her own very recognizable Chast people. Chast is known for her cast of recurring characters- generally hapless but relatively cheerful "everyfolk". In her cartoons, she addresses the issues of our time: guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends, money, real estate, and as she would say, “much, much more!” The editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick, has called her “the magazine’s only certifiable genius.” Chast is from Brooklyn, where her parents (a high school teacher and an assistant principal, both retired) still live. She received a BFA in 1977 from Rhode Island School of Design where she studied graphic design and painting, but returned to the cartooning which she had started in high school. Less than two years out of college, she was added to the forty or so artists under contract to The New Yorker in January 1979. The New Yorker has continually published her work for 25 years, from regular black and white cartoons to spread, back pages and covers. In addition she has provided cartoons and editorial illustrations for almost fifty magazines and journals- from Mother Jones to Town & Country. Eight collections have been published of Chast's work, most recently The Party After You Left (Bloomsbury, 2004). She has also illustrated several children’s books and contributed to many humor collections. She has lectured widely and received several prestigious awards including an honorary doctorate from Pratt Institute in 1998. Chast has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows, and this is her first with this gallery. Images: In order of checklist below. ROZ CHAST SEASON'S GREETING DECEMBER 9-JANUARY 29, 2005 Near Desk: 1. Tuned In, Turned On, Dropped Out, Dropped In, Worked Out, Saved Up, Dropped Dead, 1999 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 2. The Party, After You Left, 2001 pen and ink on paper 12 X 11 1/2 inches 3. Urban Compost Heap, 2001 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches Entrance: 4. Your Palm, 1996 watercolor and pen on paper 12 X 9 inches 5. Walk / Why Bother?, 2004 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 6. Mixed Marriage: "Eye of the Beholder", 2001 watercolor and pen on paper 14 X 11 inches 7. Mid-Life Crisis: The Clouds Before the Storm, 2004 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches South Wall: 8. My Spam Sketchbook, or Who Are These People?, 2002 watercolor and pen on paper 12 X 18 inches 9. Accountant Manque, 2003 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 10. Twenty Hard - Earned Dollars, 1999 watercolor and pen on paper 9 X 12 inches 11. Grownup Happy Meals, 1998 pen and ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 12. Seven Deadly Sins, 2002 pen and ink on paper 9 X 12 inches 13. Comfort Drinks, 2002 watercolor and pen on paper 12 X 9 inches 14. Inaccupressure Points, 2002 pen and ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 15. A Close Call, 2003 watercolor and pen on paper 14 X 11 inches West Wall: 16. Complaints / Constructive Criticism, 2004 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 17. No - Action Comics, 1999 watercolor and pen on paper 14 X 11 inches 18. The Last Family Vacation, 2003 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 19. The Lost Tribe / The End, 2000 watercolor and pen on paper 14 X 11 inches 20. The Wheel of Doom, 2003 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches North Wall: 21. Hoax Ethnic Food, 2003 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 22. The Seder Plate at Ye Olde Yankee Inne, 2002 watercolor and pen on paper 12 X 9 inches 23. Schadenfreude Monthly, 2003 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 24. Mixed Marriage Episode #2: "An Eye For an Eye", 2002 watercolor and pen on paper 14 X 11 inches 25. The Little Engine That Coulda Woulda Shoulda, 2004 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 26. Regrets Only, 2004 watercolor and pen on paper 11 X 14 inches 27. Worry Tank, 1999 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 28. The Schmoozy Reaper, 2000 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 29. My Dream House, 2004 watercolor and pen on paper 12 X 9 inches 30. Self Portrait Brooklyn c. 1964, 2003 pen and ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 31. Trust, 2004 watercolor and pen on paper 12 X 9 inches East Wall: 32. The Pharmacologist of Oz, 2003 watercolor and pen on paper 12 X 9 inches 33. Three Hysterically Blind Mice, 2004 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 34. Adult Attention Deficit Disorders, 2002 watercolor and pen on paper 12 X 9 inches 35. The Berlitz Guide to Flowerese, 2000 ink on paper 12 X 9 inches 36. Five Minutes to Deadline, 2002 watercolor and pen on paper 12 X 9 inches top For additional information contact the gallery back |
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