RiverLit Magazine
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Drawings, Press
The new issue (#5) of RiverLit Magazine is out and my artwork is on the back cover. Check it out here. The front cover is pictured below.
The Infinite Possibility of All Things by Elly Ruslan
Innovations Invite
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Events, Shows
Innovations at SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Gallery:
Comic-Thon 2011
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Uncategorized
This past Fall semester 2011, the Student Art Association (for which I am the Faculty Advisor) received a special grant to conduct its first ever 12-Hour Comic-Thon. A 12-Hour comic drawing event – the goal: to draw one comic book page per hour for 12 hours straight. A grueling affair to say the least, but it was a huge success. Every participant had everything they needed – all supplies necessary to draw comics and enough food and drink to last 12 hours. East Stroudsburg University student Anna Maino was the first to complete one whole 12-page comic book story — congratulations Anna! Here are some pictures from the event:
We even made the local paper!
Read below for most of the text appearing on the poster (designed by Steve SImorka – thanks Steve!):
Get our your coffee! Local artists, art enthusiasts, and/or comic book lovers who want to test their creativity
and push their artistic limits are invited to this years 12-Hour Comic Event sponsored by the Student Art
Association of East Stroudsburg University. The day of extreme cartooning allows 12 straight hours for
amateur and professional cartoonists of any age to challenge themselves to write, draw, and letter an entire
12-page comic story in 12 hours (one page per hour).
Creating comic art can be lonely work; the 12-Hour Comic Event provides an opportunity to stretch creative
muscles and get invigorated by working alongside (or with) a group of fellow artists.
The event is all about sharing the love of comic book creation, and it draws in young and old, experienced and
novice. Don’t let lack of experience or materials keep you away — previous participants have been as young
as 7 and as old as 97!
Periodic Table of Elements: A Collaborative Installation
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Digital, Installations
I would like to introduce you to a project that has been in the works for quite some time. Last year I proposed over 14 different ideas for artwork installations in the new Hoeffner Science and Technology Center to the administration at East Stroudsburg University. The first of these installations is based upon the Periodic Table of Elements (see below for details). It has been a long process of approvals and revisions but it looks like this first installation (hopefully of many) is going to move forward rapidly — with hopes of it being completed by the end of the spring semester.
Normally, each semester, in my Communication Graphics class I have my students work on an introductory typography project called the Letterform/Counterform Project. This project’s goal is to take two different letterforms and combine them in such a way as to accentuate/highlight certain interesting and/or aesthetically pleasing elements of these letterforms while also considering the overall composition in a rectangular format. This semester my Communication Graphics students will be doing this project, but instead of choosing arbitrary letterforms, they will each be given 5 or 6 of the elements on the periodic table of elements to use. When completed, they will be printed, and displayed in frames in the hallway of the 2nd floor of the Hoeffner Science and Technology Center, directly opposite of the Chemistry Analytics labs. The frames will be arranged in the same order and configuration as the periodic table of elements, as pictured below. This is the first step in (hopefully) a few more collaborations between the science and art departments.
The location:
Save the Date
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Innovations
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Digital, Drawings, Events, Installations, Shows
Of all of the juried shows that I have had my artwork shown in these past few years, I am most excited about this show: ‘Innovations’ at the Dowd Gallery of SUNY Cortland in Cortland, NY (the show runs from January 18th – March 2nd, 2012). The work accepted in this show “represents innovations in concept, subject or media use” — which is one of my main objectives in creating any piece of art. Both of the pieces I submitted were accepted to the exhibition [pictured below] and I will be venturing up to SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Gallery to present an Artist Talk/Lecture and/or a Workshop for the students at SUNY Cortland sometime in the first week or two of February 2012. Please read the written statement that I submitted for ‘Innovations’ here.
The first work that has been accepted to ‘Innovations’ is a digital print intervention titled: Mapping the Probability of Archetypical Configurations of Elementary Particles in Thought-Space and will appear in Bowers Hall (the science building) on the campus of SUNY Cortland.
In case you are interested in some of the jargon on this poster, here are some details:
The other piece that was accepted is Transmeanderation Helix (Parts 1, 2 & 3) and will be installed in the Dowd Gallery. Here is Transmeanderation Helix as it appeared at the William King Museum in 2010:
