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Curator:
April Kingsley
Organized by the Kresge Art Museum
- Introduction - Exhibition Facts - Schedule
- Installation Views, Museum of Art, Ball
State Univ., Muncie, IN August, 2005 -
- List of Artists - List of Works - Images of All Works -
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Kresge Art Museum Web Site -
- Installation Views, Museum of Art, Ball
State Univ., Muncie, IN August, 2005 -
Art in the 'Toon Age
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Art in the 'Toon Age premiered at the Kresge Art Museum, Lansing MI, in September 2002 garnering national and international interest. It is now being made available as traveling exhibition. Art in the 'Toon Age was born of a marriage between post-Pop esthetics and the cartoon and advertising styles developed by graphic artists in the 1940s and 1950s. It is marked by a springing, resilient line, conventions which instantly communicate information, caricatural economies, and a generally upbeat mood. 'Toon age art ranges from satire and send up to the sublime. The ironies of Pop art are lacking in it, as is Pop's lack of emotionalism. Though it may look beguilingly innocent, 'Toon age art is formally and psychologically loaded, both with compositional niceties and fictive |
possibilities. 'Toon age artists embrace radical new processes and innovations while working within what appears to be a traditional idiom. 'Toon age artists have been popping up allover the world for over three decades. The exhibition includes more than thirty artists from seven countries and three generations: those who have worked in this style since the 1960s and 1970s; a 1980s generation; and a 1990s group. The senior generation, including John Clem Clarke, Red Grooms, Elizabeth Murray, Peter Saul, and Jim Nutt, is enthralled by what one of them termed, "the Disney way of drawing." Junior generation artists, such as Carroll Dunham, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Sue Williams, often deal with political or social issues. The youngest generation of such. |
artists as Laylah Ali, Inka Essenhigh, Yoshitoma Nara, and Marcel Dzama now coming into their own, are riding a world- wide wave of love for all things 'toon, from Disney to anime. All of these 32 artists
clearly admire ads, comics, and packaging graphics. What they have done
is to transform commercial art into the finest of fine art. |
| Valerio Adami Laylah Ali Ida Appelbroog Luis Cruz Azaceta Patrick Caulfield Enrique Chagoya John Clem Clarke Michael Craig-Martin Roy De Forest Steve De Frank Carroll Dunham |
Marcel Dzama |
Jim Nutt |
Exhibition Facts
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Number of artists:
Environment: Exhibition fee: Contact Info: |
32 43 works of art - plus 16 comics, illustrations, and cartoons from the MSU Library's Russell Nye Collection280 running feet (180 feet for artworks; 100 feet for cartoon documentation) approx. Medium Price on request - eight weeks plus shipping
and insurance Jeffrey Landau |
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Exhibition
Schedule
as of
5/12/06
2005
July 18 - October 29
Ball State University, Muncie, IN
November 18 - January
15, 2006
Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
2006
February 6 – March 10
Bryan Art Gallery, CCU
Conway, SC
July 19 - September 26
Rutgers/Camden Center for the Arts
Camden, NJ
October 13 - December 3
Fine Arts Center Gallery, Univ. of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
2007
January 1 - February 28
Art League of Bonita Springs
Bonita Springs, FL
March 22 - May 13
Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE
June 1 - July 31
OPEN
August 1- October 15
OPEN
November 2 - December 31
Krasl Art Center
St. Joseph, MI
2008
January 27- April 13
The Hyde Collection
Glens Falls, NY
May 1 -
December 31
OPEN
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ART IN
THE 'TOON AGE
List of Works Total number of Works: 43 1. Valerio Adami (Italian,
born 1935) 2. Laylah Ali
(American, born 1968) 3. Ida Appelbroog
(American, born 1929) 4. Roger Brown
(American, 1941-1997) 5. Roger Brown (American,
1941-1997) 6. Luis Cruz Azaceta (American,
born 1942) 7. Patrick Caulfield
(British, born 1936) 8. Patrick Caulfield
(British, born 1936) 9. Enrique Chagoya
(American, born Mexico 1953) 10. John Clem Clarke
(American, born 1937) 11. Michael Craig-Martin
(Irish, born 1941) 12. Michael Craig-Martin
(Irish, born 1941) 13. Roy De Forest
(American, born 1930) 15. Steve De Frank
(American, born 1963) 17. Marcel Dzama
(Canadian, born 1975) with the Royal Art Lodge Keep Trying, 1997 18. Marcel Dzama
(Canadian, born 1975) 19. Inka Essenhigh
(American, born 1969) 20. Floc'h
(French, born 1953) 21. Floc’h 22. Red Grooms (American,
born 1937) 23. Red Grooms
(American, born 1937) 24. Arturo Herrera
(Venezuelan, born 1959) 25. Jerry Kearns
(American, born 1943) 26. Jeff Koons
(American, born 1955) 27. Jeff Koons
(American, born 1955) 29. Elizabeth Murray (American,
born 1940) 31. Gladys Nilsson
(American, born 1940) 32. Jim Nutt
(American, born 1938) 34. Julian Opie
(British, born 1958) 36. Monique Prieto
(American, born 1962) 37. Paul Henry Ramirez
(American, born 1963) 39. Roger Shimomura
(American, born 1939) 40. John Wesley
(American, born 1928) 41. Sue Williams (American,
born 1954) 42. Sue Williams
(American, born 1954) 43. Karl Wirsum (American,
born 1939) ___________________________________________________ 16 actual cartoons, comics, and animé on loan from Special Collections, MSU Library 1. George McManus 2. Ernie Bushmiller 3. Howie Schneider 4. Stan Lee, Steve Ditko,
and John Romita 5. Pat Sullivan, Otto
Messmer, and Joe Oriolo 6. George Herriman 7. Walt Disney 8. Hergé 9. Walt Disney 10. R. Crumb 11. Francoise Mouly and
Art Spiegelman 12. Otomo Katsuhiro 13. Alan Moore and Dave
Gibbons 14. Art Spiegelman 15. Shrow Masamune 16. Chris Ware
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