Small
Press Spotlight featuring Fly
Opening Reception Thursday, July 15, 2004
7:00-9:00 pm
Open to the public: Suggested donation $5
Opening Reception:
The opening reception for this exhibition takes place on Thursday,
July 15, from 7:00 to 9:00pm. Fly will be on hand
to discuss and sign copies of PEOPs. A live performance
of the PEOPs Show by the Killer Banshees is scheduled for approximately
8:15pm. The reception is open to the public, and the suggested
donation for the event is $5.
Now showing: the Cartoon Art Museum's ongoing Small Press
Spotlight features the art of Fly, one of the most fascinating
individuals in the modern comics scene.
This showcase will feature a selection of pages from Fly's latest
book, PEOPs. Fly describes the project like so: "PEOPs
is a collection of portraits and stories. Each page contains
a new face surrounded by words; a story the person tells
me or the conversation that we're having as I'm drawing them.
I'm amazed at how cooperative people were in this project--if
some one sat me down and told me that they were going to draw
me and write down what I said, I'm not so sure that I would want
to go along with that... All of these stories add up to
more than what is remembered as official history. Everyone
is and has an incredible story, and everyone deserves a voice
- everyone deserves to be listened to."
About the Opening Reception:
Utilizing both audio and video, the Killer Banshees are working
with Fly to create a Peop Show that combines readings, score and
imagery from the book. The Peop Show expands the experience started
in the pages of Peops, adding narration performed by the peops
themselves, and showing Fly's portraiture in a new light. Close
ups of portraits create abstract layers while text is tracked
and looped both visually and audibly to create new material from
the existing work. Scores inspired by each peop will change as
the stories flow from one to another.
About the Artist:
Fly was born in a dumpster. She lived in a whole bunch of
different places and lived a whole bunch of different lives until
she landed in New York City and finally felt at home (since there
were so many dumpsters). She has been squatting in the Lower
East Side of Manhattan since 1990 where she paints and draws comics
and illustrations, and sometimes paints murals. Her work
has appeared in NYPress, Juxtapoz, The Comics Journal, Village
Voice, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Raygun, The Bradleys (Fantagraphics),
World War 3 Illustrated, Punk, Maximumrocknroll, MonkeySuit, and
Slug & Lettuce among other publications. Fly's current
projects include a novel called Dog Dayz, a squatter museum, a
comic collection entitled Total Disaster, and an upcoming self-published
PEOPs mini-comic.
About Killer Banshee Studios:
Calling kbanshee & koyote VJs fails to describe what you will
see. Unlike others using live video in conjunction with art and
performance events, this pair serves up an arsenal of visual imagery
culled from their own paintings, drawings and sculpture, reinterpreting
and redefining what their art is about. The duo works in conjunction
with other performers and also creates work of their own. Armed
with laptops and projectors, they make a funkabout dance out of
their art. When not working behind the video projectors, kbanshee
and koyote can be found doing audio for video, recording spoken
work artists, or working on their own eccentric art.
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