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this is a screen print I did a while back that’s in the current issue of planadvisor. Thanks to AD SooJin Buzelli!

My piece is in the New York Times Bookreview today! It’s for a memoir titled “What to Look for in Winter” by Candia Mcwilliam. The author suffers from a rare disorder called blepharospasm where the eyelids involuntarily close resulting in functional blindness. It’s an odd paradox where she still has perfect vision but can’t see because of her eyelids. One of the things I found most interesting was the possibility that the disorder was psychological in origin. In the words of Mcwilliam, “It was as if my deep brain was telling me that I, with my lucky and unlucky life, have seen enough and that I really am for the dark.” I ended up worked off of the title of the book and using snow as a metaphor for blindness rather than being too literal. Thanks to AD Nicholas Blechman for wonderful art direction!

Plansponsor April is out! Here is the piece I did for an article about improving plans. This issue is absolutely chock full of amazing illustrations by Chris Silas Neal, Josh Cochran, Sam Bosma, Dadu Shin, Victo Ngai, Sam D’Orazio, Nick Iluzada, Marc Rosenthal and many others!

Great art direction by SooJin Buzelli as always!

And as promised here is my luck piece as seen in the magazine. Really beautiful paper and layout. There’s a gate fold section in the middle with all the artwork, including pieces by Jon Han and James Gulliver Hancock!

a little something i did for issue 13 of Uppercase Magazine. Uppercase is published out in Canada and its a magazine about illustration and type and other art related things. The theme for this issue is luck and 13 different artists were invited to interpret the theme any way they saw fit. Great fun to do and nice to go back to drawing with ink! I am eagerly awaiting my copy to come in the mail so will post more pictures soon

Couple of pieces I made for an upcoming gallery show. It’s for the Hitchcock show over at Gallery 1988 in Santa Monica CA so all the art work is inspired by the movies of Alfred Hitchcock. I’d never really watched many of them until I started researching for the show but I got hooked by the dramatic plot lines and the attention paid to the composition of each frame, not to mention the quaint special effects! 

This series of linocut prints is based on The Birds, an apocalyptic story where a little town is besieged by all manner of feathered flying creatures. Each piece is an edition of six printed on Japanese paper.  

My piece is in the Sunday Review of the New York Times today! It’s for the Sunday dialogue section where readers write their own opinions about an article published during the week. The topic for today was teacher evaluations and the dilemma of how to determine the effectiveness of a teacher.

Working in color for the times is always exciting and it reproduced nicely in the papers! This was a four layer linocut and here’s the finished prints along with two of the layers.

Thanks to AD Alexandra Zsigmond!