Artists

Tom Tomorrow

Tom Tomorrow has been generally annoying the establishment since the beginning of time with his great use of retro images and themes in his comic strips. Making the perfect balance between satire, cynical comment and comedy, Tomorrow tears apart the cosy, rose tinted picture that the leaders of the world like to present about their policies at home nad abroad.

Eric Drooker

Eric Drooker’s paintings are seen on covers of The New Yorker, The Progressive, The Village Voice and numerous other magazines, as well as books and music albums. He is the author of Flood! A Novel in Pictures, Illuminated Poems (with Allen Ginsberg), Street Posters & Ballads, and Blood Song: A Silent Ballad. He gives slide lectures at schools and cultural centers worldwide. Eric is a third generation New Yorker, born and raised on Manhattan Island.

Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey is the graphic design artist who, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990, created the André the Giant Has a Posse sticker campaign that can now be seen all over the world. Using the slogan “The Medium is the Message” borrowed from Marshall McLuhan, Fairey has become one of the most well-known artists of the early 2000s.

Mamoru Oshii

One of the lesser known animators to come out of Japan, Oshii’s films raise a variety of complex issues but never provide reductive answers; instead, they include enigmatic endings that poetically recapitulate the thematic and formal concerns of the rest of the film in final images poised tentatively on the precipice between hope and despair. Compared to the usual fast paced, action packed extravaganzas that is the public perception of Japanese Animation, Oshii’s films are slow and moody and depend on long sequences without dialouge. A student activists in his early days, his films Patlabor and Patlabor 2 focuses his anger and rage on the material excesses of Japan’s bubble economy of the 1980s and ‘the sham of democracy’ in Japan and it’s failure to advance social reform in post war Japan.