Today nice Linocut prints from 'Chroniques de New York' are on show at Castor and Pollux in their first exhibition of 2010. Made as illustrations by Julie Doucet for 'Chroniques de New York' by Jean-Fracois Jouanne, the "small but perfectly forms group of prints" went on show three days ago, and continue until May 24th. Doucet's comics and graphic novels will be lurking about in the bookshop.
It looks like nice, well made art, without too much art guff (I laugh childishly because I wrote 'ass guff'.) But anyway, it looks really lovely.
"At the Université du Québec à Montréal she completed a degree in printing arts. During her studies Julie Doucet took interest into drawing comics, and eventually devoted herself completely to that funny art form. Her comic book, Dirty Plotte began life as a photocopied fanzine. In it Doucet would document in french and in english her day to day life, her dreams, angsts, fantasies. The series was first published in 1991 by Drawn & Quarterly, in the comic book form. Shortly afterwards she won the prestigious Harvey Award for Best New Talent. She left for New York city, where she spent a year related in ’My New York Diary’ In the 1990s, she abandoned the medium of comic books and went back to printing. Woodcuts, linocuts, silkscreen printing, followed by an abundant production of artist’s books. She took part in many group exhibitions and, finally, in 2006 she had her own solo exhibition of her print work at the galerie B-312. Julie Doucet now writes and makes collages. Mostly."
You can find some more of her work here.
The celebration of linocut prints continues with Paul Catherall, exhibiting as gallery artists during April and May.
"Catherall’s architectural prints draw from 20th Century poster design and focus on structures that are part of the urban environment with a clean and sharp palette inspired by commercial art of the 1950’s and 1960’s Catherall depicts various well-known landmarks from London, New York and Brighton.
Catherall identifies the established and continually developing skylines of his locations, treated equally in measure. Catherall displays an expert eye for composition and colour; and great draughtsmanship, achieving ultimately a delicate balance between classic commercial design and contemporary urban landscape. His linocuts have become synonymous with Transport for London and Tate Modern."
It's free, and can be found at:
Location: 165 King's Road Arches, Lower Promenade
Map: here.
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