Art of the Matter

Hello all,

So we are in November already and it's that time of year when I start to battle the urge to wind down for the holiday season. But never fear, due to a crippling work load and niggling sense of guilt I cannot be stopped. 

First off, here's a few images of recent finished works from the stduio. The first couple, Mono e Mono and Process of Choice, where featured in the Everything is Present Tense show at York College Gallery. The other two, A Frame and The Other Half are new works, fresh from my brain:

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Second, I now have photos of all the spreads from the recent 38b Projects publication Wife Drawing Two: Still Wife, which I helped put together and that also featured a recent work Untitled-1 1 6/10/12 14:21:19. These were made for the Art Licks birthday bash at the ICA, London but we do have a very small amount of copies available. These can be purchased HERE. Here's what it looks like in all it's glory:

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And finally, the gallery at York College has sent over some more comprehensive photos of Everything is Present Tense, so for those who have asked me to see more images of the show, here they are:

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That's all for now. More on new illustrative bits soon, Luke

Wife Drawing Two: Still Wife

As Winter draws in and the cold nights threaten to consume us, I bring you exciting news about what we at 38b are up to. Good going us!

For those of you who don't know, 38b is an onging series of exhibitions, projects and publications curated and facilitated by myself and Eva Rowson. It started as a series of shows in our living room and has since begun to take us onto other places and ventures. The living room shows still take place, it's just sometimes nice to get out of the house. 

The first bit of news is we finally have a website, 38bprojects.com, that documents all we have done so far including images and text about each show. It also contains information on our latest project, Wife Drawing Two: Still Wife. 

Following on from the exhibition Wife Drawing in 2010 at 38b Peckham Rye, which showcased 28 artists who address the idea of an expanded drawing practice in their work, this sequel will take the form of a 12 page, newsprint publication (edition of 120), that will be part of  the second anniversary shindig for arts listings and magazine Art Licks at the ICA, London, on 20 October 2012. Here's a sneaky peek at Sonnenzimmer's (Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi)  contribution, Handplant:

The night will also play host to a mix of performances, work, readings, interventions, films and artist DJs as well as being the official launch for the most recent editon of Art Licks magazine which, coincidentally, also features an interview with me in it. So there you go.

More info on the Art Licks event can be foound on Facebook HERE or on the ICA website HERE. 

For those of you that can't be at the event and therefore miss out on getting a publication, we should have a comprehensive set of images from the magazine on our site  following the ICA show.

In the meantime, if you have any shows, exhibitions or events that you would like 38b to contribute to, please get in touch.

That's it for now. All the best! Luke

Coxon, Coxoff

Hello all, sorry for the title of this blog post, but I am juvenile and couldn't resist

I have now returned from a jaunt in Germania that took in the sites, sounds and smells of Hamburg's Reeperbahn Festival for Flatstock Europe 8, as well as the fun and frolics of the wonderful city of Dresden for Colored Gigs 4. Both were great so a big thank you to all who came, bought prints, and weren't put off by my odd behaviour. Germany brings out the weird in me. Anyway, as is my want, I have no photos to show you from this trip, but I assure you it was real and not like that other trip I thought I took but didn't...those were Dark Days.

Now I have returned it also means I have new prints for sale. Bam! First up we have the Graham Coxon print from his show at Reeperbahn Festival. It features either one long boat stretching round the world or three boats racing, depending on your brain-preference. I prefer the former. Either way, it seemed fitting for Grahams Hamburg show. It can be purchased HERE and looks like this:

I also finally have some copies of my Yo La Tengo print. Inspired by American cityscapes and Mondrian's 'Composition in Grey, Pink & Blue', I hope it captures some of the complexities and sensibilities of the bands music. It can be purchased HERE and looks like this: 

Right, I'm off to finish off another poster. It's for a band I love so I better not fuck it up.

Ta-ra, Luke

Dark Days and Other Tales

Greetings friends,

After many months of drawing, fiddling, crises of faith and ultimate resignation, my first ever small press book of comic strips titled 'Dark Days and Other Tales' is finally released today. It contains 25 comic strips which feature ruminations on death, hatred, space, skulls, quests and more. It even comes with an exclusive 'I DON'T WANT TO DIE!' badge, so the world knows you have a healthy and debilitating fear of death. Let us have a peek inside before I explain what on earth possessed me:

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INFO:

Dark Days and Other Tales

Written and Illustrated by Luke Drozd

Full colour cover, black and white inside.

25 comic strips including such hits as: The Glue Factory, Judgment Day, The Pummelling, The Burial, Ugly Child, Found In Space, Four Famous Skulls, Greetings For Enemies, Cats, The Worm's Turn and Dark Days.

Comes with exclusive 'I DON'T WANT TO DIE!' badge/button. 

It is available from my online shop HERE for £5 plus postage.

Looks alright, huh?

Well, it nearly didn't exist. I certainly never set out to make a book of comic strips. It all started when Crispin Parry from British Underground and I decided to have a 'Funnies' section in the first issue of UKPA's Flood magazine. People liked it so we did it again in issue 2 (which featured Four Famous Skulls, the only previously published strip in the book). I had long been baffled by the amount of truely awful and genuinely unfunny and uncreative strips that get published in UK papers and decided that I could do better, or at least as bad. I soon realised I wasn't massively funny either but I did enjoy making them so I carried on. Every once in a while I would have a vaguely dumb idea that may work as a strip, and slowly but surely I created a small stack of them. I decided they were probably not worth publishing, but showed them to my good pal and art advisor Graham Pilling. He told me I had to release them and I have a legal document that says I must do as he says, so I made a chunk more and they in turn formed the contents of Dark Days, which is what it is...

So basically, what I'm saying is, it's all Graham's fault. 

Now go and buy it. It's HERE, get your eyes all over it.

Luke

Dark Days and Other Tales

Greetings friends,

After many months of drawing, fiddling, crises of faith and ultimate resignation, my first ever small press book of comic strips titled 'Dark Days and Other Tales' is finally released today. It contains 25 comic strips which feature ruminations on death, hatred, space, skulls, quests and more. It even comes with an exclusive 'I DON'T WANT TO DIE!' badge, so the world knows you have a healthy and debilitating fear of death. Let us have a peek inside before I explain what on earth possessed me:

See the full gallery on Posterous

INFO:

Dark Days and Other Tales

Written and Illustrated by Luke Drozd

Full colour cover, black and white inside.

25 comic strips including such hits as: The Glue Factory, Judgment Day, The Pummelling, The Burial, Ugly Child, Found In Space, Four Famous Skulls, Greetings For Enemies, Cats, The Worm's Turn and Dark Days.

Comes with exclusive 'I DON'T WANT TO DIE!' badge/button. 

It is available from my online shop HERE for £5 plus postage.

Looks alright, huh?

Well, it nearly didn't exist. I certainly never set out to make a book of comic strips. It all started when Crispin Parry from British Underground and I decided to have a 'Funnies' section in the first issue of UKPA's Flood magazine. People liked it so we did it again in issue 2 (which featured Four Famous Skulls, the only previously published strip in the book). I had long been baffled by the amount of truely awful and genuinely unfunny and uncreative strips that get published in UK papers and decided that I could do better, or at least as bad. I soon realised I wasn't massively funny either but I did enjoy making them so I carried on. Every once in a while I would have a vaguely dumb idea that may work as a strip, and slowly but surely I created a small stack of them. I decided they were probably not worth publishing, but showed them to my good pal and art advisor Graham Pilling. He told me I had to release them and I have a legal document that says I must do as he says, so I made a chunk more and they in turn formed the contents of Dark Days, which is what it is...

So basically, what I'm saying is, it's all Graham's fault. 

Now go and buy it. It's HERE, get your eyes all over it.

Luke

Django Django Django...Django

DJANGO!

It's a fun word to say, huh? Ok, onwards! For the second year running, Push & Pull have organised a series of screenprinted posters in collaboration with Into The Great Wide Open for some of the bands playing at the festival. For those of you not familiar with the festival, it's an amazing tiny festival, on an little island off the coast of the Netherlands called Vlieland. It sort of feels a bit like what a festival would be like if it were organised by the Moomins. But whatever, I digress. The poster series is now complete and will be exhibited and copies of each print sold at the festival. I was asked to make one for the UK's very own Django Django which you can see below:

The whole series, which includes the work of Graham Pilling, Mara Piccione, Doe Eyed & Talkseek can be viewed at the following link HERE. A great selection of artists I'm sure you will agree. I have copies of the Django Django print to sell and these will be online after the festival HERE.

While we are on the subject of poster series', I can't remember if I posted about the full Screenadelica and Bestival 2012 series. If I didn't, that is also now up in full and can be seen HERE.

More news soon about other posters, new fine art work and most importantly my comic strip book 'Dark Days & Other Tales'.

Ta-ra, Luke

 

New Studio Works

Hello all

My solo show Everything Is Present Tense opens later this week at York College Gallery (more info on the show here) so I thought maybe it was about time I posted up some new works from the studio in celebration. Some of these works will no doubt be in the show, whilst others will be in different, real world places ready for human interaction some time soon. Enjoy:

Trim

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Paradise

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Marker

Stop It