Award-winning artist Felipe Galindo-Feggo presents his new cartoon collection: No Man Is a Desert Island
Artist Reception and Book Signing: Friday, May 25, 6-9pm. Exhibition Dates: May 25 – June 30, 2012. Mark Miller Gallery, 92 Orchard Street, New York NY 10002. Tel. 212-253-9479. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 12-6pm. Free and open to the public.
Felipe Galindo presents “No Man Is a Desert Island”, an exhibition of cartoons from the newly released book of the same title. An artist’s reception will be held on Friday May 25th, from 6-9 pm. Books will be available for purchase and signing. The exhibition features a selection of approximately 50 small-scale humorous drawings created in watercolor and ink on paper and in digital media. These works were published in numerous magazines, books and newspapers in the US, such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Mad, Nickelodeon, Barron’s; in the British publications Private Eye, Oldie, The Spectator and Prospect, as well as in many others publications around the world.
About the artist: Felipe Galindo (Feggo) is a Mexican-born, New York-based, award-winning artist who creates humorous work in a variety of media, including cartoons, illustrations, animations, fine art, and public art. His cartoons and drawings appear in publications around the world. Recently, Feggo received the 2nd prize at the prestigious Porto Cartoon Festival in Portugal. He has also received awards from: the United Nations Correspondents Association, the International Latino Book Awards, the Knnoke-Heist Humor Festival in Belgium, the Greek Ministry of Culture, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Puffin Foundation, the Latino Public Broadcasting, the New York Council for the Arts, the US/Mexico Fund for Culture of the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the San Antonio Cine Festival, the Ajijic Film Festival and the Omiya Humor Festival in Japan. Galindo has held numerous individual and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His animations have been featured in MTV’s Liquid TV, Reel Thirteen and Sí-TV as well as in numerous film festivals and institutions, including South by Southwest, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. He is the creator of the celebrated project Manhatitlan, which includes works on paper, animations, and the book Manhatitlan, Mexican and American Cultures Intertwined (Jorge Pinto Books 2010.) For more information about the artist please visit www.felipegalindo.com
Praise for No Man Is a Desert Island:
“Felipe’s work is not only good humored but good hearted and guaranteed to lift your spirits!”—Gahan Wilson, Cartoonist, The New Yorker, Playboy.
“It is a rare cartoonist who appeals to such diverse readerships as the Reader’s Digest, Barron’s, The New Yorker and Nickelodeon, to name just a few of the magazines where the widely published Felipe Galindo’s cartoons can be found. As cartoon editor of The New Yorker I especially enjoy Felipe’s carefully constructed sight gags, whose wordless humor unites all demographics in laughter.”—Bob Mankoff, Cartoonist, author and Cartoon Editor, The New Yorker.
“Ordinarily I don’t use F-words, but Feggo is a Fabulously Funny Fellow.” —Sam Gross, Cartoonist, The New Yorker, National Lampoon.
“Felipe’s cartoon art is absolutely unique and among the most creative I have seen anywhere. The humor in his drawings is most often conveyed without falling back on the crutch of words or captions. I envy him that ability, because, as a cartoonist myself, I know that he has chosen the most difficult path in this art form and has triumphed.” —Jack Ziegler, Cartoonist, The New Yorker.
Book information: No Man Is a Desert Island – Cartoons by Felipe Galindo-Feggo.
Foreword by Sid Harris (The New Yorker)
Published by Jorge Pinto Books, 2012. 156 pgs. $14.95. Available at: Feggo.com & Amazon.com
