2009 Jonathan Arena GD (see page 6) Korakrit Arunanondchai PR
has a new fashion label with Pamela Lee 06* called Korakrit*Pamelalee. They are exhibiting a new line called THRS (fashion for Thursday night art openings) at Tompkins Projects in Brooklyn, near where they live. Eve Essex SC has wrapped
up her residency at the Berwick Institute in Boston, staging a reenactment of Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra. She is now an artist in residence at ArtFarm in Nebraska. Jennifer Hom IL is working
at Google and last fall was pleased to see her first doodle (of Mahatma Ghandi) make the Google homepage. Grace Jun GD (see page 6)
Last fall James Lavine IL (North Berwick, ME) exhibited in Human Mechanics: Considering the Link between Hand and Tool, a solo show at LAUNCH at the Gail Cahalan Gallery in Providence. In April Julie Mauskop PT (Israel) exhibited Survivors, a series of paintings focused on her Holocaust-survivor grandparents, at the Columbia/Barnard Hillel in New York. Last fall work by Hilary Merzbacher IL (Wyndmoor, PA) was featured in Built World: Exploring Forms Neither Permanent nor Unique at LAUNCH at the Gail Cahalan Gallery in Providence.
In the wake of the quake in Haiti, Aaron Perry-Zucker GD
(Cambridge, MA) started a web forum called Design for Haiti (www.designforhaiti.com) to encourage fellow designers to create posters supporting relief efforts, along with information graphics that help explain the plight of the Haitian people. Earlier this year Amanda Dandeneau PH, Sebastian Cassetta PH, Thomas S. Prado PH and Jeff BarnettWinsby MFA 06 PH showed together in RISD: Random Individuals Seeking a Dealer at Jane Kim/Thrust Projects in NYC. In January Meatwaffle, the animated film Leah Shore FAV (Brooklyn) made as her senior project, was shown at the prestigious 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Leah was the only female animator and the youngest participant competing in this year’s festival.
Scintillating start
Less than a year after collecting her diploma, Katie Gallagher is attracting the kind of attention every young fashion designer needs. Interview and Vogue Italia have already run stories on her work, Daphne Guinness and Nicola Formichetti, Lady Gaga’s stylist, asked to borrow showpieces from her debut collection, and in February, when she showed her Fall 2010 collection at New York’s Fashion Week, the buzz just kept building. T, the New York Times’ style magazine, selected her as one of its “magnificent 7,” New York Magazine proclaimed her one of the top half dozen new designers to watch and the global fashion site Refinery 29 crowned her “Coolest Freshman/ Best New Designer.” Katie is “the new quirky cool darling of the fashion world,” R29 proclaimed. “With her latest collection, the young designer has skyrocketed from indie darling to a bona fide fashion force. Her spring/summer 2010 collection is darkly futuris-
2010 Alyson Ainsworth TX, Amie Cheong MFA TX, Ilene Godofsky 09 TX, Eun Jung Lee MFA TX, Alexa Newman TX, Ji Hae Park MFA TX, Chelsea Plumb TX, Wendy Wood TX and Hailey Koh Eun Yoon TX all took part in the late winter Imagine That! show at the Slater Mill Gallery in Pawtucket, RI.
Judges for the Illustration West 48 competition sponsored by the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles selected works by Lisa Butler IL, Fabiola Garza 09 IL, Jean Kim IL, Nick Nadeau IL and Victo Ngai IL for inclusion in their early spring exhibition and online gallery. “Art directors, editors, designers and media folks who need artists go to the online gallery looking for young talent, so it’s a great launch,” notes their RISD professor, Susan Doyle
Earlier this spring, work by Trish Elwood O’Day CEC Digital Photography was featured in Icons and Archetypes, a solo show at the Pleiades Gallery in NYC. Caleb Wood FAV won first place in the animation category of the New York chapter of the Society of Illustrators’ 2010 student scholarship competition.
2011 Judges for the most recent New York Society of Illustrators competition selected illustrations by Ole Tillman IL, JooHee Yoon IL and Lisa Butler 10 IL for inclusion in the 2010 exhibition and catalogue.
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tic, sleek and, as ever, unique. Kind of like the designer herself.” Katie says that when she opted to do her entire RISD thesis collection in black everyone told her “that it’s really scary to do that because people always want to see color, but I didn’t really care.” Following her own instincts may be key to her early success, which she’s building piece by piece in her small Chinatown studio. For fall 2010 (see above) she has presented an edgy, sculptural line inspired by an abstract painting she made—“a winter scene with trees and pastels, washedout colors, very drippy.” This gets translated into a silk, wool and leather line in shades of gray with hints of purple and pink, creams and a touch of forest green. “I don’t believe that fashion is the end goal,” Katie says on her website. “Stories, personalities, moods, ideals and attitudes are. Fashion, when executed successfully, communicates these attributes quickly and eloquently.” For more of Katie Gallagher’s work go to
katiegallagher.com
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