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WAA PRESENTS BARRY BLITT, DAN WASSERMAN and BILL GRIFFITH
THE PROVOCATIVE LINE
The WAA announces its next exhibition THE PROVOCATIVE LINE featuring three of today s leading cartoonists " Barry Blitt, Dan Wasserman and Bill Griffith.
From it s early history in this country, when Thomas Nast lampooned Boss Tweed and his corrupt Tammany Hall cohorts, the applied pressure from socio-political cartoonists has frequently shaped public opinion and changed the course of history. Blitt, Wasserman and Griffith come together to display their acerbic wit, political insight and social pundits while inducing the viewer to consider, think and react to some of the most socio-politically charged times ever experienced.
Barry Blitt has contributed illustrations and over fifty covers to The New Yorker, including Deluged , voted Best Cover of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2006. Blitt s work has also appeared in Time, Rolling Stone and The Atlantic, and he illustrates Frank Rich s weekly column in The New York Times. He has been honored with awards and exhibitions from The Society of Illustrators, Print Magazine and American Illustration. His work for children includes The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven and Once Upon A Time, The End .
Dan Wasserman has been the Editorial Cartoonist for The Boston Globe since 1985. His work has been reprinted in Time, Newsweek, Business Week, The Economist, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and is syndicated in over 40 papers across the country. Wasserman has published two collections of drawings " We ve Been Framed (Faber & Faber, 1987) and Paper Cuts (Ivan R. Dee, 1995). In his introduction to Paper Cuts he wrote Editorial cartooning thrives on the immediacy of its commentary and the staying power of its imagery. It is slightly more respectable than graffiti, and less likely to get one arrested.
Bill Griffith began his career in New York City in 1969. His first comic strips were published in the East Village Other and featured an angry amphibian named Mr. The Toad . Today, Griffith s clown-suited philosopher/media star character, Zippy the Pinhead , appears in over 200 newspapers around the world. In response to the on-going challenge of reaching readers, Griffith said, Comics is a language. It s a language most people understand intuitively. If cartoonists use a large and varied vocabulary to entertain their readers, those readers will usually come along for the ride .
THE PROVOCATIVE LINE , featuring current and past cartoon work from all three artists, will be on display from July 11 through August 8, 2009. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, July 11, from 4 to 6 p.m.
The Washington Art Association is located in Bryan Memorial Plaza, Washington Depot, CT. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10-5 and Sunday 12-5. For additional information, please call 860-868-2878 or visit website www.washingtonartassociation.org.
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