| Thursday, October 24th 🐝 (5-8PM) | | Dear Dare2Draw Creators and Friends,
You are cordially invited to our gallery opening celebrating the Freelancers Union Visual Artists and Painters at the Freelancers Hub in Industry City. We're celebrating and displaying the creative talents of several freelance cartoonists/illustrators/comic artists. Stop by to view the gallery, network with other freelance artists, and enjoy some light refreshments!
Featuring work by . . . | |
🐝 Amber Malone, alias Gold of the North, is a self-taught artist from Jackson, Mississippi and is currently based in New York. Prior to her artistic journey, she dedicated years to human rights advocacy and foreign policy with think-tanks and non-profit organizations in France, Italy, and United States. Her transition to New York inspired her to create a platform in her life for her creative desires and to find her unique style with a medium that she often struggled to master, watercolor. | | |
🐝 King Klaus is the artist on VOID TRIP (Image Comics), author/artist of HIVE MINDTM and DIGITAL BARDOSTM. He is also the CEO of Mind Comics.
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🐝 Christine 'dittofunky' Liu was born in Chinatown, New York City. She received her BFA in illustration from Parsons School of Design and studied for a semester at Parsons Paris. Christine has worked as an in-house designer for 15 years in the home decor and stationery industry and is currently a freelance designer and illustrator in the fabric industry. She had participated in art shows at Drawing the Dance at Dixon Place in NYC, in The Art Students League's inaugural comic anthology - This Quarantine Life: A COVID-19-Era Comics Anthology, and a few of her illustrations have been published in Uppercase Magazine. Christine lives and works in New York City, and you can find her sketching at various live sketch events or sketching at home and imagining children's stories when she is not working. | | | 🐝 Earl Womack is an illustrator and designer. His aspirations in art flourished while growing up in Waterbury, Connecticut. He currently resides in Philadelphia continuing to develop projects with the support from his family and friends. | | |
🐝 Fred Harper graduated with a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design and has made decrative paintings for department stores including the windows for Hermes, Henry Bendel, and Saks 5th. Illustrated comic books for Marvel and DC Comics. Created spot illustrations for Sports Illustrated, New York Times, Wall Street Journal,and made covers for The Week Magazine, NY Observer, Village Voice, and many others. He is currently illustrating Toxic Avenger for Ahoy Comics. | | |
🐝 Thomas Wykes is a British cartoonist living in NYC, with work featured in The New Yorker, Private Eye Magazine, and The Funny Times. | | |
🐝 Emily Ree is a cartoonist, illustrator, and fashion designer from New York. Her work playfully contrasts urban fantasy with reality of life in the big city. When she isn’t making comics, she makes t-shirts and wearables for her streetwear brand, Caring is Punk. | | |
🐝 Dario Bolivar specializes in digital art, animation, and motion graphics, and has gained recognition for his innovative work in these fields. His talents have been showcased in several prestigious cinema festivals across the United States, including Corto Circuito, Havana Film Festival, and The Americas Film Festival. His work blends artistic storytelling with cutting-edge digital techniques, contributing to projects that span both commercial and artistic realms. | | |
🐝 Susie Oh is a Brooklyn-based illustrator and artist inspired by wildlife, folklore, and Korean traditions. She studied illustration at Pratt Institute, animal drawing at the American Museum of Natural History, and urban ecology at the New York Botanical Garden. | | | | |
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