Joe Fenton – Creation of “The Lullaby” – Time Lapse Video

Sunday, September 11th, 2011 | Contemporary Art | No Comments

My friend Joe Fenton works down the hall here in Red Hook Brooklyn. He is a madman virtuoso, but don’t take my word for it. His brother composed and produced the music for the time lapse video documenting the creation of Joe’s pencil drawing titled “The Lullaby.”

enjoy,
-Tonky

See more of his work: behance.net/joefenton
Buy a print: joe-fenton-art.myshopify.com/

The Lullaby – 2011 – By Joe Fenton from Joe Fenton on Vimeo.

Justin Beaver | Limited Edition Print

Friday, December 3rd, 2010 | Contemporary Art, Pop Culture Notions, Tonky Graphic Design, Tonky Limited Editions | No Comments

Just in time for your holiday gift giving, I’ve completed my limited edition Justin Beaver Print.

Little is know about the North American Justin Beaver other than:

- He has beautiful hair
- He sings purty
- He chews down trees to build his sub-aquatic home
- His last name rhymes with Bieber

Supplies are limited and priced to sell at $30. See more pics and purchase online here:
Justin Beaver Limited Edition Print.

thanks!
-Tonky

Tonky Ceramics – Drop Date Aug. 15, 2010 @ NYIGF

Sunday, August 1st, 2010 | Contemporary Art, Tonky Graphic Design, Tonky Limited Editions | 1 Comment

We were up until 5am glazing our new line of functional clay wares. Everything is aesthetically tight and minimally glazed and the porcelain is so thin that firing will create a charming variation in each piece as a subtle warping occurs at red hot 2165 Degrees F.

The official drop date is August 15th at NYIGF here in NYC at the Javits center, but I wanted to give you a peak at some of the pre-fired forms. If you are attending the show come see us at Booth 3901 in the “Accent on Design” section.

The kiln is loaded and heating up so keep your fingers crossed. I’m really excited to see these things finished and glazed.

You can look forward to some tasty photographs within a week or so once the kiln has cooled. We have some gorgeous nesting bowls, modern platters inspired by TV dinner trays, and also ceramic JEWERLY for the first time!

all for now.

love,
-Tonky

AT&T Plagiarizes Christo & Jeanne-Claude

Sunday, June 27th, 2010 | Contemporary Art, Pop Culture Notions, Power & Politics, Under The Patina of Knowledge | 25 Comments

Dear AT&T,

Please take the money you shower upon the hacks at your advertising agency ( BBDO Worldwide ) and instead install more cell phone towers or hire more nerds or do whatever it’ll take to improve your stinkpie of a network. I can’t make calls from my studio in Redhook, Brooklyn so that’d be a good place to start.

love,
Tonky

Background:

2005-
Artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude finally realized “The Gates,” a massive ephemeral art installation covering NYC’s Central Park with thousands of yards of flowing orange fabric suspended from orange plastic gates.

The concept was 20 years in the making and was funded entirely through the sale of concept sketches/collages rendered by the artist.  In the words of the artist, “an expression of joy and wonder.” No corporate funds, no government sponsorship, just pure aesthetics ( open to argument of course )

2010-
AT&T steals the work to sell its snake oil to the masses as part of its sponsorship of the World Cup soccer tournament. Despite a disclaimer stating, “The Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude have no direct or indirect affiliation or involvement with AT&T” the advertisement is a straight forward pillaging of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s intellectual property.

MADE in REDHOOK – Art Show and Opening

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 | Contemporary Art, Tonky Graphic Design | No Comments

Lucky Gallery, Luis Blackaller
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Tonight Tonight,

Some of my work is in a group show called “Made in Redhook.”
The opening is tonight Sat, May 22 |  7-10PM

Lucky Gallery is located in Red Hook
176 Richards Street, Brooklyn, NY. 11231
GOOGLE MAP

In fact, all day is the Redhook area studio tour. So why not make it a day-long adventure?

http://www.brooklynstudiotours.com/

Come on by for free wine and mind blowing art.

-Tonky

Mark McCormick Designs – Brooklyn’s Finest

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | Contemporary Art, Pop Culture Notions | No Comments

Loving the work and new portfolio site by Brooklyn based artist, designer, illustrator and all-around-dude Mark McCormick.

Mark is Senior Designer at CRUNCH Gyms and so you’ve likely seen his work across every aspect of that brand’s collateral. Cool icons for web, murals, print, you name it.

The melted snowman on treadmill above makes me yearn for Spring (dare I say Summer?)

Take a minute to look through the great concert posters, personal projects, and other goodies at his website: http://markmccormickdesigns.roxer.com

Also he’s participating in “Thing a Day” at his other website. Good for a daily intertube fix:

http://nakedfowl.posterous.com/

-Tonky

TINY: Art From Microscopes – UW Madison

Monday, January 18th, 2010 | Contemporary Art, Pop Culture Notions, Power & Politics | No Comments

Welcome,

There is a delicious show in the gallery at the airport (Truax Field) in Madison, WI that features photographs and rapid prototypes (3D objects “printed” layer by layer) by scientists from UW-Madison’s various research departments in collaboration with Tandem Press.

The exhibition text surveys the history of medical illustration and explains how “as early as 13,000BC, drawings of body parts aided Egyptians during the mummification process.”

The fancy colored 3d objects shown above and in the gallery below (click image to see larger) are upscale versions of such tiny molecules as DNA and RNA and also molecular motors that will some day propel themselves through our body to perform repairs and deliver drugs  like chemo to affected regions.

The grey electron microscope image of a tree-looking tendril is a “trichome” on a mustard plant leaf. These structures are what make a leaf feel “fuzzy”

The crystalline image shows nanorods – a material being developed for use in solar cells.

This show is stimulating beyond the aesthetic joys these images provide because we are reminded that we live in the future. These scientist are inventing tiny robots that will repair fatal aneurysms and new materials that will allow us to harvest sunlight for energy and thus avoid wars cause by lust for the buried sunlight that is crude oil.

-Tonky