Posts Tagged ‘Doodles’
Jon Burgerman Joins the Renmen Project
Jon has joined the Renmen Project! Per their blog:
He’s very kindly filled up a book of blank postcards with a stack of hand-drawn one-off doodles, which we will be selling in our shop in the not-too-distant future.
Renmen’ is the Haitian word for Love, the bird in the logo is the Hispaniolan Trogon, the national bird of Haiti. ‘The Renmen Project‘ has been brought together by the team at Thunder Chunky and Ben The Illustrator in order to raise funds for UNICEF’s Haiti Appeal. Throughout 2010, they will be working with a selection of top artists and designers from around the world to create artwork to sell online. Every penny made from art sales will be going to UNICEF’s Haiti Earthquake Children’s Appeal.
Free UK Art Workshop for Kids!
The New Art Exchange in Nottingham is holding a free art workshop for children tomorrow, August 19th, and Jon is participating:
My Doodle World is an exhibition by Holgate school students at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham. They invite youu to verbalise your opinion about where you live and what is happening to the world and environment around you. Kids rarely get such a platform to express their views so come along to help create a unique doodle installation expressing your perspective of the world.
As part of the exhibition there will be a day of art workshops for children:
Thursday 19 August 2010, 1000 - 1630
1000 - 1300 Street Build. Lead by Jo Deighton / Tina Havill, Art Teachers from Holgate school.
Score, fold, join, rip and manipulate card to create a large 3D model of where you live. The chance to learn card construction skills, and to design and construct your house from card to create a large street installation.1400 - 1630: JON BURGERMAN led workshop.
An amazing opportunity to meet and be inspired by the Nottingham based artist, famed for his doodling, drawing, scrawling and illustration. Art, animation and character design. Jon would like to invite you to illustrate your thoughts on where you live through doodles and help create a unique installation piece which will be exhibited alongside the workin the My Doodle World exhibition: 21 - 29 August.
Contact New Art Exchange for more info and to book you (or your child’s place on the workshop).
Trample and Scrum Pillows from ClickForArt
After nearly two years, Jon makes a triumphant return to sprucing up your sofa. With doodled cushions last seen here, Jon is now working with ClickForArt on a new range of pillows. Lovingly titled Trample and Scrum, the cushions are approximately 46×46cm / 18×18″, constructed of super-soft faux suede and printed with non-toxic waterbased inks. The pillows are printed with a graphic on one side and a plain black back. They feature a feather-filled inner. Only 250 of each pillow have been printed. They will be delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Each cushion is currently available and costs £39 or ~ $60 at Burgerplex.
Oh, but that’s not all. I clicked over to ClickForArt and saw some exciting teasers. I’ve seen the quality of their merch through US stockist, Neon Monster, and it’s really quite impressive. From this ad I snagged off the CFA site, it looks like we may be seeing another pillow, a zippered (iPad?) case and an eye mask.
Here’s a bit about Click For Art from their website if you’re not yet familiar with their products: Read the rest of this entry »
Posca-based Coup d’états
A pair of original hand-drawn, signed, framed and mounted works has made its way onto Burgerplex. At left we have, Coup De Vile and at right we have In The Coup. Each measures 52 x 68.5 cm / 20.5 x 27″ and was made with Posca pen and pencil crayon on archival paper. They are selling for £450 or ~ $700.
Giant Musical Doodles Poster
Jon’s definitely been exploring a new and musical chapter in his life recently, so it’s only fitting that he’d combine his love for music and doodles into one giant hybrid poster monster. The high quality print on 230gsm uncoated art paper is a massive format, portrait size 100×70 cm / 39.6×27.6″ beast sent rolled in a a strong card tube for £15 or ~ $23. I’ve learned via Jon’s Flickr that the above poster is being modeled by “the lovely Mel”. Check it out at Burgerplex here.
Lossy Botany Lab: The Doodles (and More)
Above you see our heroes: the evening’s artist, Jon, flanked by Jeps and Evelien (of Darker and the Dutch Doodlesplatter posse) who made the trek from The Netherlands to the Lossy Botany Lab show at Hamburg’s heliumcowboy artspace. As with most of Jon’s shows, there is a ton of work, so here’s just a glimpse at some of the doodles (many of which were plant-based matter-themed) captured for us by J & E. Stay tuned (or look back) for a plethora of posts [click here for current tag archive], each concerning a separate element of the installation and exhibit. Click through for a gallery of images and price list from the event. Thanks to Jeps and Evelien for all the great visuals!
Lossy Botany Lab Sneak Peeks Part 3: Getting Sketchy
Jon always fills a sketchbook in prep for a show or a painting. Here, he’s shared with Doodlesplatter some of his preliminary sketches for The Lossy Botany Lab at heliumcowboy artspace in Hamburg. Throughout today, you’ll see more of how these doodles were fleshed out. The show opens in ONE DAY on July 1st! Jeps will be representing and picture-taking on behalf of the Dutch posse! In the meantime, you can see a tag archive of all previews and sneaks here.
Lossy Botany Lab Continues New York’s Lossy Data Lab Research in Hamburg
On July 1st, Jon reinvents his 2009 New York-based Lossy Data Lab installation as the Hamburg-based Lossy Botany Lab. Jon is already in Germany where he is preparing new work at the heliumcowboy artspace. The Lossy Botany Lab is Jon’s second solo exhibition in the space (the first show being 2008’s Anserine Apparitions). “Soft sculptures, paintings, drawings as well as a botanical installation on site” are among the sights you can expect to see as Jon “explores the boundaries of art and scientific research in a neo-dadaistic manner”. Doodlesplatter will have exclusive sneak peeks early next week as Jon’s botany progresses.
Quoth Jon:
“The Lossy Data Lab has had to relocate and move its research into botany after a lot of the data from NYC seemed inconclusive and corrupted. The lab also ran out of money. I felt studying plant life, observing new species and creating its own hybrid forms would be a better use of its merged resources. Also, through pure chance and accident, the lab has discovered some of the plants it’s cultivating have special medicinal properties. We’d like to state that the lab is in no way going to purely focus it’s energies growing and selling such specimens to the downtrodden and hedonistic thrill seekers of society. – Well, not for too long anyway.”
There’s recently been an update to the Lossy Botany Lab from HC HQ:
Donations are necessary for research to continue. We are currently very close to realising our goals for the grand launch of the Lab on July 1st. Some fascinating new discoveries have been unearthed, which we can’t wait to share with you. Please give us your poor plants, your tired tulips, your huddled grasses longing to be free… And they can contribute and become an essential part of the Lossy Botany Lab. Donators will receive a small yet valuable gift from the president of the Lab, Mr. Jon Burgerman, as a thank you at the opening gala event on the evening of July 1st. House plants, cacti, small shrubs, potted herbs, sticks with leaves on them, will all be gratefully accepted. Just drop them off at the Lossy Data Lab HQ: heliumcowboy artspace, Bäckerbreitergang 73-75, UNTIL TUESDAY, June 29 the latest! The earlier the better!
Surely, your green thumb managed to mangle at least one plant in your garden. Let it get Doodle CPR by bringing it to the address above. Jon will be attending the opening reception, and he will also be available for interviews during an English-language press-preview at the gallery on Wednesday, June 30th from 11AM until 1PM. Lossy Botany Lab runs through August 6th.
Guest Artist on Creatures in My Head
In 2004, Jon had a guest spot on Andrew Bell’s Creatures In My Head blog. While most of the other guest artists took a more “traditional” creature approach, Jon gave us the “You Have No More Money…or Friends” monster. Andrew An anonymous user (see Andrew’s comment below) tagged it with, among other things, “abstract,” “color,” and “lips”. The original post is here.
Jet Set Bedwetter
We all know that Jon is a well-traveled doodler, but there’s no reason to believe that this piece is autobiographical! Jeps dug up this artifact from 2006 at Cadence Designs.
Penned in black and orange, in typical Burgerman fashion and framed behind non-reflective glass in a white painted frame, this is a rare opportunity to purchase an excellent plain paper medium sketch by this much sought after artist.
The piece has a visible width of approximately 34cm. and a visible height of approximately 24cm. It is being offered at £500 here.
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