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What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Pulp Fiction by Quintin Tarantino and Art Spiegelman's Raw magazine. I saw Pulp a year after its release on video. I was an undergrad in painting just learning about postmodernism. When I saw Pulp, it was a revelation that film could be art. Honestly, I never looked at it that way. It made me revisit films from my past to determine their artfulness. Raw blew my mind when I read it. It's an anthology of innovative comic artists, each of which are determined to stretch the meaning of what a comic can be. Reading through this “Reader's Digest on Acid,” I was introduced to Sue Coe, Henry Darger, Gary Panter, Chris Ware, as well as many other postmodern thinkers and image makers. Seeing Pulp Fiction and reading Raw felt like home. As if I'd found my peer group at last.
Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock collaborated with Globe Poster's Bob Cicero and MICA's Mary Mashburn on a limited edition print that will be sold at the Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, April 28-29 at the BMA. In conjunction with the Fair, Hancock will discuss his work with Ann Shafer, assistant curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, tomorrow evening at the museum. Here's a poster designed by Hancock and MICA students for the event...
