Film Screening: The Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists - Saturday 30 April @ The Hollywood Theater
The Copacetic Comics Company and The Hollywood Theater present
THE HAIRY WHO & THE CHICAGO IMAGISTS
ONE SHOW ONLY: Thursday, April 30 at 7:30pm
The Hairy Who and The Chicago Imagists
a film by Leslie Buchbinder (Director) & John Corbett (Writer)
2014 • full color • 109 minutes
In the mid 1960s, the city of Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of young artists. Collectively known as the Imagists, they showed in successive waves of exhibitions with monikers that might have been psychedelic rock bands of the era - Hairy Who, Nonplussed Some, False Image, Marriage Chicago Style. Kissing cousins to the contemporaneous international phenomenon of Pop Art, Chicago Imagism took its own weird, wondrous, in-your-face tack. Variously pugnacious, puerile, scatological, graphic, comical, and absurd, it celebrated a very different version of ‘popular’ from the detached cool of New York, London and Los Angeles.
From Jim Nutt’s cigar-chomping, amputated women to Christina Ramberg’s studies of corsetry and bondage; from Barbara Rossi’s bejeweled dot paintings to Roger Brown’s secretive, silhouetted figures in windows; Chicago’s diverse artists followed no trend, preferring a path they ferociously cleared for themselves. Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists is the first film to tell their wild, woolly, utterly irreverent story. Over forty interviews with the artists and a prominent group of critics, curators, collectors, and contemporary artists are featured, intertwined with a wealth of re-discovered archival footage and photographs. The film is narrated by Chicago theater legend Cheryl Lynn Bruce, and propelled by an original score for cello and voice by composer Tomeka Reid.
This is the story of the artists that emerged from the catalyzing exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center from 1966-1973, starting with the Hairy Who, who would come to be known as the Chicago Imagists. It brings to life the milieu of Chicago in the 1960s, and also showcases the legacy of the Imagists’ work in contemporary art production today, from Jeff Koons to Chris Ware. Themes in the narrative include the Imagists’ emergence within the national context of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, the rise and fall of taste within art history, and the uncharacteristic equality afforded to women artists among this Chicago group.
Please visit the Pentimenti Productions Site devoted to the film, to watch the trailer, download images from the film, learn about the filmmakers, and more.
The screening will be preceded by a brief introduction and followed by a discussion.
The Hollywood Theater is located at 1449 Potomac Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15216
Sobertime Release Party w/ Jarrod Shanahan & Nate McDonough
Wednesday 8 April 2015 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at The Copacetic Comics Company.
PIX 2015 is coming. Don't miss it!
PIX is devoted solely to creator-owned, self-published, small press, and handmade comics, artists, books and other visual works.
PIX 2015 will once again be held at 10 S.19th Street in the city's South Side neighborhood, directly across the street from the South Side Giant Eagle shopping center.
Admission and parking are FREE and the event is open to the public.
Exhibition 10am-5pm
Programming 7pm-11pm
The event will give Pittsburghers the opportunity to survey and sample a wide variety of works produced by the far ranging talents of independent comics artists, cartoonists and illustrators from around the country, with a primary focus on the flourishing Pittsburgh scene. Attendees will not only take in the works but also be able to meet and interact with the creators themselves.
More at: http://www.pixcomix.org
Be sure to check out the guest list at:
http://www.pixcomix.org/p/pix-2015-guests.html
And don't forget to check out the exhibitors, as well!
2014: Another Year of Made in Pittsburgh
The results are in, and, for a second year in a row, graphic novels, comics – and, this year, books as well – made right here in Pittsburgh, PA top the lists!
**MiP** = Made in Pittsburgh
GRAPHIC NOVELS
1. Hip Hop Family Tree, Volume 2 by Ed Piskor **(MiP)**
2. Street Angel by Jim Rugg **(MiP)**
3. This One Summer by Jillian & Mariko Tamaki
4. Megahex by Simon Hanselmann
5. Copra: Round One by Michel Fiffe
6. I Saw Him by Nate McDonough **(MiP)**
7. Sugar Skull by Charles Burns
8. Syllabus by Lynda Barry
9. Here by Richard McGuire
10. How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis (tie)
11. It Never Happened Again by Sam Alden (tie)
COMICS
1. Morgan by Frank Santoro **(MiP)**
2. Abyssal Yawn by Bill Wehmann and Ed Steck **(MiP)**
3. Final Frontier by Tom Scioli **(MiP)**
4. Lose #6 by Michael DeForge
5. Cosplay #1 by Dash Shaw
6. Retrofit Comics #21: Wicked Chicken Queen by Sam Alden
7. Nightworld #1 by Paola Leandri & Adam McGovern
8. Copra #13 by Michel Fiffe
9. Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #1 by Tom Scioli **(MiP)**
10. You Can Did It #1 By Nils Balls & Mike Carretta **(MiP)**
BOOKS
1. The Garden by Ed Steck **(MiP)**
2. Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Tom Sweterlitsch **(MiP)**
3. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
4. You Can’t Win by Jack Black (new edition)
5. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami (tie)
5. The Secret Life of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (tie)
COMICS ANTHOLOGIES
1. Study Group #3D edited by Zach Soto
2. Mould Map #3 edited by Hugh Frost and Leon Sandler
3. Maple Key Comics #1 **(1/2 MiP^)** edited by Joyana McDiarmid
4. Andromeda Quarterly #6 **(MiP)** edited by Andy Scott
5. SubCultures edited by Whit Taylor
^Technically, this particular anthology was put together in White River Junction, Vermont, but now that the Maple Key Comics Cooperative has relocated to Pittsburgh, PA, we felt it deserved a semi-MiP appellation.
And, in these last two categories, there was really no competition, as each dominated their respective category:
COMICS NEWSZINE
1. Comics Workbook Magazine **(MiP)**
HOLIDAY GIFT BOOK
1. What Nerve! edited by Dan Nadel
Yes, it's that time of year. We've put together (and are still adding to) a giant page of great gift items on sale here at copaetic. It's in a clunky scrolling form that is good for reading, but not for ordering from; to do the latter, you'll have to head back here to copaceticcomics.com and search for the item in question. Please be forewarned that a few of the items are already near to selling out; only a few, tho' - we've put in a pretty good stock, so check 'em out.
