Archive for John Berkey

ArtOrg and the St. Olaf College Department of Art & Art History would like to welcome Illustrators Mark and John English to a lecture on Thursday, March 13 at 7:00 pm in Dittmann Center room 305. The exhibit “Illo. Minn.” will then open at the ArtOrg Moving Walls Gallery that evening after the lecture at about 8:30. Mark English is in the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, John English is head of the popular Illustration Academy, and the exhibit Illo. Minn. will feature work from about two-dozen working illustrators from Minnesota. Please take advantage of this opportunity to see art and illustration at its highest level.

Mark English has been one of the leading illustrators in the US and abroad for three decades. His unique style is easily recognizable in such publications as McCalls, Time, Sports Illustrated, Redbook, Atlantic Monthly, and others. He has won literally hundreds of awards for his work and has been the most awarded illustrator in the history of the Society of Illustrators in New York. His client list includes such notables as IBM, U.S. Park Service, RCA, GE, Ford, GM, and Honeywell. Here is a wonderful interview of Mark English by C.F. Payne.

John English was influenced and inspired by his early experiences in Connecticut where he was raised in the company of New York’s most talented illustrators. He studied illustration at the University of Kansas with John Collier and went on to apprentice for his father, attending the Illustrators Workshops in Paris, New York and Monterey. In 1984, he began his career, and has received numerous awards from organizations including New York Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, Graphis and Print Magazine. John is a principal of the Illustration Academy, and also teaches there with his father.

The exhibit “Illo. Minn.” will features the work of over 25 commercially active Minnesota illustrators. This illustration exhibition will explore an evolving profession through the work of the participating artists. Illo.Minn is being curated by long-term College of Visual Arts in St. Paul adjunct faculty member Andy Powell. ArtOrg wishes to thank the College of Visual Arts and Andy Powell!

Hours of the show are as follows:

OPENING EVENT:
Mark and John English will give a talk at St. Olaf College on Thursday, March 13 at 7pm in Dittmann Center Room 305. Dittman Center is the large building on the west side of the main parking lot in front of the student center called Buntrock Commons. Here is a map. Gallery exhibit opens after the talk at 8:30 pm at ArtOrg 200 Division Street (riverside entrance).

OPEN HOURS:
By appointment at info@artorg.info or by calling 507-645-2555, and Saturdays and Sundays 1-4 pm until March 30.

1. We filmed Ray Gonzalez’ poetry reading at ArtOrg last Thursday, and it will run this Sunday at 10pm on NTV local Northfield cable access channel 12. If you missed the real thing, check this out, Ray recites poetry with a Dia de los Muertos theme. Ray was quoted in a Minneapolis Star and Tribune article today about Day of the Dead.

2. ArtOrg donated a Governor’s Ball Litho to the Laura Baker School auction last night and it raised $2000 for the school! Only two of the eight prints remain for sale. So far, ArtOrg has donated 3 of these prints to other community organizations and raised a total of $6600 for them.

3. Rana Raeuchle finished up hosting the 3rd Annual Japanese Animation Festival this past Friday. The attendance averaged about 20 to 30 people for the four screenings. Thanks Rana! Everyone is looking forward to the book that is being produced from Rana’s Comickers Unite! class.

4. A certain young man has begun frequenting our Wednesday night open drop-in drawing studio. Wow!

5. Dreamworks called the other day and asked about when the next John Berkey show was going to be held. We told them probably this winter.

The John Berkey Observed show was the subject of a City Pages story by Rod Smith that was released today.

The show runs until December 18. Hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 5 to 8 pm, Saturdays from 1 to 6 pm, Sundays from 1 to 4 pm, and by appointment.

John Berkey’s show opened Friday night to a nice crowd of about 300, and John was there in person to meet everyone. The show will be open Thursdays to Sundays until December 18.

Visitors saw about 100 paperback books that John has illustrated, out of the over 200 books that he did over his 50-year career.

Dave Machacek talks with HDMG‘s Greg Mattern and John Gleim. Greg and John remastered the experimental videos that were created about 1987 by John Berkey, and were premiered at Carleton College on Saturday, November 5. Many thanks to HDMG for their work in saving these interesting and important video works.

Bob Anderson was seen with friends, former students, and notable artists Malcolm Liepke and Paul Oxborough. Paul’s father-in-law is local jazz legend Dave Karr, who played for one of ArtOrg’s jazz concerts last year. The link to the CNN article on Paul Oxborough talks about Bob Anderson’s influence on Paul’s art.

John Berkey.

Minneapolis Star and Tribune: The well-known artist and neighbor you may have never heard of.

Northfield News: “Out of this World” back page of section A.

Carleton College: Carleton to Host World Premiere of John Berkey Videos

Northfield.org: ArtOrg Was Out of This World.

October 7, 2005

“John Berkey Observed” Exhibition Opens Nov. 4 at ArtOrg

Northfield, Minn.—The second and largest exhibition of world famous illustrator John Berkey’s seldom seen works, titled “John Berkey Observed,” will open on Friday, Nov. 4, at ArtOrg’s Moving Walls Gallery, 200 Division St. S. in Northfield. The opening reception will be from 6 to 10 p.m. The exhibition includes the world premiere screening of several of Berkey’s experimental video productions will be on Saturday, Nov. 5. The events are free and open to the public.

The exhibition will feature over 50 original works spanning Berkey’s entire career, including a number of Berkey’s signature space paintings. The show is the second of ArtOrg’s two extraordinary presentations of Berkey’s work this fall. The shows are believed to be the first significant solo gallery exhibitions of Berkey’s work ever held and each will include a number of works never before seen by the public. Many of the works will be available for purchase.

A unique feature of the exhibition will be Berkey’s experimental videos. The artist has taken Continue Reading…

ArtOrg would like to announce the gallery show of Mr. John Conrad Berkey. John is one of the treasures in the world of illustration, and was named by the 104-year-old Society of Illustrators to its Hall of Fame just last year. Other Society Hall of Fame members include Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, Frederick Remington, and John James Audubon.

We will be showcasing over 50 original works which span the entire career of John Berkey from his Continue Reading…