i’m pretty good at telling jokes, reading my comics in public places for more laughs, making comics, making prints, living life. contact me if you wanna get together for more jokes!
(i also attend comedy shows alone please don’t judge me)
you can send hate mail, or job offers, or friendship to:
lizz hickey @ 282 broadway #2, brooklyn ny 11211
Lizz Hickey: As Narrated by Jacob Covey, Art Director / Lead Designer of FANTAGRAPHICS: (thanks dude!!!)
“Lizz Hickey is one of the reasons I decided to do another anthology this year. Working with a mythology all her own, her work is the kind of world I love to be let in on and the more I’ve looked at her portfolio the more she’s become one of my favorite young artists. Primarily a printmaker, there is definitely an aspect to Lizz’s work where an understanding of traditional print processes reinforces the awesome nature of what she does. Although there’s an impulsive quality to her style nothing she makes is easy, nothing is throwaway. It’s pure elbow grease. On the other hand, her work is personal and compulsive and can’t be scrutinized on just some technical level.
The best part of the art is the way it works as a cummulative force, where every piece is an elaboration on a bigger universe. One piece may be dense with details (full of complicated social systems with that you can’t even make out in that jpg up top) and another will just be some amorphous hand floating on the page, holding a ghost. But even then, most likely, the latter print will be printed and drawn upon a dozen different times, each time revealing more about the creatures and their world. And I can’t say what it reveals, specifically, but I’m comforted by her playful characters who thrive in a world of mutual suffering and soothing and exploration.”
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CV
group exhibitions
2011
“APPLES & ORANGES worksonpaper”, VALENTINES. Portland OR. Feb 2011.
2010
“Multiples Show”, Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS. November 2010.
“Grand Opening”, YES gallery, Cinncinati, OH. October 2010.
AS220 Printshop 2nd Biennial Print Lottery, Providence, RI. September 2010.
“Santanic Panic”, PONY CLUB, Portland, Oregon. September 2010.
“Print Show 8″, Giant Robot New York, Manhattan. July 2010.
“Fresh Prints”, Open Space Gallery, in Conjunction with Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. March 2010.
“Table of Contents”, Nudashank Gallery in Conjunction with OPEN SPACE & Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. March 2010.
“Small Favors”, Giant Robot New York, Manhattan. March 2010.
“What I see” Canteen Gallery, Ottowa, Canada. February 2010.
2009
“Heady Mugs” – Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland. December 2009.
“Lil’ Bitches” – 282 Broadway Cartoon House, Brooklyn, NY. December 2009.
“Radar Eyes” – Traveling Art Show, LIC, Queens, NY. October 2009.****
“Starving Artists” – Sid Lee Collective, AMSTERDAM, NE GALLERY. Feburary 2009.
“Beasts! 2! Print Show” - Giant Robot San Francisco, SF, CA. January 2009.
2008
“ShowPaper Show” – Secret Project Robot/Live with Animals, Brooklyn, NY. December 2008.
“Beasts! 2! Print Show” – Fantagraphics Book Store & Gallery, Seattle, WA. December 2008.
“Christmas GIFF(t)S” – Show Cave Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. December 2008.
“Artists Shop” – AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. November 2008-Jan 2009.
“GAME OVER” – Giant Robot San Francisco, Group Show. October 2008.
“The Big Little Show” – Club Saw, Ottowa, CANADA. October 2008.
“HOLD TIGHT” – Giant Robot New York, Group Show. October 2008.
“Crocodile Tears” – Giant Robot New York, Group Show. July 2008.
“Dream and Reality” – AG Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. May 2008
“BFA Concentration Show” – Richard & Dali Maas Gallery, Purchase College, NY. May 2008.
“4th Annual Tree Show”, Giant Robot San Francisco, May 2008.
“Did You Notice Everything?”, Senior Thesis Exhibition, SUNY Purchase, April 2008.
“Downtown Cabaret”, CSV Cultural Center, LES, Manhattan, NY. April 2008.
Final “Fluxus Friday”, SUNY Purchase. April 2008.
“Radar Eyes”, Chicago, During Art Chicago with Lumpen. March 2008. **STILL TRAVELLING!
“Printed Matter”, GR2, LA, March 2008.
“Printed Matter 3″, Giant Robot San Francisco, Print show. Feburary 2008.
“We are Friends”, Brooklyn, NY. Multimedia show.
2007
“Printed Matter 2″, Giant Robot, New York Print Show
“Mysteries, Mistakes!”, Purchase College, Purchase, NY. Pre-pre graduation show.
publications
2011
VICE MAGAZINE comics section
“Lumpen Magazine”, COMICS SECTION
“Gang Bang Bong”
“SUSPECT DEVICE”
“LADIES NIGHT” –self published
2010
VICE MAGAZINE, online&printed comic.
“Root Rot”, Forest-themed Book, Koyama Press (printed 2011)
“AfterZine”, Negative Space Zine. Hamish Robertson.
Disney Zine, DANE MARTIN.
VICE MAGAZINE online&printed comic.
“YETI MAGAZINE”-#9
Self Published Zine: “Untitled”
Self Published Zine: “2″
Taffy Hips Zine #6
2009
“Vice Magazine”, my comics
2008
“Beasts! 2!”, illustrative beast collection produced by Fantagraphics Books, second installment.
“DownyBird Art Kingdom”, art/collective book produced by Matthew Bowers, second installment.
“Blir”, online artist periodical produced by Jennifer Gomez, summer 2008 edition. (Http://Blir.net)
PUBLIC SPEAKING & education
-guest judge for PARSONS SCHOOL OF ILLUSTRATION SENIOR THESIS EXHIBITION, Manhattan, NY. December 2011.
COMICS READING – “crimestoppers” with kate beaton and michael kupperman, Manhattan, NY. November 2011.
COMICS READING – KGB bar for sequential art group (fundraiser), Manhattan, NY. April 2011.
COMICS READING – at the Tyler School of Art. Philly, PA. January 2011.
COMICS READING -”Carousel” hosted by R. Sikoryak in LES Manhattan. January 2011.
COMICS READING – KGB bar, hosted by Tom Hart & Josh Bayer. 2010.
Studio Assistant at Chuck Close Studio (MID MARK), January 2011 – March 2011
ARTIST TALK & Show at the Tyler School of Art. Philly, PA. October 2010.
Printmaking & Comics Panel, also Live Comics Reading “Carousel” hosted by R. Sikoryak @ SMALL PRESS EXPO 2010. Bethesda, MD.
Artist Talk at Manhattan’s Education Alliance Cartooning Class, 2010.
Color Separator Apprentice for Brand X Editions Fine Art Silkscreen, Manhattan, NY.
Teaching Assistant, Artist Assistant, Studio Assistant. AAA.
dean’s award for excellence in printmaking
BFA, Printmaking, Suny Purchase 2008
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cool dude \m/
Liz
this is your Aunt Joan. Really my dear I had no idea you have been such in in pain trouble all this time. I was just just going through my favorites & saw your web page & decided to check it out and read your today’s comment so here I am. Let me know how you are doing, and give us a ring if you want to get away. Love you, Aunt Joan & uncle Marvin