Jerry Moriarty (born January 15, 1938, in Binghamton, New York) is an American artist and teacher at the
School of Visual Arts
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History
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(SVA) in Manhattan. He describes himself as a "paintoonist".
Education and career
Moriarty entered the
Pratt Institute in 1956 and earned a
BFA in 1960. After graduating he worked as a freelance magazine illustrator to support his
Abstract Expressionist
Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...
painting. He gave up abstraction in 1963 and starting his teaching career at the School of Visual Arts.
Moriarty had his first one-man show in 1974 in
SoHo
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The area was develo ...
. Subsequently, he has featured in exhibitions in
Chelsea
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* Chelsea, Victoria
Canada
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United Kingdom
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in 1984, at the SVA Museum in 1999 and at CUE Art Foundation in 2004".
He received a NEA grant in 1977.
His cartoonist work ''Jack Survives'' was first published in the first number of
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (; born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel '' Maus''. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines ''Arcade'' and '' Ra ...
´s
RAW (magazine) in 1980, featured in later issues and first collected as a ''RAW-One-Shot'', No. 3, in 1984. In 2009, at the age of 71, he published ''The Complete Jack Survives'' with
Buenaventura Press
Buenaventura Press was a publisher and distributor for comics, prints, anthologies and graphic novels based in Oakland, California, run by Alvin Buenaventura.
Publishing history
Buenaventura Press originally specialized in handcrafted fine press ...
.
Other projects include ''A Visual Crime'', four double-page illustrations accompanied with a short story in the 1990 anthology Gin & Comix and the ''Sally's Surprise'' series of multi-panel paintings.
Chris Ware
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credited him for "introducing solemnity and eternity in a medium that normally trades in the snappy and the lurid".
References
External links
dailycrosshatch interviewCUE Art Foundation exhibition
*Inkstuds audio interview of Jerry Moriarty, September 2009
part 1part 2
1938 births
American graphic novelists
20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
Alternative cartoonists
Raw (magazine)
Living people
Artists from Binghamton, New York
Pratt Institute alumni
American male novelists
Novelists from New York (state)
20th-century American male artists
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