Jim Woodring | Making Light | VASD Program

JIM WOODRING Making Light Thursday, March 24, 2016 Mary Harris Auditorium on the campus of Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design About the Lecture Woodring is an instinctive artist who seldom analyzes his methods, but in this lecture he shined light on processes and principles that have heretofore operated in the shadows. Woodring’s vivid imagery contains a wealth of historic and contemporary references enabling him to discover rich visual languages in his wordless comics. In this lecture he shared many of his obscure influences and inspirational touchstones and explored what makes his works so inexplicably, and often darkly, humorous. About the Lecturer Jim Woodring is a cartoonist whose works - comics, drawings, and paintings - traffic heavily in intermingled humor and horror. Based just outside of Seattle, WA Woodring depicts worlds from his unique vision fueled by hallucinations and surrealistic absurdity. These strange and immersive images have been published in multiple books including The Book of Jim and Weathercraft. The New York Times describes Woodring's work as “half unshakable nightmare, half Chuck Jones cartoon filtered through the Bhagavad Gita.” Woodring was awarded the Artist Trust GAP Award, a United States Artist Fellowship (with Bill Frisell), and an Inkpot Award at the 2008 Comic-Con International in San Diego. Seattle’s The Stranger presented Wooding with their Literature Genius award in 2010. VASD Program The Visiting Artist, Scholar, and Designer Program explores critical, diverse, and creative inquiry. This interdisciplinary initiative enriches the academic experience at RMCAD and serves the greater Denver-metro community. For more information please go to vasd.rmcad.edu Gretchen Marie Schaefer - VASD Program Director Tobias Fike - VASD Program Assistant