Word on tha street says that URBISMUS , otherwise known as Jerry Cornwall and his WSJ illustrator wife Noli Novack http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/082207/lif_193304546.shtml finally bought a place in Riverside and will be going into production soon. Look for lots more colorful wheat paste fun coming to a wall near u.
Good to see they've finally secured a space. I hope to visit when I'm back in Jax.
Any-1 know if this is going to be another commercial screen venture, BBB satellites look to have that covered already-arturo etc. among them. Maybe a fine art printer instead? Is there a market for that here?
I know that Jerry (or George) identifies himself as a fine art screen printer. Maybe we'll start seeing more screenprints in Jacksonville, not just on the streets but in the businesses and homes.
From Metro Jacksonville two years ago:
QuoteAcclaimed Artist Noli Novak Looking for Downtown Digs
Famed Wall Street Journal Artist, Noli Novak is looking for a downtown space to convert into a work live headquarters.
The primary creator of the stippled portraits of the distingushed Journal has been a resident of downtown for a few months now at the Metropolitan, and can be seen on many mornings walking around in search of something to do downtown besides Starbucks.
She is presently in negotiations for a dilapidated building with an extremely colorful history in order to transform it into a live work studio for both her familiar stipple portraits and her husbands printmaking business.
Such a resident would be quite a coup for the city both in terms of its arts scene and just because it would be awesome to have such a lovely and cool set of neighbors in the urban core.
What would it be worth to have an artist of such national familiarity based here?
And how hard would someone at city hall work to help make this a reality?
If you guessed very little to nothing on the last question, you would be sadly correct.
I suppose we could always just cross our fingers.
Seriously people.
For a glimpse of her work, check out nolinovak.com
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/content/view/488/57/
That's interesting. I butchered her name. Are they sno birds or actual Jax residents? Looks like they have a few houses all over the world according to the article. Must be nice. Either way, its good for the hood.