On Friday, April 6, 2001, ninety artists will present their work in Young Guns 3 NYC, The Art Directors Club invitational exhibition of promising artists around or under age 30. According to the ADC, Young Guns 3 is comprised of contributors from various disciplines in the field of visual communication selected by a committee of creative professionals "to identify and showcase the next wave of influential visual innovators in New York." Among those chosen are seven alpick.com members: Marilyn Devedjiev-Frank of 52mm, popNYC's Vincent Lacava, Warren Corbitt and Matt Owens of One9ine, Alex Ostroy, Tifenn Python, Brian Rea, and Scott Stowell of Open.
Included in this year’s exhibition are stills from the anti-smoking campaign spots Daily Dose of Truth:30, with broadcast design by Marilyn Devedjiev-Frank, principal of design firm 52mm and its new broadcast/video counterpart, Product 52. Devedjiev-Frank’s prior projects, mostly for the sports and entertainment industries, have included motion graphics for the Emmy-nominated series VH1: Behind the Music, the NHL’s promotional CD-ROM Brand NHL, and web design and motion graphics for MTV Online.
Also currently working in broadcast design is Open’s Scott Stowell. Formerly Art Director of Benetton’s Colors magazine, Stowell now concentrates on projects that, he explains, “explore the relationship between form and content” for print, packaging, broadcast and web. Open’s assignments have included on-air design for Nick at Nite with illustrations by Chip Wass, cover designs for The Nation, Coca-Cola packaging for the 1996 Olympics, and broadcast design for Time magazine’s special issues. Stowell’s contribution to Young Guns is an elaborately packaged 5 CD boxed-set titled Best of Broadside and an illustration, Mall Directory, from the op-ed page of the New York Times.
Cranbrook Academy of Art grads Warren Corbitt and Matt Owens, also known as One9ine, contribute 12 pieces to Young Guns, ranging from spreads for Émigré magazine and a poster, Gia, for Thirstype, to Codex I, an online collaborative project Corbitt describes as "a physical artifact of time." Previous projects including website design for two Cooper-Hewitt exhibits, Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets and Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum: Furnishing the Modern Era, reveal One9ine to be exactly what it claims: a "studio committed to excellence in design across media."
Samples of work from popNYC Creative Director, Vincent Lacava, will also be featured in Young Guns. Two interactive projects; a multi-player version of Wheel of Fortune for SonyStation and CartoonNetwork.com's Marshmallow Money, will accompany the opening title sequence from the annual AICP exhibition at MoMA and the online component of MTV’s sync-to-broadcast game show, Webriot.
Alex Ostroy, known for his inimitable celebrity illustrations, will exhibit two pieces in Young Guns. Mayor, a portrait of New York’s Rudolph Guiliani, appeared on the cover of Village Voice and Villan Dolls, for Icon magazine, is a sample of evil-doer prototypes with titles such as Eurotrash Man, Latent Homosexual, Philosophical Killer, and Hopper Head, all complete with accessories. In the past, Ostroy has produced both editorial and commissioned art for a broad variety of clients including Sega, Crayola, the New York Knicks, Entertainment Weekly, and ID Magazine.
Of the thirteen illustrators presented in Young Guns, Brian Rea takes more of a folk-art approach to his work. Rea’s three illustrations presented in the exhibition are a departure from his previous editorial work for Nicholas Blechman at The New York Times. Avoiding the illustration-only category, Rea also crosses over into design, taking a more pragmatic approach, by including twelve pieces from his "Identity" series; a collection of T-shirts with a titles such as "Director," "White," "Middle-Class," and "Eye-Candy," each allowing what Rea describes as "expression through wardrobe."
A recent participant in The Society of Illustrators 43rd Annual Exhibition, Tifenn Python adds three of her eclectic images to Young Guns. Python, inspired by her upbringing in the Pacific Islands, attended The Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto before immigrating to New York to work for such clients as Harpers, The New York Times, Black Book Magazine, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Miami New Times, and The Denver Press.
For many of the artists, appearing in Young Guns 3 is both an honor and surprise. Of the whole experience, illustrator Brian Rea says, "You do your thing, and you don’t really get a sense of it until you’re there." Young Guns 3 NYC opens Friday, April 6th at The Art Directors Club.
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