Gail Boykewich in The New Yorker!
July 18, 2010 | Tags: film, Gail Boykewich, high art, illustration, New Yorker, painting
Gail Boykewich, a Prescient Media client and all-around brilliant artist, is the subject of a (brief) profile in this week’s New Yorker magazine. Congratulations, Gail!
The piece, in the magazine’s Talk of the Town section, highlights Gail’s work with the Inflatable Crowd Company, which provides inflatable extras for movie crowd scenes — most recently Angelina Jolie’s spy vehicle Salt. It’s hard to believe an inflatable doll could fool your eye, even in a crowd scene, but it can thanks to Gail’s hand-painted masks:
They’re just the start of her amazing work. There’s a great selection of her paintings in her online gallery, but the best way to see her work is in person — which you can do at a place called Mad One Jack’s in Hoboken, NJ.
They’re going to have an opening reception for her soon, and the info will be posted here as soon as we have it. We’ll see you there. Don’t forget your New Yorker!
[...] and Gail Boykewich, who was featured in a July issue of the New Yorker and has an incredible wall-to-wall show at Mad One Jack’s in Hoboken until [...]