MASTERS OF ILLUSTRATION SHOW
at Fashion Museum, NYC
Featuring “Disco Songs Illustrated” by Juliane Pieper
Disco Inferno by Juliane Pieper
Brick House by Juliane Pieper
NEW YORK, NY (June 1, 2011) The Fashion Institute of Technology presents its annual graduate studies show featuring artists from its Masters of Illustration program. The show will open on June 7, at 5:30 p.m. at the FIT Museum on 27th Street and 7th Avenue.
Juliane Pieper, a German-born illustrator, will present “Disco Songs Illustrated,” a body of large-scale works using digital and traditional media and materials from gouache to glitter.
Pieper uses 70s and ‘80s classic songs such as “Car Wash”, “Mama Told Me Not to Come” and “Disco Inferno”, the images show a joyful explosion of color and grotesque party scenes.
“Disco Inferno” features happily-dancing tanks and sexy girls with rockets and houses on fire. There’s no good or bad in this work –, no morality — just a crazy scene, depicting both the joy and anxiety of everyday life.
“Juliane’s work is bright and full of energy, which is a combo that is sorely needed in today’s illustration world. It’s refreshing to see someone who seamlessly breathes new life into illustration. A+” Max Bode, Art Director, THE NEW YORKER
Mama Told Me Not To Come
For this show, Pieper’s inspiration came from her eclectic taste in music, ranging from classical to punk to pop. The world she explores here recreates her childhood when she was a dreamy, shy girl, who used to hide behind books imagining a world full of strange but friendly creatures. Not so shy anymore but still reading books or observing people on the New York subway, the neuroses and the bite that shows in her work stems from the mad world we live in: urban characters acting out, plastic bags hanging in the trees and The Daily News — full of war, betrayal and decapitations.
Car Wash by Juliane Pieper
“Pieper concocts a world that is truly like no other. Her illustrations mix tart humor with cunningly, sweet charm. In just a few lines, she creates smart and ironic portraits. As she deconstructs popular proverbs, she simultaneously reconstructs them into hilariously, lyrical social commentaries and skewed, sexual fantasies. Whether painted, collaged, or drawn, her world is always delightfully delirious and never fails to enchant and bedazzle.” says Laura Rosenbaum (Gallerist & Design Coordinator, Gallery Hanahou)
Often, an illustrator starts with traditionally media and transfers it into digital media. Juliane juxtaposes this practice, creating a digital background, prints it and then adds traditional media such as oil or gouache.
It’s Raining Men by Juliane Pieper
In 2009, Pieper moved to New York (Brooklyn) from Berlin after receiving a a Fulbright Scholarship.. She is a freelancer in editorial illustration for newspapers and magazines. Her work has appeared in Der Spiegel, The New York Times, and Random House. She has also illustrated several books, ranging from gift books to poetry, and the FIT marks one of her recent appearances in the gallery scene.
The exhibit will be run until July 3 of 2011.
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Dear visitor,
I’m glad you’re here and hope you keep on looking at my website. Thank you for your interest in my work,
Juliane Pieper
Artist interview Juliane Pieper
with gallery hanahou
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Group show in April coming up at gallery Hanahou featuring my prints and postcards
Opening is on April 7, 4-6 pm, 611 Broadway, Gallery Hanahou.
https://www.galleryhanahou.com/exhibitions/future-shows/
My new book for Reclam Publishing, Germany:
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- freistil-online about my 365 page calendar for Heyne/Random House: 365 drawings I did for that project! Beside editing it – I enjoyed doing it.
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Illustrations for DER SPIEGEL ipad edition:
A true story about a girl who falls in love with a man, who is an invention by another woman:
Click here
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Family Tree – Happy Halloween!
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This was one of my latest jobs that got published in “die tageszeitung”. I did it for an article about single parents. (Oct. 25, 2010)
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This assignment I did for “die tageszeitung” and the article was about an alternative cola company that struggled. The boss of the struggling cola company liked it so much that they printed it on their bottles. (I’m still waiting for my complimentary case, dude!)
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Based on the votings of a community, I started to design T-shirts for threadless.com. If enough people like it, it gets printed (and I get paid). Simple, great concept.
