Creative Time Comics

Olav Westphalen is an artist and designer currently living and working in New York. His humorous projects, including many drawings, have served as a series of experiments and inquiries into social and cultural patterns. He is perhaps best known for his comedy routine performance entitled Bruhaha. His work has been exhibited internationally at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apex Art, among many other museums and galleries.
www.kartoonkings.com

Laurina Paperina is an artist and designer currently living and working in Italy. Her work is an ironic elaboration of elements including the complex influence of internet culture, TV, comic strips, video games, sci-fi and cartoons. Her vision of this conflation is both unconventional and recognizable. She has garnered international acclaim with various solo, group and performance exhibitions around the globe. www.laurinapaperina.com

Victor Kerlow was born, raised, and educated in New York City and continues to live there, drawing full time. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators. He also edits and contributes to Gutter, a comics anthology published by TV Books.
www.victorkerlow.com

Signe Baumane is a Latvian artist currently living and working in New York City. She wrote and illustrated her first novel at the age of eight, and since then has fostered a talent for storytelling that permeates her whimsical, often risqué, and highly humorous animated films. She is a core member of Square Footage Films, a New York-based group of independent animators that self-publishes and self-distributes their work. www.signebaumane.com

Robert Pruitt was born in Houston, and is currently living and working in Chicago. He makes drawings and sculptures about the complexity of black identity, combining imagery from different black influences and aesthetics. He has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Studio Museum Harlem, and the 2006 Whitney Biennial. He is also a founding member of the artist collective Otabenga Jones & Associates. www.robert-pruitt.com

Saya Woolfalk is a New York-based artist whose work spans multiple media: from sculpture, installation, and painting, to performance and video. The recipient of an Art Matters grant to Japan and a Fulbright fellowship to Brazil, her work is inspired by ethnographic, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program.
www.sayawoolfalk.com

Deb Sokolow is a Chicago-based artist whose humorously sinister drawings are styled after diagrams and flowcharts. Using materials found in office supply closets, Sokolow pays tribute to the tradition of modern conspiracy theories, exploring plots that involve anything from office life to the government to Barbara Walters. Sokolow's work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
www.debsokolow.com

Francesc Ruiz is a Spanish-born artist who lives and works in Barcelona and Berlin. Utilizing pop culture idioms—billboards, advertising, magazines, and the Internet—Ruiz constructs new narrative models from the traditional comic form. His subjects are often urban subcultures, which he depicts through a rich synthesis of drawings, photographs, printed materials, and found imagery. Recently, he has exhibited at L'Estruch, Sabadell, Barcelona; and the Abadía de Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos.

Virginie Barré is an artist based in Douranenez, France, whose practice includes drawing sculpture, and installation. Culling imagery from film noir and science fiction, her meticulously rendered drawings reinterpret popular cinematic tropes. Barré exploits cultural clichés as tools for satire and humor, and in turn, explores the boundary between fiction and reality. Barré has exhibited internationally and is represented by Galerie Loevenbruck in Paris.