Kitsap Review

Date and Time

Thursday Aug 4, 2022

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT

Thursday, August 4th 5:30 - 7:30PM

Location

Vibe Coworks 19225 8th Ave NE, Suite 201 Poulsbo, WA 98370

Fees/Admission

Free tickets required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-artists-reception-the-subversive-commercial-art-of-pat-moriarity-tickets-385840879457

Website

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-artists-reception-the-subversive-commercial-art-of-pat-moriarit

Contact Information

hello@vibecoworks.com

GRAB A FRIEND AND GET READY TO BE MOVED BY PAT MORIARITY'S SOLO EXHIBIT -- A COLLECTION OF SUBVERSIVE COMMERCIAL ART About this event The open house-style event is free and open to the public, and all are welcome. The exhibit will remain on display through the end of October 2022. ABOUT THE EXHIBIT Debuting at Vibe Coworks will be two beautiful quilts featuring 65 shirt designs spanning over 30 years. Pat recruited his aunt Sandi, a professional quilt maker to combine some of his t-shirt designs into two beautiful quilts, a career-spanning piece that showcases everything from commercial freelance design to independent experimental art pieces. Pat will also display color silkscreen art prints, and on opening night he will show a few animated shorts he’s created for Rhino records, Stand Up! records and a multiple award winning horror short The Realm Beyond Reason (including best animation at the West Sound film festival). Pat's t-shirts and prints will be available for purchase, and a short set of acoustic country music will be provided by his son Jack Moriarity and Bremerton icon Patrick Haggerty of Lavender Country, the first openly gay country band. ABOUT THE ARTIST Pat Moriarity started out as a punk rock artist in the mid-1980’s music scene of Minneapolis, working for Twin/Tone records. He got his start in sequential art in 1987 when Fantagraphics published his first attempt at comics in GRAPHIC STORY MONTHLY, a story called POPCORN PIMPS. He eventually moved from Minneapolis to Seattle in 1991 and became an art director for Fantagraphics, and later for THE COMICS JOURNAL. In 1996, Pat was honored as ROLLING STONE Magazine’s “hot cartoonist”. This event practically launched his freelance career as a cartoonist and illustrator for clients like Nickelodeon, Crustacean Records, Red Decibel, Subpop, the Stranger, Details, Seattle Weekly and CMJ. Eventually Moriarity got enough nerve to quit his day job at Fantagraphics and try full-time illustration. Moriarity saw his work appear in places like National Geographic Kids, Estrus Records, Columbia Records, Chrysler Magazine, Sasquatch Books, Washington Law & Politics, and THE BEST OF LCD: The art and writing of WFMU. Soon, the Seattle music paper THE ROCKET, asked him to do a weekly comic strip, called LOOP-DE-LOOP, that ran until the paper’s very last issue. Moriarity was featured in the documentary HOOKED ON COMIX. In 2002 he won the prestigious, merit based GAP fellowship award from the Washington State Arts Commission and the Artist Trust Organization. In 2004, Pat was an Illustration finalist and later a juror, for the SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS of New York City. Pat created three minutes of animation in the award winning 2006 documentary DERAILROADED, that was featured on Robert Redford’s SUNDANCE channel. In 2008 Moriarity was the winner of the coveted GOLDEN TOONIE, making him “cartoonist of the year” for the organization known as CARTOONISTS NORTHWEST. In 2010, Fifteen of his posters were featured on the set of Showtime’s TV show WEEDS, in a scene taking place in Seattle. Since then he’s been a featured guest, speaker and exhibitor at Italy’s CRACK FUMETTI festival, Serbia’s NOVO DOBA, North Carolina’s ZINE MACHINE, Hot Spring’s VALLEY OF THE VAPORS, and most recently Belgrade’s SALON STRIPA in 2015. He currently lives and works from home in Port Orchard, Washington, contributing to MINESHAFT MAGAZINE, and lots of cartoon projects, most recently ay ozy.com. An adjunct Professor, Pat Moriarity occasionally teaches character design, storyboarding and comics at the Art Institute of Seattle. ABOUT THE VENUE Vibe Coworks is Kitsap's premier shared workspace and coworking community. Founded in 2016 to support Kitsap's modern professionals in their quest to commute less, connect more and find an escape fromtheir home offices, Vibe operates on a membership basis, providing local professionals and creatives with vibrant community, together with on-demand desk space, private offices, meeting rooms, workshops and event space. Since 2019, the Vibe Micro Gallery showcases the work of standout local artists on a quarterly rotating basis. Artists to date have included Julianna North, Ash Oaksmith, Erik Gonzalez, Cory Bennett Anderson, Jamie DeTavis and numerous Vibe members.

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