Recent Projects
Spring 2019 – The Whitney Biennial, NYC
Opening night. An anonymous patron of the arts, Nicole Eisenman and Mark Newgarden.
Mark Newgarden collaborated with Biennial exhibitor Nicole Eisenman and painter Patrick Piggot to create “Maximum Choke,” a Wacky Packages–like sticker, designed to parody Whitney vice chairman (and armaments maven) Warren P. Kanders’ tear gas product. The stickers premiered guerilla-style at the May 14 Biennial opening. As part of an organized exhibiting artists’ protest they were later distributed to the public outside the museum. Kanders resigned from the Whitney board of directors on July 25, 2019.
You can read more about this in Print Magazine here.
And at Art Agency, Partners.com here.
And in The New York Times here.
Fall 2019 – Formula Bula 7, Paris
Mark Newgarden was given a career retrospective exhibit (“Newgarden”) as part of the Formula Bula 7 festival in Paris. The show was curated by Bill Kartalopoulos and opened at Point Éphémère in September. A variety of comics work was presented, including a large wall installation of Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug, his 2007 award-wining picture book collaboration with Megan Montague Cash. Newgarden also gave a public interview in connection with the show and another at the École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagneart in nearby Rennes.
2017–Present – The Comics Journal
Mark Newgarden has been contributing occasional short essays and chats with cartoonist and writer colleagues for the online version of The Comics Journal. Topics have included Ernie Bushmiller’s dirtiest comic strip and midtown Manhattan’s long lost Inkwell Bar. Interviews have included Bill Griffith, Drew Friedman, Eddie Campbell and many others.
You can find an index of The Comics Journal pieces here.
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