Surrealism You Can Hold: Puppetry, Big Nazo, and the Henson Lineage
Why a SoHo puppet studio belongs on a site about surreal art in every form it takes. Furry Puppet Studio is a design house in SoHo that builds custom puppets…
Eric White, a New York-based painter, and professor at the city’s School of Visual Arts, has been making art since he could hold a crayon. “One of my earliest and most distinct memories,” he said, “is listening to The Beatles’ ‘White Album,’ drawing in the dark, while my parents argued upstairs.” He recalled being specifically influenced by Richard Hamilton’s artwork for the album, as well as the Grammy Award-winning cover for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. “I think seeing that imagery was especially powerful because it was so closely associated with the music, which altered my child-brain forever.”
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