| Opening reception: Friday, November 7, 6 - 9 pm
222gallery Philadelphia presents a selection of new works by artist, designer, and filmmaker Todd St. John.
The show will be comprised of works on paper and wooden sculptural work that St. John has been developing over the past 6 years. The work combines elements of industrial design with sign-based and abstract forms. Much of the work contrasts the representation of similar forms in flattened and dimensional space. Another section of the show is devoted to animated shorts and some of the handmade characters and sets created for them.
St. John produces both commercial and experimental work through HunterGatherer, the studio/workshop that he founded in 2000. He has created animations, illustrations and graphics for everyone from MTV to Money Mark to The New York Times. In 1994, while living in California, St. John co-founded the influential graphic T-shirt label Green Lady with Gary Benzel. Nylon Magazine described Green Lady as "to the designer T-shirt world what RunDMC is to hip-hop".
St. John regularly has work published, broadcast and exhibited internationally. He was included in the 2003 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial with Benzel, and in 2008 was nominated for an Emmy for the animated short "Circle Squared". St. John also teaches as a graduate critic at the Yale School of Art.
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