Anne Benjamin: Prints & Posters opens tonight (3/1)!

Opening Reception
Anne Benjamin: Prints & Posters
Friday, March 1st. 6-9pm. Free.
DJ Caitlin Lavin from CHIRP
Food & beverages provided by saki

saki is thrilled to present Anne Benjamin: Prints & Posters.

Anne Benjamin is an illustrator, designer and printmaker living and working in Chicago. Anne learned letterpress, screen-printing, and other print methods through the vibrant Chicago printmaking community. Her design sense is broad and playful, drawing from the art deco, art nouveau, and pop art movements, classic children’s book illustrations, and vintage animation.

Anne has done illustration and design work for the likes of the Washington Post, American Greetings, Random House, Schubas, Time Out, and Paramount. In her free time, Anne enjoys tinkering in embroidery and ceramics. Benjamin has displayed work at Mondo Gallery in Austin, Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, Chicago Cultural Center, Open-End Gallery in Chicago, and Loyola University Museum of Art.

Please join us Friday, March 1st from 6-9pm for the opening of Anne Benjamin: Prints & Posters. Enjoy a great night of fine art, music spun by CHIRP DJ Caitlin Lavin, and enjoy food and beverages provided by saki. This event is FREE.

Jay Howell + Eighty Four Films = Mountain Jam

When life puts a bear in front of you... just grab your deck and skate right through it!

Of course, a video this awesome would need to be paired with an equally awesome band. Thus, Total Control.


Mountain Jam from Eighty Four Films on Vimeo.

Find Jay's books at saki.

Jaw Howell + Trash Talk

Via Juxtapoz. More on Trash Talk's EP featuring the song "Slander" here.

Directions and animation by Jaw Howell. You can order Jay's phenominal Pages From Books right here at saki.

The first collection from the ongoing "Pages From Books" series by artists/illustrator JAY HOWELL. Features all the skinny guys w/ boners, naked chicks on skateboards, dogs, beers, rockers, & endless good times you've come to expect from his whimsical-yet-crude artwork. Along w/ designing the characters for the Fox series "Bob's Burgers" Jay Has illustrated for Vans, Burton, Anti-Hero, Creature, & created his own zine Punks Git Cut & animated series "The Forest City Rockers. 4" x 7" 48 pp full-color. LTD TO 500

Fresh breath has never been so trippy...

The two waves of battering rain storms that came through Chicago earlier this week left several neighborhoods without power. My block went without a charge for nearly 24 hours. I'm definitely not as wired as a lot of people my age (what are they REALLY doing online I wonder?!?), but I'll admit no computer, no music, and no TV left me feeling a little helpless. As the folks across the street seemingly taunted me with their watts I did what most people would do and turned to the bookshelf.

Black Hole is a masterpiece. There's no ifs, ands, or buts. It's. Just. Fucking. Fantastic. Rereading it by candle light was an interested experience. There was something about the flickering low light that added to the detailed high contrast images and the acid-induced-nightmare-like story line. What exactly that "something" was I can't really say. Though, the theme of isolation that runs throughout the book has never been more apparent to me.

Now, Charles Burns has received just praise for his inkings, so calling him under-appreciated wouldn't really make sense. He's done illustrations for The Believer, worked with Sup Pop, Coca-cola, designed the cover of Iggy Pop's Brick By Brick, and even produced the following television ad for Altoids.

Fresh breath has never been so trippy...

Goth Girl, By Charles Burns from G. Andrew Meyer on Vimeo.

That is all.