SETH

GEORGE SPROTT
AN EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS
FROM THE PICTURE NOVELLA

February 5 - March 13, 2010

........ Adam Baumgold Gallery presents an exhibition of drawings, paintings on paper and sculpture by Seth from February 5 through March 13, 2010. This will be Seth's first U.S. solo exhibition and will include 50 artworks, the majority of which comprise the bulk of his celebrated Graphic Novel GEORGE SPROTT 1894-1975 (originally serialized in The New York Times Sunday Magazine from 2006 to 2007). In addition, the exhibition will feature 6 of Seth's Dominion city cardboard architectural models, each of which has been specifically constructed for this event. Each of these buildings represents a specific location associated with the character of George Sprott himself. Also included in the exhibition are Seth's original gouache and ink paintings from Aimee Mann's sublime 2002 album LOST IN SPACE.

........ GEORGE SPROTT is the story of an 81 year old fictional TV personality in the last hours of life before his fatal heart attack in 1975. Told as a patchwork tale, we come to know George, piece by piece, in a series of "interviews", flashbacks and personal reminiscences. It is a story about time, identity, loss, and the persistence of memory. In the end it is left to the reader to decide whether George's existence was a life well lived or a tragedy of wasted potential. The GEORGE SPROTT drawings presented in this exhibition are self contained, single page stories, each encapsulating a piece of the larger George Sprott puzzle. GEORGE SPROTT has recently been selected among the best books of 2009 at both Amazon and Google and also in The New York Times.

........ Seth was born Gregory Gallant in Clinton, Ontario in 1962. He grew up in a variety of small south-Western Ontario towns until moving to Toronto in 1980 to attend the Ontario College of Art. He is the author of "It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken," "Clyde Fans," and "Wimbledon Green," all published by Drawn and Quarterly Publications of Montreal. In 2005, "Clyde Fans" won the Doug Wright Award for best book. A hardcover edition containing selections from his sketchbooks titled "Vernacular Drawings" was released in 2001. His long running comic book series PALOOKAVILLE has been appearing annually since 1991. Seth's books have been published in seven languages. In 2005, Canada's Art Gallery of Ontario honored Seth with a career retrospective featuring work from his graphic novels and the first exhibition of his cardboard city. His work has also appeared many times in The New Yorker, both inside and on the covers. A feature documentary film about Seth and his work will be released in 2011 by the National Film Board of Canada.

........ Seth is also an award winning book designer and has designed for a wide variety of publishing houses. He is perhaps best known for his designs on the long running "Complete Peanuts" and for the "John Stanley Library." In 2006 he designed the covers for "The Portable Dorothy Parker" for the Penguin Classics line. Seth lives and works in Guelph, Ontario.

........ The gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 - 5:30 P.M. For additional information, please contact Adam Baumgold at (212)861-7338 or abaumgold@aol.com.