RALPH BAKSHI: THE STREETS
May 18, 2011 
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PLASTIC PAPER: WINNIPEG’S FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED, ILLUSTRATED + PUPPET FILM presents
RALPH BAKSHI: THE STREETS
May 3-25th at RAW Gallery Opening Vernissage with Artist Talk Tuesday May 3, 5-7pm Free Admission
This bold series of mixed-media construction/paintings was inspired by the gritty and colorful neighborhoods of Bakshi’s youth in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. As cialis from india a first-time collaboration between Big Smash! Productions and RAW Gallery, this exhibit will run from May 3rd-25 at RAW Gallery in Winnipeg’s historic exchange district. At the opening vernissage for his visual arts exhibit, THE STREETS, RALPH BAKSHI will talk about his past work as an independent animator as well as bestellen levitra his shift to visual arts over the past decade.
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Guest Bio: RALPH BAKSHI
Active for over half a century, Ralph Bakshi is a self-taught artist who was initially inspired by The Ashcan School, and later by the Abstract Expressionists. New York City provided the physical and cultural environment that nurtured Bakshi’s imagination and that of his contemporaries; Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and Chiam Soutine were his strongest influences. Bakshi made his name and living via animated films – the Spider Man television series, Fritz the Cat, Coonskin, Heavy Traffic, Lord of the Rings and Wizards among them – but after the release of American Pop in 1981 he became sedulously dedicated to his passionate dream of pursuing a career as a fine artist. While gaining renown for creating and directing cutting-edge and fiercely creative films that delivered a profound social impact, Bakshi developed a work cialis levitra viagra compare ethic that has served him well in his private studio.
Amazing interview with Ralph Bakshi on Bomb Magazine’s website
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), pharmacy selling viagra in israel and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
