Presentation by Christopher Sperandio
Thursday, January 25, 2007, 7:30pm, Packard Hall
Artist, cartoonist, and television producer Christopher Sperandio will discuss the intersections of art and television.
Christopher Sperandio has a BA in printmaking from West Virginia University and a MFA in painting from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has worked collaboratively with British artist Simon Grennan, with whom he has produced 18 comic books for museums with Fantagraphics Books, DC Comics and under their own imprint ,Kartoon Kings. Sperandio is credited as Creator and Executive Producer of Artstar, an eight-part unscripted television series set in the New York art world of Deitch Projects airing on American television (Voom) in 2006.