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Tara McPherson

cause you know, the force, it's got a lot of power

About Me


TARAMCPHERSON.COM!!
UPCOMING EVENTS
SAN DIEGO COMIC CON
Booth 4922
July 24th to 27th, 2008
Panels-
Illustrators as Entertainment Entrepreneurs
Friday, JULY 25, 3:30-4:30pm, ROOM 32AB
San Diego Convention Center, CA
LONDON POSTER SHOW 2008
ULU (University of London Union)
September 19-21, 2008
London, England
FLATSTOCK 19 EUROPE
At the Reeperbahn Festival, Spielbudenplatz
September 25-27, 2008, 4-11pm each day
Hamburg, Germany
FEINKUNST KREUGER
10 Year Anniversary of Feinkunst Krüger, Group Exhibition
October 2nd, 2008
Westwerk Gallery,Admiralitätsstrasse 74
Hamburg, Germany
AMADORA INTERNATIONAL COMICS FESTIVAL
I will be a special guest at this years comics and art festival just outside of Lisbon.
October 24th-25th, 2008
Amadora, Portugal
DOROTHY CIRCUS GALLERY
'Inside Nostalgia'
Tara McPherson, Esao Andrews, Travis Louie
Opening Reception October 31st, 2008
Rome, Italy
CHOQUE CULTURAL
3 person exhibition
January 2009
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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See more about Project Colorize by Rayban and Marie Claire in the video below. Ron English, myself, and Toofly.
Check out this great new interview by 50% TV.
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My first book is out now! Available at comic and book stores everywhere. Huge thanks to everyone that has supported and bought the book! The first pressing sold out to distributors 3 weeks after the September 06 release date! The second printing hit bookstores in March 07, and we are now already in the third printing. Thank you so much for your continued support!!!
Dark Horse and I are working on my second artbook now which should be out in mid 2009!
Sneaky Preview
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Tara McPherson is an artist based out of New York City that creates art about people and their odd ways. Her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. Recalling many issues from childhood and good old life experience, she creates images that are thought provoking and seductive. People and their relationships are a central theme throughout her works.
Tara exhibits her paintings and serigraphs in fine art galleries all over the world. Named the 'crown princess of poster art' by ELLE Magazine, she has created numerous gig posters for rock bands such as Beck, Modest Mouse, and Melvins. Her array of art also includes painted comics and covers for DC Vertigo, advertising and editorial illustrations for companies such as Pepsi and Spin Magazine, creating toys with KidRobot, and teaching a class at Parsons in NYC.
McPherson's art has been included in books such as Lonely Heart: The Art of Tara McPherson, Fables 1001 Nights of Snowfall, The Art of Modern Rock, Illusive 2, Illustration Now!, SWAG and SWAG 2, and more. She has lectured at the School of Visual Arts, AIGA NYC, AIGA Austin, The University of Arizona, MADE in Edmonton and Foyles London. Her art has also been featured in the Oscar Award winning film Juno, Veronica Mars, and Guitar Hero.
Tara was born in San Francisco in 1976 and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from Art Center in Pasadena, CA in August 2001 with honors in Illustration and a minor in Fine Art. She interned at Rough Draft Studios, working on Matt Groening's "Futurama" during college.
She has been featured and/or interviewed by Juxtapoz, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Bust, Elle, Marie Claire, Spin, TV 3, Magnet, Current TV, CBC Radio, Super7, Inked, NY Press, Paste, HOW, Step, Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators, Metal Hammer, International Tattoo Art, Seattle Times, LA Weekly, Gothamist, Punk Planet, Savage Tattoo and many more.
Some of her clients include DC Comics, Warner Brothers, Dark Horse Comics, Kidrobot, Rayban, Strangeco, Spin, Pepsi, Fanta, Goldenvoice, Harper Collins, Bloomsbury, Revolver, Knitting Factory, Playstation 2, House of Blues, Dogfish Head Brewery, Nike and Wyden+Kennedy among others.
Download my art onto your cell phone through Kidrobot here and Start Mobile here
I also want to say thank you so much for all the great comments and messages!! I'm very busy working on projects right now so please understand if I don't have time to reply to everyone. I really appreciate all the kind words!
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Astrophysics, travel, soft serve, coffee, metal, sushi, Ampeg, things and stuff, mexico, melon flavored things, pickles, bunnies, monsters, peanut butter.

I'd like to meet:

BUNNIES!

Music:

Shellac, Melvins, Blonde Redhead, Pentagram, Dead Meadow, Django Reinhardt, Doves, Illinios, Unwound, Les Savy Fav, Mastodon, Slayer, Neurosis, Isis, Neil Young, High on Fire, Baroness, Modest Mouse, Cat Power, Nation of Ulysses, Pinback, Dr. Dre, Dr. Octogon, Dr. Doom, Born Against, BRMC, Autolux, Diamond Nights, Red Sparowes, Unsane, Bowie, The Sword, Decemberists, Dears, Granddaddy, T Rex, The Warlocks, Godheadsilo, Sabbath, Cherubs, Zeppelin, Liars, Torche, Elton John, Shins, Universal Order of Armageddon, Walkmen, The Cars, Goblin Cock, Rye Coalition, Jesus Lizard, Early Man, Starlite Desperation, Enslaved, Echo and the Bunnymen, Big Business, Refused and on and on...

Movies:

Who's the lady with the log? We call her the log lady.

Books:

Frankenstein, Naked, The Dirt, A Brief History of Time, 100%, Preacher.

Heroes:

Wonder Woman

My Blog

Myspace Dark Horse Presents: How to Heal a Broken Heart

Myspace and Dark Horse asked me to make a little 2 page comic for Issue 12!How To Heal A Broken Heart: Method 37Plus check out the other 3 rad comics by Gerard Way, Joss and Zack Whedon, and John Arcu...
Posted by Tara McPherson on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:47:00 PST

50% Television Interview

Here is a great new interview by Joe Mazzeo at 50% TV. In the interview we discuss the body of work from the Lost Constellations exhibit at Jonathan Levine Gallery. ...
Posted by Tara McPherson on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:47:00 PST

Illustration In The Age of Anxiety Video

Here is a link to the video of the lecture I was a part of at Parson's, along with Ruth Marten, Steven Guarnaccia and Nora Krug.We speak about love, life, art, hair and tattoos...ILLUSTRATION IN THE A...
Posted by Tara McPherson on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:10:00 PST

Tattoos of my artwork!

So I have been hearing more and more about people getting my art tattooed on them, which I think is amazing!! But I haven't seen that many of the actual tattoo's, so I'd love if you would post them he...
Posted by Tara McPherson on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:51:00 PST

Art Studio Visit with Guillotine

Here's a photo featurette of my art studio with Guillotine.comhereAlso check out lots of other artists studio's too!here...
Posted by Tara McPherson on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:11:00 PST

Foyles London Book Signing Video

Here is a 4 part video of the panel I was on in conjunction with my book signing in London at Foyles. Also on the panel was Mike Carey, and David Lloyd.Big thanks to the girl that filmed this! ...
Posted by Tara McPherson on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:46:00 PST

Kidrobot Ace and Ion Signing Pics

Thanks to the awesome photographers that documented the signings!LA pics- HERESF pics- HERENYC pics- HERE...
Posted by Tara McPherson on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:05:00 PST

18 color art print

Hey folks!I got invited to create a new art print with my friends in Austin, TX at The Decoder Ring Design Concern.Follow to see how the process of an 18 color screen print works! I'll be posting pics...
Posted by Tara McPherson on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:35:00 PST

My bunny

I'm pleased to introduce Jupiter! The official McPherson studio mascot! I die of cute every time i look at him. Lil bunny monster!! Jupiter is a dwarf bunny I adopted from the NYC Animal Shelter.in mo...
Posted by Tara McPherson on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:46:00 PST