Edward Sorel "The Masters Series"

SVA Chelsea Gallery

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School of Visual Arts (SVA) honors Edward Sorel with the Masters Series award and retrospective exhibition. Hailed by The New York Times as “one of America’s foremost political satirists,” Edward Sorel has delighted magazine readers for decades with his social critiques, political satires and whimsical picture essays. “

Edward Sorel has used his pen to lampoon politicians, businessmen, celebrities and even himself; his subjects have ranged from Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George W. Bush to Leo Tolstoy, Frank Sinatra and Madonna. With over 100 drawings, caricatures and illustrations, “The Masters Series: Edward Sorel” reveals a major American artist whose intelligence and humor are matched by his cunning storytelling and incisive social commentary.

Born on March 26, 1929, in the Bronx, Sorel cofounded the internationally renowned Push Pin Studios in 1953 with fellow Cooper Union classmates Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser but soon left to establish his lifelong freelance career. His potent spoofs of public figures first appeared in left-wing periodicals, then later in mainstream magazines. Over the last four decades, his work has appeared in American Heritage, The Atlantic, Esquire, Fortune, Forbes, GQ, Harper's, New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Time and The Village Voice. Sorel is now most frequently seen in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, for which he has done 45 covers.

Edward Sorel in Conversation with James McMullan
Tuesday, October 25, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street

[Image: Edward Sorel "Crush Hour" illustration from the cover of The New Yorker, (January 31, 1994)]

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from October 07, 2011 to November 05, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-10-13 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Edward Sorel

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