We’ve been big fans of Hope Gangloff’s work for a while now. You may have spotted her illustrations in designs for Built by Wendy, the pages of the New York Times, The New Yorker, Spin Magazine, or Sweet Action (a now defunct porn mag for women), or an email from Myopenbar.com. Based out of Brooklyn, she works primarily with pen and ink, using reference photographs she takes of her friends to create scenes that feel oddly familiar; these are the kind of people that you hang around with — or at least want to.
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New York-based artist Hope Gangloff — whose downtown-friendly, primarily pen-and-ink work you might recognize from the pages of the New York Times or My Open Bar‘s newsletters — has a show opening tonight at Chelsea’s Susan Inglett Gallery. (Random interesting side note we learned thanks to The Rumpus: Hope’s father in law, Bruce Degen, is the original book illustrator for the Magic School Bus series.) We asked her to give us the back story on one of our favorite pieces, the portrait above. The dramatically different finished version, along with more featured works from the show, after the jump.
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