Chi-Town

Taxali is one of the world's foremost illustrators. He's worked for everyone from McSweeney's to MTV and was nominated for a Grammy award in 2010 for his LP artwork for singer Amie Martin. Inspired by vintage comics and advertising Taxali uses retro imagery in a very modern mash-up style, highlighting the perverse insecurities of modern life in a rampant consumer culture. Mature and philosophical yet appealing and hilarious, this is a show that straddles street art, fine art and top of the food chain graphic design. "It continues with my preoccupation of constant paradoxes such as human relationships, love, isolation, period advertisements, propaganda and economic despair and frustration," smiles Gary. Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.