Humor Arts Museum

You're invited to celebrate the Humor Arts Museum's newest online show: Art of the Ring: CIRCUScenes, curated by Karen E. Gersch.

Reception is on Zoom on Sunday, May 7th from 4 to 5pm ET.
http://HAMzoom.com

Join some of our featured artists in conversation about their work, and about the world of the circus!

Cartoon by Dan Reynolds

Dan Reynolds started drawing at age twenty-nine. He creates greeting cards with American Greetings, Recycled Paper Greetings and Papyrus Greetings. His baseball cartoons are in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
This cartoon and his career show the difference between pondering our future and living it.

Manatee & Diver

Karen E. Gersch, Watercolor on cold press paper

✨ Artist Comment ✨

“I love the affability of large sea creatures: seals, dolphins, whales, and certainly manatees; ballerinas of the ocean.”

Trumpet
Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1984, Print

Basquiat was an iconic neo-expressionist painter and graffiti artist who radicalized the NYC art scene in the eighties. He was friends of and sometimes collaborated with Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. It is said that Basquiat liked to paint to bebop music. Tragically, he died in 1988 at the age of 27. He was also my neighbor; he lived and painted half a block from my Bowery loft, on the corner of Great Jones St.