Art Event by Philip J. Lockerby and Zartosht Soltani

The Crooked Tail Café is pleased to present A Night Out on Smith Street Inked portraits by Philip J. Lockerby and Zartosht Soltani

When:  Friday, August 14, 2009.  7-10pm

Where:  Crooked Tail Café 272 3rd Avenue (between Union and President) Brooklyn, NY 11215 (718) 852-1414.

There will be an after party taking place at Canal Bar next door, right after the event.  Friday nights feature $4 Svedka Cocktails.  Canal Bar also has outdoor seating a pool table and free popcorn.

Exhibition continues through September.

Artists and animators Philip J. Lockerby and Zartosht Soltani have worked on various animated projects together over the past four years, but the work they take the most pride in is their sketchbook and napkin drawings from the dimly lit bars they frequent after work. “For this show we’re focusing on the bartenders,” Lockerby explains. “But generally we’ll draw whomever is at the bar.  Maybe we’ll get a free drink or two out of this as well.” The subjects featured tend bar at a selection of Carroll Gardens and Park Slope haunts, including Sample, Zombie Hut, Boat, The Bell House, Canal Bar, Great Lakes, The Gate, and many more. Usually, Lockerby and Soltani will ink a portrait and then gift it to their subject. “When we give a bar napkin portrait away, most times we’ve made that person’s evening,” Lockerby says. “We’re just trying to spread the love around, doing what we love to do the most, which is to draw.”

About the Artists: After a decade animating for television and film, most notably the Academy Award-nominated Triplettes of Belleville, Philip J. Lockerby is currently directing an animated sequence for an upcoming documentary on the Manic Street Preachers.  He is also working on a personal short film.  See his work at: www.drawingonnapkins.blogspot.com.

In 1999 Zartosht Soltani graduated from the Fine Arts at Azad University of Arts at Tehran. One year later he moved to New York, where he is now working as a freelance art director and illustrator for the animation studio, FlickerLab, creating cartoons, television commercials, and broadcast design. He has exhibited paintings in Tehran, and will be a part of the upcoming Too Art for TV show in September.

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