DRAWING THE LINE: VICTORIA LOMASKO in conversation with TOM TOMORROW

Sullaluna NYC is happy to present DRAWING THE LINE, a series of conversations on the topic of satirical political cartooning, graphic art, and reportage, curated by Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, author of This Modern World. On Wednesday, March 19, at 7 pm, the second event will feature VICTORIA LOMASKO, considered by critics and the Anglo-Saxon press to be the most important Russian social graphic artist, whose works have been exhibited in numerous public and private galleries.
She has been active since the early 2000s and has won several awards, including the Pushkin House Book Prize in 2018, despite her books not being published in Russia due to censorship. In Italy, her books are already translated and published by Becco Giallo, while in the U.S., her latest book, The Last Soviet Artist, will be out April 22 from N+1 Books.

• After the event, you can grab a bite or a glass of wine—or even stay for dinner and continue the conversation with the authors.

Lomasko's art can also be found in public collections at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain; National Center of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia; the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, Poland, but also Manchester, Brescia, and Angoulême. Her work has also been featured in magazines such as Russian Art and Culture, The Guardian, Art in America, and The New Yorker.

Her works are particularly interesting as they allow for a reconstruction of the social and political history of Putin's Russia, from 2008 to the present.

MARINA CATUCCI: US correspondent for the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, will introduce the speakers.

VICTORIA VALENTINOVNA LOMASKO (Russian: Виктория Валентиновна Ломаско) is a Russian graphic artist whose work focuses on graphic reportage, a genre somewhere between the travelogue and journalism. She was born in Serpukhov, Russia in 1978. Her work focuses on graphic reportage through the means of murals and graphic art in literature. To create her work, Lomasko travels throughout the former Soviet Union and spends time with those who are rarely represented in the media. She was working and living in Moscow until Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

DAN PERKINS aka TOM TOMORROW is the creator of This Modern World, a weekly cartoon of political and social satire which has been a mainstay of the alternative press for more than three decades. His work has also appeared in publications including The New York Times, the New Yorker, Esquire, Spin, Mother Jones, U.S. News and World Report, the Economist, and many others. He is a two-time recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the 2013 recipient of the prestigious Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. This year, he received the James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons.
"This Modern World" can be found online on DailyKos.com, on the Tiny View app, and at thismodernworld.com.

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