"NOG Emerges" 2021 Copyright 2021 Turtel Onli

"NOG Emerges" 2021 Copyright 2021 Turtel Onli
Inspired by "NOG" being the Future-Primitif face of the blockbuster group exhibition at the change making, trend setting Museum of Contemporary Art, Summer / Fall 2021 called "Chicago Comics: 1960 Until Now", curated by Dan Nadel. . NOG was mural sized on the MCA's outer wall near the door to its Museum Store which featured NOG merchandise in the form of a Tote Bag, post cards, a ever-cool NOG Sketch Book, plus autographed copies of "Tales From The Rhyhthmic Zone", the Graphic Novel that includes expanded versions of the original NOG stories. So Rhythmistic! All artwork on this blog by Prof. Onli is Copyright 2023 Turtel Onli , and other dates. All Rights Protected & not to be remixed, rebooted or used commercially without a signed agreement with Prof. Onli.

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Prof. Onli adjusting his newly completed series tribute to B.A.G.. 

This homage includes four Black and White, 30"W X 40"H, museum-profiled canvases.

These interpreted images were derived from icons created by Greg Broils, Kenneth Hunter, Dalton Brown, Jim Smoote and Turtel Onli in the early active period of B.A.G. Circa 1970 - 1973.

 Each B.A.G. member had pioneered this esthetic independently as teens in high-school, before the founding of B.A.G. by the then 18 year old Onli.  They were all pleasantly shocked during a early meeting when each shared their high-school sketch-books to discover each were already doing similar visual stylizations and treatments.

 This homage is a tribute to that wonderfully fertile creative  epiphany.