Jess Worby & Ryan Toth

Teaches at Abrons Arts Center

Jess Worby is a professional cartoonist, illustrator, visual artist, and teacher. He likes to draw pictures that feel alive and make stories that explore how strange and verging on fiction life can be. His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Wired.com, Kotaku, and Ars Technica, and received an honorable mention in Best American Comics 2013. Clients include McSweeney's/Portlandia, Blue Man Group, and Koyama Press. Recent exhibitions include SHAG Brooklyn, Launchpad, and Bottleneck Gallery.

Ryan Toth is an emerging New York and South Florida artist who received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2002. Recent exhibitions have been shown at the Williamsburg Music Center, Projekt30, Rare Gallery, Element, Ludlow Street Studio, and RKL Gallery in New York City; as well as in South Florida at the Armory Art Center, FAU Pine Jog Environmental Center, Northwood EG2 Gallery, and the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art. In addition Toth has been selected to create site-specific installations curated by Kara Walker Tome including 10X10 at Lake Worth Storage, and Showtel at Hotel Biba. His work with Osteology and painting has been privately collected and exhibited in Australia, Japan, Brazil, as well as throughout the United States and Europe. Toth was the recipient of the Benjamin Menschel Fellowship and the Marie Walshe Sharpe Summer Residency.