Following the release of his second graphic novel, Umbra, this past fall, artist Colin Pezzano presents both Umbra and his debut book, Soma.

Featuring animations by Ricky Christian set to live musical scores for each work, Soma is a graphic novel told in forty-five woodcuts carved during the winter of 2022. A mundane horror processing the physical body and navigating domestic spaces. The narrative investigates lived and imagined experience, corporality, and the passage of time.

Umbra is a graphic novel composed of seventy woodcut prints that follows a dog walk through South Philadelphia in 2020. Wander the spaces where the familiar begins to empty out and everyday environments shift toward estrangement, absence, or memorial. The series traces a cityscape of unfinished construction, looming surveillance, and abandoned artifacts emerging from shadow, casting the mundane into unease.

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Animations by Ricky Christian

Music Performed by The Publishing Co.

Colin Pezzano – guitar

Sam Gasparre – guitar/synth

Roya Weidman – saxophone

Ricky Christian – bass

Alex Stolte – drums

Colin Pezzano will have books, records, and prints available for sale and to sign after the performance.

Suggested $10 donation is encouraged!