Church Display Features Student's Caricatures

Cartoons and caricatures by Andrew Pungot, of Warren, is this month's featured mini-art gallery at Trinity United Church.

Each month, Trinity United Church celebrates the arts within the church and those in the wider community, by recognizing local artists and hosting a discussion with the artists. Pungot will join a “Meet the Artist” reception at 10:30 a.m. July 31. 

He started his art career at the age of four and has not stopped since. Pungot is currently a student at Drew University in Madison, majoring in Studio Art and minoring in Creative Writing, with plans to graduate in 2012.  

While Pungot works in many mediums, he loves contemporary cartooning and drawing caricatures. He has been the lead cartoonist in Drew’s newspaper, The Acorn, for 3 years. His comic strip is called "The Nutty Rangers" and is enjoyed by many. From 2010 to the present he served as co-chairman of Drew’s Art Club and vice-president of the Comic Book Club.  

His cartooning style is half-digital art and half-traditional hand. He desires a career as an illustrator, cartooning a comic strip or doing editorial cartoons and illustrations for a newspaper or magazine. In 2009, he won third place in the Dean’s Prize for excellence in Art, and in 2010, he won a third-place award for Editorial Cartoon/Artist Story Illustration in the NJ College Newspaper Contest 2009-2010.

And in 2011, he won the Molly Porcelli Scholarship for the Art Department Academic Awards.  

His display at Trinity is fun, creative—and very different from previous displays.

Pungot has agreed to do caricature drawings in December at Trinity’s Old Fashioned Holiday Bazaar.

The gallery is open to the public on Thursdays 10 a.m. to noon, and Sundays after worship service. For more information about displaying works at the mini-gallery, call the co-coordinator Kit Bebbington at 732-356-3730.